The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released a new version of its storage solution benchmark. The software includes new features for AI and genomics workloads, expanded customisation, better scaling, and statistical visualisation.
Atos has announced it has been awarded a contract by UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) to install new SpectraLogic TFinity Tape Libraries
Robert Roe explores the use of HPC storage technology in off-shore energy exploration
Researchers at the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI), have expanded their Panasas high-performance computing (HPC) storage infrastructure with an additional two petabytes (PB) of ActiveStor data storage to support the growing number of I/O-intensive tasks related to COVID-19 research
NetApp has started using a data science platform from Iguazio for real-time machine learning applications
Advances in storage technology enable scientists to accelerate their research
Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has unveiled its Cray ClusterStor E1000 system, an entirely new parallel storage platform for massively scalable workloads such as AI, analytics, simulation and modelling
With the growth in AI and ML, there is an increasing requirement for an organisation to store and manage large volumes of data. Ceph can support an organisations requirements for AI and ML by providing a rapidly and horizontally scalable system that can support object, block and file storage to manage the growth of their data. Organisations with inferencing workloads for AI and ML are increasingly reliant on tier-2 storage as the demand for this technology increases.
Robert Roe looks at storage technologies being developed to suit both AI and HPC workloads
Micron Technology announced that it is commencing shipments of the industry’s first SSD built on quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology
Gemma Church examines how simulation and modelling aid the increasingly diverse renewable energy field
Scientists have implemented automation and LIMS software to help pivot laboratory operations and provide services to better understand and prevent the spread of Covid-19
Sophia Ktori considers how software integration helps ensure scientists work efficiently in the laboratory
A team of international scientists, including Nasa researchers, are using deep learning to map trees and bushes in the drylands of West Africa and the southern Sahara desert
