<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Toyota_Advanced_safety_vehicle_610x457.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Relaxing in a vehicle while it drives itself has been a dream for many, but the question over their expected debut on our highways has left us waiting in anticipation. As people anxiously await the futuristic cars to make their debut on the streets, one company aims ...Full article
Movie producing has turned into an arms race with computer generated special effects becoming the canvas on which the stories are being told. With all of this computing power in demand, cloud computing is becoming ever more entrenched among movie studios, where it becomes a crucial tool as a production starts getting closer to its ...Full article
After three years of land acquisitions, zoning applications, and the attainment of a license to generate its own electricity from the local natural gas supply, the Niobrara Data Center Energy Park located in northern Colorado has everything in place to attract a truly massive datacenter. And it will very likely do so soon because of the ...Full article
Modernized electrical grids, or smart grids, are quickly moving from a futuristic notion to infrastructure we use every day. But as more utilities hop aboard the smart grid train, the more challenges the industry is facing as it attempts to rebuild the infrastructure we’ve grown accustomed to. Smart grid pioneer Subramanian “Mani” Vadari has been ...Full article
At this year’s O’Reilly Strata Rx Data Makes a Difference Conference in Boston, experts discussed the three “V”s of big data: velocity, volume and variety, and how they’re being managed to improve patient care while preserving patient privacy. Currently, big data represents a number of opportunities not yet achieved in the industry, but not without ...Full article
Although tech companies have been slow to deliver us to the interconnected future that the Internet of Things has promised, where everything from our washer and dryer to industrial drills are networked, the push is ongoing, and General Electric (GE) has recently taken one more step toward that goal in the area of software. Although ...Full article
Microsoft will ship its R2 update to the Windows Server 2012 operating system at the end of this week, and one of the key improvements in the platform will be a significant performance boost for InfiniBand networking linking storage to servers. The gains are so large, say executives at Mellanox Technologies, the dominant supplier of ...Full article
Andrew Sharp didn't necessarily want to be back in the server business after a decade-long hiatus. But when Sharp went to buy a server for his home office, he was shocked at the inefficiency, in terms of power usage and processor overcapacity, in the general purpose X86 systems from the top-tier vendors like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, ...Full article
Sometimes technology integration problems make one want to step back and crack open a cold one. This is much easier when you’re working IT for Molson Coors. With a 350-year history, the Molson Coors company has seen its fair share of change in the very competitive brewery business. It’s a business where margins are razor ...Full article
Healthcare providers are often blamed with slowing down the industry’s technological adoption by being sluggish in picking up the latest tools. But Linda M. Girgis, a physician with Girgis Family Practice, has asked the question, “Is the technology being offered worth adapting to?” The ultimate goal when healthcare IT providers talk about electronic health records ...Full article
More and more, elderly patients whose vital signs must be monitored by physicians are able to stay home and send information about the condition to a physician over the Internet. But while this offers greater freedoms, it comes at the cost of putting confidential data at risk, which is why scientists at RMIT University in ...Full article
As we push our power grid harder with every passing year, our grid’s infrastructure—its backbone—remains a relic of decades past, with many transformers dating back to the 1970’s. To build a more reliable, up-to-date system, Brett Sargent, CTO and vice president of Products and Solutions for LumaSense Technologies believes the answer is in smart sensors, ...Full article
If you think supercomputing is challenging, you should try high frequency trading. High frequency trading and traditional supercomputing simulation have plenty in common, but there are big differences, too. They both require extreme systems, with HFT systems focusing on latency and speed while supercomputer clusters are designed for large scale and capacity; both have employed ...Full article
In his State of the Union Address this year, President Obama stood behind additive manufacturing and the role he believes it will play for the manufacturing industry, saying, “...3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” Now, BlueFire Equipment Corporation well on its way to making the president’s prediction a ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/OCP2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="38" border="0" />With historic periods bearing names like “Bronze Age,” or “Iron Age,” one aerospace engineering student believes we have created what could become known as “the Plastic Age.” After all, it’s been at the heart of countless technological innovations that define the way we work and live every ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Airplanes_at_sunrise.JPG" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Along with being first in flight, North Carolina is home to many aviation companies, with even some of the most well known enterprises like Boeing located there.Full article
Hoping to improve the reliability of renewable energy resources and ultimately reduce carbon emissions, IBM is bringing its power and weather modeling technology to the energy sector. “The solution combines weather prediction and analytics to accurately forecast the availability of wind power and solar energy,” says Michael Valicchi, IBM’s global energy and utility industry leader. ...Full article
When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, it was one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors to date. But today sequencing a human genome is considered old hat compared to those of microorganisms in our own bodies, which are made up of roughly 100 billion DNA base pairs to our 3 billion bases. The ...Full article
IBM today announced that UNC Health Care (UNCHC) has turned to Smarter Care big data analytics to offer its patients more effective and individualized care. With stacks of physicians notes, registration forms, discharge papers and phone calls, it’s easy to understand why many hospitals and doctors’ offices are struggling to keep up with their own ...Full article
Back in April, IBM put out a tech preview of its BLU Acceleration in-memory feature for its DB2 database. Now the software is shipping, and the company is packaging it up into an appliance to make it easier for companies to get up and running quickly. The appliances are modestly sized to start, but IBM ...Full article
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