Snell: The ‘Wild West’ of HPC Disaggregation
We caught up with Addison Snell, CEO of HPC industry watcher Intersect360, at SC16 last month, and Snell had his expected, extensive list of insights into trends driving advanced-scale ...Full Article
Targeting HPC and AI, ARM Acquires Tools Vendor Allinea
Allinea Software, whose cross-platform development and performance analysis tools are used by 80 percent of the world’s top 25 supercomputers, has been acquired by ARM Ltd., which said the ...Full Article
AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence
At the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma, Calif., last week (Dec. 7-9), CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company’s vision to accelerate machine intelligence over the next five to ten years with ...Full Article
Treat Your Databases as Cattle, not Pets
Today, databases have to be treated like pets. Each is special and receives individualized care and attention. At scale, and with the need for greater agility, the issue of ...Full Article
Managing 30B Bid Requests, 1.5B Users per Day in (near) Real Time
At the beating heart of the mobile advertising industry is what Ellen DeGeneres calls “our ADD culture.” It’s predicated on delivering up-to-date content in real time while people are ...Full Article
Qualcomm Targets Intel Data Center Dominance with 10nm ARM-based Server Processor
Claiming no less than a reshaping of the future of Intel-dominated datacenter computing, Qualcomm Technologies, the market leader in smartphone chips, announced the forthcoming availability of what it says ...Full Article
How Retailers Can Fend Off FlokiBot Malware
The holiday shopping season is upon us, and with increased retail activity there is a corresponding increase in security threats. While many are concerned with online shopping, in-store retail ...Full Article
Flaws Found in Security Software, Unlicensed Code
A flurry of industry surveys have flagged open source and unlicensed software as growing security threats. Moreover, a review released by Flexera Software also found that the very security ...Full Article
Yahoo! Japan: 50TB/Day Data Transfer in Trans-Pacific Search for Lower Energy Costs
Transferring data from one data center to another in search of lower regional energy costs isn’t a new concept, but Yahoo! Japan is putting the idea into transcontinental effect ...Full Article
The Road Ahead for Dell EMC
Who is Dell EMC and why should you care? Glad you asked, is Jim Ganthier’s quick response. Ganthier is SVP for validated solutions and high performance computing for the ...Full Article