Autonomous Cars: Google No. 1, Toyota Sees Carbon-free Future, Memory a Speed Bump?
With billions of dollars at stake in the car market of the future, technology and auto companies are aggressively jockeying for position to deliver self-driving vehicles that could, ultimately, ...Full Article
HPC4Mfg Advances State-of-the-Art for American Manufacturing
Last Friday (March 3, 2017), the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program held an industry engagement day workshop in San Diego, bringing together members of the US manufacturing ...Full Article
Industry Voice Added to U.S. Drive to Exascale
A federally-funded effort to deliver HPC systems 50 times faster than today's supercomputers has added a business perspective to the multi-year development project, which one industry observer said could ...Full Article
Safety Hazard SaaS for Auto Industry Tracks Millions of Cars Under Recall on the Roads
On the roads today are tens of millions of cars – including yours, possibly – that are ticking time bombs. Since the year 2000, Americans have driven some 63 ...Full Article
Why Smart Manufacturing Can Be So Dumb
Someone recently asked for my thoughts on smart manufacturing, or the so-called IT revolution in the factory. They couldn’t believe I didn’t see it as the salvation of American ...Full Article
Intel-BMW and Nvidia-Mercedes Vie for Driverless Car Spotlight at CES
Nvidia with Mercedes-Benz and Intel with BMW made major autonomous vehicle announcements this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, with Nvidia/Mercedes vowing the release a driverless car by the ...Full Article
GE Makes Splash With Data Deals
Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for ...Full Article
How P&G Got Hooked on Analytics: ‘High Value Problems People Were Willing to Pay For’
Procter & Gamble, the $76 billion consumer packaged goods giant with sales to 5 billion consumers in 180 countries, has lots of data. Four years ago, as the company ...Full Article
New Commercial CAE Code Scaling Record Claimed
SGI, the old-line supercomputing vendor recently acquired by HPE, has teamed with ANSYS, the product engineering and simulation software company, to set a new world record for scaling commercial ...Full Article
Overcoming the 3 Key Barriers to Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers exciting possibilities for transforming industrial automation. Having the ability to capture data at the industrial edge—from the manufacturing shop floor to natural ...Full Article