IBM, D-Wave Report Quantum Computing Advances
IBM said this week it has built and tested a pair of quantum computing processors, including a prototype of a commercial version. That progress follows an announcement earlier this ...Full Article
DOE’s HPC4Mfg Leads to Paper Manufacturing Improvement
Papermaking ranks third behind only petroleum refining and chemical production in terms of energy consumption. Recently, simulations made possible by the U.S. Department of Energy's HPC4Mfg program helped a ...Full Article
IBM-Nutanix Deal Moves Power Servers to Datacenters
Targeting AI, machine learning and other big data workloads, IBM and Nutanix will join forces to deliver the enterprise cloud vendor's software via Power servers. The deal is Nutanix's ...Full Article
HPE’s Memory-centric The Machine Coming into View, Opens ARMs to 3rd-party Developers
Announced three years ago, HPE’s The Machine is said to be the largest R&D program in the venerable company’s history, one that could be progressing toward the epic grandeur ...Full Article
RDMA Fabrics – Unlocking Enterprise Data Analytics
Ultra-low latency requirements in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry continue to drive interconnect considerations for the world’s most powerful supercomputers. In the enterprise world, it’s also apparent that ...Full Article
Healthcare Cloud Platform Aimed at Cutting Costs, Aiding Digital Transformation
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet made a media splash last week with statements concerning continually rising healthcare costs in the United States, including: "If you talk about the world competitiveness ...Full Article
Nvidia’s ‘GPU Cloud’ Adopts Containers for AI Development
GPU powerhouse Nvidia's entry into the cloud market is differentiated from public cloud leaders by its focus on delivering development tools for training artificial intelligence models and running AI ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Mammoth Volta GPU Aims High for AI, HPC
At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC17) in San Jose, Calif., this morning, CEO Jensen Huang announced the company’s much-anticipated Volta architecture and flagship high-end GPU, the Tesla V100, noting that it ...Full Article
Unified IoT Management Is Aim of VMware Offering
At Dell EMC World in Las Vegas today, VMware announced an ambitious IoT infrastructure management and monitoring technology strategy that the company said will provide a unified means to ...Full Article
Bright Computing 8.0 Adds Azure, Expands Machine Learning Support
Bright Computing, long a prominent provider of cluster management tools for HPC, today released version 8.0 of Bright Cluster Manager and Bright OpenStack. The release includes major and minor ...Full Article
