Cloud
IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
Store
Exabyte Scale Automation Filters into New File System
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. …
Compute
A Look Inside TGEN’s Approach to Genomics Infrastructure
The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona is one of a handful of non-profit centers in the U.S. …
AI
Co-Creator of Hive Brings Facebook Lessons to Analytics Platform
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. …
Code
How Facebook “Hack” is Upending Programming Efficiency
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. …
AI
Move Over Hadoop, IBM Has a New Spark
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. …
HPC
A Dead Heat in the Supercomputing Storage Race
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. …
HPC
For Next Generation Supercomputers, What’s Old is New Again
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. …
AI
GPUs Speak Volumes in Semantic AI Platforms
No matter how inadvertently, DARPA has helped spawn a number of new companies and mainstream technologies over the years, including recognizable mainstays like the Siri speech recognition engine, which evolved from the artificial intelligence CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes), a five year, $200 million backed effort backed by the agency. …
Cloud
Life Sciences Clouds Raise More Cluster Questions
When it comes to using the public cloud, few market segments have a better story to tell than the life sciences sector. …