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We tend to cover the various platforms that are being used at massive scale to tackle pressing enterprise and research problems, but once in a while, something out on the edge that shows how these platforms are being deployed catches our eye. …

As we have heard time and again, one of the greatest challenges for future exascale class computing—the one that falls right under power consumption–is how codes are ever going to evolve to take advantage of that much compute. …

Elon Musk is shaking up both the car and space industries with his respective Tesla and SpaceX companies, and the irony is that while the former is totally upending the combustion engine for land transportation with zippy and stylish electric cars, the latter company has to not only embrace but to create new combustion technologies to get a manned mission to Mars as Musk not only dreams of doing, but is making happen. …