The New Cyber Security Minefield: A Proactive, Not Reactive, Approach
In 2016, the cyber landscape shifted dramatically – at least on the adversary side. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen hackers penetrate organizations from the DNC to ...Full Article
ARM Will be Part of OpenHPC 1.2 Release at SC16
Perhaps stealing a bit of OpenHPC’s SC16 thunder, ARM announced today that ARMv8-A will be the first alternative architecture with OpenHPC support and part of OpenHPC version 1.2 released ...Full Article
IoT Reality Check Projects ‘Trough of Disillusionment’
In an attempt to rise above the hype and examine the hard economic and technical data about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new study released by a venture ...Full Article
DDN in Product Line Refresh, Multi-level Security for Lustre
Ahead of next week’s SC16 conference, high end storage vendor DataDirect Networks today announced a raft of product line updates, including a new burst buffer appliance and updates to ...Full Article
Is Entrepreneurship Flagging in America? Not in HPC
HPC has always been a fountain of innovations that eventually become mainstream. These innovations have been both technological as well as in business models. HPC’s long history of fostering ...Full Article
Binding Customers to Chains: 150M Restaurant Patrons in a Hadoop Fishbowl
Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship ...Full Article
Solving the IoT’s Greatest Hurdle – Interoperability
The McKinsey Global Institute cited interoperability as the difference between the Internet of Things (IoT) being a $7T market and a $11.1T market by 2025. The more devices we ...Full Article
Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode this week with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning ...Full Article
One FinServe Company’s Strategy for Feeding the CCAR Beast
Before even addressing the devilish complexity of CCAR simulations, the first problem financial services industry (FSI) firms must solve is finding the compute capacity to run resource hogging CCAR ...Full Article
Qualcomm to Acquire NXP for “Connected World” Markets
In the largest deal in the history of the chip industry, wireless industry giant Qualcomm will acquire semiconductor maker NXP Semiconductors in a deal valued at $47B, according to ...Full Article