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Red Hat’s David Egts: Open Source, Hybrid Cloud Could Provide Agencies Access to Supercomputing
David Egts, chief technologist of North American public sector at Red Hat, has said federal agencies seeking to gain access to high performance computing should leverage open source and hybrid cloud platforms.
Seema Verma, Administrator of CMS, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Guiding Health Policy, Helping Patients Access & Share Medical Data
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for guiding health policy and helping patients access and share personal medical data. This marks the first Wash100 Award for Verma.
DOE Lab Unveils IBM-Built ‘Summit’ Supercomputer to Back AI, Energy Research
An Energy Department-backed national laboratory in Tennessee has launched a computer system IBM designed to support research in artificial intelligence, advanced materials, energy and other areas. The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory works to perform up to 200,000 trillion calculations per second or approximately 200 petaflops of computing power, DOE said Friday. “I am truly excited […] More
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IBM-Mellanox-Nvidia Team Aims to Complete New DOE Supercomputers in Early 2018
A team composed of IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox is scheduled to complete the development of two supercomputing machines at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories early next year. The alliance is working to build ORNL’s Summit and LLNL’s Sierra computers through a $325 million project DOE awarded in late 2014. Dave Turek, vice president of exascale systems […] More
Summit-BlueLabs Team to Provide Data Science Support to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
A contractor team of Summit Consulting and BlueLabs will provide data science support to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under a new five-year blanket purchase agreement. Summit said Thursday it created multiple economic models to analyze the significance of race on lending decisions based on bank underwriting and pricing criteria in an effort to identify banks that employ lending […] More
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Summit Consulting to Provide Financial Mgmt Services to Treasury Dept
Summit Consulting has received a contract of an undisclosed value to provide financial management services to a federal credit program run by the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The analytics advisory firm said Thursday it will collaborate with CoMetrics and Bryant Miller Olive to conduct portfolio monitoring and credit risk management activities for the CDFI Fund’s Bond Guarantee Program. Summit […] More
Summit to Continue Dev’t Support to EPA’s Water Infrastructure Financing Program
Summit Consulting has received a long-term contract from the Environmental Protection Agency to extend the company’s policy and infrastructure development services on EPA’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program. The contract will continue Summit’s WIFIA advisory support for up to four years and require additional development services for the programmatic infrastructure, standard operating procedures, portfolio, credit subsidy estimates and credit […] More
Summit Consulting Lands Risk Management Analytics Services Contract From OPIC
Washington, D.C.-based Summit Consulting has secured a long-term contract from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to provide risk management analytics in support of the federal institution’s development finance operation. The company will continue to support OPIC’s federal credit budget and accounting portfolio and contribute risk analysis and actuarial review services over a potential five-year period, Summit said Monday. […] More
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World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments
World Wide Technology has received a Cisco Partner Summit Global Award in recognition of the former company’s business practices and role it plays in the technology services industry. The company received the 2016 Solution Innovation Partner of the Year award at Cisco’s annual partner conference in California, WWT said Friday. “We are honored to receive these awards and continue to deepen […] More
ORNL Uses Allinea Code Performance Analysis Tool to Support Supercomputers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Allinea Software‘s Allinea MAP code performance profiler to help drive operational efficiency for the Titan supercomputer and facilitate application readiness for the upcoming Summit pre-exascale computing system. The company said Jan. 19 the profiler tool works to build on the previously deployed Allinea DDT debugger to boost computing capability in support […] More
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SANS Institute to Hold Cyber Threat Intell Summit, Training; Mike Cloppert Comments
SANS Institute will host a cyber threat intelligence summit and training beginning on Feb. 3 through 10 in Alexandria, Virginia, with focus on analysis techniques. Threat intelligence professionals from Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase and the Department of Homeland Security‘s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center will discuss how to develop cyber threat intelligence analysis systems, […] More