<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/braunsim.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />When we think of high-end simulations, expensive, high-tech machines like jet engines or sports cars often come to mind. But as Tom Lange, director of modeling and simulation at consumer goods giant, Procter & Gamble, explains, these low-cost commodities require a mecca of digital manufacturing tools.Full article
Definiens, a German healthcare company specializing in personalized medicine, has released tips for bringing data mining together with image analysis to fine tune patient treatment. The company is known for its software for both data mining and the imaging tools used on stained tissue slides. By combining the tool, it hopes that doctors will be ...Full article
Facebook is a classic example of an exponentially growing business with extreme scale IT needs that cannot do things in the data center the way traditional large enterprises do. It would go broke if it did. Or more precisely, it might have never gotten outside of Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room. Facebook's software and the ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/20131002171409-0.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="82" border="0" />John Romanishin, a research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), along with his former robotics professor, Daniela Rus, and postdoc Kyle Gilpin, will be presenting a paper at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems describing their new self-assembling robots.Full article
This Tuesday, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) celebrated the launch of its first Grid Cell Innovation Center in Michigan, designed to bring industry and academia together with the goal of integrating modeling and simulation into the product lifecycle. This center, which will build upon NCMS’ previous work with the Lightweight Automotive Materials Program ...Full article
Farming is big business, and, infused with big data analytics, has the potential to be even bigger. This reality is not lost on agriculture monolith, Monsanto, which yesterday announced it will become the next Silicon Valley mega-investor with a $930 million cash acquisition of climate modeler, The Climate Corporation. Providing data science tools for farmers, ...Full article
Here is something you don't see every day: A public cloud operator that starts from scratch and creates its own hypervisor and controller rather than using off-the-shelf software. Amazon Web Services did it back in 2006, and now Verizon is doing it with its next-generation cloud. At the Interop networking conference in New York today, ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/berkshire-community-college.gif" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Berkshire Community College (BCC), located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, has just unveiled a new laboratory that will not only benefit students of the college, but high school students as well.Full article
Intel wants Hadoop analytics and the Lustre high-performance file system to work well together for enterprises. The idea is to ease the integration woes of customers who run both simulations and analytics on the same data, such as those in the financial services and oil and gas industries, and to boost the performance of Hadoop ...Full article
Recently, SAP has begun a fresh push to beef up its big data chops, including the addition of new partnerships to distribute two different flavors of Apache Hadoop to their enterprise customers. In filling out their Hadoop dance card, SAP’s has decided to attach themselves to both Intel, who announced that they’d be offering their ...Full article
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud has just got the seal of approval from the CIOs of the major agencies of the US government. Under the Obama Administration, the US government has been keen on pushing applications off its systems and out onto the cloud under a program called Cloud First. But before apps can jump to ...Full article
This Tuesday, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) celebrated the launch of its first Grid Cell Innovation Center in Michigan, designed to bring industry and academia together with the goal of integrating modeling and simulation into the product lifecycle. This center, the result of NCMS' partnership with Intel and GE, is dedicated to advanced ...Full article
One of the missions here at EnterpriseTech is watching high-performance technologies trickle down from on high and get adopted by large enterprises. This week, Cisco Systems is taking some low-latency switches that were initially aimed at high frequency trading applications and tweaking them so they are appropriate for other enterprise customers looking for high bandwidth, ...Full article
The transition to a converged cloud has led to a fundamental rethinking of business processes at 20th Century Fox, explained CIO John Herbert recently. The move, he says, has impacted them even greater with digital media being tied directly into the studio’s business model. “For us, the core catalyst to this journey to the converged ...Full article
Nearly 30 years ago, Aena, the Spanish Airports and Air Navigation authority, developed SACTA – a project devised to automate and harmonize air traffic control in the Spanish territory. With the system currently managing air traffic control for more than 1.5 million flights a year in Europe, Aena says they aiming larger - to create ...Full article
SGI has a long history in dealing with large data sets, and it is one of the major players in active archiving with its venerable Data Migration Facility (DMF) software. And now it has acquired the assets and key personnel at FileTek, another key player in active archiving, to create a more complete tool for ...Full article
Hot on the heels of its $1 billion investment to foster the porting of applications, modern systems software, and development tools to Linux running on its Power processors, IBM is getting ready to make a big change in the pricing of its high-end Power Systems machines to make them more economically competitive with X86 alternatives. ...Full article
For all the talk about how clouds are going to take over the world, large enterprises have been typically conservative, waiting for the hype to die down. It has, and now big companies are making the call to Rackspace Hosting to talk about the possibilities. And so, EnterpriseTech made the call to John Engates, chief ...Full article
With 10 Gb/sec Ethernet finally taking off in the data center, large enterprises now need more bandwidth on uplinks coming off their top-of-rack switches and into the core switches that constitute the network backbone. To tackle this, Brocade Communications has boosted its top-of-rack switches with 40 Gb/sec uplinks and is prepping a new line card ...Full article
It is important for a startup to not do too many things at once – to develop a roadmap aimed at an emerging market, and to stick to it. This is precisely what Calxeda, one of the early makers of ARM server chips, is doing. Calxeda has plenty of competition these days, but is not rattled by ...Full article
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