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Thursday, May 16- ClearML Announces Broadest Support for AI Infrastructure Orchestration and Compute Management
- Ampere Scales AmpereOne Product Family to 256 Cores, Announces Joint Work with Qualcomm Cloud AI Accelerators
- New Dell PowerEdge Servers Support Workloads from the Data Center to the Edge
- Tech Mahindra and IBM to Help Enterprises Accelerate Adoption of Trustworthy Generative AI Using watsonx
- Esperanto Technologies Partners with Rapidus to Advance Energy-Efficient AI and HPC Solutions
- WEKA Nets $140M in Series E Funding at $1.6B Valuation
- SensiML Launches First Complete Open-Source AutoML Solution for Edge AI/ML Development
- Zapata AI and Tech Mahindra to Enhance Telecom Operations with Industrial Generative AI
- Quobyte Introduces High-Performance File Query Engine for Large-Scale Storage Clusters and AI Workloads
- ORNL: World’s Fastest Supercomputer Takes on Large Language Modeling
- Eviden Announces JARVICE AI Platform Software to Simplify AI Infrastructure Management
- NVIDIA: Data Centers Need New Metric for Energy Efficiency
- Hyperion Research Announces New AI Advisory Committee
- Qubrid AI Launches New AI Model Studio on Latest GPU Cloud Infrastructure
- Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of the High Performance Software Foundation
- SambaNova Integrates Japan’s Fugaku-LLM into Its Advanced Samba-1 CoE Tech
- Falcon 2: UAE’s TII Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3
- Supermicro Showcases Latest AI and HPC Innovations at ISC 2024
- Aurora Supercomputer Ranks Fastest for AI
- Generating Science: NVIDIA AI Accelerates HPC Research
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Author Archives: Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.Unravelling Hadoop Performance Mysteries
November 20th, 2014 Comments Off on Unravelling Hadoop Performance Mysteries
Despite the fact that it runs on plain vanilla X86 servers and 64-bit operating systems, Hadoop is a complex beast that's prone to bottlenecks and performance issues. Getting Hadoop to run well isn't easy and typically requires a lot ...
How Shutterstock Keeps Its Hyperscale Infrastructure In Check
September 9th, 2014 Comments Off on How Shutterstock Keeps Its Hyperscale Infrastructure In Check
Since it was founded 11 years ago, Shutterstock has grown to become one of the largest image sharing marketplaces on the Internet. Managing that growth has not always been easy for the company, which runs its own IT infrastructure. ...
The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
April 4th, 2014 Comments Off on The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
The last six months have been a hair-graying experience for everybody involved in the Healthcare.gov rollout. While it ultimately managed to meet its goals and enroll 7.1 million people, the disastrous start and near implosion of the website behind ...
Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
March 13th, 2014 Comments Off on Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to the success of the project. But when the 400-bed hospital ...
The NoSQL Heart of Telco Messaging
January 15th, 2014 (2)
You probably haven't heard of Openwave Messaging. But if you get email, voice mail, or other messaging services from a tier-one telecommunications firm, chances are fairly good that you have used its white-label messaging products at some point. And ...
Amadeus Travel Goes Up Tempo with CouchbaseDB
November 21st, 2013 Comments Off on Amadeus Travel Goes Up Tempo with CouchbaseDB
In the near future, if you search for a flight online, it’s likely that your query will run against Couchbase’s NoSQL database. That’s because Amadeus, the Spanish company that processes many of the world’s flight, hotel, and cruise ship ...
Dell Certifies QLogic Adapters for Converged Network Switch
September 20th, 2013 Comments Off on Dell Certifies QLogic Adapters for Converged Network Switch
Dell has given its stamp of approval for a pair of QLogic adapters to be used in its converged S5000 networking switch, which is a key component of Dell’s strategy to enable data center operators to support data (TCP/IP) ...
Datacenters Wasting Cooling Capacity, Report Says
September 20th, 2013 (1)
In data centers, heat is an enemy that threatens to fry expensive electronics. However, a recent study suggests that many data centers are wasting a large portion of their cooling capability, which in turn means they are wasting tens ...
Violin Launches New Software as IPO Approaches
September 20th, 2013 Comments Off on Violin Launches New Software as IPO Approaches
Violin Memory, a developer of Flash memory-based storage systems, last week unveiled new software that aims to make it easier for organizations to move their legacy data to a tiered storage environment that utilizes a mix of traditional disk ...
Asetek Scores First Point With Liquid Cooling
September 20th, 2013 Comments Off on Asetek Scores First Point With Liquid Cooling
Asetek reports that it’s taken the first order for its RackCDU liquid cooling system. The order for five RackCDUs from an undisclosed OEM will be used to cool 280 compute nodes in an HPC cluster, the company reports. RackCDU ...