August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel looked at the other system-level issues for video images. Pete Ludé from Mission Rock Digital moderated the group. Panelists were Julian Carey from Intematix, Veeral Hardev from Nanosys, Seth Coe-Sullivan fro QD Vision, Jimmy Kim from NPD DisplaySearch, and Roland Vlaicu from Dolby. Ludé…
April 5, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—Bill Beck from BTM Consulting moderated a panel on laser illuminated projectors. Panelists were Pete Ludé from Mission Rock Digital, Goran Stojmenovik from Barco, Richard McPherson from NEC Display, and Don Shaw from Christie. Ludé stated that the laser illumination projector association is working on educational, regulatory, and quality issues…
September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Rob Rosen from Pentaho described the steps to make enterprise data warehouses more flexible by using Hadoop as a front end. The changing nature of the data calls for better ways to manage the unstructured data types. Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW) are facing a…
May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Matt Stansberry from the Uptime Institute shared the results of an on-going survey of data center managers. The available results represent one thousand responses, mostly from the US. Other areas are being added as the survey is translated to other languages. Respondents indicated that 82 percent are…
February 14, 2013 EECS, University of California, Berkeley—The annual EECS status update focused on cloud and computer-based functions, and a number of grad-students presented elevator-pitch information on some of the specific activities in those research centers. Matei Zaharai from the AMP (Algorithms, Machines, and People) Lab noted that big data needs more types of analysis,…
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Austin Hipes from NEI talked about the transition to 380VDC in the data center. Based upon a Lawrence Berkeley study in ’08, the change will result in a 28 percent reduction in power compared with AC power. Data centers need more efficiency and a power source that…
November 2012, At this year’s Samsung CIO Conference, held in San Jose, the focus was on the global issues of ubiquitous connectivity through data centers and service providers in an environment that is constrained by the universal resources of power and pollution. The event open with an intro from SJ mayor Chuck Reed who was…
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Victor Moroz from Synopsys discussed the design, modeling, and optimization of silicon solar cells and modules. Optimization must be across all levels of the system, from the silicon, to the cells, and to the modules through virtual prototypes. The challenges in improving PV efficiency are…
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Homan Yuen from Solar Junction described efforts in materials processing to engineer band gaps and achieve higher efficiencies. The technology of choice for this type of material is flat plate thin film. Concentrated solar comes in two flavors; thermal and PV. Concentrators work at light…
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Eli Yablonovitch from UC Berkeley described the physics of photovoltaics. The physics define the ultimate efficiency limits in solar cells. For semiconductor solar cells, it’s important to optimize activities at the junctions, because holes and electrons combine at the surface. However, a PN junction is…