FPGAs, ASICs Seen Driving Machine Learning
As machine learning makes steady progress in enterprise datacenters, industry observers are forecasting the emergence of a new wave of machine learning chips in the coming year, a market ...Full Article
Gartner: Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 16% in Q3; Shipments Up 5.1%
Driven by expansion of hybrid cloud IT strategies, worldwide server revenue grew by a healthy 16 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2017, industry watcher Gartner has announced. ...Full Article
Andrew Ng Thinks AI Can Revive US Manufacturing
AI pioneer Andrew Ng is launching a startup that would initially focus on revitalizing manufacturing, a strategy that parallels the first enterprise deployments of Internet of Things technologies. Separately, ...Full Article
Fending off AI Armageddon: Threats to Our Data, Our Safety, Our Country
Bruce Schneier is scary smart. The things he talks about – AI weaponization, remote hacking of commercial airliners and self-driving cars, malicious alteration of medical records – are scarier. ...Full Article
IBM Expands ‘Quantum Ready’ Effort
IBM has enlisted large banks and automakers along with electronics, chemical and materials manufacturers to its quantum computing initiative designed to explore enterprise applications if and when the technology ...Full Article
Consumers Ready to Push Back, GDPR Survey Warns
Two thousand and eighteen is shaping up as the year of consumer pushback as strict data regulations give the generators of boundless data new rights to see and demand ...Full Article
IBM Begins Power9 Rollout with Backing from DOE, Google
After over a year of buildup, IBM is unveiling its first Power9 system based on the same architecture as the Department of Energy CORAL supercomputers, Summit and Sierra. The ...Full Article
From Iceland, HPC-as-a-Service Finds Toehold in FinServ, Automotive, Scientific R&D
While high-demand workloads (e.g., bitcoin mining) can overheat data center cooling capabilities, at least one data center infrastructure provider has announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that features 100 percent free ...Full Article
AI Researchers Assemble ‘Moments in Time’
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IBM Watson's unit have released a massive data set containing 1 million annotated video clips designed to spur development of new ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
