Graphcore Introduces Next-Gen Intelligence Processing Unit for AI Workloads
British hardware designer Graphcore, which emerged from stealth in 2016 to launch its first-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), has announced its next-generation IPU platform: the IPU-Machine M2000. With the ...Full Article
App Tracing Startup Emerges from Stealth
As enterprise software architectures evolve beyond monolithic applications to delivering micro-services, debugging tools like distributed tracing are emerging to detect cyberattacks against one of the foundations of cloud-native deployments: ...Full Article
Altair Shows Off Converged Analytics Lineup
If you’re in the market for analytics or machine learning software, you may want to keep your eyes on Altair Engineering. Best known for its product simulation and computer ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets a Traffic Manager
The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the adoption of a traffic manager for easing access to the orchestrator’s application services. The control plane called Contour was contributed to ...Full Article
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google ...Full Article
Four Innovations Taking Autonomous Vehicle AI to the Next Level
Autonomous vehicles are developed with a wide range of self-driving capabilities. Some vehicles provide basic automation, like cruise control and blind-spot detection, while other vehicles are reaching fully-autonomous capabilities. ...Full Article
Massive IoT Initiative: Securing the Smart City
According to Microsoft, one particular type of project accounts for close to one quarter of all global IoT initiatives: smart-city projects. In a 451 Research report from February 2020, ...Full Article
AWS Takes the High Ground with Space Unit
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has long talked about moving manufacturing and other industrial activities off the earth as a way to preserve our only home. The cloud giant took ...Full Article
CryptoSuper 500 – Keeping Track of the Supercomputers that Mine Money
Cryptocurrencies and the associated blockchain decentralized ledger technologies have grown in importance as a new asset class. They have fueled an emerging crypto economy which has become an important ...Full Article
Here’s Why Enterprise AI Is Being Drafted to Fight Stimulus Fraud
Without an enterprise AI approach, prosecutors who see fraud in the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program admit there are too many scams to count, let alone stop. Organized crime ...Full Article
