Intel on Monday announced a new brawny HPC processor and a family of network fabric components that incorporates silicon photonics technology. The new chip,…
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Solving the unsolvable: A quantum boost for supercomputing
Quantum computing alone may not be a panacea to all computing problems. However, when paired with high-performance computing, it may be able to find better answers to some of our most pressing issues.…
Read MoreAccelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need
Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe dives deep into the economic and innovative benefits of running massive scientific workloads in the cloud. When researchers aren't constrained by the systems the can afford, they can ask bigger questions and get better results.…
Read MoreBina Technologies picks up $1.75M to keep democratizing genomic analysis
Bina Technologies, a company aiming to make genome processing faster and cheaper, has accepted $1.75 million for its Series B round, which…
Read MoreGridGain gets $10M for in-memory computing
GridGain Systems has raised a $10 million series B investment round for its suite of in-memory computing technology. In-memory databases are popular…
Read MoreScale-out storage still matters as Scality raises $22M
A scale-out storage company called Scality has raised a $22M Series C round and claims big growth, but it's competing in a very tight space.…
Read MoreDARPA puts $3M into startup pushing big data in Python
As part of its new big-data-focused XDATA initiative, DARPA has invested $3 million in a startup called Continuum Analytics. The company's aim is to extend Python's prowess in scientific computing into the world of big data and analytics.…
Read MoreAWS beefs up cloud for super-fast data processing
Amazon Web Services has introduced its latest instance -- an 88-core, 240 GB SSD, 244 GB RAM and 10 GbE behemoth designed for real-time analytics with software like SAP HANA, as well as demanding scientific workloads.…
Read MoreWhy Amazon thinks big data was made for the cloud
According to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood, big data and cloud computing are nearly a match made in heaven. Limitless, on-demand and inexpensive resources open up new worlds of possibility, and a central platform makes it easy for communities to share huge datasets.…
Read MoreNow you can simulate your world for (relatively) cheap in the cloud
Autodesk now offers a cloud-based version of its simulation software for a fraction of the cost of most similar on-premise options. While large enterprises might not being willing to make the jump yet, some innovative startups are already on board and testing the future.…
Read MoreHow researchers are letting us uncover secrets in social data
Thanks to the popularity of everything from social media sites such as Twitter to email to mobile phones, it's easier than ever to get data about who's connected to whom. With the right tools, we can apply it solve certain problems faster and easier than ever.…
Read MoreHead to head: Amazon cloud beats Google on video benchmark
Benchmarking results from Zencoder show that Amazon Web Services beats out Google's Compute Engine in a test of a specific CPU-intensive workload. Compute Engine's performance was hindered by a lack of HPC instances, which Google could one day add. But it's nice to see real-world comparisons.…
Read MoreStraight outta Stanford, Bina wants to remake genome analysis
Bina Technologies emerged from stealth mode last week and is bringing an Apple-like business model to genomics. The company relies on its Bina Box to make genome analysis faster than ever before possible without the benefit of having a supercomputer and a research network on hand.…
Read MoreMetamarkets, DataPop and more! Investors show big data some love
If you don't think venture capitalists and other investors love all things big data, think again. In the past three days alone, companies claiming some connection to big data -- either analyzing and/or storing large volumes of data -- have announced at least $56 million in new funding.…
Read MoreCycle Computing spins up 50K core Amazon cluster
Working with Schrödinger, which specializes in computational drug design, Cycle Computing built a 50k-core AWS cluster that screened 21 million compounds in less than three hours. The cluster enabled the company to use a much more accurate screening process than other technology.…
Read MoreHow federal money will spur a new breed of big data
By pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into big data research and development, the Obama administration thinks it can push the current state of the art well beyond what's possible today, and into entirely new research areas. It's a noble goal, but also a necessary one.…
Read MoreSupercomputer vet Cray wants to turn big data into fast data
Looks like Oracle has some competition when it comes to selling big iron for big data. On Wednesday, Cray, the Seattle-based company best known for building some of the world's fastest supercomputers, announced it's getting into the big data game.…
Read MoreIt’s time for startup founders to think bigger
It's easier than ever to build a web or mobile app and call yourself a startup. But with new funding opportunities and technology tools, entrepreneurs can easily -- and cheaply -- use technology to solve larger problems, rather than create another lifestyle app.…
Read MoreFighting cancer at 100 Gigabits per second
We often ascribe life-changing powers to high-speed Internet connections in our personal lives, but can they cure cancer? The Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health thinks so, and it's investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a nationally distributed computing system to make it happen.…
Read MoreThe curious case of Hadoop in HPC
SGI and Cloudera have entered into a reseller agreement, but the most interesting part of the deal is that it's yet another example of a vendor pushing Hadoop products at mainstream customers while keeping the custom stuff targeted at HPC.…
Read MoreSupercomputing’s problem isn’t power, it’s software
Getting to next generation systems in high performance computing has inspired technologies that we now use everyday in data centers, but as the drive for exascale computing continues, it seems ingenuity is coming to an end. But is power consumption the real hurdle for bigger systems?…
Read MoreMeet the new breed of HPC vendor
The face of high-performance computing is changing. That means new technologies and new names, but also familiar names in new places. Anyone that doesn't have a cloud computing story to tell, possibly a big data one too, might starting looking really old really quickly.…
Read MoreAppistry raises $12M, realigns around big data
Appistry, a St. Louis–based software company, has closed a $12 million Series D round for its family of distributed computing products. The company also appears to have changed its corporate messaging -- from that of a cloud-computing vendor to that of a big-data vendor.…
Read MoreThe server architecture debate rages on
Big processors or little processors, scale-up or scale-out, on-premise or in the cloud: the answers might not be as easy as one would think. Web-style, scale-out architectures, low-power server processors and cloud computing are getting more attention by the day, but they have their limits.…
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