Korean auto manufacturer, Hyundai, has tapped into the top-tier U.S. Titan supercomputer, as well as other smaller systems at Oak Ridge National Lab, to cultivate key materials science breakthroughs that will decrease the weight (and up the efficient) of next-generation cars. …
One look at the IBM technology roadmap reveals that future emphasis, particularly on the software and applications side, will revolve around that catch-all trend that couples various elements from speech, text, and image recognition to create a brain-like system with reasoning and judgment capabilities–not to mention near-instant access to the world’s information. …
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
Before leaving Google in 2013, Felix Hupfeld and Bjorn Kolbeck took careful note of the seamless way the search giant’s storage systems operated almost automatically, with tiny teams operating the storage backbone that powered hundreds of thousands of servers in the United States and Europe. …
The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona is one of a handful of non-profit centers in the U.S. …
By the time Ashish Thusoo left Facebook in 2011, the company had grown to around 4,000 people, many of whom needed to access the roughly 150 petabytes of data—quite a hike from the 15 petabytes his team was trying to wrench from data warehouses in 2008. …
There is a clever combination of language and platform development rolling out of Facebook engineering in the form of HHVM and the Hack programming language—and what is working for production users of this code base inside Facebook, is also powering production jobs at Baidu, Box, and Wikipedia. …
Although Spark has garnered a reputation as being a real-time analytics engine that is married to Hadoop, its life before being glued to that framework offers a different story. …
On the one hand, it might seem, from the outside at least, that supercomputing systems at both the national lab and Fortune 500 level would require a great number of specialized pieces to fit with the high performance applications and system profiles. …
When one thinks about the largest supercomputing sites on the planet and the approach to examining future technologies for next-generation systems, it might seem logical to guess they are at the bleeding edge of exploring entirely new, under-the-radar architectures and approaches that could spike the curve of Moore’s Law. …
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