Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Tuesday, July 7, 2026
GE Finds Manufacturing Value from Day-to-Day Data
Although the use of predictive analytics for manufacturing continues to drive IT further into factory floors, Jim Walsh, general manager of GE Intelligent Platforms warns that without a proper foundation, manufacturers won’t see the return they were hoping for. “We’re in perhaps the most transformational time in industry that we’ve ever been in,” explained Walsh ... Full article
Data Curbs Healthcare Overtime to Cut Costs
Healthcare labor arguably fills up the industry’s largest division of funding, with some reports estimating that labor alone accounts for roughly 60 percent of operating budgets. But while labor does fill a fundamental role, hospital executives are searching for ways to reduce this spending. While some organizations have laid off workers or undergone hiring freezes, ... Full article
Xeon Refresh and Engineering Drive Sales at Supermicro
Supermicro makes a living peddling motherboards and system components as well as its own whitebox systems to those who are looking for density and low cost. Like its peers, the company has been looking forward to the sales bump that from Intel's launch of the "Ivy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors in early September. According ... Full article
Infographic: State of the IT Worker
What is the profile of the standard American IT worker? A new statistical portrait by the Wall Street Journal suggests that the demographics of the IT worker are largely what you might think, but with a few surprises. According to the new WSJ graphic,which sources the Bureau of Labor Statistics, IT is largely comprised of ... Full article
Looking to the Future as the Assembly Line Turns 100
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/fordassembly.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />One hundred years after the birth of Ford’s assembly line, it’s not hard to mark just how much innovation came from the automaker’s assembly lines. When the company first went into production in 1909, the cars were pulled along by a rope that connected each vehicle, but ... Full article
Robots Come to Aid of Australian Manufacturers
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/stock-footage-robots-weld-car-parts-in-production-line-at-factory.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />In many industries like automotive manufacturing, robots have assisted in the manufacturing process to fill what has become a vital role in production. Now Australian manufacturers are looking to jump on the robotics bandwagon. Full article
BP Fires Up 2.2 Petaflops Cluster for Oil Exploration
There is an arms race in the oil and gas industry, and the weapon of choice is a server cluster. Energy industry giant BP has opened the doors on a new datacenter in Houston that it says houses the "world's largest supercomputer for commercial research," weighing in at more than 2.2 petaflops. The system, which ... Full article
GIS Professionals to Fill Growing Role in Smart Grid Implementation
As we push to bring our power grid into the twenty-first century with sensors and analytics tools, geographic information systems (GIS) are filling a growing role in the industry. But as the demand GIS grows, so too does the demand for professionals with GIS experience who can monitor electrical distribution systems, analyze power usage and ... Full article
New Findings Emerge from In-Store Analytics
According to Gartner’s 2013 BI (Business Intelligence) Magic Quadrant, spending for retail analytics is on the rise. The firm estimates that as BI and analytics rise on retailer’s own shopping lists, such efforts will reach $17.1 billion by 2016. This is particularly important if businesses are to make the most of brick and mortar stores. ... Full article
Servergy Pits Power-Linux Servers Against ARM, X86
Not everyone thinks that ARM processors will be the only viable alternative to X86 processors in the datacenter when it comes to energy-efficient computing. Servergy, which just uncloaked from startup mode with its first machine, is putting its money on the Power architecture. And it is doing so because big customers are asking for Power-based ... Full article
MongoDB Lends a Hand for Genome Sequencing
Available since February 2012, the Seven Bridges Genomics platform recently won BioIT World’s Best of Show award. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech company is looking to cater to researchers whose work depends on genome sequencing, whether that be in whole genomes or something as specific as RNA sequencing. To this end, the company today announced that ... Full article
Univa Takes Over Control of Grid Engine from Oracle
The debate over the future of the Grid Engine grid scheduler is over. Univa has acquired the source code, copyrights, and trademarks associated with the software from Oracle and is going to start supporting Oracle's customers effective immediately. Grid Engine is one of the most widely deployed compute grid scheduling tools in the world, and ... Full article
Mellanox Open Sources Messaging Accelerator for Networks
Intrepid enterprises looking to boost the performance of their data streaming and messaging applications just got a new option now that Mellanox has open sourced its Messaging Accelerator offload engine for its ConnectX-3 server adapter cards. Messaging Accelerator, says Mellanox, has been popular in the financial services industry, but is also applicable to online medical ... Full article
Nomi Raises $10M to Expand Retail Analytics
As in-store analytics gain momentum, Nomi, a New York-based marketing optimization platform founded by Salesforce alumni, has raised $10 million to finance its jump beyond the borders of apparel into other areas like automotive, movie theaters, amusement parks and even restaurant chains. While Web-based retailers are already using a number of metrics to determine who ... Full article
MD Anderson Teams up with Watson for “Moon Shots”
Today, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM have announced that Watson’s cognitive computing system will come to the facility to help put an end to cancer. Watson will be used to power MD Anderson’s Oncology Expert Advisor to tap the cancer center’s expansive patient and research databases for patient care and ... Full article
Ford Turns to Altair, Cray for Auto Engineering
Kevin Tallio, a senior engine developer at Ford, is one of many engineers throughout the auto industry who’s taking advantage of computing power and computer-aided engineering to design parts that weren't before possible and in a way that's faster and less expensive. According to Tallio, creating something as mechanically complex as the winding parts of ... Full article
Calxeda Adds Top Facebook Hardware Exec to Board
ARM server chip maker Calxeda has landed a heavy-hitter in the open source hardware effort to its board of directors – someone who also makes hardware decisions at one of the big hyperscale datacenter operators, too. It is a pretty big deal that Frank Frankovsky, who is vice president of hardware design and supply chain ... Full article
Volvo Charges up with Auto Body Battery
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/volvos80.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />You wouldn’t expect the battery of the future to come from thinking inside the box, so perhaps it’s not a surprise that for Volvo’s next generation electric car, the energy comes from the exterior of the car—specifically, from the skin of its body. Full article
Army to Strengthen Ground Combat Vehicles
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/AlcoaAluminumHull.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has collaborated with Alcoa, the world’s third largest producer of aluminum, in order to come up with a way to better protect soldiers from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The solution that they decided on is a single-piece aluminum hull designed for ground ... Full article
AMD Gearing Up for ARM-SeaMicro Assault in 2014
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices confirmed this week that it is on track to get its first samples of its "Seattle" ARM processor back from its foundry partner in the first quarter of next year, and is looking for the combination of the Seattle chips plus the Freedom interconnect from its SeaMicro microservers to give ... Full article