Google laid down its path forward in the machine learning and cloud computing arenas when it first unveiled plans for its tensor processing unit (TPU), an accelerator designed by the hyperscaler to speeding up machine learning workloads that are programmed using its TensorFlow framework. …
It is a good time to be the maker of a machine that excels in large-scale optimization problems for cybersecurity and defense. …
We are thrilled to announce the full-time addition of veteran IT journalist, Jeffrey Burt to The Next Platform ranks. …
Making storage cheaper on the cloud does not necessarily mean using tape or Blu-Ray discs to hold data. …
The gap in the appetite for new computing technology between enterprises and hyperscalers and cloud builders is widening, but no one is talking about causality quite yet even though there is probably some link between the rise of clouds and more conservative spending on the part of enterprises. …
If there is any organization on the planet that has had a closer view of the coming demise of Moore’s Law, it is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). …
IBM has created a virtual hackathon for all you lovely developers to test drive your data-intensive applications on the OpenPOWER server, GPU and accelerator platform. …
When considering system and software needs at massive scale, one application area that tends to shed light on what lies ahead is weather prediction and modeling. …
Computing for neuroscience, which has aided in our understanding of the structure and function of the brain, has been around for decades already. …
If disk drives were not so inexpensive and capacious, companies would have stopped using them for persistent storage as soon as flash drives became reliable enough for an enterprise duty cycle. …
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