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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
November 20th, 2015 Comments Off on Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
Google is upping the ante in the cloud, moving beyond incremental tactics like price wars with market leader Amazon Web Services, to develop a long-term enterprise strategy under new cloud services chief Diane Greene. The search giant on Thursday ...
Netlist, Samsung Partner on Memory Channel Storage
November 19th, 2015 Comments Off on Netlist, Samsung Partner on Memory Channel Storage
Analytics and other data intensive applications continue to drive new enterprise memory and storage approaches along with device manufacturing partnerships needed to scale production of emerging memory channel storage platforms. Another case in point is this week's announcement from ...
New Enterprise Users Pushing HPC Server Growth
November 19th, 2015 Comments Off on New Enterprise Users Pushing HPC Server Growth
The rising chorus heard at SC15 this week, particularly from server vendors, is that the enterprise sector presents the strongest area of market growth. This trend contributed to the overall HPC server market’s growth of nearly 12 percent to ...
Dell Pushing Advanced Scale to the Enterprise
November 18th, 2015 Comments Off on Dell Pushing Advanced Scale to the Enterprise
SC15 is starting to feel like EnterpriseHPC15. The big systems and chip makers all seem to be publicly pivoting towards the enterprise. Yesterday it was Dell’s turn declaring its intention to democratize HPC and accelerate mainstream adoption. Dell, which ...
SoftLayer, Google Top Cloud Benchmark
November 18th, 2015 (1)
An expanded cloud-benchmarking test again found public cloud competitors outperforming industry leader Amazon Web Services in terms of performance and price, with the bare metal version of IBM's SoftLayer platform leading the way followed by Google Cloud. In-memory database ...
HPE, Intel Join Forces on IoT Development
November 17th, 2015 Comments Off on HPE, Intel Join Forces on IoT Development
Two U.S. tech giants with strategies in place to attack the nascent Internet of Thing market said they are joining forces to forge open standards while moving computing power closer to the sensors and other devices at the edge ...
Intel’s Bryant Outlines Drive to Exascale
November 17th, 2015 Comments Off on Intel’s Bryant Outlines Drive to Exascale
It was a celebratory review of the HPC industry’s achievements to date, a look at the industry’s evolution from its roots in scientific research to providing tools for business insight, and a philosophical discussion of “recursion” – innovation in ...
Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
November 16th, 2015 Comments Off on Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
Nearly one-third of storage systems spanning storage area networks to cloud platforms reached 1 petabyte or greater capacity in 2015, according to a user census that also projects more than half of installed storage systems will top the 1-PB ...
I/O Project Looks to Bridge Memory-Storage Gap
November 16th, 2015 Comments Off on I/O Project Looks to Bridge Memory-Storage Gap
A European-led initiative will seek to overcome I/O bottlenecks for HPC workloads resulting from too many processors communicating with slow disk storage. The project also would leverage Intel Corp.'s new 3D memory technology unveiled earlier this year. The NextGenIO ...
OpenPower Looks to Accelerate Enterprise, HPC
November 16th, 2015 Comments Off on OpenPower Looks to Accelerate Enterprise, HPC
At SC15 today, IBM provided a glimpse of its broadening vision for accelerator-assisted computing on Monday (Nov. 16) with announcements at the SC15 conference around Watson, a strategic alliance with FPGA specialist Xilinx, an expanded developer outreach via the ...