Category Archives: Distributed computing

Mobile health (mHealth) takes off in Kenya

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Ray

Read an article today about startups and others in Kenya  providing electronic medical care via mHealth and improving the country’s health care system (see Kenya’s Startup Boom). It seems that four interns were able to create a smartphone and web … Continue reading →

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Why EMC is doing Project Lightening and Thunder

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Ray

Although technically Project Lightening and Thunder represent some interesting offshoots of EMC software, hardware and system prowess,  I wonder why they would decide to go after this particular market space. There are plenty of alternative offerings in the PCIe NAND … Continue reading →

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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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