Cloud Computing, IoT Drive Chip Design Surge
Semiconductor design is booming, propelled by unrelenting demand for new memory chips, cloud computing and the digitization of entire industry sectors such as automotive and industrial. Technology tracker IHS ...Full Article
Scaling the Cloud and High Availability: Two Perspectives, One Approach
System administrators and database administrators have different perspectives on high availability (HA). The differences can cause problems ranging from consternation and conflict to wasted investments and excessive downtime. While ...Full Article
AWS Joins Cloud Memory Push
Public cloud vendors are focusing their infrastructure upgrades on the growing number of memory-intensive enterprise workloads. Earlier this week, Google rolled out virtual machines that support persistent memory for ...Full Article
Samsung Said to be Readying New GPU Design
Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, is reportedly developing a new graphics processor and has hired a former Nvidia GPU architect to bring the chip to fruition. Jon Peddie, ...Full Article
Google Cloud Adds Another Nvidia GPU
Google continues to add GPU horsepower in tandem with its internally developed deep learning processors to its cloud platform with this week’s announcement that it will soon offer Nvidia’s ...Full Article
DARPA Effort Pushes Beyond Moore’s Law
Responding to market forces that are driving the otherwise vibrant global electronics industry toward narrower computing applications and away from the next wave of innovation, the Defense Advanced Research ...Full Article
SAP HANA Gets Intel Memory Boost on Google Cloud
Intel Corp. and SAP are joining forces with Google to offer cloud virtual machines supporting persistent memory for in-memory workloads running on the SAP HANA relational database manager. The ...Full Article
HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Turns 15
Editor’s note: Stay tuned for sister publication HPCwire’s 2018 Readers’ Choice Award nominations! These annual awards are our way of giving back, community, but we cannot do it without you. To ...Full Article
AIOps: Power Tool for Managing Systems Beyond Human Comprehension
You’re an accomplished IT manager at a financial services, retail or other data-intensive organization, and you preside over an insanely complex IT infrastructure that handles millions of roboticized transactions ...Full Article
How to Fight the Coming Quantum Data Decryption Threat
Is quantum computing 15 years away? Twenty? Is a nation state or threat actor secretly already using it? Are threat actors already capturing and storing your data, hoping some ...Full Article