Doug Eadline

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

January 10th, 2025 Comments Off

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not ...

Cerebras Sets New Record in Molecular Dynamics at 1.1M Simulations per Second

November 19th, 2024 Comments Off

Cerebras Systems, a pioneer in wafer-scale processing, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, has set another world record and important breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For the first time in the history of the ...

Red Hat Acquisition Charts Path to Open Accelerated AI

November 13th, 2024 Comments Off

Red Hat has announced a signed agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Red Hat mentions Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s ...

AI Exascale: In This Club, You Must ‘Earn the Exa’

October 18th, 2024 Comments Off

There have been some recent press releases and headlines with the phrase “AI Exascale” in them. Other than flaunting the word exascale or even zettascale, these stories do not provide enough information to justify using the term exascale. Those ...

How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World

October 1st, 2024 Comments Off

There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when prompted has caught people’s ...

Nvidia’s New Blackwell GPU Can Train AI Models with Trillions of Parameters

March 18th, 2024 Comments Off

Nvidia's latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company's AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 GPUs. Customers demand more AI performance, and ...

Trust Me, I’m Smart: HPC and Government Regulation in the Coming AI Age

January 17th, 2024 Comments Off

Stephen Hawking famously said that "success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization, but unless we learn how to prepare for and avoid the potential risks, AI could be the worst ...

The IBM-Meta AI Alliance Promotes Safe and Open AI Progress

December 5th, 2023 Comments Off

IBM and Meta have co-launched a massive industry-academic-government alliance to shepherd AI development. The new group has united under the AI Alliance banner to promote responsible innovation in AI. Historically, technical alliances often come and go depending on the ...

Google’s Controversial AI Chip Paper Under Scrutiny Again

October 3rd, 2023 Comments Off

A controversial research paper by Google that claimed the superiority of AI techniques in creating chips is under the microscope for the authenticity of its claims. Science publication Nature is investigating Google's claims that artificial intelligence techniques helped floor-plan -- ...

Watsonx Brings AI Visibility to Banking Systems

September 27th, 2023 Comments Off

A new set of AI-based code conversion tools is available with IBM watsonx. Before introducing the new "watsonx," let's talk about the previous generation Watson, perhaps better known as "Jeopardy!-Watson." The original Watson system was initially developed as an ...

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