GPU-driven Mobile Device for Medical Diagnostics – at Scale, at the Edge, at ‘the Roof of the World’
By bringing to India, Bangladesh and Nepal a low-cost, GPU-driven mobile device trained to recognize chronic disease “signatures” in medical images, a healthcare start-up is building a distributed cognitive ...Full Article
100 Million IOPS: Brocade’s New Gen 6 Fibre Channel Switch
Fibre Channel market leader Brocade today announced the G620 Switch, which the company says is the industry’s first Gen 6 fixed port Fibre Channel SAN switch designed to support ...Full Article
HPC and Code Modernization May Deliver Car ‘Super Engine’
With 53 miles-per-gallon CAFE requirements bearing down on the auto industry for 2025, car makers are investigating any number of new engine designs – electric, hybrid and alternative fuel, ...Full Article
Spreading Spark Enterprise-wide
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to ...Full Article
IoT Developers Unify Interoperability Efforts
Silicon vendors are joining forces with appliance, software and platform specialists in the latest effort to forge Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability specifications. The Open Connectivity Foundation unveiled late ...Full Article
$300K Supercomputing Grants up for Grabs for Manufacturers from DOE
Come early March, grants worth $300,000 are up for grabs for manufacturers giving year-long access to national lab supercomputing cycles and half the staff hours of computer scientists with ...Full Article
AWS Acquires NICE Compute-Intensive Cloud and Visualization Technologies
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and ...Full Article
Software Defined Container Orchestration Accelerates Deployment of Large Docker Container Clusters
Containers have exploded through the bulkheads of market acceptance that most new technologies must slog through, crossing the chasm in only three years and transforming the way applications are ...Full Article
Data Wrangling ‘Decoder Ring’ Homogenizes Polyglot Data Lakes
As Hadoop data lakes grow – fed by multiple data sources in multiple data formats – the task of pulling insight from the lake becomes increasingly challenging. In fact, ...Full Article
Docker as a High-Performance Enabler for Cloud Storage
The container-based service Docker is gaining massive momentum in the industry, and for many good reasons. The current appeal of Docker stems from issues associated with running VMs, namely ...Full Article
