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Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
The Emerging ‘Internet of Machines,’ FPGAs, and the Discovery of Knowledge We Don’t Know Exists
April 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on The Emerging ‘Internet of Machines,’ FPGAs, and the Discovery of Knowledge We Don’t Know Exists
The advanced scale computing landscape of the future will have a broader diversity of processors, a focus on matching processors to application domains, and the use of machine learning techniques that teach systems to self-optimize as they take on ...
Think Before You Swap: Not All File Systems Are Equal in Scaling Cloud Apps
April 21st, 2016 Comments Off on Think Before You Swap: Not All File Systems Are Equal in Scaling Cloud Apps
File Systems are like opinions. Everybody has one (or two). But they may not be the right ones for the job. Unfortunately, a common mistake in development is selection and design of file systems that is not suited to ...
Intel Accelerates Shift Away from PCs; Will Cut 12,000 Jobs
April 19th, 2016 Comments Off on Intel Accelerates Shift Away from PCs; Will Cut 12,000 Jobs
Intel took a major step yesterday in its transformation from a PC company to one focused on the data center, Internet of Things (IoT), and the cloud, announcing plans to cut approximately 12,000 jobs in a restructuring. The announcement ...
Conflicted Feelings: Concerns About Cloud Security Growing, But So Is Trust
April 14th, 2016 Comments Off on Conflicted Feelings: Concerns About Cloud Security Growing, But So Is Trust
Organizations are racing to the cloud at an accelerating pace – with growing anxiety. Concerns about cloud security are the core finding of a new study from Intel Security that reveals a variety of conflicting cloud adoption perceptions. Even ...
The Automobile as the Next Smart Device
April 13th, 2016 Comments Off on The Automobile as the Next Smart Device
Advancements in assisted driving software and self-driving vehicles portend a new era for ground transportation. One of the less-talked-about set of capabilities behind this trend is the integration of automobiles with the internet. This coalescence of two different industries ...
Herding Cats in the Cloud: Enterprise Monitoring of Decentralized AWS Usage
April 12th, 2016 Comments Off on Herding Cats in the Cloud: Enterprise Monitoring of Decentralized AWS Usage
Cloud instances are typically spun out on a one-off basis across an enterprise. Most organizations have multiple cloud accounts purchased in a decentralized, ad hoc way. For large companies with $100,000+ monthly cloud fees, monitoring use and spending on ...
Consider a ‘Genetically Diverse’ Security Strategy
April 12th, 2016 Comments Off on Consider a ‘Genetically Diverse’ Security Strategy
Worldwide, the HPC market is booming as the industry enters the era of exascale-size data sets, and supercomputing applications expand beyond the academic and scientific world into financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, aerospace, defense, and more. ...
An Urgent Plea from the Manufacturing Sector: Give Us Scalability
April 8th, 2016 Comments Off on 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, he views the promises of next-generation HPC technology with a ...
LUG 2016 Wrap-up: Intel’s Lustre Line Gains Traction
April 8th, 2016 Comments Off on LUG 2016 Wrap-up: Intel’s Lustre Line Gains Traction
Intel’s effort to expand Lustre’s beyond science and the Top500 HPC communities, where it has long been strong, and into enterprise and cloud environments was apparent in announcements made at the Lustre User Group Conference (LUG 2016) held in ...
Keeping up with the Data Center: Will Innovation Continue?
April 8th, 2016 Comments Off on Keeping up with the Data Center: Will Innovation Continue?
The enterprise and data center markets are going through what some experts call a “once in a decade transition.” Driven by the insatiable demand for ever-increasing bandwidth, these industries are rapidly moving from 40G to 100G networks while also ...