May 2018 – At the Churchill Club meeting in San Francisco they held an informational discussion on the realities of Quantum Computers and its transition from theory to realization. The discussion was moderated by Martin Giles of the MIT Technology Review. The discussion participants were Arvind Krishna from IBM, Dr Kam Moler from Stanford, and…
M&E Tech’s coverage of the 2017 Nvidia GTC show included interviews and product announcements that were aired on Comcast, AT&T & Ustream by it video production partner Roadway.Media in June 2017 on Bright Blue Innovation. Bright Blue Innovation host Lidia Paulinska visits the 2017 Nvidia Graphics Technology Conference also known at Nvidia GTC 2017. The…
April 2016 – At the Nvidia GTC event in San Jose, IBM held a tutorial on the use of Watson in the cloud and the SDK and application areas that are best targeted to the platform. To support the community, IBM has introduced the developer cloud (https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/) which is bringing cognitive computing to developer apps…
February 2015 – The cost of developing new process nodes and validating the libraries is getting prohibitive. As a result, the processor groups are slowing down Moore’s law by holding on the same node as last year and now moving to design and layout optimization to improve power and performance characteristics. This theme was repeated…
January 2015 – At the 2015 Storage Visions Conference that preceded CES, we had a chance to review the new Memory Channel Storage (MCS) developed by Diablo Technologies. The product is a NAND Flash memory product that operates in a system through the standard DIMM connections and the memory channel interface. This provides a direct…
June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—Steve Canepa from IBM talked with Marty Shindler from the Shindler Perspective about reinventing IBM’s media and entertainment offerings. The changes in technologies and user expectations calls for changes in business. Canepa commented that change happens and the core services need to change over time to follow…
February 2014, At ISSCC in San Francisco, the traditional launch of new microprocessors was done in session 5. The session features new architectures and designs in the Power PC, ARM, Xeon and x86 solution space from IBM, Intel and AMD. Large data centers and cloud service providers are increasingly becoming the point of computation in…
September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sam Fineberg from HP and Simona Rabinovici-Cohen from IBM talked about combining cloud, tape, and container format technologies for long-term big data retention. With the move in big data to use historical information as part of the analytics, long-term data retention becomes a necessity. Big data is…
August 22, 2013, Hot Interconnects Symposium, San Jose, CA—Maria Garcia from the University of Spain and IBM described the techniques and tools to establish efficient dragonfly networks with simple congestion management. Dragonfly networks are hierarchical direct networks in a modified star configuration. This organization permits both local and global combinations of traffic while allowing for…
June 2013 – At the 50th DAC in Austin, TX, a number of IEEE recognition and achievement awards was presented. One of the awards was the Industrial Pioneer Award given by the CASS society. The IEEE Circuit and Systems Society (CASS) Industrial Pioneer Award honors the individual with exceptional and pioneering contributions in translating academic…