DDN to Acquire Nexenta, SDS Aimed at ‘Holy Trinity’ of AI-5G-IoT
In the scramble for the emerging 5G-“compute everywhere” world to come (see Nvidia-Mellanox, Xilinx-Solarflare), high performance storage heavyweight DataDirect Networks (DDN) has added to its recent acquisition of virtualized ...Full Article
AI Used to Convert Brain Signals to Speech
A deep learning framework developed by university researchers aims to convert brain signals recorded by an implant into synthesized speech, aiding those who have lost the ability to speak ...Full Article
‘A Digital Twin of Reality’: Toward Emotional AI and Hyperconnected Health Interventions
Riddle: It’s arguably the most powerful thing in the world and becoming more so, it’s everywhere yet we can’t see it. Answer: Data. That is: AI data. Here at ...Full Article
‘Computational Storage’: Edge Intelligence for Next-Gen IoT
The intelligent edge has gained much buzz recently, including interesting comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a keynote at Mobile World Congress. But as IoT devices and applications ...Full Article
Google Cloud Goes Global with Nvidia T4 GPUs
Nvidia’s T4 GPUs unveiled earlier this year for accelerating workloads such as AI inference and training are making their “global” debut as cloud instances on Google Cloud. Google (NASDAQ: ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s Powerhouse Machine Learning Server: up to 10 GPUs
Dell EMC has launched a thoroughbred machine learning server for the data center and at the edge, its most powerful in the company’s line of AI servers, with four, ...Full Article
‘Implicit HPC’: Using HPC for AI, Advanced Analytics – Without Knowing It
With greater capability and improved ease of access, HPC cycles are more commonly being put in the hands of engineers and scientists who aren’t computer experts. The infrastructure under ...Full Article
Alexa Gets a Filter
Amazon’s ubiquitous voice-controlled Alexa home assistant has been re-trained by researchers using Nvidia GPUs designed for AI training and inference. The overhaul resulted in what company and university researchers ...Full Article
IBM’s Watson Retreat Highlights AI Shortcomings for Medical Research
Amid reports of declining sales and growing skepticism about the utility of machine learning for complex medical research, IBM will reportedly end sales of its Watson AI software used ...Full Article
Arm, Docker Partner on Cloud-to-Edge Development
Arm has over the last 18 months been rolling out a steady stream of cloud-to-edge computing and Internet of Things platforms. The IP core vendor has now moved to forge ...Full Article
