Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Friday, March 29, 2024

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Intel, Alibaba Demo FPGAs in Cloud

Chinese online retailer Alibaba is collaborating with Intel Corp. on a pilot program to leverage the chipmaker's Xeon-FPGA platform to accelerate the delivery of cloud-based enterprise applications. The partners ...Full Article

Facebook Upgrades Servers With AI Training

Facebook unveiled new compute and storage servers this week along with custom training server platform as part of a server "refresh." Along with its Bryce Canyon storage server and ...Full Article

Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power

As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's ...Full Article

Facebook, Partners Light Up Datacenter Nets

The steady enterprise shift to open source software and hardware is expanding to datacenter networking via a collaboration between Facebook and networking partners as part of an effort to ...Full Article

Microsoft Releases Cloud Hardware Specs

Microsoft Corp. launched an open source initiative aimed at forging future hyperscale cloud hardware designs and a development template for open datacenter servers. However, its power specifications differ from ...Full Article

Facebook and Natural Disasters: Extreme Scale Data Center Resiliency

Fans of “The Social Network,” a movie about the early days of Facebook, (and one that, last we heard, Mark Zuckerberg has never seen), will remember the scene when ...Full Article

OCP Tackles ‘Big Software’ Compatibility Issues

The Open Compute Project spearheaded by Facebook continues to wring out "big software" platforms such as the latest release of OpenStack, container orchestrators like Kubernetes along with block and ...Full Article

Facebook AI Effort Looks to Extend Search Engines

Facebook is rolling out a "deep-learning based text understanding engine" that leverages neural network architectures and promises to challenge the Google search engine by bringing "near-human accuracy" to the ...Full Article

Transatlantic Cable To Boost Cloud Services

A new undersea fiber cable with an initial estimated capacity of 160 terabits per second announced this week by Facebook and Microsoft is billed as the first to connect ...Full Article

Partners Combine Ceph Storage, Flash

An open source option will be combined with flash storage as part of an alliance unveiled this week in a bid to make scale-out storage easier and cheaper. Red ...Full Article
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