Data Center Sales Help AMD Buck Intel, Nvidia Stock Drops
Editor's note: this story was updated on January 29 to reflect AMD's earnings announcement. Insurgent chip maker Advanced Micro Devices defied the recent stock drops of rivals Intel and ...Full Article
Intel’s Nauta, a Deep Learning Framework for Containerized Clusters
Intel today unveiled Nauta, a new distributed computing framework for running deep learning models in Kubernetes and Docker-based environments. The chip giant says Nauta will make it easier for ...Full Article
Report: Intel to Build Massive 7nm Plant
Intel is gearing up for a large-scale factory expansion for production of its next-generation 7nm chip, according to published reports, which state that the multi-billion-dollar construction project could begin ...Full Article
IBM Posts Positive Earnings; ‘Strategic Imperatives’ Above 50% of Business
For IBM watchers at the advanced scale/HPC/open source/cloud/AI-related end of the technology industry, Big Blue’s release late yesterday of Q4 and 2018 earnings painted a positive picture around the ...Full Article
The Surge in Oil & Gas Supercomputing
Supercomputing isn’t new in the world of oil and gas (O&G). It’s been a valuable tool for exploration, refining and processing for decades. But in recent years, the need ...Full Article
STAC Floats ML Benchmark for Financial Services Workloads
STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center) recently released an "exploratory" benchmark for machine learning which it hopes will evolve into a firm benchmark or suite of benchmarking tools to compare ...Full Article
Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy
Quantum computing has lived so long in the future it’s taken on a futuristic life of its own, with a Gartner-style hype cycle that includes triggers of innovation, inflated ...Full Article
Baidu’s Edge Platform for AI Development
Platform vendors are increasingly focused on computing at the network edge as those devices sweep up more unstructured data. The goal is to move computing resources closer to data ...Full Article
IBM’s New GPU-Driven Global Weather Forecasting System
Weather prediction is a mercurial endeavor: the constant modeling and re-modeling of incredibly complex systems to a high degree of accuracy at a local level within short timespans. Now, ...Full Article
2019 Data Center Drivers: Kubernetes, Cloud, ML, File System Storage
If 2019 is anything like the previous year, there will be a renewed push for modernization in the data center to alleviate the management complexity, handle the scalability requirements ...Full Article