No Waiting: ANSYS Adds Cycle Orchestration for Enterprise Cloud HPC
The waiting is the hardest part. When design engineers need to run complex simulations, too often they find that the HPC resources required for those workloads are already taken. ...Full Article
Inside H&R Block’s Decision to Augment Tax Intelligence with IBM Watson
As tax season rears its hideous head, the 11 million U.S. taxpayers who annually schlep to an H&R Block office and sit down with an agent to prepare their ...Full Article
Industry Voice Added to U.S. Drive to Exascale
A federally-funded effort to deliver HPC systems 50 times faster than today's supercomputers has added a business perspective to the multi-year development project, which one industry observer said could ...Full Article
Stathis Papaefstathiou Takes R&D Reins at Cray
Earlier this month, Cray announced that tech veteran Stathis Papaefstathiou had joined the ranks of the iconic HPC company. As senior vice president of R&D, Papaefstathiou will be responsible ...Full Article
IBM Wants to be “Red Hat” of Deep Learning
IBM today announced the addition of TensorFlow and Chainer deep learning frameworks to its PowerAI suite of deep learning tools, which already includes popular offerings such as Caffe, Theano, ...Full Article
Spurred by Global Ambitions, Inspur in Joint HPC Deal with DDN
Inspur, the fast-growth cloud computing and server vendor from China, and DDN, a leader in high-end storage, have announced a joint sales and marketing agreement to produce solutions based ...Full Article
Despite Uncertainty, Cloud Drives IT Spending
Global IT spending is forecast to increase by 2.7 percent in 2017, a modest increase that might be higher if not for "political uncertainty in global markets," according to ...Full Article
For IBM/OpenPOWER: Success in 2017 = (Volume) Sales
To a large degree IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have done what they said they would – assembling a substantial and growing ecosystem and bringing Power-based products to market, ...Full Article
Fast Rewind: 2016 Was a Wild Ride for HPC
Some years quietly sneak by. 2016, not so much. It’s safe to say there are always forces reshaping the HPC landscape but this year’s bunch seemed like a noisy ...Full Article
Video: An Eye on the Coming Multi-Architecture HPC Landscape
Nimbix is a public cloud services provider with a twist: the Richardson, TX, company offers HPC capabilities in the cloud. It’s also a company that embraces a vision of ...Full Article
