Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Masters golf tournament has long been synonymous with tradition, elegance, and the pinnacle of the sport. But behind the tournament's timeless charm lies a relentless drive to innovate and embrace new technologies that enhance the fan experience. From being the first to use leaderboards and implement the over/under scoring system to pioneering radio and ... Full article
OpenAI recently shared some preliminary results and insights from a preview of Voice Engine - the company’s voice cloning AI model that has been in development since 2022. The Voice Engine powers the Read Aloud feature in OpenAI’s hugely popular ChatGPT models and is also available as a text-to-speech API.  According to OpenAI, the Voice ... Full article
If education is the great equalizer, then an education in computer science must be the most equalizing force currently available to humanity.  Computers are central to just about everything modern society does, and the people skilled with these machines can reach great heights regardless of where they come from. Sameer Maskey’s story of triumph is ... Full article
There were no startling surprises in the latest MLPerf Inference benchmark (4.0) results released yesterday. Two new workloads — Llama 2 and Stable Diffusion XL — were added to the benchmark suite as MLPerf continues to keep pace with fast-moving ML technology. Nvidia showcased H100 and H200 results, Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 Ultra (preview category) ... Full article
The GenAI boom last year triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies to adopt the new technology. With such immense potential on the line, an AI arms race is underway. Amazon is spending billions as it looks to gain a competitive advantage. As part of its plan to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, ... Full article
Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, which it hails as a new and powerful source-to-source compiler for PyTorch. This tool is designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs at maximum efficiency. The company behind PyTorch Lightning, Lightning AI created Thunder over the course of two years of ... Full article
A study by Stony Brook University on the attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) amongst American adults reveals that the average U.S. adult has gained confidence in the capabilities of AI but has grown increasingly opposed to extending human rights to advanced AI systems. Led by Dr. Jason Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of ... Full article
In the realm of business intelligence (BI) and analytic platforms, artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a behind-the-scenes force for a while. However, the advent of GenAI has revolutionized the way organizations leverage data to derive insights and make informed decisions. This advancement brings its challenges, including stringent data management and compliance requirements. To help enterprises ... Full article
The concept of a digital twin has interested scientists for quite a long time. A virtual representation of an entire system or singular object, a digital twin is updated with real-time data and often relies on AI to ensure the accuracy of the simulation. While many organizations are endeavoring to create digital twins of various ... Full article
As organizations transition from GenAI experimentation to the implementation phase and value realization, they face some key challenges, including infrastructure scalability, integration with the existing ecosystem, and performance optimization.  Each industry would have its unique challenges. Accenture and Adobe have expanded their partnership to develop industry-specific AI solutions to empower organizations to move from GenAI ... Full article
What if you could tell the computer how you want to explore a data set, and the computer would automatically execute the analysis and deliver you the results? That’s the idea behind DataChat, a generative AI-based data exploration and analytics tool that spun out of a University of Wisconsin-Madison research project and is now a ... Full article
Nvidia recently appointed Andy Grant as Director, Supercomputing, Higher Education, and AI for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). With over 25 years of high-performance computing (HPC) experience, Grant brings a wealth of knowledge and a track record of success in the industry. Before joining Nvidia, Grant was the Global Head of HPC, AI, and ... Full article
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 processors moot for AI, HPC, and big data analytic workloads. The good news is Nvidia is addressing the bottleneck with new ... Full article
The majority of business leaders and technical analysts believe that AI is an essential tool for business sustainability. Nearly 3 in 4 decision-makers believe that not investing in AI puts their business at risk of failure, according to a report by Exasol, a high-performance analytics database provider. The Exasol report is based on research into data, ... Full article
Artificial neural networks are computing systems with interconnected layers that process and learn from data. During training, neural networks utilize optimization algorithms to iteratively refine their parameters until they converge to a solution that accurately models the data. This convergence process is crucial but can be extremely slow, taking days or weeks to complete with ... Full article
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Fujitsu Limited announced the expansion of their global partnership to accelerate the modernization of legacy applications on AWS Cloud. The joint intuitive, named Modernization Acceleration, comes at a time when organizations are keen to modernize their legacy applications to move away from on-premise open service systems and to maximize the ... Full article
Today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launched a new offering aimed at helping customers quickly deploy their generative AI applications in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Dubbed Nvidia Inference Microservice, or NIM, the new Nvidia AI Enterprise component bundles everything a user needs, including AI models and integration code, all running in a ... Full article
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 today during his annual GPU Technology Conference keynote. Traditional computing is all about retrieval, Huang said ... Full article
During GTC24, co-founder and president of NVIDIA Jensen Huang unveiled the Blackwell GPU. This GPU itself is heavily optimized for AI work, boasting 192GB of HBM3E memory as well as the the ability to train 1 trillion parameter models. What’s more, Huang unveiled the BG200 superchip, which pairs two Blackwell GPUs to a Grace CPU ... Full article
Organizations, governments, academics, and countless others are looking for ways to harness the transformation power of GenAI technology. The majority of IT leaders (67%) are prioritizing GenAI for their business within the next 18 months. While there is great excitement about the promise of GenAI, there are also some concerns, including uncertainty about the impact ... Full article
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