Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
New Device Spots Quantum Particle ‘Fingerprint’
Majorana particles have been observed by university researchers employing a device consisting of layers of magnetic insulators on a superconducting material. The advance opens the door to controlling the ...Full Article
Serverless Computing: Big Potential – with a Few ‘If’s’
Serverless computing has become one of enterprise technology’s hottest buzzwords, even though the term is a bit of a misnomer. No, servers aren’t going away. But serverless computing, also ...Full Article
DARPA Scales Its Electronics Effort
The Pentagon’s top research agency is kicking off a multi-year effort to jumpstart U.S. electronics innovation with a July summit in Silicon Valley. The $1.5 billion Electronics Resurgence Initiative was ...Full Article
A Cloud-Based Marketplace Designed to Ease FPGA Workload Acceleration
A French “acceleration-as-a-service” company has joined the array of companies forming partnerships and ecosystems that push FPGA technology into the data center mainstream with the launch of a cloud-based ...Full Article
Intel Accelerates FPGAs into Server Mainstream with Dell EMC, Fujitsu
The rapid emergence of heterogeneous, accelerated computing in the advanced scale computing market took a step forward this week with two significant announcements designed to broaden adoption of lightning-quick ...Full Article
Intel Reverses Course on Patching Older Chips for Spectre/Meltdown
In Intel’s latest (and possibly final) update to its Meltdown and Spectre mitigation guide, published April 3, the company revealed that a number of its older CPU models will ...Full Article
Ethics Moves Front and Center in AI Debate
The breakneck pace of machine intelligence development is prompting welcome assessments of the ethical implications of a technology that will have a profound effect on workers, consumers and most ...Full Article
IoT Developers Look to Blockchain for Security
Securing the Internet of Things appears to have advanced well beyond default factory settings to include data and network security features baked into IoT components as well as comprehensive ...Full Article
Nvidia Inception Awards: AI Start-ups Pushing Innovation
We have seen the future, it was on display at Nvidia’s GTC 2018 conference in San Jose this week, and if this stuff works*, man, the future will be ...Full Article