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The software industry: So efficient, we invented shelfware
Have you considered helping customers to stop overspending?
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Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?
Sysadmin Blog Mornings, nights, they all blur into one for our man Trevor
British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Chuck away your e-reader - everyone else is
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
Lessons from tulip-hoarding Dutch speculators of 1634
CIOs: Are you your CEO's business partner or their GIMP?
CIO Blog A Machiavellian guide for the modern CIO
I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER
¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
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- Dan Olds
- Dominic Connor
- Matt Asay
- Mike Plant
- Steve Bong
- Tim Worstall
- Trevor Pott
- Verity Stob
Dan Olds is the owner and founder of Gabriel Consulting Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm, based in Beaverton, Oregon.
He pays particularly close attention to how technology continues to fundamentally transform both business and science.
Industry upstart: You know what high-end HPC needs? More DAY-GLO
HPC blog Thought we were going to say faster compute, dintcha?
One of the best things about industry events like the GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2013) is walking around the trade show floor. It gives me a chance to talk to smaller, niche companies who don’t get the media coverage given to the titans of the high-performance computing industry. (Or to Titan the supercomputer, for that …
Dell: Shhh, don't tell a soul, but the PC sector ISN'T doomed...
HPC blog Let's ditch these shareholders, shall we?
Dell’s move to take itself private has the tech world buzzing. There’s a lot of talk about the motives behind the deal. Some say Dell is doing it to escape the quarterly visit to the Wall Street meat grinder, where either you meet (or exceed) their expectations or get ground into a fine slurry. Going private frees Dell of public …
Researchers break records with MILLION-CORE calculation
HPC blog One app, million cores – but it wasn't Crysis...
Stanford’s Engineering Center for Turbulence Research (SECTR) has claimed a new record in computer science by running a fluid dynamics problem using a code named CharLES that utilised more than one million cores in the hulking great IBM Sequoia at once.
According to the Stanford researchers, it’s the first time this many cores …
2012 in supercomputing: Ceepie-geepies, a weak ARM and the need for speed
HPC blog Plus: How are algorithms like your ex?
A lot has happened in HPC over the past year. I would say that the speeding up of development of accelerators and the rising number of hybrid CPU+GPU systems are probably the most noteworthy trends we saw in 2012. Over the next year we’re going to see even more use cases for hybrid systems, and I expect to see much wider use in …
Free HPC cluster to good home
HPC blog US and Canada researchers vie for supercomputing bigness grant
Interested in getting your hands on some serious system hardware for free?
Well, with a few provisos, you could get your hands on a nearly new HPC cluster. First off, you'll need to be in the research game - in a US- or Canada-based academic or government lab, or some other non-profit research institution. (We’re talking about …
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
HPC blog You cannae break the laws of physics - and 7nm is the limit
While at IBM’s Smarter Computing Summit last week, I had the great pleasure of hearing Big Blue's Bernie Meyerson talk about limits to today’s tech, and the associated implications.
Bernie is IBM’s VP of Innovation and one of the rare technologist-scientist types who can clearly and directly explain highly technical concepts in …
