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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).

Nvidia Pushes GPU Access With Containers

November 14th, 2017 Comments Off

Having migrated its top-of-the-line datacenter GPU to the largest cloud vendors, Nvidia is touting its Volta architecture for a range of scientific computing tasks as well as AI development with the addition of a container registry designed to deploy ...

HPE, Rackspace Embrace Metered Private Cloud

November 13th, 2017 Comments Off

Is "pay-as-you-go" the way to go for private cloud vendors? Partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Rackspace are betting it is, announcing this week they will offer an OpenStack private cloud service running on "pay-per-use" infrastructure. Seeking to differentiate their ...

Intel, AMD Moves Rattle GPU Market

November 10th, 2017 Comments Off

Intel Corp. has lured away the former head of AMD's graphics business as the world's largest chipmaker forms a high-end graphics unit to compete with GPU market leader Nvidia. Intel rattled tech markets this week by hiring AMD's Raja ...

Algorithms at War

November 8th, 2017 Comments Off

There are few enterprises accumulating more sensor and video data than the U.S. Department of Defense. For analysts, that means sitting for hours each day in front of screens observing full-motion video and other reconnaissance data to spot threats. ...

Startup Puts Container Security in a Container

November 8th, 2017 Comments Off

Among the emerging solutions for securing application containers in production is an application layer security tool that is itself a container. Startup NeuVector, which announced early stage venture funding this week, is pitching a cloud-native container firewall that seeks ...

OpenStack Gets Boost From Hybrid Cloud

November 6th, 2017 Comments Off

Multiple cloud deployments are boosting adoption and revenues for private clouds, concludes a batch of new OpenStack surveys. OpenStack deployments are predicted to rise at a 30-percent annual clip over the next five years to an estimated $6.7 billion ...

Node.js Popular With DevOps, But Security Lags

November 3rd, 2017 (1)

Developers are painfully aware of the risks inherent in deploying applications on the open Internet, but few are using tools designed to secure code and mitigate risks. A survey released by Node.js JavaScript runtime vendor NodeSource and software security ...

VMware Buys Networking Specialist VeloCloud

November 2nd, 2017 Comments Off

VMware has moved deeper into the networking sector with its deal to acquire a startup focused on wide-area networks used to connect datacenters. The company (NYSE: VMW) confirmed Thursday (Nov. 2) it is acquiring VeloCloud Networks, a provider of ...

Inference Emerges As Next AI Challenge

November 2nd, 2017 Comments Off

As developers flock to artificial intelligence frameworks in response to the explosion of intelligent machines, training deep learning models has emerged as a priority along with synching them to a growing list of neural and other network designs. All ...

AWS Dominates Soaring Cloud Market

October 31st, 2017 Comments Off

Despite intense competition in the booming cloud market, Amazon Web Services remains the overwhelming infrastructure-as-a-service leader by a wide margin, a cloud marker tracker concludes. AWS is "in a league of its own," Synergy Research Group asserted in a ...