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Meet David Flynn, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
“The future is already here,” science fiction writer William Gibson once said. “It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” One person who’s looking to bring data storage into the future and make it widely distrib Read more…
Ambari Hadoop Cluster Manager is Back on the Elephant
The term "Hadoop Cluster" can have many meanings. In the most simple sense, it can refer to the core components: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FileSystem), YARN (Resource scheduler), Tez, and batch MapReduce (MapReduce proces Read more…
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #2: Artificial General Intelligence
In response to readers’ questions about AI, BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community and beyond. The introductory column Read more…
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
Watch for New BigDATAwire Column: AI Today and Tomorrow
In response to our readers’ many questions about AI, showing a mix of excitement and concern, we will soon debut a series of monthly articles on the status of AI in the global HPC community and the path toward AGI, art Read more…
News In Brief
Meet MATA, an AI Research Assistant for Scientific Data
Researchers with Southern Methodist University (SMU) and NASA today announced they have received a patent for MATA, an AI-powered research assistant that can answer questions on scientific data. Consumers have grown a Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: August 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
IBM’s New Geospatial AI Model on Hugging Face Harnesses NASA Data for Climate Science
IBM recently announced its watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model for Earth observation is now available on Hugging Face, the popular open source machine learning platform and community. The HLS Geospatial Foundation Read more…
AI to Goose Demand for All Flash Arrays, Pure Storage Says
These are still early days for AI, but the trajectory from things like ChatGPT makes it pretty clear to Pure Storage: The need to store and serve huge amounts of data to train AI models on GPUs will almost certainly requ Read more…
Analyzing the AI Landscape: Stanford’s 2023 AI Index Offers a Comprehensive View
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics rel Read more…
This Just In
Aug 29, 2025 |
Aug. 29, 2025 — The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has entered into a partnership with the NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF), led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), to pioneer a transformative data processing system for the next era of radio astronomy. Read more…
Aug 26, 2025 |
SEATTLE, Aug. 26, 2025 — Ai2 (The Allen Institute for AI) today launched Asta, an integrated, open ecosystem designed to transform how science is done with AI agents. Read more…
Aug 21, 2025 |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 21, 2025 — Elemental Machines, a pioneer in life sciences laboratory operational intelligence, announces the launch of its new business intelligence (BI) platform, a multitiered data analysis solution built to empower labs with actionable intelligence at every stage of the data journey. Read more…
Aug 21, 2025 |
REDLANDS, Calif., Aug. 21, 2025 — Esri has released Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder. This new book leads users—beginners and experts alike—through the process of creating visually stunning and highly functional apps. Read more…
Aug 19, 2025 |
REDLANDS, Calif., Aug. 19, 2025 — Esri has released Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Utility Network. An advanced network information model within ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Utility Network helps users handle the complexity of modern utility systems. Read more…
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