Back to the Future – The Mainframe in a Connected World
Since the mid 90’s, industry watchers have predicted a slow, gradual death for the mainframe, as x86-based server farms and the cloud gained a stronger foothold in the high-performance ...Full Article
Blockchain Backers Planning Enterprise Rollouts
Among the growing list of blockchain initiatives launched this year, the open-source Hyperledger Project is gathering momentum with the release of its first production implementations, including the introduction of ...Full Article
Quotes that Rocked Our World in 2017
It’s been a fascinating year in advanced scale computing, much of that fascination focused on AI (broadly defined), now firmly established as the leitmotif of the high performance computing ...Full Article
Aggressive Push into New Growth Markets the ‘New Normal’ at Intel – Krzanich
In a year-end call-to-arms memo sent to Intel employees, CEO Brian Krzanich declared that “the new normal” at Intel will be change and risk-taking. According to a published story ...Full Article
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on Superhuman AI and the ‘Emergent Property’
At SC17 we sat down with industry luminary Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Vice President of HPE, for a somewhat philosophical conversation about the melding of HPC and HPDA (high ...Full Article
FPGAs, ASICs Seen Driving Machine Learning
As machine learning makes steady progress in enterprise datacenters, industry observers are forecasting the emergence of a new wave of machine learning chips in the coming year, a market ...Full Article
Gartner: Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 16% in Q3; Shipments Up 5.1%
Driven by expansion of hybrid cloud IT strategies, worldwide server revenue grew by a healthy 16 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2017, industry watcher Gartner has announced. ...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
IBM Expands ‘Quantum Ready’ Effort
IBM has enlisted large banks and automakers along with electronics, chemical and materials manufacturers to its quantum computing initiative designed to explore enterprise applications if and when the technology ...Full Article
