IBM Unveils Power9-based AI Supercomputer
Designed to push the frontiers of computing chip and systems performance optimized for AI workloads, an 8 petaflop IBM Power9-based supercomputer has been unveiled in upstate New York that ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets a GPU Boost
An infrastructure vendor zeroing in on AI and machine learning workloads has added GPU support to a Kubernetes-based appliance designed to handle those emerging applications in containers while adding ...Full Article
Hyped on the Hype Cycle: Take These Steps Before Adopting Emerging Tech
Hype happens like a virus: We’re suddenly jammed into our seats and told to watch a new movie. Then afterward — often as soon as the lights go up ...Full Article
AWS’s Web-based IDE for ML Development: SageMaker Studio
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle – they’ll all vying to become the dominant force of gravity in the public cloud services market, and among the most fiercely ...Full Article
New Chips from AWS: Arm-based General Purpose and ML Inference
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has now encompassed CPUs offered ...Full Article
Databricks on Mission to Build First Enterprise AI Platform
Ali Ghodsi might have one of the best jobs in technology right now. As the CEO of Databricks, Ghodsi just completed an oversubscribed $400 million round of funding that ...Full Article
What to Ask When Implementing Machine Learning
Successfully operationalizing machine learning models in production environments can be incredibly difficult, as the industry has already seen. In fact, Gartner has predicted 85 percent of AI projects in ...Full Article
Medical Imaging Gets an AI Boost
AI technologies incorporated into diagnostic imaging tools have proven useful in eliminating confirmation bias, often outperforming human clinicians who may bring their own prejudices. Another issue slowing progress is ...Full Article
At SC19: Who’s Accountable ‘When Technology Kills’?
“One of the things we are witnessing is the compute requirement for (AI) training jobs is doubling every three-and-a-half months. So we were very impressed with Moore’s Law doubling ...Full Article
AI: From Great Villain to Global Manufacturing Equalizer
When computers were introduced to businesses in the 1950s and 60s, some people looked at them in fear. “They will replace us all,” they cried. Today, the computer industry ...Full Article