Nvidia's Jensen Huang at GTC19
At GTC: Nvidia Expands Scope of Its AI and Data Center Ecosystem
In the high-stakes race to provide the AI life-cycle solution of choice, three of the biggest horses in the field are IBM, Intel and Nvidia. While the latter is ...Full Article
Guidelines for Getting Going with AI and Advanced Analytics
These are exciting times for anyone yearning to drive significant business value from masses of data collected on the cloud. We finally have the processing power, software frameworks and ...Full Article
CXL Consortium Launches CPU-to-Anything High Speed Interconnect Protocol
Another front has been opened in the long campaign to enable any-to-any connectivity in high performance data center computing. The Compute Express Link (CXL) consortium – with tech heavies ...Full Article
Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
The McCloud HPC service being built by Australia’s DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) outside Houston is set to become the largest oil and gas cloud in the world this year, providing ...Full Article
Nvidia Wins Mellanox Stakes for $6.9 Billion
The long-rumored acquisition of Mellanox came to fruition this morning with GPU chip maker Nvidia’s announcement that it has purchased the high-performance network interconnect maker for $6.9 billion – ...Full Article
Optalysys Switches on Commercial Optical Co-Processor
Optalysys, Ltd., a U.K. company seeking to advance it optical co-processor technology, moved a step closer this week with the unveiling of what it claims is the first commercial optical ...Full Article
National AI Debate: Intel Calls for Details, Budgets, in Response to White House Initiative
The Trump Administration’s release last month of the “American AI Initiative,” aimed at prioritizing federal R&D investments in machine intelligence, has stirred major debate in Washington and the technology ...Full Article
In Stock Market Return, Dell Delivers Revenue Growth, Operating Loss
In its return to publicly traded markets, Dell Technologies announced a mixed bag of final quarter and fiscal year financial results: fourth quarter (period ending February 1) revenue totaled ...Full Article
Winterizing Your Data Center Before the Next Big Snowstorm
The 2017-2018 winter season was hit with brutal storms: in March 2018 alone, four powerful nor'easters hammered the U.S. and eastern Canada. 2019 has so far followed a similar pattern with ...Full Article
Intel FPGA Accelerator Targets 5G Rollouts
Intel unveiled an FPGA-based programmable acceleration card aimed at 5G wireless service providers handling growing volumes of virtualized workloads. The N3000 acceleration card was rolled out during the first ...Full Article
