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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Genomic Sequencing at Children’s Mercy: Saving Time to Save Lives
June 29th, 2016 Comments Off on Genomic Sequencing at Children’s Mercy: Saving Time to Save Lives
Genomic sequencing – that is, rapid sequencing – is instrumental to diagnosing and treating critically ill patients, and managing the high data volumes involved in genomics is essential to the process. Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO, (354 ...
eBay’s Liquid Cooled Billion-transactions-a-day Data Center
June 29th, 2016 (1)
Water transports heat 25 times more efficiently than air, but water and electronics don’t mix – hence the prevalence of air cooling in the data center. It’s controlling water’s cooling capability without destroying servers and shutting down systems that’s ...
Intel Launches ‘Knights Landing’ Phi for Machine Learning, HPC
June 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on Intel Launches ‘Knights Landing’ Phi for Machine Learning, HPC
From ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, Intel Corp. launched the second-generation Xeon Phi product family, code-named Knights Landing, aimed at HPC and machine learning workloads. The company had been shipping “Knights Landing” silicon to early customers for six months and ...
World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip Said to Show Promise Across Multiple Workloads
June 21st, 2016 Comments Off on World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip Said to Show Promise Across Multiple Workloads
A blindingly fast microchip, the first to contain 1,000 independent processors and said to show promise for digital signal processing, video processing, encryption and datacenter/cloud workloads, has been announced by a team at the University of California, Davis. The ...
HPE Debuts Manufacturing Solution and New Advanced Scale Software Environment
June 21st, 2016 Comments Off on HPE Debuts Manufacturing Solution and New Advanced Scale Software Environment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), now about eight months into its transition as a separate entity, retained the prestige of fielding the most systems of any vendor on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced at ISC2016 ...
Baidu Researcher: Why Machine Learning is Advancing Rapidly
June 20th, 2016 Comments Off on Baidu Researcher: Why Machine Learning is Advancing Rapidly
Note: This article originally appeared in our sister publication, HPCwire. Greg Diamos, senior researcher, Silicon Valley AI Lab, Baidu (the China-based web services and search engine company), is on the front lines of the reinvigorated frontier of machine learning. ...
Avoiding the Nightmare of Network Downtime in the Cloud
June 20th, 2016 Comments Off on Avoiding the Nightmare of Network Downtime in the Cloud
When I think about network downtime, many words come to mind. Among them: panic, fear, Armageddon. Perhaps that last one is a bit dramatic, but as IT functions and advanced scale combined with mission critical tasks driven by enterprise ...
Study: Flash Going Mainstream, Driving Adoption of Big Data Analytics
June 16th, 2016 Comments Off on Study: Flash Going Mainstream, Driving Adoption of Big Data Analytics
The rapid emergence of Flash-based storage into the mainstream technology is a primary factor in the embrace of advanced scale computing in the enterprise – particularly big data analytics projects. That’s a key finding of a new survey of ...
Mellanox Advances ‘In-Network Computing’ with ConnectX-5 Adapter
June 16th, 2016 Comments Off on Mellanox Advances ‘In-Network Computing’ with ConnectX-5 Adapter
Networking specialist Mellanox has announced ConnectX-5, the next-generation of its 100G InfiniBand and Ethernet adapter line. The company says the new device will help organizations take advantage of real-time data processing for high performance computing (HPC), data analytics, machine ...
Heading into ISC16, OpenHPC Releases Latest Stack with 60-plus Package
June 16th, 2016 Comments Off on Heading into ISC16, OpenHPC Releases Latest Stack with 60-plus Package
SC15 was sort of a muted launch party for OpenHPC – the nascent effort to develop a ‘plug-and-play’ software framework for HPC. There seemed to be widespread agreement the idea had merit, not a lot of knowledge of details, ...