Mellanox Raises SHIELD for Enhanced Network Resiliency
High-performance networking company Mellanox is announcing a new protocol it’s calling SHIELD, an acronym for “Self Healing Interconnect Enhancement for inteLligent Datacenters.” Enabled within Mellanox’s 100G EDR and 200G ...Full Article
Facebook Expected to Move WhatsApp Off IBM SoftLayer
In a potential blow to IBM’s efforts to carve out a major share of the intensely competitive public cloud services market, Facebook is reportedly in the process of moving ...Full Article
We’ll Be Enslaved to Proprietary Clouds Unless We Collaborate
Cross project integration is not exactly prevalent in today’s open source ecosystem, and it’s a problem. Open source projects that enable large scale collaboration and are built on a ...Full Article
GE Predix IIoT to Offer Integrated Field Service/Asset Performance Management
For each front-line combat soldier there are 10 soldiers laboring behind the lines on logistics and supplies, so goes the military axiom; similarly, it’s been observed that for every ...Full Article
ISC Industrial Day: Bridging Academia and Industrial HPC Users
As deputy chair of Industrial Day at ISC next week, my goal is to help bring clarity to the key opportunities and challenges afforded by HPC-scale technologies, including the ...Full Article
Sidra Medical Center’s Genome Program to Support National Personalized Healthcare Therapies in Qatar
Billed as one of the largest national genome medical research projects in the world, Sidra Medical and Research Center in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, in partnership with ...Full Article
Code Modernization: Unlocking Old Code (and Incorporating AI) for Parallel Architectures
The ways that advanced computing performance depends on more – much more – than the processor take many forms. Regardless of Moore’s Law's validity, it’s indisputable that other aspects ...Full Article
Flash Storage Thrives as Server Sales Slump
New data points emerged this week indicating that all-flash storage arrays are beginning to make headway in datacenters as server sales continue to decline. Market researcher Dell'Oro Group reported ...Full Article
Data Dilemma: What to Store, What to Dump?
As storage costs decline on a Moore's Law curve, technology vendors seeking to drive storage capacity and enterprises leveraging that stored data for new applications agree that we have ...Full Article
