HPC Cloud Provider Nimbix Launches IBM Power9 Targeting AI
HPC cloud specialist Nimbix this week announced the addition of IBM’s Power9 technology to the Nimbix cloud starting with an early access “gated program” available now to be followed ...Full Article
Digital Transformation: Strategic Imperative or Overrated?
It turns out the transition to zeroes and ones—the vaunted “digital transformation” many companies seek—isn’t going as smoothly as many vendors would have them think. Like most organizational changes, ...Full Article
HPE Unleashes AI, Deep Learning Platforms
HPE today announced the latest rev of its HPE Apollo 6500 platform, Gen10, along with a spate of new AI-oriented offerings designed to help customers optimize and scale up ...Full Article
The Firmware Stack Opens Up
A batch of new open source efforts will among other things seek to unlock and define a firmware stack that would operate across enterprise infrastructure, cloud datacenters on up ...Full Article
When Buying HCI, Avoid These 3 Mistakes
The interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances is widespread, replacing, and in some sense displacing, the hype around all-flash arrays as “the” hot topic in previous years. Organizations are ...Full Article
Quantum Computing vs. Our ‘Caveman Newtonian Brain’: Why Quantum Is So Hard
Quantum is coming. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough*. Within 10 to 12 years, we’re told, special-purpose quantum systems (see related story: Hyperion on the Emergence ...Full Article
Hyperion on the Emergence of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem
Quantum computing – exciting and off-putting all at once – is a kaleidoscope of technology and market questions whose shapes and positions are far from settled. Hyperion Research (formerly ...Full Article
Startup Seeks CAE Shake Up with Cloud HPC Solvers-as-a-Service
Coming out of stealth, a startup is out to overturn the CAE industry with a combination of AWS-based HPC capabilities and what it says is superior multi-physics design simulation ...Full Article
NSF Partners With VMware on IoT, Launches Computing Efforts
The National Science Foundation has launched a partnership with VMware to advance edge computing infrastructure required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Separately this week, NSF unveiled a $30 ...Full Article
AliCloud Takes on AWS with ‘Bare Metal’ HPC Instances in Europe
Alibaba, the e-commerce giant from China, is taking a run at AWS in the global public cloud computing market with new offerings aimed at the surging demand for AI ...Full Article
