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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Here’s What HPC Leaders Say about Trump Travel Ban
February 1st, 2017 Comments Off on Here’s What HPC Leaders Say about Trump Travel Ban
On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order that bars citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations -- Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen -- entry to the United States for at least 90 days, kicking off a swift ...
Industry Voice Added to U.S. Drive to Exascale
February 1st, 2017 Comments Off on Industry Voice Added to U.S. Drive to Exascale
A federally-funded effort to deliver HPC systems 50 times faster than today's supercomputers has added a business perspective to the multi-year development project, which one industry observer said could reduce the runtime for complex simulations from a year to ...
Intersect360 on 2016 Top Performers and Trends
January 31st, 2017 Comments Off on Intersect360 on 2016 Top Performers and Trends
HPC supplier consolidation in 2016 is showing up on market watcher scorecards with Dell EMC (15.7 percent) slipping ahead of HPE (14.7 percent) as the top HPC systems supplier according Intersect360 Research’s just released report, Top of All Things ...
Safety Hazard SaaS for Auto Industry Tracks Millions of Cars Under Recall on the Roads
January 27th, 2017 Comments Off on Safety Hazard SaaS for Auto Industry Tracks Millions of Cars Under Recall on the Roads
On the roads today are tens of millions of cars – including yours, possibly – that are ticking time bombs. Since the year 2000, Americans have driven some 63 million cars that were, or still are, in “open recall,” ...
Answered Prayers for High Frequency Traders? Latency Cut to 20 Nanoseconds
January 20th, 2017 (1)
“You can buy your way out of bandwidth problems. But latency is divine.” This sentiment, expressed by Intel Technical Computing Group CTO Mark Seager, seems as old as the Bible, a truth universally acknowledged. Latency will always be with ...
IBM Re-Ups with U.S. Army for $62M Cloud Deal
January 18th, 2017 Comments Off on IBM Re-Ups with U.S. Army for $62M Cloud Deal
IBM has announced its second major cloud win in three months, signing a $62 million, five-year deal with the United States Army to build and manage a cloud solution for the Army’s Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., part of ...
“Why Don’t My Security Tools Work?” A Unified Cyber Defense Battle Plan
January 17th, 2017 (1)
Threat actors are getting better, faster, and more efficient at compromising networks, taking only minutes or less to breach systems. Unfortunately, organizations are taking weeks, if not longer, to discover these breaches. In fact, over the last decade the ...
Spurred by Global Ambitions, Inspur in Joint HPC Deal with DDN
January 17th, 2017 Comments Off on Spurred by Global Ambitions, Inspur in Joint HPC Deal with DDN
Inspur, the fast-growth cloud computing and server vendor from China, and DDN, a leader in high-end storage, have announced a joint sales and marketing agreement to produce solutions based on DDN storage platforms integrated with servers, networking, software and ...
Shared Economy Start-up Uses AI-based Compatibility Testing for Online Rental Marketplace
January 12th, 2017 Comments Off on Shared Economy Start-up Uses AI-based Compatibility Testing for Online Rental Marketplace
Seeking the next big idea in the “shared economy” pioneered by Uber and Airbnb – while also incorporating compatibility matching capabilities of dating and social media sites – an AI newbie has put forth an online business model based ...
Covering Your Assets: Blockchain and Security
January 12th, 2017 Comments Off on Covering Your Assets: Blockchain and Security
The combined market value of blockchain-based technologies, such as cryptocurrencies, is measured in the billions of US dollars. With cryptocurrency gaining legitimacy, it’s worth knowing what security measures are used to “cover your assets” — as well as what ...