At VMworld 2021, VMware, Nvidia, Dell Unveil Deeper Cloud, Edge, Kubernetes Partnerships
From new enterprise cloud capabilities to deeper features for edge computing applications to broader Kubernetes usability, there is something to help every business at this year’s VMworld 2021 virtual ...Full Article
Experts Grapple with AI’s Environmental Costs
AI algorithms have made tremendous progress in making many computational processes more efficient, but “efficiency” isn’t always the name of the game for the AI industry itself. Famously, a ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: September 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Nicolas Alberga Itential, ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Strategy to Put a GPU in Every Server: A Conversation with Manuvir Das
As the head of enterprise computing for Nvidia, Manuvir Das works with his team daily to help enterprises explore AI technologies and find new ways to use them in ...Full Article
Cerebras Touts Linear Scaling up to 192 CS-2 Systems with Wafer Scale to ‘Brain-Scale’ Approach
Wafer-scale computing company Cerebras Systems has unveiled more details about its “brain-scale” approach for running the largest models in the world across up to 192 CS-2 systems. To enable ...Full Article
IBM’s Upcoming Z Series Chip Gains On-Chip AI Acceleration and New Name: Telum
In a major refresh of its Z Series chips, IBM is adding on-chip AI acceleration capabilities to allow enterprise customers to perform deep learning inferencing while transactions are taking ...Full Article
AlmaLinux Progressing as a CentOS Linux Replacement, Now Available in Azure Marketplace
When Red Hat announced in December 2020 that it would no longer offer the open source CentOS Linux as a stable release and would instead only provide it as ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: July 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Jim Anderson Altair, ...Full Article
With Approvals in from the EC and the UK, AMD’s $35B Acquisition of Xilinx Now up to China
AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were received from the European ...Full Article
Latest MLPerf Results See Intel, Graphcore, Google Increase Their Presence Behind Nvidia
While Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf training benchmark results, the range of participants has expanded. Yes, Google’s forthcoming TPU v4 performed well, but competitors also shined. ...Full Article