Scientists have created the world's fastest computer at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, that can process more than 3 billion calculations per second.
US scientists have unveiled the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer that can complete over 200,000 trillion calculations per second – providing unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI). The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) supercomputer called Summit will be eight times more powerful than its previous top-ranked system, Titan.
For certain scientific applications, Summit will also be capable of more than three billion billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. “Summit will empower scientists to address a wide range of new challenges, accelerate discovery, spur innovation and above all, benefit the American people,” said Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy. The IBM AC922 system consists of 4,608 compute servers, each containing two 22-core IBM Power9 processors and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphics processing unit accelerators, interconnected with dual-rail Mellanox EDR 100 Gb/s InfiniBand.
Summit's placement as the "world's fastest" isn't exactly official yet, because the Top500 list for supercomputer rankings hasn't been updated yet. Summit also possesses more than 10 petabytes of memory paired with fast, high-bandwidth pathways for efficient data movement. The combination of cutting-edge hardware and robust data subsystems marks an evolution of the hybrid CPU-GPU architecture successfully pioneered by the 27-petaflops Titan in 2012. ORNL researchers have figured out how to harness the power and intelligence of Summit’s state-of-art architecture to successfully run the world’s first exascale scientific calculation.
Scientists led by ORNL’s Dan Jacobson and Wayne Joubert has leveraged the intelligence of the machine to run a 1.88 exaops comparative genomics calculation relevant to research in bioenergy and human health. The mixed precision exaops calculation produced identical results to more time-consuming 64-bit calculations previously run on Titan. In addition to scientific modeling and simulation, Summit offers unparalleled opportunities for the integration of AI and scientific discovery, enabling researchers to apply techniques like machine learning and deep learning to problems in human health, high-energy physics, materials discovery and other areas.
“Summit takes accelerated computing to the next level, with more computing power, more memory, an enormous high-performance file system and fast data paths to tie it all together. That means researchers will be able to get more accurate results faster,” said Jeff Nichols, ORNL associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences. “Summit’s AI-optimised hardware also gives researchers an incredible platform for analyzing massive datasets and creating intelligent software to accelerate the pace of discovery,” he said.
Union minister Arun Jaitley along with senior ministerial colleagues and officials on Monday discussed the future course of action for debt-laden Air India, weeks after its strategic disinvestment proposal failed to attract any bidders, sources said.
The meeting was attended by Piyush Goyal, who has been temporarily given the charge of finance ministry, Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and other senior officials.
According to sources, the meeting, chaired by Union Minister Arun Jaitley, took stock of the developments related to debt-laden Air India and discussed the way forward.
Strategic disinvestment
The report prepared by consultancy EY, the transaction advisor for Air India’s proposed strategic disinvestment, was discussed.
The report has listed out the reasons for the disinvestment failing to elicit any initial bids as the deadline ended on May 31, sources said.
Last week, a source had said the government was considering listing of debt-laden Air India after the proposal for 76% strategic stake sale failed to attract any bidders.
In a major setback, the government on May 31 said that no initial bids were received for the proposed stake sale in Air India and that various options would be explored for the airline’s future.
The government proposed to offload 76% equity share capital of the national carrier as well as transfer the management control to private players, as per the preliminary information memorandum.
Low cost carrier
The transaction would have involved Air India, its low cost arm Air India Express and Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt Ltd.
The latter is an equal joint venture between the national carrier and Singapore-based SATS Ltd.
In harmony with its mission to enrich the neighbouring communities through scalable and sustainable solutions, Toyota Kirloskar Motor today inaugurated a newly constructed government hostel at Byramangala in Ramanagara district. The hostel equipped with necessary facilities is expected to benefit 60 children, thereby creating a safer environment for the schoolchildren and ensure improvement in the standards of their living.
The event was inaugurated by A. Manjunath, MLA - Magadi, Venkateshamma R President Town Munciple corporation Bidadi, Gangemare Gowda, Deputy Director of Public Instruction - Ramanagara along with Naveen Soni, Vice President - Toyota Kirloskar Motor. These pre-emptive efforts taken by the company aims to help alleviate the school dropout rates, thereby bringing out a positive difference in the areas of Education.
Appreciating Toyota’s relentless efforts towards the betterment of the society, A. Manjunath, MLA – Magadi said, “Right to compulsory and free education is fundamental to the progression of the nation, and the Government of India is trying its best to bring back dropped out students to the mainstream education. Efforts by corporate houses like Toyota to increase school amenities to the students are commendable, as lack of infrastructure remains one of the single largest causes for school dropouts in the state. My heartfelt gratitude to Toyota Kirloskar Motor for all the community development endeavours, to bring about a progressive and sustainable transformation in the society.”
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Naveen Soni, Vice President, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “The Indian education system is hampered by multiple challenges, lack of adequate infrastructure being one of the most significant. An essential component to consider while promoting quality education is a favourable learning environment, which is entitled to each and every school going child in the country. An enriched physical as well as the psycho-social environment of the child plays a big role in defining their learning outcomes.
