Today SGI announced the InfiniteStorage Gateway, an appliance that delivers virtualized data management to lower the cost of high volume storage. Why an appliance? SGI’s Floyd Christofferson described it as a way to “install DMF within minutes and enable greatly simplified storage management for Big Data.” The SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway reduces the dependency on high-cost […]
Obama Initiative Leverages Big Data to Explore the Brain
April 6, 2013 by
This week President Obama announced a research initiative that has the ambitious goal of “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain,” according to a White House press release. Know as BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), the initiative is being launched in FY 2014 with an initial budget of about $100 million, a modest […]
DSSD is Andy Bechtolsheim’s Secret Chip Startup for Big Data
April 4, 2013 by
Over at GigaOm, GigaStacey writes that the solution for better and faster storage may lie in DSSD, a stealthy chip startup backed by Andy Bechtolsheim. Founded in 2010 by Sun Alums Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, DSSD is trying to build a chip that would improve the performance and reliability of flash memory for high […]
Xyratex Partners with AMD on Apache Hadoop and Object Storage
April 4, 2013 by
Today Xyratex announced that that the company is now a strategic supplier for AMD and their SeaMicro solutions for Big Data. AMD will use Xyratex OneStor Modular Enclosure as one of the building blocks for its big data and storage intensive solutions and optimized the SeaMicro SM15000 server to provide more than five petabytes of […]
Video: How to Talk to Your CFO about HPC and Big Data
April 4, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Rich Brueckner from inside-BigData moderates a panel discussion on How to Talk to Your CFO about HPC and Big Data. Panelists: John C. Morris – Pfizer Dr. George Ball – Raytheon Henry Tufo – University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Flavio Villanustre – LexisNexis As members of […]
Video: HPC Trends for 2013
April 3, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents: HPC Trends for 2013. Addison Snell will present some of the top insights from recent market intelligence studies from Intersect360 Research, including forward-looking views of the vertical markets, new applications, and technologies with the best prospects for growth in 2012 […]
Panel Discussion: Big Systems, Big Data, Better Products
April 2, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Bob Feldman moderates a panel discussion entitled: Big Systems, Big Data, Better Products. Panelists: Devin Jensen – Altair Rene Copeland – SGI Dr. Stephen Wheat – Intel Sanjay Umarji – HP How will enormous data sets and an endless stream of ever-more granular variables drive supercomputing […]
Video: The Value of Large Scale Entity Analysis for National Security
April 1, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Dr. Flavio Villanustre and Mary Galvin from LexisNexis present: The Value of Large Scale Entity Analysis for National Security. HPCC Systems from LexisNexis Risk Solutions works with clients in various industries to manage different types of risk by helping them derive insight from massive data sets. […]
SGI's Eng Lim Goh Presents: From Extreme Scale Computing to Big Data
March 29, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI presents: From Extreme Scale Computing to Big Data. The internet, sensors and high performance computing are some of the top Big Data producers. Recently, there has been increased focus on extracting more value out of these generated data. Analysis of […]
Video: Challenging Large-Data Problems at NASA
March 27, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Dr. Tsengdar Lee from NASA presents: Challenging Large-Data Problems at NASA. NASA’s observations from Earth-orbiting satellites and outputs from computational climate models have contributed to one of the most data-intensive scientific disciplines today. The Earth system science tries to analyze the data, turns the data into […]
