Microsoft Azure and an AI startup named Riskfuel – along with Nvidia GPUs – have teamed to deliver deep learning based near-time valuations of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, a capability long established in exchange traded stocks, treasuries and currencies but new to derivatives, according to Microsoft. This could be welcomed by traders in this $500 trillion ...Full article
The basis of IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy revolves around its assertion that about 80 percent of enterprise workloads have yet to migrate to the cloud. First articulated by ex-CEO Ginni Rometty, that strategy was emphasized again this week by Rometty’s successor, Arvind Krishna, while discussing the company’s quarterly results. Eyeing those mission-critical workloads, IBM’s is ...Full article
This article has been updated, with information added on April 24 to the original version. Composable infrastructure specialist Liqid has taken on Nvidia’s DGX-2, the 2 petaFLOPS superstar of AI computing, and the upstart says it has built a similar GPU-based supercomputer using off-the-shelf technology that costs half as much as DGX-2 and delivers more ...Full article
Taiwan, tech-savvy and pandemic-prepared, has emerged as the gold standard for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using hard lessons learned from previous epidemics, frequent earthquakes and other natural disasters, the island nation has so far successfully leveraged its technology base, big data and innovation to build up its public health defenses. The result: ...Full article
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, AI and big data have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here's a collection of news on how AI and related technology is combating COVID-19. Domino Data Lab opens platform for COVID-19 research Open data science platform provider Domino ...Full article
For industrial and medical companies, a central question in modern chemistry is how to identify and synthesize molecules to create useful applications. Even with high performance computing, the research is expensive both in terms of cost and computer time required for the simulations. The good news is that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) ...Full article
In a financial earnings season like none before, two of the world’s largest enterprise IT infrastructure vendors appear headed in opposite directions. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) declared a dividend this week ahead of its quarterly earnings report scheduled for the end of May. The regular cash dividend totals $0.12 per share of HPE common ...Full article
WekaIO, the high-performance file storage specialist, today launched Weka AI, a DataOps “storage solution framework” designed to cut friction in edge-core-cloud data AI pipelines. The company said the offering enables a single namespace for data pipeline visibility while addressing the variety of storage IO requirements at each stage of AI data pipelines: for ingest and ...Full article
Is the recent progress in deep learning true artificial intelligence? A widely-discussed article by Google’s Francois Chollet discusses the skill acquisition-based approach to gathering intelligence – the one currently in use in modern DL. He argues that with huge data sets available for training models, AI is mastering skill-acquisition but not necessarily the “scope, generalization ...Full article
With Chinese regulators issuing their approval, the final piece has fallen into place for Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of high performance interconnect provider Mellanox, announced in March 2019. The deal has already gone through the regulatory process in the U.S. and the European Union, with unconditional approvals granted. Nvidia stock peaked today at $298, up ...Full article
The AI journey starts with a single step, but too many companies take the wrong first step. The natural tendency is to begin with PoC projects at the departmental level. Start small and see what happens, right? Actually no. With AI, starting small usually means staying small, with the small, neutral or negative returns on ...Full article
Uncertainty over the duration and impact of COVID-19 on the global economy is prompting uncertain forecasts in key technology segments like semiconductors, a market that was already seeing steep declines in equipment sales. For example, projections for the global silicon wafer market released this week by the chip industry group SEMI are hedged, with alternate ...Full article
AIOps seems to take delight in crying wolf – day and night, bells and whistles go off notifying IT site reliability engineers (SRE) that something might be wrong. Or not. The bigger and more complex the IT infrastructure, the more time and effort are wasted responding to false positives and “alert noise,” distracting IT teams ...Full article
Artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are devoting computing resources to this global crisis. This column collects the biggest news about how advanced technologies are helping us fight back against COVID-19. IBM enlists coders to battle ...Full article
AMD today announced three new SKUs based on the 7nm second-generation Epyc “Rome” platform aimed at commercial high-demand workloads as well as hyperconverged infrastructure and database applications. Dell EMC, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and Nutanix have announced support for the new CPUs, and IBM Cloud is the first public cloud partner. The three processors are the ...Full article
The financial services sector continues to embrace the open source movement, often playing a leading role in establishing standards and best practices. A prime example is the pivotal role played by investment banker and financial services giant Goldman Sachs in forging an application container specification around Docker. That momentum appears to be growing with the ...Full article
Zscaler Inc., the cloud security specialist, has expanded its capabilities to fix infrastructure and other platform misconfigurations via its acquisition of Cloudneeti, a move that allows the buyer to extend its data protection for software services applications to public cloud workloads. Cloudneeti specializes in self-service “workload assurance” along with standard security and compliance validations. Based ...Full article
A coordinated, long-term approach is needed to confront the “retroactive risk” to secure communications posed by quantum computing, warns a new report emphasizing that code-breaking applications based on quantum technologies could emerge by as early as the next decade. The report released Thursday (April 9) by the RAND Corp., the government-backed think tank, asserts that ...Full article
If AI is to help turn back the COVID-19 tide in a timeframe that saves lives and livelihoods, data scientists will need to build machine learning models fast and run them on a platform that scales to the global pandemic’s enormous complexities. Even more, vast amounts of Coronavirus-related data will be needed so models can ...Full article
Machine learning and AI have revolutionized every industry—from media and marketing to manufacturing, medicine and finance. The ability for sophisticated, self-improving algorithms to sift through massive troves of data and detect predictive patterns is a hammer looking for nails: the next problem to solve, the next efficiency to uncover, or established business practice to upend. ...Full article
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