Category: Tech

Thursday, April 4, 2019

One Stop Systems (OSS)

A Leader in the High Performance Computing Space.

Joe Gomes, Senior Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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• Initiating Coverage. One
  Stop Systems is a leader in the High Performance Computing (HPC) space with a
  particular emphasis on the “AI on the Fly” and the migration to PCI
  Express (PCIe) Gen 4 spaces through the design and manufacture of custom
  servers, compute accelerators, solid-state storage arrays, and system expansion
  systems.  
• A Company of
  firsts. In spite of its relatively small size, OSS punches
  above its weight having been the first to market with PCIe interconnect
  products, the most powerful GP…
  

  
  
  
  
  

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Artificial intelligence will likely shape your future in more ways than you’d expect.

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On display at the HG Contemporary gallery, in the heart of New York’s
contemporary-art world, is an exhibition of portraits that were “painted” not by a human artist, but by an artificially intelligent computer. Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, the creator of the art machine, believes that he can write a machine-learning algorithm capable of predicting the next trend in the art world and producing works in that style. As it is with all modern art, whether or not you think this artwork is any good is a matter of opinion. The point is that if artificially intelligent machines are capable of making art, an inherently human trait, then is there anything that we can do that a machine can’t?

From healthcare to warfare, software that can learn seems to be invading every aspect of our lives replacing humans with machines at every turn. The impact that artificial intelligence will have on our lives will undoubtedly grow in size and scope.
Whether, AI will ultimately result in a net benefit or loss to society, however, has yet to be determined.

Soon, you might have your favorite video or family photo stored on living DNA instead of magnetic tape/silicon chip.

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At present, the world is generating data at a much faster rate
than what it takes to store it. The digital data universe is made up of things
like images and videos on cellphones uploaded to YouTube, health records stored
in hospital cloud systems, banking data accessed from ATMs, and many other
forms of digital data. The size of the world’s digital data universe is doubling
every two years, according to a recent study by International Data Corp., a
Massachusetts-based market intelligence company. It is thought that current
technologies such as magnetic tapes and silicon chips will not be enough to
store the constantly expanding digital data universe.

There is an imminent need for a new, higher-density, less-costly,
more-stable data storage solution. Because digital data is generated at a much
faster pace than it could be stored, the world is running a data storage deficit
equivalent to an estimated 7.5 zettabytes or 7.5 trillion gigabytes. This
deficit corresponds to approximately 2 billion large hard drives worth of data
or 260 billion iPhones. In 2025, pundits estimate that the world will generate
160 zettabytes of digital data. Experts believe the deficit will continue to
grow until a new technological solution emerge, which is much needed as all
silicon chips could be consumed by 2040.

The potential use of DNA to store digital data is very appealing. Scientists
have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal storage medium for digital
data/information. The question is, can DNA replace magnetic tapes and
silicon chips as the preferred data storage system? DNA is dense (a single gram
of DNA can hold roughly a zettabyte), easy to replicate, and according to
experts, it could be stable for more than 100,000 years. Nowadays, scientists
have been able to encode all kinds of digital information into DNA sequences
including the novel “War and Peace”, Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” video, and
a galloping horse GIF-film. However, to replace existing silicon-chip or
magnetic-tape technologies, DNA-based systems will have to become significantly
less costly and more predictable to read, write, and package.

DNA is the data storage system selected by nature, chosen by
evolution to carry the genetic information which encodes life. It is for this
reason scientists believe it could be utilized to readily store other types of
data such as videos, audio, text and others. Computational scientists use the
numbers 1 and 0 as a binary code for all the data stored in computer chips. In
a similar fashion, scientists could use the four main chemical compounds in DNA
— cytosine, adenine, thymine and guanine (C, A, T, G), as a code to store
digital information.

Given that DNA is relatively dense compared to other materials, a
large amount of data could be stored into a microscopic size molecule.
Moreover, DNA is far more durable than magnetic-tapes and silicon-chips, which
deteriorate in a few decades. Storing digital data into DNA nucleotide sequences
requires the synthesis and preservation of DNA molecules in an adequate
environment, which scientists believe could be accomplish with existing
technologies.

The Future of Cars: Model 3 or Model T?

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The Machine That
Changed the World. In July of 1894, the city of Paris hosted what must have been for its time one of the most peculiar events ever to take place: a race of “horseless carriages”. Entrants included vehicles powered by steam, petrol, compressed air, hydraulics, and electricity. The event attracted massive crowds, who lined the 78-mile course from Paris to Rouen. Out of the 102 entrants, only 21 qualified for the race and even fewer finished. Nevertheless, onlookers were rewarded with the opportunity to witness a proud moment for the machine that would change everything. The carriage powered by the internal combustion engine won this race and was chosen to be the machine to replace horses as the propulsion of the future. The petroleum-powered automobile became a foundational pillar for the social and economic infrastructure of the twentieth century. Meanwhile, the electric carriage never even made it to the starting line. However, since that summer over a century ago advances in battery technology have finally made the electric motor a viable alternative. In recent years we’ve seen a big push for electric cars, but the impact of electric cars will have on our lives has yet to be determined. ¹