Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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The dominance of Nvidia GPUs has companies scrambling to find non-GPU alternatives, and another mainstream option has emerged with Google’s TPU v5e AI chip. The TPU v5e is also Google’s first AI chip being mainstreamed with a suite of software and tools for large-scale orchestration of AI workloads in virtual environments. The AI chip is ... Full article
VMware kicked off its Explore event in Las Vegas with a series of announcements geared toward enabling enterprise generative AI development. VMware and Nvidia extended their partnership to unveil VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, an offering that promises to provide enterprises with the software and compute to fine-tune large language models and run AI-enabled ... Full article
The default method for accelerating Deep Learning projects is increasing the size of a GPU cluster. However, the cost is increasingly prohibitive. According to Andreessen Horowitz, many companies investing in AI ‘spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources,’ and rightly so. GPUs are the cornerstone of AI infrastructure and as much ... Full article
The HPC user's dream is to keep stuffing GPUs into a rack mount box and make everything go faster. There are some servers that offer up to eight GPUs, but the standard server usually offers four GPU slots. Fair enough, using four modern GPUs offers a significant amount of HPC heft, but can we go ... Full article
Nvidia's RTX GPUs were largely known for gaming and graphics, but are being configured and repackaged for enthusiasts interested in trying out AI on desktops. The new GPUs are a part of Nvidia’s approach to make GPUs available wherever and whenever customers need them. The company announced RTX GPUs, which can be used for AI ... Full article
Nvidia is now renting out its homegrown AI supercomputers with its newest GPUs in the cloud for those keen to access its hardware and software packages.  The DGX Cloud service will include its high-performance AI hardware, including the H100 and A100 GPUs, which are currently in short supply. Users will be able to rent the ... Full article
Crypto companies that loaded up on GPUs in data centers for coin mining are now investigating whether to sell or repurpose the idle hardware to the exploding artificial intelligence market. Hive Blockchain, which has 38,000 Nvidia GPUs, is repurposing the hardware for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. The company started rethinking about what to ... Full article
If you have not been lucky enough to find Nvidia’s prized H100 GPU in the cloud or off the shelf, AMD has a challenger waiting in the wings that could be worth considering. AMD announced the new MI300X GPU, which is targeted at AI and scientific computing. The GPU is being positioned as an alternative ... Full article
Hyperion Research presented its annual ISC breakfast HPC market update in Hamburg where it shared a forecast that worldwide HPC-enabled AI server revenue will grow by 22.7% (CAGR) over the next 5 years. Hyperion CEO Earl Joseph predicts that 2023 will be the year of AI regulation: “We expect to see serious AI regulations primarily ... Full article
The folks at Intersect360 Research released their latest report and market update just ahead of ISC 2023, which was held in Hamburg, Germany, last week. The headline: “We’re returning to stable growth,” per Addison Snell, Intersect360 CEO. In the “grand unification” view of the market – which includes Intersect360’s analysis of both on-prem and hyperscale ... Full article
Google is hedging its future on artificial intelligence, and is swinging at the fences to prove it is up to speed with rival Microsoft, which has unexpectedly emerged as a frontrunner. Google CEO Sundar Pichai managed to create excitement around its AI technologies at the recent IO conference. But many questions were left unanswered on ... Full article
Arm's disciplined philosophy of power efficiency first helped the company thrive in smartphones, and leave Intel and its PC-based mobile chips in the dust. The chip designer is not abandoning its principles in the new era of AI computing, with a new chip architecture that provides a glimpse at how it will design its future ... Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Asanka Abeysinghe WSO2, a provider of digital transformation technology solutions, promoted Asanka ... Full article
Early large-language models have proven to be triple-threat AIs – Bing and ChatGPT are entertaining, and can generate artificial love, hate, and even dance. But in the process of testing large-language models, one thing became obvious very quickly: AI models can make up stuff, and conversations can veer off track easily. The risk posed by ... Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Wayne Allen  atNorth appointed Wayne Allen as its sales director of the ... Full article
Today at its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia discussed four new platforms designed to accelerate AI applications. Three are targeted at inference workloads for generative AI applications, including generating text, images, and videos, and another is aimed boosting recommendation models, vector databases, and graph neural nets. Generative AI has surged in popularity since November, when OpenAI ... Full article
Nvidia's grand plan to populate a parallel universe with digital versions of humans and objects will be powered by new hardware. The chip maker introduced a new server called OVX 3 that is built to create and operate the metaverse, said Bob Pette, vice president for professional visualization at Nvidia, during a press briefing ahead ... Full article
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Armughan Ahmad  Appen Limited appointed Armughan Ahmad as its chief executive officer ... Full article
Since it was released in late November, ChatGPT has become the latest internet sensation, generating well-written articles, songs, and term papers. More than 100 million people have flocked to try out the free service, which has strained resources powering it. Now the large language model’s creator, OpenAI, is promising priority seating for ChatGPT users who ... Full article
New cybersecurity attack vectors are emerging to steal data and break into systems, but Nvidia has an artificial intelligence toolkit that constantly learns to keep up with the fast changes. The graphics chip maker is adding its Morpheus software development kit, which is targeted at cybersecurity, to its AI Enterprise 3.0, which was announced last ... Full article

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