A new generation of designs ready to shake up conventional server architecture emerged at the recent Open Compute Project Summit, where Google, Facebook and Microsoft showed off new blueprints for high-performance computers. The hardware demonstrated at the trade show, which was held in Santa Clara, California, showed that cloud providers were continuing to deprioritize CPUs, ...Full article
As we inch closer to Black Friday and the start of the holiday buying extravaganza, retailers are putting the final touches on the demand forecasts they’re using to predict the mix of goods they’ll carry this winter. There are lot of variables to juggle, including COVID, the economy, and the weather. It seems like a ...Full article
Stability AI, parent company of digital art tool Stable Diffusion, has announced a $101 million seed funding round. The funding round was led by Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. Bloomberg reports the company has reached a $1 billion valuation. According to a release, Stability AI will use the funding to accelerate the development of ...Full article
Oracle is bringing Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software suite alongside thousands of its latest GPUs to its cloud infrastructure, which could fuel the chipmaker’s plans to make billions from subscription services. The partnership, which builds on earlier deployments, sets up Nvidia with the kind of infrastructure it requires to expand on a long-term goal to become a ...Full article
Dell is realizing the future of artificial intelligence is highly distributed, with smaller computers on robots, sensors, cars and other devices feeding information to successfully train larger learning models residing in larger data centers. The idea of edge computing – which is intertwined with the Internet-of-Things – isn't exactly new, but Dell is expanding its ...Full article
At its Next ‘22 event, Google Cloud announced the launch of an open source machine learning compiler ecosystem, OpenXLA. OpenXLA is a community-led and open source ecosystem of ML compiler and infrastructure projects co-developed by Google and other AI/ML developers including AMD, Arm, Meta, NVIDIA, AWS, Intel, and Apple. Incompatibilities between frameworks and hardware can ...Full article
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Moshe Bar Moshe Bar, chief executive officer and chairman of CodeNotary, was appointed to the board of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, an open source, community-governed and forever-free enterprise Linux ...Full article
Google Cloud is putting up the latest chips from Nvidia and Intel in head-to-head competition as the cloud provider advances the computing infrastructure available to customers. "With Moore's law slowing new infrastructure, advances are required to deliver performance improvements," said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, during a keynote today at the Google Cloud Next ...Full article
The complete digitization of the world in the last few years has created both a unique opportunity and challenge for organizations. While the boom in data presents a chance to significantly enhance decision-making, it is now even more time-consuming and expensive to analyze and leverage that information. As a result, businesses of all sizes are ...Full article
Over the past five years, Intel has been iterating on its neuromorphic chips and systems, aiming to create devices (and software for those devices) that closely mimic the behavior of the human brain through the use of computational “neurons.” When Loihi 2 was announced, it was only accessible via Intel’s neuromorphic research cloud to select ...Full article
Intel shared its latest roadmap of programmable chips, and doesn’t want to dig itself into a hole by following AMD’s strategy in the area. “We’re thankfully not matching their strategy,” said Shannon Poulin, corporate vice president for the datacenter and AI group at Intel, in response to a question posed by HPCwire during a press briefing. The ...Full article
In his GTC keynote today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched another new Nvidia GPU architecture: Ada Lovelace, named for the legendary mathematician regarded as the first computer programmer. The company also announced two GPUs based on the Ada Lovelace architecture – the workstation-focused RTX 6000 and the datacenter-focused L40 – along with the Omniverse-focused, L40-powered, ...Full article
Nvidia is laying the groundwork for a future in which humans and robots will be collaborators in the surgery rooms at hospitals. The company announced a computer called IGX for Medical Devices, which will be populated in robots, image scanners and other computers and medical devices involved in patient care close to the point of ...Full article
As autonomous vehicles gain more capabilities and more widespread adoption, those vehicles increasingly need powerful edge computing to deliver on their promises. At Nvidia’s fall GTC event today, the company announced its new answer to this need: DRIVE Thor, a centralized car computer for autonomous driving, parking, infotainment, system monitoring and passenger observation. DRIVE Thor ...Full article
A new report from IDC predicts the global market value of artificial intelligence solutions will reach close to $450 billion in 2022 and will continue to grow over the next five years. According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker, worldwide revenues for AI software, hardware, and services totaled $383.3 billion in 2021 for an ...Full article
Millions of people are using artificial intelligence every month across Meta's platforms, including Facebook, and the company is upgrading its data-center equipment to handle the growing computing load required by AI. AI is a critical piece of Meta's goal to serve more relevant content to users across its platforms, said Alexis Black Bjorlin, vice president ...Full article
Chipmaker Cerebras is patching its chips – already considered the world’s largest – to create what could be the largest-ever computing cluster for AI computing. A reasonably sized “wafer-scale cluster,” as Cerebras calls it, can network together 16 CS-2s into a cluster to create a computing system with 13.6 million cores for natural language processing. ...Full article
NASA realizes its probes and computers in space are outdated, and a massive upgrade is needed as the agency starts unlocking the mysteries of unexplored frontiers. NASA is now rebooting its spaceflight computing hardware, starting with RISC-V chips made by Microchip and SiFive. The Mars rover called Perseverance was sent into space last year with ...Full article
SambaNova Systems is announcing – and shipping – its second-generation DataScale system, the DataScale SN30. Powered by the eponymous Cardinal SN30 RDU (Reconfigurable Data Unit), SambaNova claims that the DataScale SN30 is capable of a 6x speedup (on certain AI workloads) relative to a comparable system powered by Nvidia A100 GPUs. The new hardware is ...Full article
The steady maturation of MLCommons/MLPerf as an AI benchmarking tool was apparent in today’s release of MLPerf v2.1 Inference results. Twenty-one organizations submitted 5,300 performance results and 2,400 power measurement. While Nvidia again dominated, showcasing its new H100 GPU, Qualcomm impressed on both performance and power consumption metrics. Intel ran a Sapphire Rapids CPU-based system, albeit in ...Full article
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