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).

Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster

October 9th, 2019 Comments Off

An HPC cluster with deep learning techniques will be used to process petabytes of scientific data as part of workload-intensive projects spanning astrophysics to genomics. AI partners Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Lenovo (OTCMKTS: LNVGY) said they are providing the ...

Human Error Offsets Greater Datacenter Reliability

October 3rd, 2019 (1)

Despite the vastly improved reliability of datacenter gear and the rise of managed services to anticipate and limit consequences, an industry survey finds that datacenter outages remain common and costly. That’s unsettling, according to the Uptime Institute’s survey of ...

Microsoft, Novartis Team on AI-based Therapies

October 2nd, 2019 Comments Off

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis is teaming with Microsoft on a medical AI effort aimed at developing new data-driven techniques for drug discovery and development of specific therapies. The multi-year alliance announced this week would establish an AI innovation lab ...

DARPA Targets Network Bottlenecks

October 1st, 2019 Comments Off

DARPA will seek to unclog the networking bottlenecks that are hindering wider use of powerful hardware in computing-intensive applications. The Pentagon research agency has unveiled another in a series of post-Moore’s Law computing initiatives, this one seeking an overhaul of ...

Chiplet Effort Advances for Workload Acceleration

September 26th, 2019 Comments Off

Chiplet-based designs, so called because they combine multiple components into a single package, are increasingly seen as addressing the inability of general-purpose CPUs to handle skyrocketing performance requirements. Lower-cost chiplets have helped address the need for workload-specific accelerators, proponents ...

IBM Expands Cloud Database Services with Kubernetes

September 26th, 2019 Comments Off

The Kubernetes operator for the CouchDB NoSQL database announced this week by IBM targets enterprise hybrid cloud deployments with a managed database service positioned as a replacement for the open source version of CouchDB. Along with the cloud database ...

Multi-Cloud Seen Driving Managed Services

September 25th, 2019 Comments Off

The steady enterprise shift to hybrid and multi-cloud deployments brings with it added layers of complexity as adopters seek to salvage some legacy infrastructure while migrating critical workloads to cloud-native frameworks. Those requirements are said to be creating greater ...

Hybrid Approach Emerges for AI Workloads

September 24th, 2019 Comments Off

The discussion surrounding enterprise adoption of AI technologies is shifting from if to when, and what mix of IT infrastructure will be required to deploy and scale machine learning and other workloads. HPC vendors that have been making inroads ...

AWS Upgrades Nvidia GPU Cloud Instances for Inferencing, Graphics

September 20th, 2019 Comments Off

Graphics processor acceleration in the form of G4 cloud instances have been unleashed by Amazon Web Services for machine learning applications. AWS (NASDAQ: AMZN) on Friday (Sept. 20) announced general availability of the new Elastic Compute Cloud instance providing ...

The Cloud Services Market is Booming

September 19th, 2019 Comments Off

Enterprise cloud spending far outpaces investments in other IT infrastructure, according to a mid-year assessment that pegs cloud spending at a healthy $150 billion. Synergy Research Group reported this week that cloud services and infrastructure spending across seven market ...