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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Tokyo Tech’s TSUBAMI3.0 Will Be First HPE-SGI Super
February 17th, 2017 Comments Off on Tokyo Tech’s TSUBAMI3.0 Will Be First HPE-SGI Super
Editor’s note: Just after posting the story Thursday at 9:30 pm PT, we received confirmation from Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka that the primary contractor is SGI Japan. Partners include NVIDIA (P100 Pascal with NVLINK), DDN (Exascalar), Intel (Omni-Path + NVMe), Univa, among ...
Drug Developers Enlist Google Cloud HPC in the Fight Against ALS
February 16th, 2017 Comments Off on Drug Developers Enlist Google Cloud HPC in the Fight Against ALS
Within the haystack of a lethal disease such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lou Gehrig's Disease) there exists, somewhere, the molecular needle that will pierce this therapy-resistant affliction. Finding it is a trial-and-error process of monumental proportions for ...
Insight to Action: 8 Analytics Trends for the New Algorithmic Enterprise
February 15th, 2017 Comments Off on Insight to Action: 8 Analytics Trends for the New Algorithmic Enterprise
“I spend millions on analytics, machine learning and big data. I have tons of insights. Too many insights. What I need is more action.” A CMO recently said this to me during an executive summit, and his feelings are ...
Security News Ahead of RSA: Breach Worries Stop Digital Transformation
February 10th, 2017 Comments Off on Security News Ahead of RSA: Breach Worries Stop Digital Transformation
In advance of next week’s big RSA data security show in San Francisco, we’ve received a bevy of security product announcements from companies leveraging data analytics, AI, behavior analytics and machine learning to automate threat detection, many of them ...
Intel Announces New High-end Xeon Processor E7-8894 v4
February 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Intel Announces New High-end Xeon Processor E7-8894 v4
Intel Corp. today announced enhanced performance capabilities from its new Xeon processor E7-8800 v4 product family with the addition of the new high-performance E7-8894 v4 to its SKU stack. The company said the new chip targets scale-up workloads, such ...
Thanks for the Memory: Diablo/Inspurs’ In-Memory Benchmark Boast
February 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Thanks for the Memory: Diablo/Inspurs’ In-Memory Benchmark Boast
Cramming more data into memory is a permanent objective for technology strategists seeking to satisfy the surging demand for real-time big data analytics. With the ultimate goal of reducing data center "server sprawl," memory technology specialist Diablo and server ...
Intel and Trump Announce $7B for Fab 42 Targeting 7nm
February 8th, 2017 Comments Off on Intel and Trump Announce $7B for Fab 42 Targeting 7nm
In what may be an attempt by President Trump to reset his turbulent relationship with the high tech industry, he and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich today announced plans to invest more than $7 billion to complete Fab 42, which ...
‘De-Blackboxing’ AI: Bias in Learning Machines
February 8th, 2017 Comments Off on ‘De-Blackboxing’ AI: Bias in Learning Machines
We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures who make decisions with clear, objective and unbiased minds. Many decision making processes have been predicated on this assumption. But back in the late 60’s two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman ...
No Waiting: ANSYS Adds Cycle Orchestration for Enterprise Cloud HPC
February 3rd, 2017 Comments Off on No Waiting: ANSYS Adds Cycle Orchestration for Enterprise Cloud HPC
The waiting is the hardest part. When design engineers need to run complex simulations, too often they find that the HPC resources required for those workloads are already taken. The problem: most on-prem data centers are provisioned for steady-state, ...
Inside H&R Block’s Decision to Augment Tax Intelligence with IBM Watson
February 2nd, 2017 Comments Off on Inside H&R Block’s Decision to Augment Tax Intelligence with IBM Watson
As tax season rears its hideous head, the 11 million U.S. taxpayers who annually schlep to an H&R Block office and sit down with an agent to prepare their tax returns now have the power of the IBM Watson ...