Archives for June 2016

BMC Expands Big Data Strategy, Announces New Automation API for Hadoop Environments

BMC, a leader in IT software solutions for the digital enterprise, announced an expanded Big Data strategy to automate, accelerate and secure enterprise-class Hadoop® environments, enabling operational excellence and a competitive edge in the digital age.

SUSE Powers OpenHPC at ISC 2016

With the OpenHPC stack, you can leap forward with a validated, tested and secure infrastructure software stack and get to product in a fraction of the time. This new approach will drive rapid advances in the state of the art and accelerate our progress towards true exascale computing. “SUSE, as a founder and board member of OpenHPC, contributes not just to the Linux OS elements of the project but also to the underlying HPC system building componentry and system tools that can bridge today’s infrastructure development gaps and help move vendors and researchers rapidly towards powerful HPC solution stacks.”

Nor-Tech HPC Clusters Power Groundbreaking Projects

Today system integrator Nor-Tech disclosed that the company is working closely with some of the world’s top researchers and innovators to develop, build, deploy and support simulation clusters. “This has been an extremely exciting year for us that has allowed us to collaborate on innovations that promise to be groundbreaking and also discoveries that are changing the way we look at the universe,” said Nor-Tech President and CEO David Bollig.

ISC 2016 Sets Record for Attendance and Program

Today the ISC Group announced that ISC 2016 drew 3,092 attendees from 53 countries, exceeding all previous attendance records. The conference and exhibition were held in Frankfurt, Germany from June 19 – 23.

Video: Student Cluster Competition Awards Ceremony at ISC 2016

In this video from ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council hosts the Student Cluster Awards Ceremony. “The overall winning team this year was from CHPC in South Africa. As repeat winners, CHPC is establishing a bit of dynasty in this competition that is really fun to watch.”

Supercomputing the Mystery of Astrophysical Jets

Over at NICS, Scott Gibson writes that researchers are using XSEDE supercomputing resources to simulate the gaseous outflows from black holes known as astrophysical jets. “These jets can affect galaxy formation and evolution by, for example, heating up the surroundings and suppressing star formation, expelling the surrounding gas and thereby reducing the mass supply to the black hole.”

PRACE Elects New Leadership

The PRACE Council in Europe has elected Prof Dr Ir Anwar Osseyran of SURF/SURFsara as Chair and Dr Sergi Girona of BSC was elected Vice-Chair. PRACE – the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – counts 25 European Members States and Associated Countries as its members. PRACE aims to facilitate excellent research and science in academia […]

Attunity Introduces Hadoop Data Usage Analytics for Growing Data Lake Environments

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of Big Data management software solutions, announced the latest release of Attunity Visibility for Hadoop with enhanced technology to enable comprehensive data usage analytics for large-scale and fast-growing Hadoop Data Lake environments.

The Shift in Retail Data: Who Can Benefit?

In this special guest feature, Jeff Morris, Vice President of Data Monetization Strategy & Success at GoodData, explores a fundamental shift of the value of data within retail, and outlines solutions for various members of the retail community to utilize data for both internal and external use.

Zero to Insight With the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse

In this special technology white paper, Zero to Insight With the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, you’ll learn how to get started with tomorrow’s data warehouse today. You can truly get from “zero” to “insight” without the pains of trying something new.