Far too many people have had the unfortunate experience – for a friend, relative, or themselves – of a medical diagnosis that comes too late. It is difficult to stay on top of everything that could go wrong with the … Read more
Author of this blog is the research scientist on virtual environments:Liu, Huaiyu With the advent of cloud technologies we now have the capability to stay connected from anywhere, anytime. With the recent changes in my family I want to stay … Read more
This week’s announcement by Intel that it’s expanding the availability of the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop* software to the US market is seriously exciting for the employees of this semiconductor giant, especially researchers like me. Why? Why would I … Read more
As more and more aspects of life become digital, humankind is evolving into a data society where information is king. Technology trends including social media, e-commerce, e-science, Big Data and Exascale Computing are driving a need to dramatically increase computational … Read more
Big Data. Big. Data. We hear the term frequently used to describe data of unusual size or generated at spectacular velocity, like the amount of social data that Facebook has amassed on us (30 PB in one cluster) or the … Read more
It was just announced at the awards session at SC12 that Intel has won “best paper” for research into more efficient processing for a fundamental calculation in high performance computing, entitled “A Framework for Low-Communication 1-D FFT.” Numerous wave applications (e.g. … Read more
Today marks a significant milestone in efficiency for high performance computing (HPC). For the first time, an Intel-based system has topped the Green500 list, an achievement made possible through the use of the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ co-processor launched this week … Read more
Many of the most promising applications of Big Data, the vast and growing data repositories accumulating across the world, work by scouring millions or billions of interrelated things to discover interesting new relationships. The result could be a new scientific … Read more
At the recent Cloud Gaming USA conference in San Francisco I gave a technical talk that covered three challenges – and therefore opportunities for research – with the current state of cloud gaming. The main topics were:
Intel announced today 6th in a series of Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTCs) with the opening of the ISTC for Big Data. The center will be headquartered at MIT, with a community of collaborating institutions including Brown University, Portland … Read more
