March 17, 2014, at GTC, San Jose, CA—Dan O’Farrell from Dell introduced the Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse virtual workstation. This end-end offering provides a virtual desktop that provides workstation users an alternative to dedicated workstations for graphics-heavy workloads. The virtual workstations use Dell workstation designs from the Precision product line with dedicated GPU pass-through…
March 17, 2015, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Barry Daniels from exponential-e described a GPU-powered VDI with GPU rendering. This Ethernet-based cloud network for enterprise delivers high bandwidth through smart links. The company is a spin-out from British Telecom and offers network, cloud, and unified communications services. They are working to address the unique challenges…
April 3, 2013, IEEE CE Society and CASPA, San Jose, CA—Frankie James from GM described her efforts in supporting EV adoption. The makers of electric vehicles (EV) are working to make EVs more user friendly and plan to use the EVs to meet the coming corporate gas mileage requirements. The latest electric and hybrid vehicles…
May 12, 2011, smart power grid technology conference, Santa Clara, CA—Amit Narayan from Stanford University is looking to develop tools to model and simulate the increasing system-level complexity of the electrical grid. His current projects are focusing on interactions of the energy systems and economics. The electrical grid is adding new technologies in areas like…