Rolling Out the Advanced Scale Computing Crystal Ball for 2018
We all know where we are and where we’re headed. We’re early into the AI Era, and it has an end-game aura about it. Not in an apocalyptic, “end-of-days” ...Full Article
Helping European SMBs Take HPC Leap
Most enterprise-level organizations and advanced research institutions understand the benefits of HPC technology. Engineering, industrial design, AI, deep learning, autonomous driving, and many other fields require shortened R&D cycles ...Full Article
Andrew Ng Thinks AI Can Revive US Manufacturing
AI pioneer Andrew Ng is launching a startup that would initially focus on revitalizing manufacturing, a strategy that parallels the first enterprise deployments of Internet of Things technologies. Separately, ...Full Article
Fending off AI Armageddon: Threats to Our Data, Our Safety, Our Country
Bruce Schneier is scary smart. The things he talks about – AI weaponization, remote hacking of commercial airliners and self-driving cars, malicious alteration of medical records – are scarier. ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
DAX Data Wrangling: Deutsche Börse Lifts Data Scientists’ ‘80% Problem’
At the German Stock Exchange – aka Deutsche Börse, home of the DAX – data scientists are getting unburdened from “janitorial” tasks that can consume up to 80 percent ...Full Article
AWS Adds ‘Secret’ Region to CIA Cloud
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services announced a new "secret region" this week designed to complete its portfolio of data classifications for U.S. government workloads. AWS said Monday (Nov. ...Full Article
130,000 frames, 90M core hours: Exascale’s Potential for Animation
The following contribution from a writer at Argonne National Labs is another compelling example of advanced scale computing’s impact on industry – in this case, the movie industry. Animated ...Full Article
Algorithms at War
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 ...Full Article
Servers On Steroids Speed Stock Swaps
Executing stock trades often comes down to being first in the queue of traders. Hence, developers of high-frequency trading platforms that connect trading servers to networks focus on reducing ...Full Article
