“The speed, accuracy and cost at which enterprises can process big data analytics is the new competitive battleground, and we expect the need for results to greatly impact computing in 2014 and beyond,” said Rob Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing. “In our estimation, big data requires a streamlined approach to a complex data analysis and simulation process that can manage all resources across multiple computing platforms.”
Archives for January 2014
Data Science 101: Machine Learning, Part 5
January 28, 2014 by
The “How Machine Learning Works” lecture series concludes by developing some machine learning python code from scratch. We use real valued numbers sampled from two different Gaussians with different priors.
Elasticsearch Announces ELK stack and Marvel
January 28, 2014 by
Elasticsearch announced today the Elasticsearch ELK stack, an end-to-end data analytics solution. At the same time, the company is introducing its first commercial product, Marvel, which will monitor Elasticsearch deployments in real-time, giving system operators transparency into the state of their deployments.
VCollab: Displaying Ansys EKM Simulation Models in a Browser
January 28, 2014 by
Over at the Ansys Blog, Thomas Lehnhaeuser writes that VCollab softwares enables users to save time and view simulation models and their results without having to open a corresponding post-processing tool.
Sign up for International Summer School on HPC Challenges
January 28, 2014 by
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States are encouraged to apply for the fifth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held from 1 to 6 June 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.
Bristol Joins Intel Parallel Computing Center Program
January 28, 2014 by
The University of Bristol has announced a collaboration with Intel to develop parallel algorithms and optimize HPC applications for the Intel Xeon Phi.
Slidecast: Announcing the Altiscale Data Cloud
January 28, 2014 by
“Altiscale offers the first cloud service purpose-built to run Apache Hadoop. We run the latest version of Hadoop on custom infrastructure, augmented with Apache Hive, Pig, and Oozie, and with first-class support for Python, R, and Ruby. Altiscale’s infrastructure is faster, more reliable, easier to use, and more affordable than alternatives.”
Video: 20 Petaflop Simulation of Protein Suspensions in Crowding Conditions
January 28, 2014 by
“The simulations were performed on the Titan system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and exhibits excellent scalability up to 18,000 K20X NVIDIA GPUs, reaching 20 Petaflops of aggregate sustained performance with a peak performance of 27.5 Petaflops for the most intensive computing component.”
SAP HANA Storage Solution
January 27, 2014 by
SAP HANA enables real-time access to mission-critical, business data and thus revolutionizes the way existing information can be utilized to address ever changing business requirements. A special whitepaper is now available thata describes both the business and technical benefits of implementing the Cisco UCS with NetApp Storage for SAP HANA solution.
A Profile of HPC Innovator Taghrid Samak
January 27, 2014 by
Over at Scientific Computing, Jon Bashor has posted a fascinating profile of HPC Innovator Taghrid Samak from LBNL. She hails from Alexandria in Egypt, and her story should be very inspiring for young women seeking careers in computational science.
