Supercomputing Wales, a consortium of four Welsh universities, is celebrating the results of its first hackathon, a design sprint-like event that brought computer programmers and others together to develop software code and improve performance. In the three-day event, regional software engineers from across Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities, supported by mentors from NVIDIA, Atos…
Our customers build applications that need to serve users that live in all corners of the world. When listening to our customers, they told us that whilst they were comfortable building Active Directory (AD) aware applications on AWS, making them work globally can be a real challenge. Customers told us that AWS Directory Service for…
Dell Technologies helps TGen unravel the secrets of the human genome to fight disease Dell Technologies and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have a long history of collaborating to enable groundbreaking research with life-changing results. Located in Phoenix Arizona, TGen is a nonprofit medical research institute affiliated with City of Hope, a world-renowned independent…
When starting out in the cloud, a customer’s storage requirements might consist of a handful of S3 buckets, but as they grow, migrate more applications and realize the power of the cloud, things can become more complicated. A customer may have tens or even hundreds of accounts and have multiple S3 buckets across numerous AWS…
Market for effective, cost-efficient liquid cooling predicted to more than double by 2024 As artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads mainstream and become more commonplace, they’re driving adoption of denser computing stacks that pack more power into less space. Denser infrastructure consumes more power and puts off more heat, threatening to surpass…
Our customers want to have a high availability, scalable firewall service to protect their virtual networks in the cloud. Security is the number one priority of AWS, which has provided various firewall capabilities on AWS that address specific security needs, like Security Groups to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Network ACLs to protect…
ENI, based in Italy and one of seven “supermajor” oil companies in the world, puts its Dell Technologies-based HPC5 supercomputing resources, tools and skills toward coronavirus research. The ENI HPC5 supercomputer, powered by Dell Technologies, has garnered a lot of attention since it was introduced in February of 2020 — primarily because ENI is an…
NVIDIA BlueField-2 in use at Durham University As a group, HPC practitioners are on the cutting edge of innovation, and are always willing to push the boundaries of performance to get to the next big breakthrough. For example, Dell Technologies customer Durham University is a leading research institution in the fields of astrophysics and particle…
When I am delivering an introduction to the AWS Cloud for developers, I usually spend a bit of time to mention and to demonstrate Amazon Lightsail. It is by far the easiest way to get started on AWS. It allows you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of…
Co author: Jeff Gowan, Wind River Delivering Containerized 5G Architecture As service providers move towards 5G in order to realize improved service, operational agility, and greater revenue potential, there is a technology evolution in infrastructure to shift from monolithic, vertically integrated solutions to disaggregated models based on virtualization and the cloud for distributed networks. In…