How the OCP NIC 3.0 is Making Hyperscale Data Centers Cooler
Managing and storing more data has forced hyperscale data center companies to reexamine not just how they build a data center but also the thousands of servers housed inside ...Full Article
Facebook Funds NLP Research
In an effort to improve machine translation of non-English languages, Facebook has announced research award winners who will also investigate ways to improve natural language processing and its deployment ...Full Article
FAANGs under Fire: Congress, Administration Looking at Possible Antitrust, Data Ethics Abuses
The rising outcry against perceived anti-trust, data ethics and hate speech abuses of FAANG companies has sparked actions from Congressional committees, federal law enforcement agencies and regulators from both ...Full Article
NSF Gets Pushback on AI Ethics Research
The National Science Foundation is taking some heat for collaborating with Amazon to fund research on AI fairness. With proposals due at the end of June (“letters of intent” ...Full Article
AI Ecosystem Coalesces Around Hardware Accelerator
The requirement for hardware accelerators used in machine and deep learning applications along with HPC are driving efforts to establish specifications that take account for growing bandwidth and interconnect ...Full Article
Survey: Developers Want API Standards
APIs, application programming interfaces, have emerged as the mortar that binds the bricks of enterprise IT. Hence, calls for greater API standardization grow louder as companies step up development ...Full Article
Google Predicts Big Year for ‘API-ification’
Google Cloud introduced an API platform last July designed in part to give developers better visibility into the interconnections between, and the inner workings among, enterprise applications and data ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Nearing Green Energy Goal
Hyperscale datacenter operators continue to strive for energy efficiency as most struggle to keep pace with more demanding workloads. Progress is being reported on at least one front: Facebook ...Full Article
Startup Netifi Eyes ‘Reactive’ Microservices
A microservices startup built upon open-source software designed to replace the HTTP data transfer protocol has attracted seed funding from early investors led by Dell Technologies Capital. Netifi, founded ...Full Article
Facebook to Build 970,000 Square Foot, 100% Energy Renewable Data Center
Pop Quiz: What type of building is essential to the daily operations of a global business, is nearly a million square feet in size, but has only a few ...Full Article
