Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Monday, March 17, 2025
Today, IBM declared that it is releasing a number of noteworthy changes to its watsonx platform, with the goal of increasing the openness, affordability, and flexibility of the platform’s AI capabilities. Announced during the Think 2024 conference – an annual event held in Boston this year – these changes are part of an overall strategy ... Full article
With the help of generative AI, researchers from MIT and the University of Basel in Switzerland have developed a new machine-learning framework that can help uncover new insights about materials science. The findings of the study were published in Physical Review Letters. As water transitions from liquid to solid state, it undergoes significant transformation properties, ... Full article
UAE-based Core42 is building an AI supercomputer with 172 million cores which will become operational later this year.  The system, Condor Galaxy 3, was announced earlier this year and will have 192 nodes with Cerebras WSE-3 chips. The WSE-3 megachip is over 50 times larger than Nvidia’s GPUs and packs significantly more horsepower. Cerebras WSE2 vs ... Full article
Data engineers historically have toiled away in the virtual basement, doing the dirty work of spinning raw data into something usable by data scientists and analysts. The advent of generative AI is changing the nature of the data engineer’s job, as well as the data she works with–and ETL software developer Matillion is right there ... Full article
On Tuesday May 14th, Google announced its sixth-generation TPU (tensor processing unit) called Trillium. The chip, essentially a TPU v6, is the company’s latest weapon in the AI battle with GPU maker Nvidia and cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon, which have their own AI chips. The TPU v6 will succeed the TPUv5 chips, which came ... Full article
Nvidia’s new Grace Hopper Superchip (GH200) processor has landed in nine new worldwide systems. The GH200 is a recently announced chip from Nvidia that eliminates the PCI bus from the CPU/GPU communications pathway.  As announced by Nvidia at ISC 2024, New Grace Hopper-based supercomputers coming online include EXA1-HE, in France, from CEA and Eviden; Helios ... Full article
Some scientific computing applications cannot sacrifice accuracy and will always require high-precision computing. Therefore, conventional high-performance computing (HPC) will remain essential, even as many applications transition to AI and low-precision computing, which may sacrifice some accuracy. “We need to ensure that we don’t lose that high-precision arithmetic as we focus on some commercial applications,” said ... Full article
AI is one of the most transformative and valuable scientific tools ever developed. By harnessing vast amounts of data and computational power, AI systems can uncover patterns, generate insights, and make predictions that were previously unattainable. As we find ourselves on the cusp of an AI revolution, scientists are beginning to question how this technology ... Full article
NVIDIA, the world leader in accelerated computing,  is driving a fundamental shift in the high-performance computer (HPC) industry. This week NVIDIA detailed how its AI chips are accelerating innovation for AI-powered systems for advanced supercomputing and scientific discovery.   The chipmaker announced at the ISC High Performance event in Hamburg that new supercomputers around the globe ... Full article
Google DeepMind, an Alphabet subsidiary focusing on AI, ML, and neuroscience research, has unveiled an improved version of its AI model that predicts the structure and interactions between biological molecules with unprecedented accuracy.  The upgraded AlphaFold 3 will enable researchers to test potential discoveries in medicine, materials science, drug development, and other fields. The details ... Full article
As of the 63rd edition of the TOP500, the Aurora supercomputer out of Argonne National Laboratory has officially broken the exascale barrier with an HPL score of 1.012 exaflops. This is an enormous improvement over the machine’s score of 585.34 petaflops from the previous list and a major achievement for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility ... Full article
Although LLMs are getting all the notice lately, AI techniques of many varieties are being infused throughout science. For example, Harvard researchers, Google, and colleagues published a 3D map in Science this week that reveals a small chunk of as human brain in astonishing detail. Imaging the roughly cubic millimeter of tissue produced 1.4 petabytes of data. ... Full article
The 63rd installment of the TOP500 list is available today in coordination with the kickoff of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, Germany. Once again, the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, retains its spot as the most powerful machine on the list with an HPL score of 1.206 exaflops. However, this new ... Full article
Last year in December, Databricks, a leading provider of data intelligence and AI solutions, announced a new suite of tools to get GenAI applications to production using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Since then, we have witnessed a rapid rise in RAG applications as enterprises are investing heavily in building GenAI applications.  Traditional language models come ... Full article
As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize various industries, organizations are exploring new ways to tap into the transformative potential of AI technologies. While the majority of business leaders believe that AI is essential for business sustainability, has their organization been successful in adopting AI?  According to a study by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company (HPE), too many ... Full article
Accenture has been one of Oracle's leading systems integration partners over the last decade. However, the partnership dates back to the early days of both companies. The combination of Accenture’s expertise in consulting and technology services and Oracle’s outstanding enterprise software has enabled the partnership to deliver transformative digital solutions around the globe.  Accenture and ... Full article
Red Hat and NVIDIA today announced integration support for NVIDIA NIM microservices on Red Hat OpenShift AI. OpenShiftAI is a flexible, scalable MLOps Kubernetes platform with tools to build, deploy, and manage AI-enabled applications. NVIDIA NIM, on the other hand, are a set of microservices designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI applications on ... Full article
Creating new medicines is a laborious process, requiring years of worth and mountains of cash to make any significant advances. With so much money and literal lives at stake, speeding up the drug discovery process is always a top-of-mind topic for industry professionals. Like every other industry that involves a lot of time-consuming tasks, drug ... Full article
Businesses are eager to deploy generative AI applications, but fears over toxic content, leaks of sensitive data, and hallucinations are giving them pause. One potential solution is to deploy “guard models” alongside GenAI apps that can immediately detect and prevent this kind of behavior. That’s the approach espoused by DataRobot, which today added new AI ... Full article
The auto industry is going through a major transformation. The emergence of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) is reshaping the industry and radically changing how people interact with vehicles. Just like how the advent of smartphones revolutionized our interaction with technology, transforming a communication device into a versatile tool of countless functions, SDVs are also redefining our ... Full article
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