Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

Hyperion Research: COVID-19 Changing the Global 2020 HPC Market Landscape

November 18th, 2020 (0)

SC20—Before the COVID-19 pandemic essentially stopped the world in its tracks in March, the global HPC server market was expected to grow from $13.7 billion in 2019 to $14.5 billion in 2020, according to estimates from Hyperion Research. Things ...

Nvidia Unveils Its A100 80GB GPU Powerhouse Supercomputing Chip

November 16th, 2020 (0)

SC20 – Nvidia has doubled the memory of its A100 datacenter GPUs with its new A100 80GB version, which aims to drive new levels of supercomputing-class performance in a wide variety of uses, from AI and ML research to ...

AWS-Designed Inferentia Chips Boost Alexa Performance

November 12th, 2020 (0)

Almost two years after unveiling its Inferentia high-performance machine learning inference chips, Amazon has almost completed a migration of the bulk of its Alexa text-to-speech ML inference workloads to Inf1 instances on its AWS EC2 platform. The dramatic move ...

The Present and Future of AI: A Discussion with HPC Visionary Dr. Eng Lim Goh

November 11th, 2020 (0)

As HPE’s chief technology officer for artificial intelligence, Dr. Eng Lim Goh devotes much of his time talking and consulting with enterprise customers about how AI can benefit their business operations and products. As the start of 2021 approaches, ...

It’s Time To Set Industry Standards for AI

November 6th, 2020 (0)

The AI hype cycle has shifted from real promise to real life. The intense complexities that accompany enterprise AI – like the data issues, sustainability and scalability, and of course, the ethics – have permeated boards, panels and analytics ...

Graph Databases Gaining Enterprise-Ready Features

November 4th, 2020 (0)

Graph database vendors are broadening their applications by adding enterprise-focused features to help customers who are dealing with the burdens of huge troves of business-critical data. In a move that is highlighting the growing maturity of the graph database ...

Update: Marvell Acquiring Interconnect Chip Vendor Inphi in $10B Deal

October 29th, 2020 (0)

Arm chip maker Marvell Technologies is buying data interconnect vendor Inphi for about $10 billion in cash and stock, continuing a wave of recent big-name vendor consolidations that have splashed across the IT landscape. Marvell said the Inphi acquisition, which was ...

IT Job Seekers: Open Source Jobs Need You, Especially in DevOps

October 27th, 2020 (0)

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the world are continuing to seek IT workers with proven skills in open source software to fill job vacancies that consistently remain open due to a lack of qualified candidates. That’s the ...

Data Scientists: Avoid These Top 4 Pitfalls

October 23rd, 2020 (0)

When working with business executives, the biggest pitfalls in data science boil down to errors in communication. For true success, data scientists must be bilingual to effectively accomplish their work. This means being equally versed in technological jargon as ...

Feds to Smaller AI Vendors: Help Us Help You on AI

October 16th, 2020 (0)

As AI use and innovation continue to increase globally, getting small and medium-size AI companies more involved in the financially lucrative and still-nascent AI revolution is a developing goal of the US government. One federal agency, the National Security ...