U.S. Announces New Compute for Manufacturing Projects
The Energy Department's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, roughly a year old, continues to gather momentum with the recent award of $3.8 million for 13 new industry ...Full Article
Power9 Gives IBM Leg Up Against x86
After offering OpenPower Summit attendees a limited preview in April, IBM is unveiling further details of its next-gen CPU, Power9, which the tech mainstay is counting on to regain market ...Full Article
Blockchains Unlocked to Boost IoT Interoperability
In a step towards greater interoperability for the Internet of Things, a Bay Area company has launched a platform that allows chipmakers to register Bluetooth and other network-enabled chips ...Full Article
IT Salaries Rise Along With Infrastructure Expansion
Companies, especially U.S. companies, investing the most in servers and other infrastructure also are investing more in IT managers, a new salary survey found. The DevOps salary report released ...Full Article
NVIDIA Cries Foul on Intel Phi AI Benchmarks
This week saw the eruption of a vendor spat when NVIDIA, developer of GPUs widely used in the AI/machine learning market, alleged foul play against Intel in recent comparative ...Full Article
Intel Launches Silicon Photonics Chip, Previews Next-Gen Phi for AI
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager Diane Bryant announced the launch of Intel’s Silicon Photonics product line and ...Full Article
Enterprise Systems Integration: Snapping Together Multiple Applications and Data Sources
As enterprise systems grow into agglomerations of cloud applications and big data sources spread across hybrid and even multi-cloud environments, the task of extracting data from many sources and ...Full Article
HPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ...Full Article
Boeing Uses Stat Data to Get the Lead Out
The manufacturing sector that is leading the way in factory automation and the leading edge of the Internet of Things, the so-called industrial IoT, is increasingly relying on statistical ...Full Article
How GPU-Powered Analytics Improves Mail Delivery for USPS
When the United States Postal Service (USPS) set out to buy a system that would allow it to track the location of employees, vehicles, and individual pieces of mail ...Full Article