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Neural Networks Are Only As Good As The Data They Are Fed

June 2, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

Like other kinds of computing, if you put garbage data into a machine learning training run and then pour new data through it, what comes out as the answer is puréed garbage. …

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Google Needs Another Database To Attack Oracle, DB2, And SQL Server Directly

May 16, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? …

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Google Stands Up Exascale TPUv4 Pods On The Cloud

May 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It is Google I/O 2022 this week, among many other things, and we were hoping for an architectural deep dive on the TPUv4 matrix math engines that Google hinted about at last year’s I/O event. …

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Testing Out HPC On Google’s TPU Matrix Engines

May 2, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

In an ideal platform cloud, you would not know or care what the underlying hardware was and how it was composed to run your HPC – and now AI – applications. …

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With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand

April 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new GNet protocol stack that delivers the kind of consistent and low latency that the search engine giant has been seeking for decades. …

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VMware Widens Its Road To The Cloud With Google Partnership

March 18, 2022 Brandon Vigliarolo 0

Google and VMware have announced a new element to their partnership that the two companies said will simplify cloud migrations, provide more flexibility, and help companies modernize their enterprise applications with a minimum amount of pain.  …

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Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect

March 2, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

When the hyperscalers, the major datacenter compute engine suppliers, and the three remaining foundries with advanced node manufacturing capabilities launch a standard together on Day One, this is an unusual, significant, and pleasant surprise. …

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Google Muscles Its Way Into Datacenters, Attacks From The Edge

October 14, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 0

Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the booming global cloud market. …

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Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface

October 13, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. …

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Google Chips Away at Problems at “Mega-Batch” Scale

August 9, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

As Google’s batch sizes for AI training continue to skyrocket, with some batch sizes ranging from over 100k to one million, the company’s research arm is looking at ways to improve everything from efficiency, scalability, and even privacy for those whose data is used in large-scale training runs. …

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