Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the company works to analyze large amounts of satellite images and data through deep-learning tools and crowdsourcing, GCN reported Wednesday. Frazier told GCN columnist Patrick Marshall in an interview that OpenCV computer vision software library, Caffe deep-learning framework and NVIDIA graphics processors are some of the deep-learning systems […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and data science community Kaggle have launched their second annual competition that aims to encourage participants to develop algorithms that will work to help speed up heart disease diagnosis. Booz Allen and Kaggle will collaborate with the National Institutes of Health in the 90-day Data Science Bowl contest, Booz Allen said Monday. “We […] More

Cray has received a potential $53 million contract to provide a storage system and a computer intended for large-scale data processing for Australia’s meteorology bureau. The company said Tuesday the agency will use the Cray Sonexion 2000 storage platform and Cray XC40 supercomputer to run weather models. Sonexion 2000 has a storage capacity of at least 12 petabytes and […] More

Cray has installed a petaflop supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science Supercomputing Education and Research Center in Bangalore to aid SERC research initiatives focused on high-performance computing. The company said Monday the Cray XC40 supercomputer, dubbed SahasraT, is equipped with Intel Xeon processors, Dragonfly topology, Aries interconnect technology, DataWarp optional platforms, cooling systems and NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing unit accelerators. […] More

General Electric has won a $2.6 million contract to supply rugged computers for integration into the simulation equipment of infantry combat vehicles that BAE Systems is building for the U.S. Army. BAE plans to implement GE’s 3U VPX computing technology with the common embedded training system onboard the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, GE said Monday. GE […] More

General Electric‘s intelligent platforms business has won a contract to provide the U.S. Air Force an embedded neuromorphic computing platform for use in wide-area surveillance applications, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Thursday. The publication reports the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. selected a GE infrastructure that mimics human’s neuro-biological actions in […] More

Five companies have won U.S. Energy Department contracts worth $24.5 million combined to research and develop interconnect technologies intended to support high-performance computing. IBM, Intel Federal, AMD, Cray and NVIDIA will design architectures that can be used as building blocks for supercomputers for energy, national security and scientific applications, the DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific […] More

IBM, Google and several other technology firms have joined forces to establish a consortium that will seek to help data centers customize server and networking platforms by using IBM’s microprocessor architecture. The OpenPOWER Consortium will give developers access to IBM Power software and hardware offerings and allow companies to license Power chip designs, IBM said […] More

Open Source Robotics Foundation has picked an IBM company, SoftLayer Technologies, to co-host the first cloud-based robotics challenge  for the development of software that allows a simulated robot to perform first responder tasks. About 100 teams worldwide participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-sponsored competition through SoftLayer’s remote access technology, IBM announced Thursday. The […] More

Dell has developed cloud computing services intended to work with Citrix Systems“™ virtual desktops as organizations aim to provide employees secure access to corporate information from multiple devices. The turnkey offerings aim to help clients that use Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp in their information technology environments, Dell said Wednesday. Dell built the desktop virtualization offerings […] More

Hewlett-Packard is developing a new tablet that will run on the Android operating system, ReadWrite reports. Taylor Wimberly writes HP has been working on Android-related projects since 2010 and once shipped TouchPads with Android installed instead of webOS. HP could help Google put Android in the desktop PC market, an area the search giant is […] More

While McAfee has been loud from Las Vegas, VMware has been making noise from overseas with its VMworld Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark. VMware held a similar conference on “owning the cloud” earlier this year in Las Vegas and while it reported multiple advances in that week, it has unleashed a whole slew of new solutions and announcements including […] More