OpenShift Emerges as Focus of IBM Cloud Plans
The basis of IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy revolves around its assertion that about 80 percent of enterprise workloads have yet to migrate to the cloud. First articulated by ex-CEO ...Full Article
Liqid’s Off-the-Shelf AI Supercomputer Takes on DGX-2
This article has been updated, with information added on April 24 to the original version. Composable infrastructure specialist Liqid has taken on Nvidia’s DGX-2, the 2 petaFLOPS superstar of ...Full Article
Taiwan Is Open for Business: A COVID-19 Tech Template
Taiwan, tech-savvy and pandemic-prepared, has emerged as the gold standard for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using hard lessons learned from previous epidemics, frequent earthquakes and other ...Full Article
Chemical Discovery for Industry, Medical with Carnegie Mellon’s Neural Network Tool
For industrial and medical companies, a central question in modern chemistry is how to identify and synthesize molecules to create useful applications. Even with high performance computing, the research ...Full Article
Virtualized AI: Deep Learning Needs More than Just More Compute Power
Is the recent progress in deep learning true artificial intelligence? A widely-discussed article by Google’s Francois Chollet discusses the skill acquisition-based approach to gathering intelligence – the one currently ...Full Article
China OK’s Nvidia Acquisition of Mellanox
With Chinese regulators issuing their approval, the final piece has fallen into place for Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of high performance interconnect provider Mellanox, announced in March 2019. The ...Full Article
The DNA of AI Success: What It Looks Like and How to Get It
The AI journey starts with a single step, but too many companies take the wrong first step. The natural tendency is to begin with PoC projects at the departmental ...Full Article
What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Groceries, Smartphones, Competitions & More
Artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are devoting computing resources ...Full Article
AMD Launches High-Frequency Epyc 7F-Series CPUs
AMD today announced three new SKUs based on the 7nm second-generation Epyc “Rome” platform aimed at commercial high-demand workloads as well as hyperconverged infrastructure and database applications. Dell EMC, ...Full Article
Report: ‘Post-Quantum Cryptography’ Needed for Retroactive Risks
A coordinated, long-term approach is needed to confront the “retroactive risk” to secure communications posed by quantum computing, warns a new report emphasizing that code-breaking applications based on quantum ...Full Article
