Category Archives: Distributed computing

Intel acquires InfiniBand fabric technology from Qlogic

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Ray

Intel announced today that they are going to acquire the InfiniBand (IB) fabric technology business from Qlogic. From many analyst’s perspective, IB is one of the only technologies out there that can efficiently interconnect a cluster of commodity servers into … Continue reading →

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New wireless technology augmenting data center cabling

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Ray

I read a report today in Technology Review about how Bouncing data would speed up data centers, which talked about using wireless technology and special ceiling tiles to create dedicated data links between servers.  The wireless signal was in the 60Ghz … Continue reading →

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MIT builds analog synapse chip

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Ray

Recently MIT announced a new brain chip, a breakthrough device that simulates a single brain synapse with an analog chip. We have discussed before the digital nueromorphic chip activity going on (see my IBM introducing their SyNAPSE chip and Electro-human … Continue reading →

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Smart thermostats make for smarter grids

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Ray

We have been discussing off and on how smart power meters (see Smart metering data storage appetite) and intelligent sensors (see the Sensor cloud comes home) such as smart thermostats generate copious amounts of data.  Sensors and meters such as these … Continue reading →

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Is cloud a leapfrog technology?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Ray

Read an article today about Safaricom creating a domestic cloud service offering outside Nairobi in Kenya (see Chasing the African Cloud). But this got me to thinking that cloud services may be just like mobile phones in that developing countries … Continue reading →

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Electro-human interface

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Ray

There has been a lot of talk recently about neuromorphic computing (see IBM introduces SyNAPSE) and using Phase Change Memory for artificial neurons but there hasn’t been much discussion of ways to interface human’s or for that matter any life whatsoever to … Continue reading →

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Commodity hardware debate heats up again

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Ray

A post by Chris M. Evans, in his The Storage Architect blog (Intel inside storage arrays) re-invigorated the discussion we had last year on commodity hardware always loses. But buried in the comments was one from Michael Hay (HDS) which pointed … Continue reading →

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Big data and eMedicine combine to improve healthcare

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Ray

We have talked before ePathology and data growth, but Technology Review recently reported that researchers at Stanford University have used Electronic Medical Records (EMR) from multiple medical institutions to identify a new harmful drug interaction. Apparently, they found that when patients … Continue reading →

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