AI
Machine Learning Storms Into Climate Research
The fields where machine learning and neural networks can have positive impacts seem almost limitless. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
Control
Red Hat Tunes Up OpenShift For Legacy Code In Kubernetes
When Red Hat began building out its OpenShift cloud application platform more than five years ago, the open source software vendor found itself in a similar situation as others in the growing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) space: they were all using technologies developed in-house because there were no real standards in the industry that could be used to guide them. …
Compute
ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law Coming to an End
Intel might have its own thoughts about the trajectory of Moore’s Law, but many leaders in the industry have views that variate slightly from the tick-tock we keep hearing about. …
Compute
Memory And Logic In A Post Moore’s Law World
The future of Moore’s Law has become a topic of hot debate in recent years, as the challenge of continually shrinking transistors and other components has grown. …
Compute
Keeping The Blue Waters Supercomputer Busy For Three Years
After years of planning and delays after a massive architectural change, the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois finally went into production in 2013, giving scientists, engineers and researchers across the country a powerful tool to run and solve the most complex and challenging applications in a broad range of scientific areas, from astrophysics and neuroscience to biophysics and molecular research. …
AI
Tuning Up Knights Landing For Gene Sequencing
The Smith-Waterman algorithm has become a linchpin in the rapidly expanding world of bioinformatics, the go-to computational model for DNA sequencing and local sequence alignments. …
Compute
3D Stacking Could Boost GPU Machine Learning
Nvidia has staked its growth in the datacenter on machine learning. …
Cloud
Google Courts Enterprise For Cloud Platform
Google has always been a company that thinks big. After all, its mission since Day One was to organize and make accessible all of the world’s information. …
Cloud
Applied Micro Renews ARM Assault On Intel Servers
The lineup of ARM server chip makers has been a somewhat fluid one over the years. …
AI
Google Expands Enterprise Cloud With Machine Learning
Google’s Cloud Platform is the relative newcomer on the public cloud block, and has a way to go before before it is in the same competitive sphere as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, both of which deliver a broader and deeper range of offerings and larger infrastructures. …