Machine learning models running on everything from cloud platforms to mobile phones are posing new challenges for developers faced with growing tool complexity. Google’s TensorFlow team unveiled an open-source machine learning compiler called MLIR in April to address hardware and software fragmentation. MLIR, for Multi-Level Intermediate Representation, has now been transferred to the LLVM Foundation, ...Full article
Univa, the company behind Grid Engine, announced today its HPC cloud-automation platform Navops Launch will support the popular open-source workload scheduler Slurm. With the release of Navops Launch 2.0, “Slurm users will have access to the same cloud automation capabilities available to Univa Grid Engine users today,” said Univa. Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), ...Full article
The White House projected this week that U.S. civilian research agencies will spend nearly $1 billion on AI research during the next fiscal year. The estimate was released by U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios during a panel discussion on the global AI race hosted by the Center for Data Innovation. Earlier this week, Kratsios chaired a White ...Full article
A new open-source project targeting micro-services and cloud-native applications running on everything from bare metal to Kubernetes is billed as a universal control mechanism for emerging service meshes. API hub specialist Kong Inc. said Tuesday (Sept. 10) it has released Kuma to the open-source community. The control plane for service meshes is based on the open-source ...Full article
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the AI career news for early September: David Bader David Bader, director of the new Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has ...Full article
Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey found that the number of enterprises implementing AI grew 270 percent in the past four years. That’s all impressive, well and good – but how many of those projects have evolved past the POC stage, how many have gone into production and been scaled across the enterprise? Ay, there’s the rub. ...Full article
We live in a data-driven world. Successful, leading companies have mastered and operationalized the process of extracting insight and intelligence from all the data collected continuously. The use of data has brought on a sea change in business models, with AI being the primary technique used to distill all this data into actionable insight. ML/DL ...Full article
The global server market contacted for the first time since 2016 after a year of historic growth, signaling an abundance of IT capacity and economic uncertainty as global trade frictions grow. Despite a 11.6 percent year-on-year decline, International Data Corp. also reported in its latest quarterly survey of the worldwide server market that Hewlett Packard ...Full article
Google Cloud has added collaboration tools to its AI Hub launched earlier this year as a clearinghouse for machine learning pipelines and trained models. A new homepage provides users with access to a roster of “shared private assets” ranging from AutoML natural language and tables to TensorFlow deep learning images. The hub was launched in April ...Full article
You know an enterprise technology segment is maturing when market analysts begin issuing ranking reports. Among the first for the booming application container market is an IHS Markit assessment that anoints IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) new Red Hat unit as the early market leader as measured in commercial container software revenue. An uptick in OpenShift adoption, ...Full article
As Moore’s Law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of massive distributed parallelism with less sweat. PAPPA, for Performant Automation of Parallel Program Assembly, ...Full article
It may be true data scientists occupy “the sexiest job of the century,” but it’s also true they're under tremendous pressure to deliver on their rarefied skills, knowledge and pay. We recently spoke (under condition of anonymity) with a data scientist at a North American financial institution, a resource-rich company implementing AI at enterprise scale, ...Full article
HPC & AI on Wall Street, one of the most important annual fintech conferences of the year, will take place next week at the Roosevelt Hotel, 45 E 45th St, New York City on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 11 and 12. The conference this year has added a major focus on the challenges and opportunities ...Full article
When digital transformations sweep through an industry, it’s important to evaluate how prepared the industry is to handle those changes. For some it’s easy to embrace, but for others who may have a more conservative philosophy, it can be a challenge. Banking and financial services certainly fall into the latter category, but the consumerization of ...Full article
Cloud security remains a challenge as more enterprises shift mission critical applications and data to hybrid deployments. As cloud adopters go native with applications and services, their cloud platforms are also emerging as a security “enabler” through broader access to managed services that can supplement traditional firewalls, anti-virus and anti-malware approaches along with other steps ...Full article
In an effort to improve machine translation of non-English languages, Facebook has announced research award winners who will also investigate ways to improve natural language processing and its deployment of better-trained NLP models on edge devices. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) said it is awarding research grants covering neural machine translation for “low-resource languages” as well as computationally ...Full article
Intel announced today it’s begun shipping its 10nm Agilex FPGAs to early access customers, including Microsoft, Colorado Engineering, Mantaro Networks and Silicom. The company said the FPGAs will be the first to support the Compute Express Link (CXL), a cache and memory coherent CPUs-to-anything interconnect announced earlier this year by Intel (along with the 60-plus ...Full article
Chinese e-commerce giant Baidu is building a new platform based on Intel Corp.’s Optane DC persistent memory as a means of upgrading search engine results delivered by its in-memory databases used to feed its streaming data services. The partners also published a case study this week detailing the restructuring of its in-memory database using Optane memory ...Full article
Could wafer-scale silicon from Cerebras Systems be the first “supercomputer on a chip” worthy of the designation? Last week at Hot Chips at Stanford University, the Silicon Valley startup debuted the largest chip ever built, a 46,225 square millimeter wafer packing 1.2 trillion transistors. Cerebras says the chip’s 400,000 AI-optimized cores can train models 100-1,000 ...Full article
Cloud vendors are increasingly focused on supporting legacy IT infrastructure as their customers shift to hybrid cloud deployments that include emerging microservices to deliver cloud-native applications. With those requirements in mind, private cloud specialist Rackspace this week announced a batch of upgrades to its hybrid cloud offerings that includes Kubernetes and application “enablement services” along ...Full article
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