Author Archives: Mariana Iriarte

Mariana Iriarte

Penguin Computing Brings Cascade Lake-AP to OCP Form Factor

July 7th, 2020 (0)

On Monday (July 6), Penguin Computing, a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., introduced a new Tundra server, Tundra AP, that is the first to implement the Intel Xeon Scalable 9200 series processors (codenamed Cascade Lake-AP) in the Open ...

Four Innovations Taking Autonomous Vehicle AI to the Next Level

July 6th, 2020 (0)

Autonomous vehicles are developed with a wide range of self-driving capabilities. Some vehicles provide basic automation, like cruise control and blind-spot detection, while other vehicles are reaching fully-autonomous capabilities. Many of these capabilities are being made possible by AI ...

Massive IoT Initiative: Securing the Smart City

July 2nd, 2020 (0)

According to Microsoft, one particular type of project accounts for close to one quarter of all global IoT initiatives: smart-city projects. In a 451 Research report from February 2020, analyst Johan Vermij notes that escalating interest in smart cities ...

CryptoSuper 500 – Keeping Track of the Supercomputers that Mine Money

June 26th, 2020 (0)

Cryptocurrencies and the associated blockchain decentralized ledger technologies have grown in importance as a new asset class. They have fueled an emerging crypto economy which has become an important driver of technology development and investment decisions globally. Supercomputers, which ...

Here’s Why Enterprise AI Is Being Drafted to Fight Stimulus Fraud

June 25th, 2020 (0)

Without an enterprise AI approach, prosecutors who see fraud in the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program admit there are too many scams to count, let alone stop. Organized crime is scheming to take a growing cut of the emergency ...

ISC 2020: Hoefler’s Virtual Tour of ML Trends in 9 Slides

June 24th, 2020 (0)

The ISC20 experience this year via livestreaming and pre-recordings is interesting and perhaps a bit odd. That said presenters’ efforts to condense their comments makes for economic use of your time. Torsten Hoefler’s whirlwind 12-minute tour of ML is ...

How Aligning AI Project Teams Can Ensure AI Success

June 19th, 2020 (0)

While AI deployments are picking up steam, challenges to success, both technical and cultural, abound. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of alignment among the three pillars of enterprise AI success: business users who are closest to ...

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Scalable Xeons for 4- and 8-Socket Platforms for AI, Datacenter

June 18th, 2020 (0)

Intel today unveiled its third-generation Scalable Xeon processor family (codenamed Cooper Lake) for four- and eight-socket servers, aimed at AI and analytics workloads running in the datacenter. In total, 11 new SKUs were announced with between 16-28 cores, up ...

Intel Debuts Stratix 10 NX FPGAs Targeting AI Workloads

June 18th, 2020 (0)

Intel today introduced its first AI-optimized FPGA – the Stratix 10 NX – which features expanded AI Tensor blocks (30 multipliers and 30 accumulators), integrated HBM memory, and high bandwidth networking. The new chip continues leveraging Intel’s chiplet architecture ...

DDN Rebrands, Targeting HPC+AI and Enterprise

June 16th, 2020 (0)

Long-time HPC storage technology leader DDN unveiled a new strategy today replete with a new logo, refreshed website, and two distinct business units, DDN, serving its traditional HPC plus AI base, and Tintri, serving traditional enterprise and virtualized/cloud environments. ...