Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Cray have announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which HPE will acquire Cray for approximately $1.3 billion.
Artificial intelligence in life sciences is being held back by data issues and skills shortage, according to research.
The Pistoia Alliance, a global non-profit that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has announced survey results showing that access to data (52 per cent) and lack of skills (44 per cent) are the biggest barriers to the adoption of AI and machine learning (ML).
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announces Professor Dieter Kranzlmüller as its new Chair of the Board of Directors
The US Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has announced details of its latest supercomputer alongside Cray and AMD
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced its intent to acquire Nexenta, a provider of software defined storage (SDS) for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), creating the Nexenta by DDN division
Jisc and SSE telecoms have announced the launch of the Janet South network and an extension of UK Backbone network partnerships which aim to connect UK education and research facilities with speeds of up to 100Gbps
The FPGA developer Xilinx has announced that it will acquire Solarflare Communications, the California based company that specialises in cloud datacentre hardware and software
Lawrence Livermore National Lab has deployed a 170-node HPC cluster from Penguin Computing.
CERN has announced a new facility for scientific education and outreach called the Science Gateway. The purpose of the project is to create a hub of scientific education and culture to inspire younger generations
A project carried out at the National University of Ireland Galway and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and KU Leuven has been exploring the role of aerodynamic science in Paralympic cycling
Digital transformation continues to impact our lives in ways we previously couldn’t have imagined, comments Trish Meek, director of marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Weather prediction seems simple nowadays. You just have to summon Siri and ask it if you’ll need an umbrella or a sunhat.
In March it was announced that a new exascale system was on the horizon, with the news that Aurora – originally scheduled for 2018 – was going to be the first exascale system in the US, launching in 2021.
The storage market is in a unique position, in that there is demand from both the traditional HPC and enterprise storage markets, such as media and entertainment, alongside new growing markets for AI and machine learning.