We at Toyota look at creating lasting and positive transformations in order to build a more equitable society. Education is the cornerstone for any country’s progress, and as a responsible corporate citizen, we have over the years established a number of projects across Karnataka towards providing children from less fortunate families get access to a conducive environment that will promote quality learning opportunities. We hope this hostel will provide an apt environment for them to grow and learn and be the change makers of tomorrow.”
Toyota Kirloskar Motor over the years has initiated several projects to accelerate access to quality education in the country. Recently, the company distributed school supply kit consisting of bags, books, geometry box’s, drawing books and crayons will be distributed to 22,000 students from first to tenth standards in 300 schools in Ramanagara district. This program have expanded over a period, enhancing the beneficiary coverage to around 22,000 school children this academic year, as compared to 3000 children in 2007.
The company has reconstructed many government schools Yandahalli & Kupya villages in Mysore District in 2017-18, Dyavalinganapalya and Thalaguppe villages of Ramanagara District in May 2016-17, benefitting over 95 students covering 1st – 5th grades. They also constructed Ashrama School at Byramangala, LPS School at Medanahalli & Ashrama School at Hosadoddi. These projects have shown a positive impact on the school attendance ratio - with an increase from 28% to 36% in Medanahalli and 40% to 60% in Hosadoddi schools.
Under the Government’s National Campaign to provide clean sanitation facilities for girl child in India, Toyota has also pledged its support to ‘Swacch Bharat – Swacch Vidyalaya’ – by constructing sanitation units at identified schools by the Government in 3 locations across India to help reduce school dropouts. The company constructed 795 units of sanitation facilities in 237 government schools across India (of which 125 units are located in Varanasi, 545 units in Ramanagara district & Bangalore in Karnataka and 125 units in Vaishali in Bihar).
On the occasion of World Day against Child Labour, Child Rights and You (CRY), one of India’s leading NGOs, organised an event on Church Street to raise awareness on the issue. CRY created an experiential zone to make people feel in minutes the life of children living under theclamp of labour.
People walked into a mobile room where a similar atmosphere of a factory was recreated. To provide realism to the milieu, sight, sound, and smell of the labour environment was also mimicked.
“Changes are real when people feel for the cause. On this World Day against Child Labour, we wanted to make people experience the harsh conditions few children have to go through during their childhood. Lack of education has a direct implication on a child making them more vulnerable in being a child labour. This need to stop and the motive of this event is to expose the truth of labour to the general public”, said Suma Ravi, Regional Director, CRY South.
Child Labour is increasingly being considered as an acceptable norm in the society as people tend to see it as a means for underprivileged families to make ends meet. There are 10.13 million child labourers between 5-14 years in India (Census 2011), out of which Karnataka has 4,21,345 and Bangalore has 66,622 number of working children.
Sasken Technologies Ltd., (formerly Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.), a leading product engineering and digital transformation solutions provider, has announced that it has onboarded Mihir Kumar as Senior VP and Head, Industrials Business Unit to lead the company’s efforts in the Industrials segment.
Mihir has more than two decades of experience spanning across Product Engineering, Digital Transformation & IT Services and has successfully led multiple strategic client relationships and businesses. Mihir brings in extensive industry knowledge and has orchestrated several industry and outsourcing solutions that have enabled business success and operational efficiency for his clients.
Welcoming Mihir into the organization, Hari Haran, President - Global Sales, Marketing and Business Lines, said, “We see great opportunity for growth in the Industrials space with the advent of Industry 4.0. Mihir will lead the growth of the Industrials segment at Sasken by delivering strategic value and compelling proposition to our customers, by channeling our product engineering and digital transformation offerings.”
Prior to joining Sasken, Mihir led the Industrials and Aerospace business in Americas for LTI (Larsen & Toubro Infotech). In addition, he was responsible for leading the market development of Industrial IoT practice at LTI. Before LTI, Mihir worked at Infosys for more than 18 years, where he set up and led the growth of the Aerospace & Industrial Conglomerates segments.
Commenting on Sasken’s expertise in Industrials, Mihir Kumar, Senior VP and Head, Industrials BU, said, “The industrials space is transforming with machines becoming intelligent and digitally managed, operations getting augmented by AR/AI and Analytics, and plants becoming dynamic and data-driven. Organizations are making increased efforts to uncover business opportunities, create new revenue streams, improve productivity and efficiency, and deepen customer engagement. At Sasken our differentiated expertise in Chip to Cognition positions us uniquely to help our customers IoTize their assets, design next generation industrial products, and leverage digital technologies to gain insights into making businesses more efficient. I look forward to working with the team here and strengthening Sasken’s efforts in the Industrials business.”
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has announced the expansion of its security solution for containers with Deep Security™ Smart Check. This component provides continuous container image scanning to complement the existing Deep Security runtime container protection.
