CAD models of the Pinnacle Engines opposed-piston gasoline engine
CFD on ORNL’s Titan Models Cleaner, High-Mileage ‘Opposed Piston’ Engine
Pinnacle Engines is out to substantially improve vehicle gasoline efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions with a new motor based on an “opposed piston” design that the company hopes ...Full Article
Nvidia Leads Alpha MLPerf AI Benchmarking Round
Seven months after the launch of its AI benchmarking suite, the MLPerf consortium is releasing the first round of results based on submissions from Nvidia, Google and Intel. Of ...Full Article
Supermicro: Investigation Shows No Motherboard Hack
Supermicro, the subject of media reports (including ours) two months ago alleging that spies in China hacked Supermicro servers widely distributed throughout the U.S. technology supply chain, has followed ...Full Article
Is Amazon’s Plunge into Server Chips a Watershed Moment?
For several years now the big cloud providers – Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, et al – have been transforming from technology consumers into technology creators in hardware and software. ...Full Article
IBM and Nvidia in AI Data Pipeline, Processing, Storage Union
IBM and Nvidia today announced a new turnkey AI solution that combines IBM Spectrum Scale scale-out file storage with Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX-1 AI server to provide what the companies ...Full Article
Using Data Patterns in a Retail Culture of Immediacy
Retailers who have embraced digital disruption and transformed their businesses know two hard truths: consumer expectations can rise quickly; and no seller is safe. Thanks to the “Amazon Effect,” ...Full Article
No Waiting: Mellanox Uses Univa to Extend Silicon Design HPC Operation to Azure
Call it a corollary to Murphy’s Law: When a system is most in demand, when end users are most dependent on the system performing as required, when it’s crunch ...Full Article
Intel 7nm May Arrive Sooner than Expected; Moore’s Law Cadence to Follow?
2018 has been a rough one for Intel, abuse has been heaped on the company for its dilatory delivery of a 10nm process technology – first slated for 2016, ...Full Article
Before Patched, Kubernetes Security Flaw Spread to OpenShift
A security flaw discovered in the de facto standard Kubernetes cloud container orchestrator allowed unauthorized users access to Kubernetes clusters and the data they contain. The “privilege escalation vulnerability” ...Full Article
Mass Shootings, Contraband Cargo in Crosshairs of AI, Advanced Scanning
AI may be on the cusp of combating menaces of American life: mass shootings and terrorism. Two start-ups have technologies under development designed to spot bad actors, and bad ...Full Article
