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How researchers are letting us uncover secrets in social data
It’s not easy work turning the Mayberry Police Department into the team from C.S.I., or turning an idea for a new type of social network analysis into something like Klout on steroids, but those types...
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Now you can simulate your world for (relatively) cheap in the cloud
What if high-end simulation software that used to cost up to $100,000 per year now cost a fraction of that and was actually more functional? What types of new products or techniques might arise from...
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Why Amazon thinks big data was made for the cloud
For Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood, the day isn’t filled performing data alchemy on behalf of his employer; he’s entertaining its customers. Wood helps AWS users build big data...
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AWS beefs up cloud for super-fast data processing
Latching onto the trend toward in-memory storage for real-time computing, Amazon Web Services has added a new type of virtual server. The new option — the 10th such available on the EC2 offering — is...
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DARPA puts $3M into startup pushing big data in Python
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has invested $3 million in Continuum Analytics, an Austin, Texas-based company that’s commercializing some popular methods for doing big data using the...
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Scale-out storage still matters as Scality raises $22M
Remember a couple years ago, when every scale-out file system under the sun was either getting acquired or raising boatloads of venture capital? Apparently, that era isn’t over yet, as San...
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GridGain gets $10M for in-memory computing
GridGain Systems has raised a $10 million series B investment round for its suite of in-memory computing technology. In-memory databases are popular because of their low latency, but GridGain actually...
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Bina Technologies picks up $1.75M to keep democratizing genomic analysis
Bina Technologies, a company aiming to make genome processing faster and cheaper, has accepted $1.75 million for its Series B round, which included $6.25 million from Sierra Ventures. Behind the new...
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Accelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need
Jason Stowe just helped a USC researcher analyze 205,000 organic compounds to determine which ones might be good at powering the next generation of solar energy technology. “There are so many...
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Solving the unsolvable: A quantum boost for supercomputing
Quantum computing and high-performance computing (HPC) may seem like competitive approaches to solving complex problems, as they’re both designed to perform calculations at unmatched speeds, but they...
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To Space and Beyond: The Rise of Research-driven Cloud Computing
For many workloads, the cloud appears to be replacing the grid. Space agencies in particular are using the cloud to do work that likely would have had the word “grid” written all over it just a few...
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Amazon Gets Graphic With Cloud GPU Instances
Amazon Web Services upped its HPC portfolio by offering servers that will run GPUs. The move comes on the heels of AWS releasing its Cluster Compute Instances, and validates the idea that specialized...
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Clouds and GPUs: The Future of HPC
The cloud provides resources that organizations requiring HPC have never had access to before without buying their own clusters. GPUs are everywhere and proving adept at boosting performance. It seems...
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Jan. 4: What We’re Reading About the Cloud
Among the most interesting cloud discussions around the web today were those about what we learned about cloud computing in 2010, how Net Neutrality will affect the delivery of cloud services and what...
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Dissecting the New SGI’s Plan for Profitability
After hemorrhaging cash for the better part of a decade and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice in three years, it looks like storied server and supercomputer maker SGI might actually turn a profit...
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With Dryad, Microsoft Is Trying to Democratize Big Data
Microsoft is developing a new big data tool called Dryad. Dryad and the associated programming model, DryadLINQ, simplify the process of running data-intensive applications across hundreds, or even...
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Platform Computing Extends HPC Reach Into MapReduce
High-performance computing leader Platform Computing hopes to capitalize on the big data movement by spreading its wings beyond its flagship business of managing clusters and grids and into managing...
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Amazon Makes Cloud-Based Clusters Even Cheaper
Two of Amazon Web Services' most-unique features have finally crossed paths with news this morning that Spot Instances are now available for Cluster Compute Instances. Spot Instances have always been...
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LexisNexis open-sources its Hadoop killer
LexisNexis is releasing a set of open-source, data-processing tools it says outperforms Hadoop and even handles workloads that Hadoop presently cannot. There have been calls for a legitimate...
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Storm courts I/O lovers with 96GB, 32-core cloud server
There are big cloud server instances, and then there are big cloud server instances. Storm On Demand's new 96GB, 32-core instance is of the latter variety. In fact, it's the biggest you're likely to...
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The server architecture debate rages on
Big processors or little processors, scale-up or scale-out, on-premise or in the cloud: the answers might not be as easy as one would think. Web-style, scale-out architectures, low-power server...
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Appistry raises $12M, realigns around big data
Appistry, a St. Louis–based software company, has closed a $12 million Series D round for its family of distributed computing products. The company also appears to have changed its corporate messaging...
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Meet the new breed of HPC vendor
The face of high-performance computing is changing. That means new technologies and new names, but also familiar names in new places. Anyone that doesn't have a cloud computing story to tell, possibly...
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Supercomputing’s problem isn’t power, it’s software
Getting to next generation systems in high performance computing has inspired technologies that we now use everyday in data centers, but as the drive for exascale computing continues, it seems...
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The curious case of Hadoop in HPC
SGI and Cloudera have entered into a reseller agreement, but the most interesting part of the deal is that it's yet another example of a vendor pushing Hadoop products at mainstream customers while...
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Fighting cancer at 100 Gigabits per second
We often ascribe life-changing powers to high-speed Internet connections in our personal lives, but can they cure cancer? The Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health thinks so, and it's...
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It’s time for startup founders to think bigger
It's easier than ever to build a web or mobile app and call yourself a startup. But with new funding opportunities and technology tools, entrepreneurs can easily -- and cheaply -- use technology to...
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Supercomputer vet Cray wants to turn big data into fast data
Looks like Oracle has some competition when it comes to selling big iron for big data. On Wednesday, Cray, the Seattle-based company best known for building some of the world's fastest supercomputers,...
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How federal money will spur a new breed of big data
By pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into big data research and development, the Obama administration thinks it can push the current state of the art well beyond what's possible today, and into...
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Cycle Computing spins up 50K core Amazon cluster
Working with Schrödinger, which specializes in computational drug design, Cycle Computing built a 50k-core AWS cluster that screened 21 million compounds in less than three hours. The cluster enabled...
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Metamarkets, DataPop and more! Investors show big data some love
If you don't think venture capitalists and other investors love all things big data, think again. In the past three days alone, companies claiming some connection to big data -- either analyzing and/or...
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Straight outta Stanford, Bina wants to remake genome analysis
Bina Technologies emerged from stealth mode last week and is bringing an Apple-like business model to genomics. The company relies on its Bina Box to make genome analysis faster than ever before...
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Head to head: Amazon cloud beats Google on video benchmark
Benchmarking results from Zencoder show that Amazon Web Services beats out Google's Compute Engine in a test of a specific CPU-intensive workload. Compute Engine's performance was hindered by a lack of...
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Intel promises bigger, faster chips and silicon photonics for HPC
Intel on Monday announced a new brawny HPC processor and a family of network fabric components that incorporates silicon photonics technology. The new chip, the next-generation of the Xeon Phi family,...
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