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Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still under rapid development. One of the challenges in HPC and technical computing is finding where GenAI “fits in” and, more importantly, ... Full article

Three Architecture Tips for Storage Environments Primed for AI/ML

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the world around us, and its transformative impact stems from its ability to analyze vast amounts of data, learn from it and offer insights and automation capabilities. This data is often spread out in data warehouses, data lakes, the cloud and on-premises datacenters – ensuring critical information can be accessed and ... Full article

DeltaAI Unveiled: How NCSA Is Meeting the Demand for Next-Gen AI Research

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has just launched its highly anticipated DeltaAI system. DeltaAI is an advanced AI computing and data resource that will be a companion system to NCSA’s Delta, a 338-node, HPE Cray-based supercomputer installed in 2021. The new DeltaAI has been funded by the ... Full article

SC2024: A Guide to Get the Most from the Show

The supercomputing world — or shall we call it the HPC and AI world — will convene in Atlanta this week to attend the Supercomputing 24 show. SC24 is a celebration of scientific computing and high-performance hardware. The cream of hardware and cloud companies — Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle – are all there. The ... Full article

MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStore

MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. But with the rapid emergence of generative AI, the MinIO company recognized there exists an opportunity to deliver an AI-centered ... Full article

WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances

GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to 18 million IOPS and serve 720 GB of data per second. The latest GPUs ... Full article

DataPelago Unveils Universal Engine to Unite Big Data, Advanced Analytics, HPC, and AI Workloads

DataPelago last week emerged from stealth with a new virtualization layer that it says will allow users to move AI, data analytics, and ETL workloads to whatever physical processor they want, without making code changes, thereby bringing potentially large new efficiency and performance gains to the fields of data science, data analytics, and data engineering, ... Full article

VMware Unveils New Generative AI Tools, Expands Nvidia Partnership

VMware kicked off its Explore event in Las Vegas with a series of announcements geared toward enabling enterprise generative AI development. VMware and Nvidia extended their partnership to unveil VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, an offering that promises to provide enterprises with the software and compute to fine-tune large language models and run AI-enabled ... Full article

Maximizing GPU Performance Amidst Today’s Increasing Shortages

The default method for accelerating Deep Learning projects is increasing the size of a GPU cluster. However, the cost is increasingly prohibitive. According to Andreessen Horowitz, many companies investing in AI ‘spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources,’ and rightly so. GPUs are the cornerstone of AI infrastructure and as much ... Full article

Vast Data Boosts AI Infrastructure with New Unified Data Platform

Vast Data unveiled a new platform at its Build Beyond event earlier this week. The VAST Data Platform is the company’s new offering that unifies storage, database, and virtualized compute engine services, designed for the deep learning era. The proliferation of large language models has thrust generative AI and deep learning into the spotlight. Vast ... Full article

3D Internet Building Block Championed by Nvidia and Apple Faces Challenges

Apple and Nvidia want to dominate the 3D universe, and the world of scientific simulation, with a building block championed by both companies. The closed-source proponents are going the open standards route to drive the development and adoption of a file format called USD (Universal Scene Descriptor), which is described as the HTML of the ... Full article

Hammerspace Raises $56M to Reimagine Data Orchestration

In the gaming world, a hammerspace is an instantly accessible storage location that allows characters to seemingly grab objects out of thin air. If you have ever pulled a refrigerator out of your pocket while playing Nintendo’s “Animal Crossing,” you’ve seen a hammerspace in action. When it comes to the vast troves of data enterprises ... Full article

AI Career Notes: July 2023 Edition

In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Chris Boehmler Quantum Computing Inc. a nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, appointed Chris ... Full article

AI Career Notes: June 2023 Edition

In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Niels Anderskouv and Tim Stone Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries (GF) appointed Niels Anderskouv ... Full article

AI Career Notes: May 2023 Edition

In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Asanka Abeysinghe WSO2, a provider of digital transformation technology solutions, promoted Asanka ... Full article

AI Career Notes: March 2023 Edition

In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Nadim Antar Striim, Inc. appointed Nadim Antar as the company’s senior vice ... Full article

Meta Releases LLaMA Foundation Language Models to Researchers

Meta has released a collection of foundation language models dubbed LLaMA, which is short for “Large Language Model Meta AI.” “Today we’re releasing a new state-of-the-art AI large language model called LLaMA designed to help researchers advance their work. LLMs have shown a lot of promise in generating text, having conversations, summarizing written material, and ... Full article

HPE Acquires Pachyderm for Reproducible ML Capabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it has acquired Pachyderm, a startup whose open source software automates reproducible machine learning pipelines for large-scale AI applications. The purchase price and terms of the deal were not disclosed. When it comes to achieving transparent and accurate results for ML projects, the ability to reproduce training data pipelines is important ... Full article

AI Career Notes: January 2023 Edition

In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Roland Acra PsiQuantum appointed Roland Acra as its chief business officer. Acra will be responsible for leading the company’s business strategy, including commercial, global market expansion, quantum applications and ... Full article

AI Career Notes: December 2022 Edition

In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Dina Alnahdy mCloud Technologies Corp, a provider of cloud technology solutions, appointed Dina Alnahdy to its board of directors. Alnahdy is a founding board member and chief executive officer ... Full article

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

Three Architecture Tips for Storage Environments Primed for AI/ML

MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStore

WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances

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