Facebook AI Effort Looks to Extend Search Engines
Facebook is rolling out a "deep-learning based text understanding engine" that leverages neural network architectures and promises to challenge the Google search engine by bringing "near-human accuracy" to the ...Full Article
Few Bright Spots in Struggling Server Market
The global server market continued to slow during the first quarter of 2016 as revenues declined while shipments rose only modestly, indicating that average selling prices continue to slip. ...Full Article
Cray Courts the Enterprise with Pre-Configured Analytics Urika-GX
Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) continued its courtship of the advanced scale enterprise market with today's launch of the Urika-GX, a system that integrates Cray supercomputing technologies with an agile big ...Full Article
IBM Launches 2nd Cognitive Computing Center in a Month
IBM today announced a multi-year, cognitive computing collaboration with the University of Maryland in Baltimore on an Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory (ACCL). It’s the second such move in a ...Full Article
Critical Infrastructure Goes Open Source
The electrical grid, water, roads and bridges—the infrastructure we take for granted—is seldom noticed until it's unavailable. The burgeoning open source software movement is taking steps to help rebuild ...Full Article
Orchestrating Simulations on a Formula 1 CFD Cluster with Grid Engine
Sports and advanced scale computing have teamed up for well over a decade, but in possibly no sport does HPC play a more central, competitive role than in the ...Full Article
Linux Distributions Expand on IBM Servers
Since unveiling its Linux mainframe servers at last summer's LinuxCon conference, IBM has been adding more open-source distributions to its LinuxOne line of z Systems-based mainframes. This week it ...Full Article
Intel Accelerates Shift Away from PCs; Will Cut 12,000 Jobs
Intel took a major step yesterday in its transformation from a PC company to one focused on the data center, Internet of Things (IoT), and the cloud, announcing plans ...Full Article
Volatile Energy Sector Eyes ‘Information Fusion’
Given the current state of the global energy sector—including the nation's largest coal mining company filing for bankruptcy protection this week—no current operator can afford to drill a dry ...Full Article
NVIDIA Unleashes Monster Pascal GPU Card at GTC16
NVIDIA revealed its first Pascal-architecture based GPU card, the P100, at the seventh-annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose.Calling it “the most advanced accelerator ever built,” the P100 is ...Full Article
