March 15, 2012 – The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (http://www.vlab.org/) held their latest event on the topic of Big Data and NoSQL which is the growing trend for data storage in public and private clouds. The crowd of nearly 600 packed the campus auditorium to hear several different approaches to the data collection and query issue [...]
May 15, 2012, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Christopher Horvath, Global Technology Technical Director from Pixar, described the techniques needed to make realistic fire images. Even thought the hardware and software tools have improved dramatically over time, the images still look too “computerish”. Fire images need a lot of artistic interpretation and manipulation to achieve [...]
The Delegates of the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 uniformly agreed that the most important themes this year were: the modular data center and DCIM. Dean Nelson of eBay, vice president Global Foundation Services, in his Keynote “Breaking New Ground on Efficiency – eBay’s Modular Data Center Deployment” was talking about the economics of the modular [...]
May 2012 – At the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) there were sessions focusing on the shifts in scientific computing and data analysis. Thess shifts are from the both the increased amounts of data genterated by sensors in a test environment and also from advances in multiprocessor and distributed computing which allows for the creation [...]
