December 15, 2014, IEDM, San Francisco—Hideo Inoue from Toyota talked about the potential future innovations in automatic driver assistance systems in automobiles. The advances in processing power and continued device shrinks will enable more integrated assist, safety, and automation in future cars. The key is the increased intelligence available. One area is a safety item….
September 15, 2014, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jim Williams from Oracle, presented the efforts to increase storage intelligence. Smart storage exchanges information between the app and physical storage layers to optimize resource use. Unfortunately, storage abstraction and layering makes exchanging performance hints difficult, since they are not defined by any standards. The issue is…
August 13, 2013, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Jason Taylor from Facebook described the structural and architectural implications of flash in the datacenter. Although bulk store is still in HDDs, newer use modes are making flash viable in longer term storage. Facebook has five main regional server centers and serves 84 percent of its members…
March 2, 2011, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco–one session here at GDC looked at “data management for modern game pipelines” as a way to improve game development time. Mathieu Mazzerolle and Alexandre Jean Claud from Autodesk looked at existing workflows and helped to create new flows and tools for game development. Many development systems are…
The 41st annual Comic-Con was held in San Diego at the end of July. This year’s event was attended by more than 125,000 people and has expanded well beyond collecting, trading and selling comic books. The new show was focused on all aspects of science fiction, fantasy and mobile entertainment. To understand the extent of…