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Cold Blanket Cast on Quantum Computing
November 30th, 2018 (0)
Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Dyakonov published in IEEE Spectrum this month – "The Case Against Quantum ...
Move Over Lustre & Spectrum Scale – Here Comes BeeGFS?
November 29th, 2018 (0)
Is BeeGFS – the parallel file system with European roots – on a path to compete with Lustre and Spectrum Scale worldwide? Frank Herold’s unsurprising answer is yes. Herold is CEO of ThinkParQ, the company created in 2014 to ...
Dell EMC’s HPC Chief on AI and Emerging Processor Diversity
November 19th, 2018 (0)
Last January, Thierry Pellegrino, a long-time Dell/Dell EMC veteran, became VP of HPC. His tenure comes at a time when the very definition of HPC is blurring with AI writ large (data analytics, machine learning, deep learning) clamoring for ...
Rise of the Machines – Clarion Call on AI Policy from House Subcommittee
October 2nd, 2018 (0)
Last week, the top U.S. Congressional subcommittee on IT weighed in on AI with a new report - Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence and its Growing Impact on U.S. Policy. It's a 15-page fast read, focused on policy, ...
Azure Expands CycleCloud Access, Now Supports Nvidia Containers
August 30th, 2018 (0)
Microsoft Azure continued to beef up support for HPC and advanced scale workloads today announcing general availability of CycleCloud – its HPC cloud orchestration product based on technology from Cycle Computing which was acquired last August – and introducing ...
HPC Cloud Provider Nimbix Launches IBM Power9 Targeting AI
March 23rd, 2018 (0)
HPC cloud specialist Nimbix this week announced the addition of IBM’s Power9 technology to the Nimbix cloud starting with an early access “gated program” available now to be followed by broader access in the spring. Timing of the announcement ...
Hyperion on the Emergence of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem
March 15th, 2018 (0)
Quantum computing – exciting and off-putting all at once – is a kaleidoscope of technology and market questions whose shapes and positions are far from settled. Hyperion Research (formerly IDC’s HPC group) is now ramping up efforts to aggressively ...
Dell EMC Debuts PowerEdge Servers with AMD EPYC Chips
February 6th, 2018 (0)
AMD notched another EPYC processor win today with Dell EMC’s introduction of three PowerEdge servers (R6415, R7415, and R7425) based on the EPYC 7000-series processor. AMD’s new chip line has been steadily gaining traction among systems builders and cloud ...
IBM Adds V100 GPUs to IBM Cloud; Targets AI, HPC
February 1st, 2018 (0)
IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence of the effort by major cloud providers to rapidly beef ...
Independent Hyperion Research Will Chart its Own Course
December 19th, 2017 (0)
Hyperion Research, formerly the HPC research and consulting practice within IDC, has become an independent company with Earl Joseph, the long-time leader of the IDC HPC team, acquiring the company as a sole proprietorship. He becomes CEO of Hyperion ...