How Cities Use HPC at the Edge to Get Smarter
Cities are sensoring up, collecting vast troves of data that they run through predictive models to address problems that, in some cases, city managers didn’t even know existed. Speaking ...Full Article
Rolling Thunder Forecast for Booming Cloud Market
There is a broad consensus among industry analysts and the vendors they track that enterprise adoption of cloud services is booming. The only variable is the expected rate of ...Full Article
Facebook Unleashes Open/R Networking Software
Facebook's network routing software is now available as an open source tool for developing new network applications and functions, the company announced this week. Open/R is currently used in ...Full Article
‘AI Layer’ Seeks to Fill Machine Learning Gaps
It has been asserted that the algorithm has overtaken traditional software code as the driving force behind the AI Era. On the assumption that assertion is accurate, startups are ...Full Article
Hyperion HPC Market Update: ‘Decent’ Growth Led by HPE; AI Transparency a Risk Issue
The HPC market update from Hyperion Research (formerly IDC) at the annual SC conference is a business and social “must,” and this year’s presentation at SC17 played to a ...Full Article
Scaling Commercial CFD Code at 3 Supercomputing Centers
The year isn’t over yet and already we've seen new records posted for proprietary physics-based simulations on two Cray machines – at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) ...Full Article
Nvidia Pushes GPU Access With Containers
Having migrated its top-of-the-line datacenter GPU to the largest cloud vendors, Nvidia is touting its Volta architecture for a range of scientific computing tasks as well as AI development ...Full Article
130,000 frames, 90M core hours: Exascale’s Potential for Animation
The following contribution from a writer at Argonne National Labs is another compelling example of advanced scale computing’s impact on industry – in this case, the movie industry. Animated ...Full Article
Algorithms at War
There are few enterprises accumulating more sensor and video data than the U.S. Department of Defense. For analysts, that means sitting for hours each day in front of screens ...Full Article
