A Call for National Action: HPC ‘At the Frontier of Competition’
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington D.C. think tank with close ties to the Office of Science and Technology Policy and government broadly, today released an ...Full Article
Trio of New Systems Expands IBM All-Flash Storage Portfolio for Hyperscale and Cloud
Calling it the foundation of its cloud and cognitive computing strategy, IBM has significantly expanded its all-flash storage platform portfolio with the announcement today of three new array products ...Full Article
Orchestrating Simulations on a Formula 1 CFD Cluster with Grid Engine
Sports and advanced scale computing have teamed up for well over a decade, but in possibly no sport does HPC play a more central, competitive role than in the ...Full Article
Balancing EBSCO’s Hybrid Cloud OpenStack Load
EBSCO Information Services, a content discovery service for researchers and educators, has an IT development staff of 525 working in an OpenStack, DevOps, hybrid cloud environment. They build and ...Full Article
Fighting the Cloud Vendor Lock-In Headache
Vendor lock-in is one of the biggest concerns for enterprises making the move to the public cloud. IT leaders have spent years under the yoke of database giants and ...Full Article
Think Before You Swap: Not All File Systems Are Equal in Scaling Cloud Apps
File Systems are like opinions. Everybody has one (or two). But they may not be the right ones for the job. Unfortunately, a common mistake in development is selection ...Full Article
Custom App Container Targets HPC Needs
Custom versions of application containers are emerging that meet stringent requirements. Among the first is an HPC-specific container platform dubbed "Singularity" built around what its developers say is the ...Full Article
Conflicted Feelings: Concerns About Cloud Security Growing, But So Is Trust
Organizations are racing to the cloud at an accelerating pace – with growing anxiety. Concerns about cloud security are the core finding of a new study from Intel Security ...Full Article
The Automobile as the Next Smart Device
Advancements in assisted driving software and self-driving vehicles portend a new era for ground transportation. One of the less-talked-about set of capabilities behind this trend is the integration of ...Full Article
