Today SanDisk Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire Fusion-io in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.1 billion.
Archives for June 2014
Ersatz Labs Launches GPU Platform for Deep Learning
June 16, 2014 by
Ersatz Labs, the company behind the deep learning platform Ersatz™, has announced the out-of-beta launch of its flagship product. Ersatz is the first deep learning platform and is available either as a cloud service or as a deep learning “appliance”, a combination of neural network hardware and software geared toward large enterprises.
Big Data Survey Finds 75% of Businesses Yet to Reach Production
June 16, 2014 by
Seventy-five percent of businesses have yet to successfully deploy big data analytics solutions to gain business-impacting insights, despite 65 percent increasing their investment in analytic services and technologies in 2014. These findings are part of “Analytics 2014,” Lavastorm’s second annual survey on analytic usage, trends, and future initiatives.
A Look at the Top500 List Countries
June 16, 2014 by
Over at TOP500.org, Gary M. Johnson writes that a total of 58 countries have posted at least one flag in the past 42 editions of the Top500 List. And with the latest TOP500 list coming out on June 23, the race for the world’s fastest supercomputers has never been more diverse.
Boosting Electric Car Batteries with Simulation
June 16, 2014 by
“Over the past two and half years, the team worked on a DOE-funded project, Computer-Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries (CAEBAT), to combine new and existing battery models into engineering simulation software to shorten design cycles and optimize batteries for increased performance, safety and lifespan. In order to achieve these goals the team has been modeling thermal management, electrochemistry, ion transport and fluid flow.”
Slidecast: HP Apollo Servers for HPC
June 16, 2014 by
In this slidecast, John Gromala from HP describes the company’s new Apollo series of HPC servers. Tailor-made for the HPC market, the Apollo Series combines a modular design with innovative power distribution and air- and liquid-cooling techniques for extreme performance at rack scale, providing up to four times more performance per square foot than standard rack servers.
Lenovo Selects Talend Big Data Integration
June 15, 2014 by
Talend, a global big data integration software leader, recently announced that Lenovo has chosen Talend Enterprise Big Data to help understand its customers by acquiring data sets from a variety of touch points – such as third parties, APIs, and social networking feeds – and transforming that data into a visual picture of the end-to-end customer journey.
Job of the Week: HPC Software Architect at the Blue Brain Project
June 15, 2014 by
The Blue Brain Project, led by Prof. Henry Markram, is seeking an HPC Software Architect in our Job of the Week.
Podcast: The Science Behind the FIFA “Brazuca” Soccer Ball
June 15, 2014 by
In this podcast from Science Friday, Ira Flatow, Bill Nye, and Simon Choppin discuss the science behind a new, specially designed soccer ball: the Brazuca. Adidas is touting its new ball as the latest in sports technology, but will it fare better than its World Cup predecessor, Adidas’ “Jabulani,” which apparently flew like a “knuckleball” and was detested by players?
Deloitte Launches New CXO Guidebook for Big Data
June 14, 2014 by
Deloitte recently completed a new study designed to improve Big Data’s strategic role in the Corner Office. It provides a good lens toward better strategic and holistic use of the work being done by the data scientists. The result of the study is the new CXO “guidebook” designed to help leadership get their arms around Big Data.
