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Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
DAX Data Wrangling: Deutsche Börse Lifts Data Scientists’ ‘80% Problem’
At the German Stock Exchange – aka Deutsche Börse, home of the DAX – data scientists are getting unburdened from “janitorial” tasks that can consume up to 80 percent ...Full Article
AWS Adds ‘Secret’ Region to CIA Cloud
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services announced a new "secret region" this week designed to complete its portfolio of data classifications for U.S. government workloads. AWS said Monday (Nov. ...Full Article
130,000 frames, 90M core hours: Exascale’s Potential for Animation
The following contribution from a writer at Argonne National Labs is another compelling example of advanced scale computing’s impact on industry – in this case, the movie industry. Animated ...Full Article
Algorithms at War
There are few enterprises accumulating more sensor and video data than the U.S. Department of Defense. For analysts, that means sitting for hours each day in front of screens ...Full Article
Servers On Steroids Speed Stock Swaps
Executing stock trades often comes down to being first in the queue of traders. Hence, developers of high-frequency trading platforms that connect trading servers to networks focus on reducing ...Full Article
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. ...Full Article
FogHorn Pushes Machine Learning Into Industrial IoT
As the industrial sector continues to spearhead Internet of Things deployments, investors are targeting analytics and machine learning startups focused on applications like predictive maintenance and streamlining business processes. ...Full Article
Global Data Fabric Takes on the Diversity of Data Types
Life is a journey, but getting to your data shouldn’t have to be. Data is the lifeblood of most businesses, but many organizations aren’t taking full advantage of their ...Full Article
‘Run Anywhere’ Enterprise Analytics and HPC Converge at TACC
Advances in storage, processor, and cloud technology have made run-anywhere big data analytics available to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) as well as Fortune 1000 companies. Run-anywhere means ...Full Article
