AMD’s “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in Kaveri

Chip designer wants to replace GPU computing with heterogeneous computing. AMD wants to talk about HSA, Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA), its vision for the future of system architectures. To that end, it held a press conference last week to discuss what it’s calling “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” (hUMA). The company outlined what it was doing, ...

Why commitment, knowledge and experience matter in tech support

This was posted originally on HP. Mike Alamé is Vice President of Global Support Delivery, U.S. Region. Mike joined HP in 1992 as a Solution Center Unix Manager. During his time at HP, Mike has held a number of management positions within the Services Organization and Solution Center. Prior to joining HP, Mike held several positions at ...

Hyperscale IT: When you’re shooting for the moon, don’t try it alone

This was posted originally on HP. What NASA put in place to work on the project of walking on the moon was impressive. And once launched, the Apollo rockets – the hardware and software – and astronauts – the users – were constantly monitored and checked by experts to prevent proactively all possible issues, and ...

IT Skills – The Never-Ending Challenge

This was originally posted on HP. This post was written by Nina Buik, CMO of Connect.  Technology never stops innovating. Every few months there seems to be a new hot IT trend. As a result, IT professionals are struggling to “stay current” in their field and many companies are unable to source the expertise necessary ...