HPC
IDC at SC16: AI, HPDA Driving HPC into High Growth Markets
The rapid growth in technology that can be trained, that infers, that continually learns from information contained in enormous data sets, all the while generating strong ROI on strategic ...Full Article
OpenPOWER Shows Strength at First European Summit
In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the ...Full Article
IDC: Searching for Dark Energy in the HPC Universe
Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should ...Full Article
What I Saw at the Enterprise IT Revolution: Radical Analytics Chic
If "a revolution is an idea that has found its bayonets" (Napoleon) then data analytics is the bayonet driving a revolution now underway in enterprise IT. It’s a revolution ...Full Article
DoE Expands HPC Manufacturing Effort
The Energy Department's Advanced Manufacturing Office is expanding industry access to its network of national laboratories to leverage supercomputing capabilities that can be used to model, simulate and analyze ...Full Article
U.S. Announces New Compute for Manufacturing Projects
The Energy Department's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, roughly a year old, continues to gather momentum with the recent award of $3.8 million for 13 new industry ...Full Article
HPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ...Full Article
AccuWeather’s Compute Strategy Takes Forecasting to the Cloud at Scale
Weather and the cloud go together. Take AccuWeather, the State College, PA-based consumer and commercial weather services provider. Demand for weather forecast information from media outlets, from business customers ...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
An Urgent Plea from the Manufacturing Sector: Give Us Scalability
Mohamad El-Zein has been on the front lines of advanced scale computing for decades, and like a veteran combat soldier who has seen one too many failed battle plans, ...Full Article
