Driverless Tractors, Drone Crop Dusters, Automated Milking: Agriculture Called the ‘Most Attractive’ Robotics Market Opportunity
Just as we’re becoming acclimated to the brave new world of driverless cars, driverless tractors and other agricultural robots will, in the not too distant future, harvest the food ...Full Article
Handicapping IBM/OpenPOWER’s Odds for Success
2016 promises to be pivotal in the IBM/OpenPOWER effort to claim a non-trivial chunk of the Intel-dominated high-end server landscape. Big Blue’s stated goal of 20-to-30 percent market share ...Full Article
As Data Analytics Workload Complexity Explodes, FPGAs May Find a Niche in Enterprise Clusters
It’s the holiday season and out of the milling hordes of shoppers at a brick-and-mortar store, an individual consumer approaches the jewelry department. His cell phone is on, releasing ...Full Article
Migrating Toward Advanced Scale Computing: Overcoming Paralysis
If it’s true that only 10 percent of U.S. manufacturers have adopted advanced scale computing, it’s also true that 100 percent of the C-suite members of those companies are ...Full Article
CMU and Boeing Establish Aerospace Data Analytics Lab
Partnership provides underscores the collision between big data and HPC that's spurring academic-industry collaboration.Full Article
Steel Mill Transformed Into Juiced Datacenter
A former steel mill outside of Philadelphia that is connected to more than 2 gigawatts of electricity has been converted into a datacenter and is opening up its doors ...Full Article
HGST Speeds Disk Design Work By 90X
HGST, the disk drive business formerly owned by IBM and then Hitachi that is now part of Western Digital, is in a constant battle with Seagate Technology and a ...Full Article
Univa Grid Engine Does Windows, Linux Containers
Grid Engine, the popular workload management tool for distributed computing environments, now does Windows. And it is also doing Linux control groups, or cgroups, containers, a technology that was ...Full Article
BAE Systems Arms Clusters With GPU And Xeon Phi Accelerators
With over 88,000 employees and £18.2 billion in revenues, BAE Systems is one of the largest defense, aerospace, and security contractors in the world and a major supplier of ...Full Article
IBM Commits $3 Billion To Future Chip, Systems Research
If the rumors are right, and they usually are on these sorts of things, then IBM is looking to get out of the chip manufacturing business and has been ...Full Article
