August 24, 2011, Hot Interconnects 19, Santa Clara, CA—Greg Papadopoulos, venture partner at New Enterprise Associates and former CTO of Sun Microsystems talked about “The Computer That is The Network: The Future History of Big Systems”. Hot interconnect 19 2011 We are in the midst of a revolution where the cost to connect drops…
We talked with the Olympus Scientific Equipment Group about their industrial microscopes at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. They were showing of the capabilities of their latest wafer inspection system for semiconductor production. The BXiS microscope system is available with standard camera mount for digital cameras. Five versions of the microscope frame accommodate…
June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City CA—A panel looked at the Storage Challenges Of Video Editing. Larry Jordan from Digital Production Buzz moderated the panel. Panel members included Fred Winette from DataDirect Networks, Komal Pal from Intel, Eric de la Inglesia from Gridiron Systems, Alex Grossman from Active Storage, Matthew Rehrer from Harmonic,…
May 4, 2011, Multi-core Expo, San Jose, CA—Marcus Levy, president of the Multi-core association talked bout the issues and challenges facing the multi-core industry. He noted that the industry sector is showing a lot of imagination and is creating innovative products and concepts for multi-processor CPUs. The idea of multiple processor cores in a single…
April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Mike Cutler from Dreamworks Animation described the high-performance data management system they used for animation production. Although most people don’t consider cartoons as high technology, their system requirements constantly push the boundaries for state-of-the-art data processing centers. DreamWorks started in the 90s and the artists were also…
January 18, 2011 SPIE Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, CA—Michael Robinson, chief scientist at RealD described the current state of stereoscopic 3-D in his keynote talk. Overall, the displays are more than adequate for the job, but the content capture needs to be tailored to the display, obviously a challenge when considering all possible display types. In…
January 4, 2011, Storage Visions Las Vegas-Jeff Lowe, COO of Building 4 Media, talked about converting a broadcast studio into a digital flow in his presentation titled “bigger and more expensive doesn’t always mean better”. He noted that enterprise-class storage systems are not suitable for media operations. After spending 10 years of Apple, and thinking…
August 24, 2010, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA hosted a keynote from Burkhard Huhnke, Volkswagen of America, Electronics Research Lab, Palo Alto, CA on “Looking at Transportation in New Ways: What does mobility look like in the future?” Volkswagen is in Silicon Valley rather than some other automotive center because of the ability for people…
August 3, 2010, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—The new digital workflows are forcing change in the structure of a production company. The average video runs between 200-800 GB per project. The average editor processes about 8 TB of data, mostly held on Firewire (IEEE 1394) RAID arrays. The smaller producers have no IT staff…
Andy Melder, VP at Gigle Networks talks about the evolution of power-line communications as an alternative to WiFi and Ethernet for home networking on an IP-based protocol. In the past, power line networking was restricted to simple command and control functions like turning on lights and small appliances. The difficulties were in the pervasive noise…