Watson Comes to Cleveland Clinic Patient Rooms
When IBM’s Watson made his debut on Jeopardy!, the supercomputer’s makers were quick to point out that while its knowledge of trivia may be impressive, the real impact will ...Full Article
Big Data Commands at Mount Sinai Hospital
For the 160-year-old Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, organizing and making sense of its patient data has been a necessity to streamline its operations, but doctors are ...Full Article
EBay and Ellison Show Microgrids Gaining on Utilities
Originally the small-scale central power systems known as microgrids were merely a solution to mitigate blackouts, but with recent announcements that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and eBay have adopted ...Full Article
Xeon Phi Coprocessors Accelerate Platform Symphony Grids
Financial services institutions running risk analytics, Monte Carlo simulations, or pricing algorithms using IBM's Platform Symphony grid software on their clusters are getting a computational boost now that Symphony ...Full Article
NCMS’ Grid Cell to be Housed at Lawrence Tech University
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NCMS_NewLogoTest_NoShadow.png" alt="" width="95" height="48" border="0" />This week, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) will be signing a memorandum of understanding with Lawrence Technological University so ...Full Article
YarcData and Selventa Align for Personalized Medicine
YarcData has recently announced that it will join together with the systems diagnostics company, Selventa, to bring big data to Selventa’s push for personalized medicine. Through the collaboration Selventa ...Full Article
Deloitte PopulationMiner Digs into Healthcare Landscape
To offer data analytics to life sciences researchers in need of information from broad patient populations to answer questions about complex disease and drug interactions, Deloitte has announced the ...Full Article
Tilera Rescues CPU Cycles with Network Coprocessors
Should an X86 processor be running network functions, or should those jobs be offloaded to a coprocessor? Tilera thinks it is time to get that work off the CPU ...Full Article
Purdue Opens New Center for Materials Development
In response to the national Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) announced by President Obama in 2011, Purdue University has opened a new research center dedicated to modeling for materials engineering. ...Full Article
New IDC Report Investigates IT Outsourcing for Life Sciences
Last week, IDC Health Insights released a new report comparing major life sciences IT vendors and what factors are most important when selecting an outsourcing IT vendor. Called IDC ...Full Article
