Sustainable Business – Collaboration and Innovation Are Essential for Net Zero
It is not every day you are invited to join the Masons, or should I say the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons); a growing global association of industry professionals and business leaders united by a passion to integrate sustainability into the lifecycle of the data centre sector. All of those involved are aiming to drive change, and […]
Artificial intelligence plays multiple roles in tackling Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic response can draw on technological capabilities that were unavailable even a few years ago. One of those, artificial intelligence (AI), is playing a particularly vital role. In early August, Russia shocked the world by announcing that it had approved the first vaccine for Covid-19. Experts have questioned the safety of the vaccine, […]
Can a physical building have a virtual mantrap?
Back in April, Microsoft CEO Staya Nadella said “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months,” referring to the rate at which people shifted business interactions online, when they were forced to by the lockdown measures imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This sort of stance was common in the early stages […]
The growing influence of BigTech in financial services
I have always been fascinated by technology and mathematical models. When I was a credit officer for example I knew the importance of data. However, at that time data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) weren’t that developed. Technology has fundamentally reshaped our economy and the way companies interact with their customers. […]
HPC Innovators – Adrian Wander
Adrian Wander is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of A Wander Consulting. With over 30 years’ experience of working in the high-performance computing and IT sectors, Adrian is a well known and highly respected figure within the international HPC community. He has worked across all areas of IT including HPC, AI, big data, and […]
How HPC and AI are driving unprecedented change in UK data centres
In my last blog I discussed how Digital Twins could help guide the complex and intricate processes of designing and building next-generation data centres. In future, I believe industry professionals will leverage AI simulations to both test and optimise the data centre over its lifecycle. As an operator of advanced data centres for the UK […]
Driving Advances in Genomics with HPC
One of the key puzzles of the Covid-19 pandemic has been why some people experience a life-threatening, or fatal, illness, while others have little or no symptoms. For some, recovery is straightforward, while others are left with lingering or even permanent damage. Is this determined by luck, environmental factors or is it something in the […]
AI and HPC workloads from space
As more satellites go up, there’s a boom coming in processing their data – and that needs image processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC). For the last year, Elon Musk’s StarLink project has been flinging shedloads of satellites into space. The StarLink program will have more than 1,500 devices orbiting by the […]
Open Compute Project: When going virtual means going virtuous!
Hey, who’s adapted well to the strange world of the Covid-19 pandemic? The Open Compute Project, for one. And we can learn a lot from its experience. I work at Datacenter Dynamics, so I know about migrating events to digital , because social distancing has made physical meetings impossible. So I was pleased to see […]
Hyperscale ‘built-to-suit’ data centre space with no gherkins!
One of the many things I’ve missed during our lockdown period is a Five Guys cheeseburger! We’ve all become used to being able to tailor suits, cars, holidays, phones, applications etc to our specific requirements, but not plain-old burgers until the Five Guys chain opened-up on our streets. So imagine yourself for a minute walking […]