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Will New Government Guidelines Spur Adoption of Privacy-Preserving Tech?

Michael Hughes, the chief business officer for Duality Technologies, could barely conceal his excitement when the White House Office of Science and Technology issued a directive calling for the adoption of privacy-enhanc Read more…

Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks

Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…

The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says

We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang, who shared his vision for the future of computing to Read more…

The Future of AI Is Hybrid

Artificial intelligence today is largely something that occurs in the cloud, where huge AI models are trained and deployed on massive racks of GPUs. But as AI makes its inevitable migration into to the applications and d Read more…

Enterprises Have Already Made Deep Investments in Data Infrastructure; With AI, They’ll Finally See a Return

The rise of generative AI has captured the imagination of tech enthusiasts and enterprise leaders alike. The promise–and risk–of AI is of a world transformed at a pace never seen before. Enterprises, both fledgling a Read more…

News In Brief

Kinetica Elevates RAG with Fast Access to Real-Time Data

Kinetica got its start building a GPU-powered database to serve fast SQL queries and visualizations for US government and military clients. But with a pair of announcements at Nvidia’s GTC show last week, the company i Read more…

Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…

Big Data Career Notes: January 2024 Edition

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…

Anyscale and Nvidia In LLM Hookup

GenAI developers building atop large language models (LLMs) are the big winners of a new partnership between Anyscale and Nvidia unveiled this week that will see the GPU maker’s AI software integrated into Anyscale’s Read more…

OpenXLA Delivers Flexibility for ML Apps

Machine learning developers gained new abilities to develop and run their ML programs on the framework and hardware of their choice thanks to the OpenXLA Project, which today announced the availability of key open source Read more…

This Just In

Intel Unveils Next-Gen AI Solutions with the Launch of Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3

Sep 24, 2024 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 24, 2024 — As AI continues to revolutionize industries, enterprises are increasingly in need of infrastructure that is both cost-effective and available for rapid development and deployment. Read more…

Tenstorrent and Movellus Partner to Optimize Power in HPC and AI Chiplet Architectures

Sep 9, 2024 |

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2024 — Tenstorrent and Movellus today announced a strategic partnership, with Tenstorrent licensing Movellus’ digital IP portfolio for its AI and HPC chiplet solutions. Read more…

Scale Computing Introduces GPU-Powered HC3450FG for Data-Intensive Applications

Sep 4, 2024 |

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4, 2024 — Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced the release of the HC3450FG, the first new appliance in its HC3000 series of Scale Computing Hardware. Read more…

New MLPerf Inference v4.1 Benchmark Results Highlight Rapid Innovations in GenAI Systems

Aug 29, 2024 |

Aug. 29, 2024 — MLCommons has announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and reproducible manner. Read more…

NVIDIA Blackwell Joins MLPerf Inference with Upgraded Performance Metrics

Aug 28, 2024 |

Aug. 28, 2024 — In the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks, Inference v4.1, NVIDIA platforms delivered leading performance across all data center tests. The first-ever submission of the upcoming NVIDIA Blackwell platform revealed up to 4x more performance than the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU on MLPerf’s biggest LLM workload, Llama 2 70B, thanks to its use of a second-generation Transformer Engine and FP4 Tensor Cores. Read more…

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