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Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data
“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…
Nvidia Bolsters RAPIDS Graph Analytics with NetworkX Expansion
Nvidia has expanded its support of NetworkX graph analytic algorithms in RAPIDS, its open source library for accelerated computing. The expansion means data scientists can run 40-plus NetworkX algorithms on Nvidia GPUs w Read more…
Object Storage a ‘Total Cop Out,’ Hammerspace CEO Says. ‘You All Got Duped’
The mass adoption of object storage systems like Amazon S3 may appear to be a top achievement of the big data era, since we got essentially unlimited storage accessible through REST commands. But to Hammerspace CEO David Read more…
Virtualitics Takes Data Viz Tech from Stars to Wall Street
You can’t know what you can’t see. That sums up the approach to data by Virtualitics, which was spun out of Caltech to commercialize AI-powered data visualization technology originally developed for astronomy. With t Read more…
Terrabyte: Germany’s New High Performance Data Analytics Platform for Earth Observation
Satellites and the data they generate enable scientists to monitor changes in the Earth’s environment such as deforestation, desertification, melting ice caps, and other forms of environmental degradation. They can als Read more…
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AI to Goose Demand for All Flash Arrays, Pure Storage Says
These are still early days for AI, but the trajectory from things like ChatGPT makes it pretty clear to Pure Storage: The need to store and serve huge amounts of data to train AI models on GPUs will almost certainly requ Read more…
Analyzing the AI Landscape: Stanford’s 2023 AI Index Offers a Comprehensive View
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics rel Read more…
Accenture Report Highlights Tech Trends Merging the Digital and Physical
Accenture’s latest Technology Vision 2023 report contains insights into how key technologies are converging to merge the digital and physical worlds. Though the digital world has grown by leaps and bounds, it has yet t Read more…
Bill Gates Says the Age of AI Has Begun, Bringing Opportunity and Responsibility
The latter half of March has been a whirlwind moment for artificial intelligence. OpenAI released GPT-4 last week, and this week, Nvidia announced a new cloud services platform for generative AI while Google initiated th Read more…
Research Platform Iris.ai Awarded $15M by European Innovation Council
Iris.ai, the provider of a generative AI engine for scientific text understanding, announced it has been selected by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to receive grants and funding in a highly competitive selection p Read more…
This Just In
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 4, 2025 — Since ChatGPT’s late-2022 launch, AI job postings in the United States “have ramped up dramatically, from 29,509 in Q4 2022 to 49,577 in Q4 2024, an uptick of 68 percent,” Read more…
LONDON, Feb. 3, 2025 — The EY organization and Microsoft announced today the launch of the AI Skills Passport (AISP), which assists students aged 16 and older in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and how to work with and apply them to various industries and careers. Read more…
BOZEMAN, Mont., Feb. 3, 2025 — Global analytics software leader FICO today announced that a research team from Amazon was honored with a distinction in the 2024 FICO Xpress Best Paper Award competition, acknowledging their outstanding research. Read more…
HOUSTON, Jan. 27, 2025 — Radix, a global technology solutions company at the forefront of industrial digital transformation, and Celanese, a global chemical and specialty material company, are proud to collaborate with Cognite, a global leader in data and AI for industry, on the development of JO.AI, a generative AI-powered solution designed to enhance operations in asset-intensive industries. Read more…
Jan. 23, 2025 — In the wake of the Covid pandemic, the U.S. healthcare industry is straining under the weight of rising costs and complexity, worker shortages, and high demand for treatment of chronic conditions, undermining its ability to deliver better and more accessible care. Read more…