How to Avoid the Downside of a Cloud-First Strategy
Cloud computing has evolved to the point where most enterprises have, to one degree or another, deployed cloud workloads. Our 2018 Cloud Survey found 70 percent of over 900 ...Full Article
Nvidia Aligns with Colo Partners in AI Democratization Push
AI is all the rage and so is AI democratization. Having developed an AI stack only science-level technologists could love, vendors are now courting customers with integrated hardware that ...Full Article
Chip Startup Accelerates AI with MRAM
The AI chip market continues to heat up with the recent release of a series of AI accelerators with embedded memory that target the booming edge computing sector. Gyrfalcon ...Full Article
Intel Promotes Former CFO Swan to CEO
Intel today announced the promotion of former CFO Robert Swan to CEO, a post he had held on an interim basis for seven months after the forced resignation in ...Full Article
Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox
The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconnect company, according to ...Full Article
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