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This blog post has been written by Govnet Events, the organisers of UK HPC & Big Data conference.

Alison Kennedy is the Director of the STFC Hartree Centre, based at the UK’s Science and Facilities Council’s National Laboratory. The STFC’s Hartree Centre is a high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics research facility which was founded by the government in collaboration with IBM, leaders of information technology.

This blog post has been written by Govnet Events, the organisers of UK HPC & Big Data conference.

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Delivered by the UK's leading speakers within the technology sector, the HPC & Big Data conference presents a tightly packed agenda exploring the key areas of computational research throughout the public and private sector.

If you are a system administrator, an engineer, or a developer working with cluster and cloud infrastructure in general, these videos are designed for you.

Bright Computing’s partner team dedicated to Dell traveled to Austin this week to take part in the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting.

I had the pleasure of attending the UK HPC & Big Data event, organised by GovNet, yesterday in London.

According to a recent IDC annual market report, discussed in HPCwire, new big data demands from high performance data analytics and deep learning are likely to drive future growth in the HPC market. Here are the details from that report.

Deploying and managing a Hadoop cluster can be challenging. Bright Cluster Manager can ease the pain by giving you the deployment, monitoring, and management solution every Hadoop administrator wishes for.

Dark Data, BigQuery, Ransomware and Pie Charts are some of the terms that were discussed at the BigDataExpo 2016 conference I attended last week. This is a free conference held at the Jaarbeurs Utrecht conference center near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which drew a few thousand visitors who came to see presentations delivered in English, Dutch or even both sometimes! As the event’s tagline -- "Develop your Big Data strategy" -- suggests, the conference was targeted more towards business people and less towards developers.

I’ve been at Bright Computing for just over a year now. I remember very clearly that on my second day in 2015, I travelled to France to attend Ter@tec at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau / Paris.