Google Is Latest ‘Big Three’ Cloud Provider to Offer V100 GPUs
Google announced today that Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in public beta on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through its infrastructure-as-a-service offering Compute Engine and on ...Full Article
AMD Continues to Nip at Intel’s Heels
Advanced Micro Devices appears to making market share headway at the expense of long-time rival Intel Corp. based on quarterly results released this week. AMD reported quarterly revenue totaling ...Full Article
Quantum Error Correction: Google Takes on Qubit Accuracy
The more we hear and read about quantum computing, the more we develop a dawning comprehension for what it seems to be - along with appreciation for why it's ...Full Article
Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
New Device Spots Quantum Particle ‘Fingerprint’
Majorana particles have been observed by university researchers employing a device consisting of layers of magnetic insulators on a superconducting material. The advance opens the door to controlling the ...Full Article
Serverless Computing: Big Potential – with a Few ‘If’s’
Serverless computing has become one of enterprise technology’s hottest buzzwords, even though the term is a bit of a misnomer. No, servers aren’t going away. But serverless computing, also ...Full Article
DARPA Scales Its Electronics Effort
The Pentagon’s top research agency is kicking off a multi-year effort to jumpstart U.S. electronics innovation with a July summit in Silicon Valley. The $1.5 billion Electronics Resurgence Initiative was ...Full Article
A Cloud-Based Marketplace Designed to Ease FPGA Workload Acceleration
A French “acceleration-as-a-service” company has joined the array of companies forming partnerships and ecosystems that push FPGA technology into the data center mainstream with the launch of a cloud-based ...Full Article
Intel Accelerates FPGAs into Server Mainstream with Dell EMC, Fujitsu
The rapid emergence of heterogeneous, accelerated computing in the advanced scale computing market took a step forward this week with two significant announcements designed to broaden adoption of lightning-quick ...Full Article
Intel Reverses Course on Patching Older Chips for Spectre/Meltdown
In Intel’s latest (and possibly final) update to its Meltdown and Spectre mitigation guide, published April 3, the company revealed that a number of its older CPU models will ...Full Article
