April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
Acquisitions of SGI, Sun Heading in Opposite Directions for HPC as published in HPCWire Sun and SGI have followed similar trajectories throughout much of their linked histories — parallel parabolas that blazed through several common markets, including technical workstations and HPC, from their explosive Silicon Valley launches in the early 1980s to their financial zeniths…
April 21, 2018
Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
Musings on Economic Storms and Industry Consolidation as published in HPCWire “Bad economic times lead to industry consolidation/shake-out.” That is one economic rule that actually makes intuitive sense, like small craft are the first to sink in a hurricane, or the speed of light is the same to all observers (OK I admit I’m still…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
Oh, Yeah – The Workstation Is Sexy Again (Just Please Don’t Call It a Personal Supercomputer) as published in HPCWire For over 10 years, from the late 1980s throughout the 1990s, technical workstations were the stunningly sexy starlets of the computing world. Advancements in graphics cards and RISC microprocessors gave engineers and scientists unprecedented performance…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell, Laura Segervall
As published in HPCWire This article is excerpted from “Cloud Opportunities in HPC: Market Taxonomy,” published by InterSect360 Research. The full article was distributed to subscribers of the InterSect360 market advisory service and can also be obtained by contacting sales@intersect360.com. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the third book of Douglas Adams’ whimsical Hitchhiker fantasy…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
HPC Application Software Vendors Begin to Adapt to the Demands of Utility, SaaS, and Cloud Computing as published in HPCWire At a casual glance it seems the entire High Performance Computing industry is going gung ho on clouds. HPC system vendors are launching cloud-enabled infrastructure services. Middleware providers offer solutions for migrating applications to public,…
April 21, 2018
Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
As published in HPCWire Returning to ISC after a hiatus of several years and viewing the event from the vantage point of an industry analyst, the show appears to have made a quantum leap in terms of the size and sophistication of the exhibition, and the degree and intensity of business activity. The exhibit hall,…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published at www.openfabrics.org I learned three important things about OFED at the recent OFA workshop in Monterey, CA: 1) OFED is critical to a significant and growing number of organizations, but … 2) Almost none of those organizations realize it, and that is why … 3) The perception of OFED is a significant limiting…
April 21, 2018
Sue Gouws Korn
As published in HPCwire It is often said that managing enterprise risk and micro risk is about finding the needle in the haystack. Predictive analytics uses powerful computers with large memory and storage to eliminate 90 percent of the hay. These are those “easy” decisions that a computer can handle effortlessly. The modeling systems then…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in Digital Manufacturing Report. Numerous initiatives from government and industry have been created to address the “Missing Middle” — small manufacturers who have not adopted the digital manufacturing techniques of computer-aided modeling and simulation. Intersect360 Research has studied this area extensively and has been closely involved with several of these initiatives. In this…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in Datanami The world is changing, this time at the speed of data… With the explosion of new devices, sensors, GIS-based services, social networks, and cutting edge tools that deliver real-time feeds over the web and into datacenters large and small, global data generation continues unchecked. Despite this near-constant flood of data, many…