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Oil Exploration at Petascale
We’ve been reading about it, researching it and discussing it, maybe even rolling out small implementations for years. Now growing numbers of enterprises across every vertical are adopting data ...Full Article
Servers in Orbit, Datacenters Not Far Behind
The International Space Station shines a little brighter in the night sky thanks to what amounts to an orbiting supercomputer lofted to the outpost last year as part of ...Full Article
Penguin Computing in $85M Acquisition Deal
If another indication were needed of the explosive growth in cloud services, AI-based workloads and Linux in the enterprise - along with their attractiveness to investors - it’s the ...Full Article
Machine Learning: Scaling Past the Pilot Phase
In a world of cars that drive themselves and robots that do back flips, the fully automated industrial operation remains an aspiration. Limitations in real-time computing, AI and robotics ...Full Article
Exascale for the Rest of Us: exaFLOPS Systems Capable for Industry
Enterprise advanced scale computing – or HPC in the enterprise – is an entity unto itself, situated between (and with characteristics of) conventional enterprise IT, on one side, and ...Full Article
AI Healthcare Revolution: Doctors and Data Fight Chronic Challenges
Data has been declared the world’s most valuable commodity, the new oil of the global economy, the new gold, the new diamonds and rubies, and this holds particularly true ...Full Article
Another GDPR Issue: Impact on Scientific Research
Amid the angst over preparations—or lack thereof—for new European Union data protections entering into force at week’s end is the equally worrisome issue of the rules’ impact on scientific ...Full Article
DoD Insists on Single JEDI Cloud Provider
The Defense Department is sticking to its guns on a plan to award a single, huge contract for cloud computing that would support U.S. military operations. In a report ...Full Article
As Cloud Fight Looms, DoD Sees Some Progress
While vendors jockey for position to win a massive commercial cloud contract with the Defense Department, uptake on an existing military cloud platform is building. Pentagon agencies are shifting ...Full Article
15 Years in 28 Minutes: Eni’s GPU-based HPC4 Speeds Oil Reservoir Simulations
The most powerful supercomputer in commercial use, multinational energy company Eni’s Nvidia GPU-powered HPC4, simulates 15 year’s worth of oil reservoir production in an astounding average of 28 minutes, ...Full Article
