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Intel, Alibaba Demo FPGAs in Cloud
Chinese online retailer Alibaba is collaborating with Intel Corp. on a pilot program to leverage the chipmaker's Xeon-FPGA platform to accelerate the delivery of cloud-based enterprise applications. The partners ...Full Article
Facebook Upgrades Servers With AI Training
Facebook unveiled new compute and storage servers this week along with custom training server platform as part of a server "refresh." Along with its Bryce Canyon storage server and ...Full Article
Is Second Generation the Charm for ARM?
A new front in the heretofore Intel-dominated battle to deliver processing power to the datacenter opened this week when Microsoft and Cavium Inc., the ARM server processor specialist, announced ...Full Article
More Bad News for Gamblers – AI Wins…Again
AI-based poker playing programs have been upping the ante for lowly humans. Notably, several algorithms from Carnegie Mellon University (e.g. Libratus, Claudico, and Baby Tartanian8) have performed well. Writing ...Full Article
IBM Touts Hybrid Approach to Quantum Computing
IBM is attempting to move quantum computing to the mainstream via an application-programming interface and other software tools that would allow developers to build interfaces between its cloud-based quantum ...Full Article
Insight to Action: 8 Analytics Trends for the New Algorithmic Enterprise
“I spend millions on analytics, machine learning and big data. I have tons of insights. Too many insights. What I need is more action.” A CMO recently said this ...Full Article
IBM Extends Mainframe Support to Anaconda
IBM is expanding its embrace of big data analytics to include support on its open source mainframe for the Anaconda stack used by Python programmers. The company (NYSE: IBM) ...Full Article
Intel and Trump Announce $7B for Fab 42 Targeting 7nm
In what may be an attempt by President Trump to reset his turbulent relationship with the high tech industry, he and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich today announced plans to ...Full Article
Inside H&R Block’s Decision to Augment Tax Intelligence with IBM Watson
As tax season rears its hideous head, the 11 million U.S. taxpayers who annually schlep to an H&R Block office and sit down with an agent to prepare their ...Full Article
HPE Buys Hyper-Converger Simplivity
Making use of the "dry powder" accumulated via the spin off of its software business last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is acquiring hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Simplivity Corp. to expand ...Full Article
