Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Paving the Way to Simulation Democratization
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/democracy.png" alt="" width="95" height="72" border="0" />As globalization continues to dominate the business world, companies need to develop new and innovative products to stay ahead of the competition and remain successful in a fast-paced market. To meet these demands, leading companies have turned to engineering simulation to accelerate and optimize development processes and ... Full article
Robots Tack New Possibilities Onto Timber Fabrication
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/dezeen_ICD-ITKE-Research-Pavilion-at-the-University-of-Stuttgart-4.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Timber fabrication has almost always relied on the work of manual laborers or the mass production of single elements. While this method may be reliable, it is also largely inflexible. But computers and robotics could soon remedy this problem. Full article
eBay Juices Utah Modular Datacenter With Fuel Cells, Waste Heat
Online auctioneer eBay opened up the second phase of its datacenter outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, this week and has brought a number of new technologies to bear to increase the energy efficiency of its IT operations while at the same time reducing costs. Based on the numbers, the current eBay datacenter in South ... Full article
Penguin Demos Atom Powered Microserver
Penguin Computing recently debuted their newest integrated SoC design that Penguins says was built with Facebook’s Open Compute Project at the fore. The heart of the new microsever’s design is Intel’s 64-bit Atom processor C2000 product family, which boasts up to eight cores and up to 32GB of 1600 MHz of DDR3L RAM – all ... Full article
EDR Debuts on Newest IBTA Integrator List
The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is distributing the most recent release of its Combined Cable and Device Integrators List, which shows all products that passed the compliance and interoperability requirements during the April 2013 IBTA Plugfest (#23). Making a debut to the list, cables supporting the Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) 100Gb/s InfiniBand Standard were tested ... Full article
Oracle Stresses System Performance and Scalability
As Oracle Team USA's dramatic come-from-behind win over Emirates Team New Zealand in the America's Cup yacht race aptly demonstrates, Oracle's co-founder and CEO, Larry Ellison, believes in extreme performance. Ellison pursued the acquisition of Sun Microsystems three years ago to be able to build systems that made databases, analytics, and other enterprise applications scream. ... Full article
Michigan Racing Team Looks to Siemens for World Solar Challenge
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/generation.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Although the University of Michigan Solar Car Team has seven American Solar Challenge wins to their name, the student-run group decided after four third place finishes in the World Solar Challenge that it was time to boost their game, and turned to NX in hopes of changing ... Full article
HP OneView Management Tool Looks Consumer, Acts Datacenter
Hewlett-Packard has been pitching its next-generation of converged systems as the "new style of IT." If you are going to have systems that bring together servers, storage, and networking under the same chassis and rack skins, then you need a management tool that knows how to speak to those different bits of hardware. And so, ... Full article
NUMA’s Revenge: The Resurgence of Shared Memory Systems
Hewlett-Packard may be known as the volume player in the X86 server business, which has been dominated by two-socket servers for the past decade and a half. But the company also has lots of expertise in building much heftier shared-memory systems. With Project Odyssey, HP is taking the engineering from its Superdome 2 systems, which ... Full article
IMTS to Focus on Advanced Manufacturing in 2014
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/images-10.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="54" border="0" />Next year, the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago. The show brings together great minds across the manufacturing industry so that ideas can be exchanged and questions answered, with advanced manufacturing technologies in the spotlight. Full article
SUSE Cranks Cloud Controller Up to 2.0 With ‘Grizzly’ Update
SUSE Cloud, the variant of the OpenStack cloud controller put together by commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux, is now riding the "Grizzly" release of OpenStack. And that means that SUSE Linux is bracing for customers to move from tire kicking and proofs of concept to real deployments. The OpenStack community has a six-month development release ... Full article
VMware Lets Virtual SAN Software Out In Public
If there is one thing that companies installing private clouds or virtual desktop infrastructure don't want to do, it is shell out a lot of money to buy a storage area network to handle the storage needs for the servers in those clusters. SANs are expensive, even if they are fast and often have a ... Full article
Oracle Intros New Logging and Recovery Appliance
Oracle is adding a new twist to the backup appliance, announced Andy Mendelsohn this week at their Oracle OpenWorld event. The new appliance, part of their “engineered system” hardware family bring aimed at delivering sub-second, near zero data loss protection. Called the Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery and Appliance, the unit is a massively scalable ... Full article
Intel and Oracle Join Hands Over Hadoop
Two old-guard players will be standing together against challengers in the rising data tide, revealed Doug Fisher, general manager of software and services at Intel at Oracle’s OpenWorld 2013 event this week. During his keynote this week, Fisher announced that Intel and Oracle are working together to combine Intel’s Hadoop peanut butter, and Oracle’s database ... Full article
HP Targets vSwitch with 5900v
Adding another brick in the software-defined networking wall, HP announced their newest HP FlexFabric VirtualSwitch 5900v earlier this year, which they say targets VMware’s vSwtich by simplifying the network, adding more control for administrators, and also leveling up both network and application performance. The new kernel-based virtual switch integrates with the VMware hypervisor, replacing vSwitch ... Full article
Red Hat Profits Rise With Sales Despite Heavy OpenStack, Storage Investments
It is not an easy task to invest in the future while at the same time extracting profits from existing product lines, but Linux juggernaut and middleware player Red Hat managed to do just that in its second quarter of fiscal 2014, which ended in August. The company's profits rose in lockstep with sales despite ... Full article
Convey Revs Up Memcached With Hybrid X86-FPGA Appliance
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid computers that marry Xeon processors from Intel to field programmable gate array accelerators from Xilinx, has quite possibly come up with the killer app for its machines--boosting the performance of the Memcached caching software commonly used as a front-end for Web applications. Memcached was created a decade ago by ... Full article
Automation Alleviates China’s Growing Labor Shortage
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Screen_shot_2013-09-24_at_11.57.19_AM.png" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />Robots have been a hot topic for countries like the United States as they push themselves to be more competitive against inexpensive Chinese labor. But as their youth become less willing to accept jobs based on manual labor, China may soon take advantage of new automation tools ... Full article
Are Robots Really a Threat to Jobs?
For those concerned with bringing home manufacturing jobs that have moved from the United States to China, robots and other industrial automation tools represent a beacon of hope and an alternative to China's inexpensive labor. But will that really restore some of our nation's lost jobs? Full article
Cray Goes After Big Iron With ScaleMP Help
Supercomputer maker Cray is teaming up with ScaleMP to turn its CS300 clusters into virtual shared memory systems that are not only appropriate for some traditional HPC workloads, but can also be peddled to customers who are looking to run databases and other applications on machines with large memory capacity but who do not want ... Full article