To spot malware and vulnerabilities most effectively, Trend Micro built Deep Security Smart Check to scan container images before deployment. The result is that security issues often can be resolved in the development cycle as opposed to after the release of the application.
Nilesh Jain, Vice President – South East Asia and India, Trend Micro said, “In APAC, including India there are a lot of activities happening around Cloud and container related technologies, which continues to be a strong growth driver. Trend Micro provides solutions for automated protection across containers and the host, securing the host from container breaches throughout the continuous delivery pipeline, from design to runtime. Additionally, Trend Micro is launching an extensive new suite of APIs and an automation center with resources to help enable security automation through better integrations.”
Trend Micro Deep Security customers use product APIs to enable continuous delivery, status monitoring, IT service management and orchestration tools integration, such as the newly launched Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes.
“Container platforms are enabling organizations to achieve faster software development release cycles, and they do not accept slowing down for additional security measures,” said Bill McGee, SVP and GM of Hybrid Cloud Security, Trend Micro. “All workload environments require security – container environments are no different. Their sheer volume and temporary nature can create security gaps for attackers to exploit. We can also expect that attackers who attack live server application environments will move their focus to the software build cycle, trying to deploy malware from within the build environment.”
“A key to increasing security for applications starts with building security into the continuous integration and development (CI/CD) pipeline,” said Jason Cradit, senior director of technology for TRC Companies, Inc. “Trend Micro has met the requirements of development with tools that fit their environment and do not slow them down.”
Organizations are increasingly shifting their workloads into hybrid cloud services. Deep Security Smart Check supports the DevOps demands to continuously build secure, ship fast and run anywhere. It is another example of how Trend Micro Deep Security continues to provide advanced protection and adapt to customer infrastructure change, from virtualization, to public cloud, and now container environments.
India’s only destination for kids fashion, Junior’s Fashion Week is all set to conclude Spring Summer 2018 at Bengaluru in full style and zing, where international brands like U. S. Polo Assn. Kids, Cherry Crumble California, Marks & Spencer, The Children's Place, Flying Machine Boyzone will be showcasing their Spring 2018 collection.
Junior's Fashion Week is ready to bewitch fashion aficionados at their next Runway showcase on June 17, 2018, at Sheraton Grand, Bengaluru. The exclusive showcase of international brands brings inimitable magic to the length and breadth of fashion and lifestyle industry.
Keeping in mind fashion-forward kids and their ever-changing fashion needs, U. S. Polo Assn. Kids’ brings in a fresh burst of summer colors as it offers classic sports dresses in bold and vibrant colors, knitted summer dress, round neck tees, and trendy washed denim amongst a melange of other styles.
Alok Dubey, CEO, Lifestyle Brands at Arvind Lifestyle Brands Ltd., says, “We are pleased to partner with Junior’s Fashion Week for the 3rd year in a row. It is a wonderful platform for us to showcase our Spring Summer collection for 2018, that is a perfect blend of the classic American style that USPA stands for and the preferences and needs of the Indian audience. We realize over the years that kids have very specific tastes and hence, we went a step ahead to translate their love for colors and prints in our new collection.
Cherry Crumble California’s new range is inspired by the mountains, the river bank, and the wildwood. It is a cheerful array of creatures and objects on special prints and appliques. The fresh styles are made for exploring the great outdoors. It is the softest thing to ever exist and it only gets better with more exploring.
Himanshu Bansal, CMO, Cherry Crumble, says, “We are delighted that JFW is our exclusive fashion show partner in India. They have a great event presence across India and a follower’s base that really aligns with our brand. We are sure that JFW will offer new ways for the customer to connect and discover Cherry Crumble. Their followers have been loyal to them for years. We are both happy and excited to extend our partnership and present to you Cherry Crumble California in association with Juniors Fashion Week in Bengaluru Showcase now, after Delhi.”
With the Flying Machine Boys certainly going all out to bring back the ‘cool’ quotient into focus, it has generously sprinkled the collection with beachy prints and vibrant colors. Coolness which doesn’t cost a thing is here with the playful SS18 collection of the brand’s collection.
The Children’s Place weaves whimsical fantasies into its Spring ’18 collection. From classic Denim to trendy bomber jackets, to rugged jeans and basic colored t-shirts bearing voguish designs, TCP weaves mesmerizing magic into the modest basics.
Marks and Spencer has crafted every apparel with the hallmarks of quality and style they are incredibly proud of. Marks & Spencer’s “Holiday Shop” will create fun fashion looks with vacation outfits- from frilly swimwear and breezy dresses for girls to nautical-inspired graphic tees and boardshorts for boys.
The kids’ fashion industry awaits the Bengaluru edition of Junior’s Fashion Week with uncontrolled anticipation and excitement as it will mark a significant conclusion of the Spring Summer 2018 kids wear collection across the country.
