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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Atos, Google Cloud Bring HPC Servers to Oracle Database Workloads
July 2nd, 2019 Comments Off on Atos, Google Cloud Bring HPC Servers to Oracle Database Workloads
Powered by Atos BullSequana S x86-based HPC servers, Oracle users can soon run database workloads in conjunction with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The news, announced by Atos in Paris, furthers Atos’ partnership with Google Cloud with two high-performance ...
Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
July 2nd, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
A pillar of Intel’s emerging AI product portfolio, its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T), will be a collaborative development effort joining Intel with Baidu, the Beijing-based AI and internet company referred to as “the Google of ...
Smart Cities Fend off AI Winter
July 1st, 2019 Comments Off on Smart Cities Fend off AI Winter
With all the breakthroughs in AI in recent years, it’s hard to fathom why an AI Winter would happen. But it’s actually a matter of debate at the moment, with many sounding like the Starks of Winterfell in their ...
Data-Driven Business and Performance-Driven Storage
June 27th, 2019 Comments Off on Data-Driven Business and Performance-Driven Storage
Board game maker TriBond published a popular game in the 1960s: “What Do These 3 Have in Common?” Sometimes, the answer was straightforward; for example what do a car, tree, and elephant have in common? At greater levels of ...
Robots Take Aim at Low Wage Workers, 20M Job Losses by 2030 Predicted
June 26th, 2019 Comments Off on Robots Take Aim at Low Wage Workers, 20M Job Losses by 2030 Predicted
A new report on robotics in manufacturing paints a bleak picture for lower wage manufacturing workers, predicting 20 million jobs will disappear over the next decade and that for each new robot installed, 1.6 manufacturing workers are displaced. The ...
At ISC19: HPC on Pace for 5-Year 6.8% CAGR; Guess Which Hyperscaler Spent $10B+ on IT Last Year?
June 20th, 2019 Comments Off on At ISC19: HPC on Pace for 5-Year 6.8% CAGR; Guess Which Hyperscaler Spent $10B+ on IT Last Year?
In the neck-and-neck horse race for HPC server market share, HPE has hung on to a slim, shrinking lead over Dell EMC – but if server and storage market shares are combined, Dell EMC has taken a three-plus point ...
8 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on AI
June 19th, 2019 Comments Off on 8 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on AI
AI and ML are starting to transform business. Gartner estimates that AI technology will generate $3.9 trillion in business value by 2022. Soon, companies that do not invest in AI risk falling behind competitively. But having said that, organizations should ...
At ISC: For the HPC Industry, These Are the Good Old Days
June 18th, 2019 Comments Off on At ISC: For the HPC Industry, These Are the Good Old Days
For technology vendors in HPC and HPC-related markets driven by increased demand for AI, enterprise and exascale solutions, this is the best of times – with better times likely in the offing. HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research took the ...
At ISC: DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads
June 17th, 2019 Comments Off on At ISC: DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads
DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage and data management for AI, big data and HPC acceleration. In so doing, the company said it’s bringing ...
Machine Learning Day Highlights ISC’s AI Lineup
June 12th, 2019 Comments Off on Machine Learning Day Highlights ISC’s AI Lineup
ISC, the major European conference for advanced scale computing to be held next week at the Messe Frankfurt conference center, will feature an extensive lineup of presentations, birds-of-a-feather discussions and panels on all things AI. A highlight of AI ...