As DevOps Embraces Containers, Skills Gap Emerges
Developers are making greater use of application container technologies as they seek to accelerate release cycles but barriers to widespread adoption remain, according to a new vendor survey. Seattle-based ...Full Article
Orchestrating Simulations on a Formula 1 CFD Cluster with Grid Engine
Sports and advanced scale computing have teamed up for well over a decade, but in possibly no sport does HPC play a more central, competitive role than in the ...Full Article
Custom App Container Targets HPC Needs
Custom versions of application containers are emerging that meet stringent requirements. Among the first is an HPC-specific container platform dubbed "Singularity" built around what its developers say is the ...Full Article
Hospital Ransomware Attacks Spark IT Security Debate
A series of ransomware attacks directed at U.S. hospitals is highlighting the vulnerability of private health records as hackers prey on healthcare facilities with the ability to pay. The ...Full Article
15X Spark Speed-ups Coming to the Open Source Community, Say HPE and Hortonworks
Hortonworks and HPE this week announced a collaboration to enable enterprise-wide Apache Spark implementation, an effort based on work done to the Spark kernel by HPE Labs that the ...Full Article
The Do’s, Don’ts of Docker Containers
Operating on the assumption that whatever it was, it was needed yesterday, enterprise micro-services in general and Docker application containers in particular are making serious headway among developers. The ...Full Article
Shippable Expands App Development Platform
Shippable, the developer of a platform for speeding code development and delivery of enterprise applications, has added cloud options and tighter integration with source controllers like GitHub while expanding ...Full Article
HPC and Code Modernization May Deliver Car ‘Super Engine’
With 53 miles-per-gallon CAFE requirements bearing down on the auto industry for 2025, car makers are investigating any number of new engine designs – electric, hybrid and alternative fuel, ...Full Article
Spreading Spark Enterprise-wide
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to ...Full Article
Data Platforms Supplying ‘Smarts’ to the Power Grid
Software is defining and redefining everything from datacenters to the energy infrastructure delivering the power to run IT infrastructure. Software-defined power distribution that also incorporates predictive analytics to forecast ...Full Article
