HPC
QNIB’s Kniep: Docker Disruption, Containers in HPC, and ISC
As more enterprises tie their datacenters to Linux containers, interest in market juggernaut Docker grows. Indeed, more than 70 percent currently use or are evaluating Docker, according to the 2015 "State of ...Full Article
Did Analytics Answer Malaysia Flight MH370 Water-Entry Question?
The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014 generated few facts and many questions. But a team of computational math, engineering, modeling, and advanced scale computing ...Full Article
IT: Think Digital, Think Business, Think Big
Business leaders expect and want IT departments to lead organizations' transformation into digital enterprises – but at least one study finds technologists fall short of corporate managers' expectations. Almost ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Obama’s HPC Moon Shot
Could President Barack Obama's executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy's proclamation about landing on the moon do ...Full Article
College Students Showcase Technology’s Future
It was a rainy Saturday in June, and Perry Carter, president of BDPA Washington, D.C. had invited me to serve on a panel to talk to students about technology ...Full Article
Government Labs Give Enterprises a Supercomputing Boost
International conglomerates, tech startups, and SMBs can tap into the federal government's investments in supercomputers and expertise through a series of programs operated by several of the nation's leading ...Full Article
HP Launches HPC & Big Data Global Business Unit
When HP finally divides into two pieces – HP Inc. (PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and services) – how will the HPC portfolio fare? Views vary ...Full Article
Dell’s Goal: Democratize HPC
Dell hopes to do for HPC what it did for personal computers: Democratize high-performance computers across a broad swathe of enterprise applications. "HPC is at the core of everything ...Full Article
Cloud, Big Data Take Center Stage at Enterprise HPC
Their work environments spanned industries from aerospace and defense to pharmaceuticals, retail, and government, but Enterprise HPC attendees have many challenges, opportunities, and concerns in common. Often working far removed ...Full Article
Scaled Storage Boosts Climate Modeling Efforts
Climate research projects based on big data analysis increasingly rely on big storage to track historical patterns and extrapolate future trends in a research area with countless variables. The ...Full Article