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Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
ISC Industrial Day: Bridging Academia and Industrial HPC Users
June 12th, 2017 Comments Off on ISC Industrial Day: Bridging Academia and Industrial HPC Users
As deputy chair of Industrial Day at ISC next week, my goal is to help bring clarity to the key opportunities and challenges afforded by HPC-scale technologies, including the specific barriers commercial companies are likely to encounter as they ...
Sidra Medical Center’s Genome Program to Support National Personalized Healthcare Therapies in Qatar
June 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Sidra Medical Center’s Genome Program to Support National Personalized Healthcare Therapies in Qatar
Billed as one of the largest national genome medical research projects in the world, Sidra Medical and Research Center in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, in partnership with IBM, has embarked on the Qatar Genome Program (QGP), an ...
Code Modernization: Unlocking Old Code (and Incorporating AI) for Parallel Architectures
June 8th, 2017 Comments Off on Code Modernization: Unlocking Old Code (and Incorporating AI) for Parallel Architectures
The ways that advanced computing performance depends on more – much more – than the processor take many forms. Regardless of Moore’s Law's validity, it’s indisputable that other aspects of the computing ecosystem must keep pace with the processor ...
100M Sensors under Management: C3 IoT Emerges from 8 Years in Development
June 2nd, 2017 Comments Off on 100M Sensors under Management: C3 IoT Emerges from 8 Years in Development
After eight years in quiet development under the stewardship of Silicon Valley veteran and CRM pioneer Tom Siebel, C3 IoT’s “full stack” IoT Platform-as-a-Service has created a stir since coming out of stealth earlier this year. In fact, it’s ...
Analytics at Scale Requires Out-with-the-Old Spring Cleaning
May 31st, 2017 Comments Off on Analytics at Scale Requires Out-with-the-Old Spring Cleaning
It is human nature to hold on to things after they’ve outlived their usefulness. The history of IT and technology is replete with similar examples of technologies that just won’t die. Analytic is no different. Organizations cling to old ...
Moving Machine Learning from Test to Production: High Performance Data Management
May 26th, 2017 Comments Off on Moving Machine Learning from Test to Production: High Performance Data Management
If advanced scale computing were a high school, machine learning would be the coolest kid at the cool kid lunch table, and that kid’s name would be Nvidia. Already a Wall Street sweetheart coming into 2017, Nvidia stock has ...
Quantum-Safe Blockchain Claim by Russian Researchers Met with Skepticism
May 25th, 2017 Comments Off on Quantum-Safe Blockchain Claim by Russian Researchers Met with Skepticism
The Russian Quantum Center today announced it has overcome the threat of quantum cryptography by creating the first quantum-safe blockchain, securing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, along with classified government communications and other sensitive digital transfers. The center said the technology ...
Distributed Systems and the Economic Power of Commoditization
May 24th, 2017 Comments Off on Distributed Systems and the Economic Power of Commoditization
IDC recently reported that the number of data centers is declining and, at the same time, the total square-feet of raised flooring in data centers is also shrinking. The market research firm attributed this to the consolidation of data ...
Digital Psychometrics and its Discontents: Online Footprints for Psychological Analytics
May 19th, 2017 Comments Off on Digital Psychometrics and its Discontents: Online Footprints for Psychological Analytics
Occasionally we hear about predictive data modeling aimed at gaining psychological insight that at first blush seems – even to tech sophisticates who pooh-pooh AI alarmism – like a primitive version of something unsettling to come, something too penetrating ...
HPE’s Memory-centric The Machine Coming into View, Opens ARMs to 3rd-party Developers
May 16th, 2017 Comments Off on 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 envisioned by HP (then, HPE now) starting in 2014. Certainly, ...