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Intelligent Interconnect Architecture: AI Enabler

October 23rd, 2017 Comments Off on Intelligent Interconnect Architecture: AI Enabler
 Data analytics has become an essential function within today’s high performance enterprise data centers, clouds and hyperscale platforms. AI and machine learning (ML) are pillars of today’s technological world, offering solutions for better and more accurate decisions based on ...

Google AlphaGo Zero Trains Self to Beat the ‘God of Go’

October 19th, 2017 Comments Off on Google AlphaGo Zero Trains Self to Beat the ‘God of Go’
Imagine if all the atoms in the universe could be added up to a single number. Big number, right?  Maybe the biggest number conceivable. But wait, there’s a bigger number out there. We're told that Go, the world’s oldest ...

GE, Apple Bringing Predix IIoT Apps to iPhones/iPads

October 18th, 2017 Comments Off on GE, Apple Bringing Predix IIoT Apps to iPhones/iPads
The powerhouse team of Apple and General Electric are joining forces to offer predictive data and analytics industrial apps from Predix, GE’s IIoT platform, to Apple iPhones and iPads. Today, the two companies unveiled a new Predix software development ...

GPU Database Early Adopter Sees Oil & Gas Queries Drop to 100 Milliseconds

October 16th, 2017 Comments Off on GPU Database Early Adopter Sees Oil & Gas Queries Drop to 100 Milliseconds
System imbalance – in which processing power, memory capacity and data movement are in a state of disequilibrium – customarily has meant that the processor sits idle waiting for data to be shipped to it. Imbalance continues today, but ...

Dell Technologies’ Umbrella Cloud-to-Edge IoT/AI Strategy

October 12th, 2017 (1)
Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC two years ago still stands as the largest tech deal ever. But as big as Dell EMC is, there’s an even larger Dell entity at play: Dell Technologies, a grouping of acquisitions that ...

Network Computing Moves Closer to the Edge

October 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Network Computing Moves Closer to the Edge
In the two decades since Sun Microsystems declared “the network is the computer,” cloud computing has established itself as the de-facto model. The economic benefits of a near infinite, elastic infrastructure that customers don’t need to manage themselves have ...

Digital Transformation Fail Point: CIO/CTO Conflict

October 6th, 2017 Comments Off on Digital Transformation Fail Point: CIO/CTO Conflict
Waves of fear and anger circulate over digital transformation projects – most of them destined to fail – sweeping the enterprise IT landscape. The technology is willing, but in too many cases the spirit of cooperation between senior managers ...

Intel Debuts Plug-in FPGA Platform for Data Center Adoption

October 5th, 2017 Comments Off on Intel Debuts Plug-in FPGA Platform for Data Center Adoption
While most of the enterprise computing world – users and vendors – ride CPU and GPU ponies around the data center merry-go-round, the brass ring of ultra-fast processing and lower power consumption would be to bring FPGAs into mainstream ...

Mellanox Ethernet/ARM NICs Lighten CPU Burden

October 4th, 2017 Comments Off on Mellanox Ethernet/ARM NICs Lighten CPU Burden
For the advanced data center of the coming decade, the fight for dominance calls to mind a half dozen sumo wrestlers in the ring at the same time, each putting themselves into position for the struggle ahead. Last week ...

Industrial HPC Community Responds in Latest Survey

October 2nd, 2017 Comments Off on Industrial HPC Community Responds in Latest Survey
One of the features of the 66th HPC User Forum last month was the presentation of the NCSA/Hyperion 2017 industry survey by Bill Kramer, the National Center for Supercomputer Application’s director of the Blue Waters Project and @Scale Programs. ...
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