A field-programmable gate array – or FPGA – is an integrated circuit that can be configured by a customer or designer after manufacturing. As HPC Wire’s Nicole Hemsoth recently reported, FPGAs have found a comfortable home in a broad range of applications that can be very broadly defined as search-based with the arrival of Big Data in HPC, hyperscale and general commercial environments. In addition, FPGAs are seeing significant adoption in research—particularly in the life sciences.
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Grantley-powered Xeon servers pack DDR4 memory
A number of new servers powered by Intel’s recently launched 18-core Xeon E5-2600 v3 (Grantley) chip were announced at IDF 2014. AsIDG’s Agam Shah notes, the servers, debuted by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and IBM, are the very first to pack DDR4 memory.
TVBEurope talks cryptography and Rambus
Cryptography Research, the security division of Rambus, presented a series of content protection technology demonstrations at IBC 2014, including CryptoFirewall™ core technology and Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasure solutions.
DPAWS UX gets a cryptographic makeover
The 2014 Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Workshop – aka CHES – kicks off in South Korea on September 23. Sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the event was first held in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1999 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
Why BYOD security isn’t optional
Writing for ComputerWeekly, Warwick Ashford confirms that cyber attackers are increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile computing to infiltrate corporate networks.
How sensors are making smart homes a reality
The falling cost of adding sensing and communications capabilities to consumer products means the typical family home could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022.
