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Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
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IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools
July 18th, 2022 Comments Off on IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools
IBM Research’s Deep Search product uses natural language processing (NLP) to “ingest and analyze massive amounts of data—structured and unstructured.” Over the years, Deep Search has seen a wide range of scientific uses, from Covid-19 research to molecular synthesis. ...
SoftIron Measures Its Carbon Footprint to Make a Point
May 25th, 2022 Comments Off on SoftIron Measures Its Carbon Footprint to Make a Point
Since its founding in 2012, London-based software-defined storage provider SoftIron has been making its case for what it calls secure provenance: a term that encompasses the company’s rigorous accounting of the supply chain behind its products, including full control ...
Google Cloud’s New ML Hub Is Largest in World, Mostly Carbon-Free
May 16th, 2022 Comments Off on Google Cloud’s New ML Hub Is Largest in World, Mostly Carbon-Free
Almost exactly a year ago, Google launched its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v4 chips at Google I/O 2021, promising twice the performance compared to the TPU v3. At the time, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google’s data centers ...
Intel’s Habana Labs Launches Second-Gen AI Processors
May 11th, 2022 Comments Off on Intel’s Habana Labs Launches Second-Gen AI Processors
At the hybrid Intel Vision event today, Intel’s Habana Labs team launched two major new products: Gaudi2, the second generation of the Gaudi deep learning training processor; and Greco, the successor to the Goya deep learning inference processor. Intel ...
HPE Launches ML Development System, Swarm Learning Solution
April 27th, 2022 Comments Off on HPE Launches ML Development System, Swarm Learning Solution
In a one-two punch of new AI announcements, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced its new Machine Learning Development System (MLDS) and Swarm Learning solutions. Both are aimed at easing the burdens of AI development in a development environment ...
Google’s Massive New Language Model Can Explain Jokes
April 26th, 2022 Comments Off on Google’s Massive New Language Model Can Explain Jokes
Nearly two years ago, OpenAI’s 175 billion-parameter GPT-3 language model opened the world’s eyes to what large language models (LLMs) could accomplish with relatively little input, sensibly answering questions, translating text, and even generating its own pieces of creative ...
Can We Trust AI — and Is That Even the Right Question?
April 13th, 2022 Comments Off on Can We Trust AI — and Is That Even the Right Question?
AI is becoming more ubiquitous, from everyday voice assistants and online shopping to healthcare and workplace management — but can we trust it? That question was the headline of a panel called “Can We Trust AI?” during the Discover Experiential ...
At GTC22, HPC and AI Get Edgy
March 30th, 2022 Comments Off on At GTC22, HPC and AI Get Edgy
From weather sensors and autonomous vehicles to electric grid monitoring and cloud gaming, the world’s edge computing is getting increasingly complex — but the world of HPC hasn’t necessarily caught up to these rapid innovations at the edge. At ...
Nvidia Powers Scientific Digital Twins with Modulus, Omniverse
March 22nd, 2022 Comments Off on Nvidia Powers Scientific Digital Twins with Modulus, Omniverse
An accurate digital twin can be a boon to scientific endeavors, from recreating individual buildings in a city to understand energy use to recreating the Earth’s climate system to understand the effects of policies on climate change. At GTC21, ...
Nvidia Announces New AI Supercomputer ‘Eos’
March 22nd, 2022 Comments Off on Nvidia Announces New AI Supercomputer ‘Eos’
At GTC22 today, Nvidia unveiled its new H100 GPU, the first of its new ‘Hopper’ architecture, along with a slew of accompanying configurations, systems and accompanying technology and software. To show off these advances, they also unveiled a new, ...
