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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).GigaSpaces Orchestrates Cloud Spin-Off
July 27th, 2017 Comments Off on GigaSpaces Orchestrates Cloud Spin-Off
In a bid to sharpen its focus on the booming market for cloud management, in-memory computing specialist GigaSpaces Technologies is spinning off its Cloudify unit into a new company that will concentrate on delivering cloud applications as well as ...
Microsoft Unveils AI Chip
July 25th, 2017 Comments Off on Microsoft Unveils AI Chip
Microsoft said this week it is developing a new version of an AI-based coprocessor for implementing "deep" neural networks expected to be incorporated into augmented reality goggles. The second version of the HoloLens holographic processing unit (HPU) crunches information ...
DARPA, Chipmakers Seek Path Beyond Moore’s Law
July 24th, 2017 Comments Off on DARPA, Chipmakers Seek Path Beyond Moore’s Law
The U.S. military long ago ceded dominance in electronics innovation to Silicon Valley, the DoD-backed powerhouse that has driven microelectronic generation for decades. With Moore's Law clearly running out of steam, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is ...
‘Neural’ Network Fabric Boosts Server Links
July 21st, 2017 Comments Off on ‘Neural’ Network Fabric Boosts Server Links
As network bottlenecks mount in datacenters—a hurdle that will only get worse with the deployment of business analytics using machine learning—there is a growing need for networking solutions that can scale to tens of thousands of connections without breaking ...
‘Colossus’ IPU Targets Datacenters, Cloud
July 21st, 2017 Comments Off on ‘Colossus’ IPU Targets Datacenters, Cloud
A second $30 million funding round for U.K. AI chip developer Graphcore sets up the company to go to market with its “intelligent processing unit” (IPU) in 2017 with scale-up production for enterprise datacenters and cloud environments planned in ...
Intel Rolls AI Toolkit
July 20th, 2017 Comments Off on Intel Rolls AI Toolkit
Intel has begun rolling out AI hardware previewed last fall with the release of its Movidius Neural Compute Stick, billed as a self-contained AI accelerator in a USB format that requires no network connection. The chipmaker said Thursday (July ...
Rackspace Partners With Pivotal, Expands With Google
July 20th, 2017 Comments Off on Rackspace Partners With Pivotal, Expands With Google
Cloud manager Rackspace is working with cloud services provider Pivotal Software and Google's public cloud unit to deliver new multi-cloud and other capabilities. The partnerships include management of Pivotal's growing Cloud Foundry platform. Rackspace said this week it would ...
Specs Target Container Portability
July 19th, 2017 Comments Off on Specs Target Container Portability
Application containers are getting more portable across different implementations thanks to a two-year effort to forge "vendor neutral" specifications released this week by an industry group. The Open Container Initiative (OCI) unveiled version 1.0 specifications addressing a container runtime ...
Open Source Driving DevOps Automation
July 18th, 2017 Comments Off on Open Source Driving DevOps Automation
Heightened awareness about the security risks associated with open source software has increased use of disciplined DevOps practices that have improved application quality and developer productivity, a software supply chain survey finds. With open source software making major inroads ...
IBM Rolls ‘Pervasive’ Encryption As Threats Grow
July 17th, 2017 Comments Off on IBM Rolls ‘Pervasive’ Encryption As Threats Grow
As more stringent data protection rules enter into force, increasing enterprise requirements for encryption, IBM is stepping into the breach with an encryption engine based on its Z Systems mainframe aimed at locking down data across applications, cloud platforms ...