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Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, March 13, 2025

Where Do We Come From? Ancestry.com’s 19B-Record ‘Big Tree’ Database May Have the Answer

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We?” Not only Paul Gauguin (see picture) but most of humanity has been vexed by these questions since… well, since the dawn ...Full Article

AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence

At the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma, Calif., last week (Dec. 7-9), CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company’s vision to accelerate machine intelligence over the next five to ten years with ...Full Article

Managing 30B Bid Requests, 1.5B Users per Day in (near) Real Time

At the beating heart of the mobile advertising industry is what Ellen DeGeneres calls “our ADD culture.” It’s predicated on delivering up-to-date content in real time while people are ...Full Article

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Qualcomm Targets Intel Data Center Dominance with 10nm ARM-based Server Processor

Claiming no less than a reshaping of the future of Intel-dominated datacenter computing, Qualcomm Technologies, the market leader in smartphone chips, announced the forthcoming availability of what it says ...Full Article

The Road Ahead for Dell EMC

Who is Dell EMC and why should you care? Glad you asked, is Jim Ganthier’s quick response. Ganthier is SVP for validated solutions and high performance computing for the ...Full Article

‘Digital Transformation’ Uneven, Survey Finds

"Traditional" enterprises, a label attached to established companies struggling to make the transition to cloud and other digital platforms, get a failing grade when it comes to upgrading their ...Full Article

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Gartner: Virtualization, Slack Value Props put Server Sales in Funk

Citing conservative global spending, easy access to virtual machines and a need for reinvigorated vendor value propositions, industry watcher Gartner Group reported today that worldwide server revenues declined 5.8 ...Full Article

HPE Announces Flash Price Buster Initiative; Demos “The Machine”

Coming in at less than half the price that it says public clouds charge for flash storage, HPE today announced a new initiative that delivers all-flash HPE 3PAR StoreServ ...Full Article

Disney and the Details: 400,000 Hairs on a Field Mouse

Creating the make-believe world of Disney Animation is no doubt the result of arduous work. Still, it’s harder than you might think, consuming Top500-class supercomputing resources that produce an ...Full Article

Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age

Last week at SC16, Intel revealed its product roadmap for embedding its processors with key capabilities and attributes needed to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. It also ...Full Article