Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed ...Full Article
SAP HANA Gets a Cloud Boost
SAP continues to push its flagship HANA in-memory database platform higher into the cloud with a range of new analytics, cloud storage, AI and robotic process automation features aimed ...Full Article
NVMe Fabrics Enter Express Lane
As the volume and velocity of data grows exponentially, storage vendors are increasingly promoting NVM Express as a device interface for accessing non-volatile storage media. Enterprise storage vendors such ...Full Article
‘A Digital Twin of Reality’: Toward Emotional AI and Hyperconnected Health Interventions
Riddle: It’s arguably the most powerful thing in the world and becoming more so, it’s everywhere yet we can’t see it. Answer: Data. That is: AI data. Here at ...Full Article
Docker Tightens its Embrace of Kubernetes
The rise of application containers has touched off a debate about whether containers will eventually replace virtual machines. For a number of reasons, most notably security, probably not. At ...Full Article
‘Computational Storage’: Edge Intelligence for Next-Gen IoT
The intelligent edge has gained much buzz recently, including interesting comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a keynote at Mobile World Congress. But as IoT devices and applications ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s Powerhouse Machine Learning Server: up to 10 GPUs
Dell EMC has launched a thoroughbred machine learning server for the data center and at the edge, its most powerful in the company’s line of AI servers, with four, ...Full Article
Dell Extends VMware Cloud
Dell Technologies unveiled what amounts to a one-stop shop for cloud datacenter services built upon a VMware cloud running on hyperconverged Dell EMC infrastructure and aimed at edge computing ...Full Article
Alexa Gets a Filter
Amazon’s ubiquitous voice-controlled Alexa home assistant has been re-trained by researchers using Nvidia GPUs designed for AI training and inference. The overhaul resulted in what company and university researchers ...Full Article
Arm, Docker Partner on Cloud-to-Edge Development
Arm has over the last 18 months been rolling out a steady stream of cloud-to-edge computing and Internet of Things platforms. The IP core vendor has now moved to forge ...Full Article