Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Think Tank to UK Military: Use Big Data or Face Failure
The UK military is at risk at being left in the technological dust if it doesn’t develop and adopt big data analytics into its processes & culture warned the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in a statement released on Friday. Pitching a new white paper called “Big Data for Defence and Security,” RUSI, a defense ... Full article
First Derivatives To Launch Tick As A Service On NYSE Cloud
NYSE Technologies, the development arm of NYSE Euronext exchanges, is launching its first third-party software as a service (SaaS) application to run on its VMware-based cloud. First Derivatives, which sells a number of applications for managing market and reference data in the financial services sector as well as mission-critical trading and risk management systems, is ... Full article
Senator Aims to Halt Alternative Vehicle Loan
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/220px-John_Thune_official_portrait_111th_Congress.jpg" alt="" width="75" height="95" border="0" />As the United States Energy Department gears up to reinstate its advanced technology vehicles manufacturing (ATVM) loan program—the same one that backed electric car powerhouse Tesla—a prominent government figure has voiced his opposition. Full article
America’s Cup 2013: Winds, Wings and Supercomputers
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/oracleteamusa.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />While competitive sailing has rightly earned a reputation for taking the human body to its limits, this year the America’s Cup competitors have an extra trick up their waterlogged sleeves: supercomputers. Since the first yachts that sailed the America’s Cup in 1851, the trend of embracing technology ... Full article
Dell Shows Off Avoton Atoms In Cold Storage Array
Intel launched its first respectable server-class Atom processor, the "Avoton" Atom C2000, three weeks ago, and one of the interesting new uses for the eight-core chip is not in servers, but rather in dense storage arrays for hosting infrequently accessed data. Cold storage arrays, as the devices are known colloquially, are where you put the ... Full article
Facebook Pushes Future of Efficient Datacenters and Apps
When the data center is literally the engine for your business, as it is with Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and a slew of hyperscale data center operators, you have to do everything you can to try to make the data center and the applications it supports more efficient. Every penny saved is another penny that ... Full article
Stackdriver Cloud Monitor Ready To Babysit Amazon Clouds
Stackdriver, a startup founded last year to bring a unified monitoring tool for the public clouds run by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Hosting, has taken its service live after several months of beta testing with over 400 companies. Stackdriver has also announced a second infusion of venture capital to fuel its growth. Stackdriver was ... Full article
OpenDaylight Lifts the Veil on ‘Hydrogen’ SDN Software Stack
The OpenDaylight consortium is trying to do for software-defined networking what Linux did for operating systems. And that is to provide an open source set of tools for virtualizing networks that is created under a collaborative, and yet organized, development effort with as many industry luminaries and IT vendors behind it. This week, OpenDaylight gave ... Full article
Oracle Still Looking Ahead To Rebounding Systems Sales
Oracle got into the systems business with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems more than three years ago, and it has yet to see that systems business stop falling. But co-president Mark Hurd told Wall Street analysts on a conference call going over the company's first quarter of fiscal 2014 financial results that the software giant ... Full article
NIST Puts $7.4 Million Toward Additive Manufacturing Research
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/free-bags-of-money.jpg" alt="" width="69" height="95" border="0" />As new technologies emerge every day, one in particular appears to be taking off at a much faster rate than the rest. Known as additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, the process of manufacturing items quickly and with the option of customization could be the future for manufactured ... Full article
Altair Pushes CAE Boundaries with Private Cloud Appliance
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/hyperworksunlimited2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="69" border="0" />In an effort to knock down the barriers to the adoption of simulation-based design via high performance computing (HPC), Altair has launched HyperWorks Unlimited, a private cloud appliance that bundles HPC hardware with the company's solvers and visualization tools. Full article
IT Vendors Dominate Linux Development
Once a year, the Linux Foundation puts out a report to show who has been doing the work on the kernel of the Linux operating system. With the 3.10 kernel, a slew of ARM chip makers are contributing heavily to the kernel, Microsoft is doing less work than in the past, and a number of ... Full article
IBM Invests $1 Billion In Linux To Revive Power Systems
IBM wants its Power Systems server business to grow again, and it is going to have to rely on Linux to make it happen. And so, last week at the LinuxCon 2013 conference, Big Blue said that it would invest $1 billion in various Linux development and marketing efforts aimed specifically at its Power-based servers. ... Full article
Juniper’s Contrail Virtualizes Networks Without OpenFlow
Like other switch and router suppliers, Juniper Networks has to bring virtualization to the network to make connectivity more malleable and manageable. It's either that or someone else will. After a strategic acquisition earlier this year and some testing by early adopters, Juniper says its Contrail Controller, which is at the heart of its software-defined ... Full article
VCE Vblocks Chase More – And Bigger – Workloads
Partnerships in the IT sector don't always work out, but it looks like the Virtual Computing Environment effort between server upstart Cisco Systems, storage juggernaut EMC, and the latter's VMware server virtualization subsidiary is. Large enterprises are moving from proofs of concept to mission-critical workloads with Vblock systems because they want a new – and ... Full article
Robots Lend an Arm to Automotive Workers
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/bmw.robotsx299.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Although we all interact with automation systems daily, the age of interacting with full-fledged robots is upon us. While this idea may seem implausible to some, or even just a bit frightening, for BMW employees in Spartanburg, South Carolina, it's just another day on the job. Full article
Ford Asks ORNL to Take a Look Under the Hood
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Ford_enginecooling.png" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />Since the Obama Administration mandated that new cars average 35.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2016 and 54.5 mpg by 2025, car design has entered an age that requires more ingenuity than ever before. Still, as a beacon of American ingenuity, Ford is tackling the problem head-on ... Full article
University of Maryland Gains a Partner in Siemens
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/UMD-Terps-athletics.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />Siemens has just given the University of Maryland (UMD) the largest in-kind software grant it has ever awarded. The grant has a commercial value of over $750 million and will provide University of Maryland students with a range of Siemens’ design and simulation software. Full article
DARPA to Create Underwater Drone Nests
DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency, plans on creating underwater platforms that can be deployed at a moment’s notice. Known as “Hydra,” named after the serpent-like creature with many heads from Greek mythology, the undersea network of unmanned platforms will allow the U.S. Navy to not only respond to threats more quickly than before, but in ... Full article
Autodesk Weaves the Hyperloop into its Vision of the Future
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/crawlerdrawing.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="66" border="0" />One month ago, Elon Musk spelled out his dream of a future where a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles takes a mere 35 minutes thanks to the "Hyperloop." Now Autodesk has offered its hand in bringing the high speed rail system to life, and has ... Full article