If you listen to the quarterly conference calls of the big IT suppliers who play in the tape market, as we at EnterpriseTech do, invariably you hear them bemoan the fact that their tape storage businesses are on the decline. Tape library supplier Spectra Logic is bucking this trend, and it is doing so by ...Full article
At this week’s Minds+Machines summit in Chicago, General Electric (GE) announced 14 new predictives tools that will sit atop the Web-connected machines making up the Industrial Internet. Although networks sensor-laden machines have has already made a home for themselves in some of GE’s manufacturing facilities, the new software additions are expected to give a number ...Full article
As part of the effort to reduce the time to bring advanced materials to market, Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to train new data scientists for the job. The five-year program will give funding to 24 doctoral trainees while paving the way for students in the ...Full article
Facebook likes to share some of the techniques it has developed to speed up the performance of its Web applications, and one of its key homegrown tools is called Flashcache. A new version of the open source Flashcache software has just been released, and it offers a significant performance boost over the prior versions of ...Full article
There has been a lot of talk since Cisco Systems acquired flash array startup Whiptail for $415 million a month ago. Everyone wants to know if the networking giant is going to take on the incumbents in storage as it has done in servers. The answer, say executives from both Cisco and its Virtual Computing ...Full article
After partnering in 2008 to develop data analytics to help physicians detect heart disease sooner, IBM, Sutter Hearth and Geisinger Health System have been awarded a $2 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Heart failure will remain among our nation’s most deadly and costly diseases unless we discover new methods to ...Full article
Tape is not dead by any stretch of the imagination at the largest data centers of the world. But it could very well be that the bell is tolling for traditional tape backup software. Tape library maker Spectra Logic hosted its Forever Data 2013 conference in Denver, Colorado this week, and EnterpriseTech was on hand ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NewsImage_38533-1.jpg" alt="" width="65" height="95" border="0" />To celebrate Manufacturing Day, Lockheed Martin Space Systems invited community leaders from Leadership Jefferson Country to come and tour its facility. During the tour, the leaders were able to listen to Dennis Little, Vice President of Production, as he spoke about revolutionizing manufacturing.Full article
As it had been hinting to EnterpriseTech that it would do, IBM has taken a page out of its mainframe playbook and is offering cut-throat prices on processing capacity and memory for its largest Power Systems machines when they run the Linux operating system. In conjunction with the launch of the Power Integrated Facility for Linux, ...Full article
According to market research by Frost & Sullivan, the cloud is expected to be the single most important enabler to healthcare trends of the future, from electronic medical records to remote patient monitoring. As healthcare providers throughout the globe grapple with rising healthcare costs and an increased demand for care, the search is on for ...Full article
This week the Human Brain Project, a ten-year, $1.6 billion project co-funded by the EU that will bring together scientists from 135 institutions to better understand the human brain, has begun. The effort will result in a database of brain research from tens of thousands of neuroscience papers published every year in addition to creating ...Full article
Computing and biotechnology experts from industry and academia alike are coming together in Belgium to create the ExaScience Life Lab, whose goal will be to advance supercomputing for applications in genomics to cell and tissue simulations. The lab, which will bring together Imec, Intel, Janssen Pharmaceutica and five Flemish universities, will be based in Imec’s ...Full article
Pantex Plant, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) facility where nuclear weapons are dismantled or modified for the Department of Defense, has developed a new program designed to secure the weapon product lifecycle information that is sent to engineers and scientists throughout North America. Called the Product Realization Integrated Digital Enterprise (PRIDE), the NNSA-sponsored program ...Full article
What do you get when you mix Xeon servers, InfiniBand switching, and virtualization and workload management software from a venerable mainframe maker? You get the new Forward systems from none other than Unisys. The Forward systems, which go into beta testing this week, are the culmination of years of work to bring mainframe-class security, virtualization, ...Full article
Dell is no stranger to the enterprise data centers of the world and it is the dominant supplier of systems to hyperscale data center operators. The company also has built a few very large supercomputer clusters and is the number three supplier of systems in the traditional HPC market, in fact. That gives Dell a ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/259126-newspaper-opend-to-the-want-ads-magnifying-glass-highlighting-the-word-jobs1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />This morning, General Electric (GE) released a new report that focused on the Industrial Internet, predictive analytics, robot/human interaction, and the effect that they all have on the workplace. What they found was that each had an overwhelmingly positive impact.Full article
Sales of servers and storage arrays may be looking a bit weak these days, but enterprise customers are starting to invest in integrated systems to boost the performance of their applications and to make their lives easier. And thus, sales of these integrated systems are bucking the trend and booming. These integrated systems have a ...Full article
Advanced Micro Devices has been looking for a big server maker to adopt its SeaMicro microserver chassis and integrated fabric interconnect, but has found no takers. AMD has, however, inked its first big technology agreement deal with none other than Verizon. That's right, Verizon, which last week announced a new compute cloud that, it turns ...Full article
As demand for high performance computing (HPC) continues to grow, so does the demand for energy efficient HPC solutions. Liquid-cooling technology can offer an optimal solution. It balances somewhat higher up-front costs with a much lower lifecycle cost. Using warm instead of cool water has the additional advantage of doing away with a water chiller ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/images-11.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />In recent years, additive manufacturing has lowered barriers to entry for small manufacturers interested in low-volume, customized production, but even some large manufacturers have thrown their hats into the ring. Now, one company that already utilizes the technology, General Electric (GE), wants to make it a bigger ...Full article
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