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Powering Data in the Age of AI: Part 1 – Energy as the Ultimate Bottleneck
The past few years have seen AI expand faster than any technology in modern memory. Training runs that once operated quietly inside university labs now span massive facilities packed with high-performance computers, tapp Read more…
d-Matrix Takes On AI ‘Memory Wall’ with 3D Stacked In-Memory Compute
The AI revolution has created huge demand for processing power to train frontier models, which Nvidia is filling with its high-end GPUs. But the sudden shift to AI inference and agentic AI in 2025 is exposing gaps in the Read more…
IBM Targets AI Inference with New Power11 Lineup
IBM today rolled out its Power11 line of servers, the first new generation of IBM Power servers since 2021. The new servers offer an incremental performance boost over older Power servers. But perhaps more importantly, t Read more…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Trillion Parameter Consortium and TPC25 But Were Afraid to Ask
Since its inception, many questions about the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) have been asked. Rapid changes in AI technology and the emergence of large language models (LLM) have created many opportunities for intel Read more…
Ocient Finds Big Data Success with Mix of New Tech, Proven Approaches
Solving big data problems often requires developing new computing approaches and new technologies. But sometimes, the newer technologies and techniques create additional problems that didn’t previously exist. One upcom Read more…
News In Brief
Bloomberg Finds AI Data Centers Fueling America’s Energy Bill Crisis
The rise of AI is putting real pressure on the U.S. power grid. As demand for compute explodes, the data centers behind AI systems are becoming some of the country’s top energy users. They are essential to digital life Read more…
MIT’s CHEFSI Brings Together AI, HPC, And Materials Data For Advanced Simulations
MIT has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to launch a new research center aimed at simulating some of the harshest physical environments ever studied. The proje Read more…
Voltron Positions Data Flow as the Next Frontier in AI Performance
At enterprise scale, GPUs rarely stumble because they’ve run out of raw compute power. The slowdown comes when the data can’t keep pace. Once workloads stretch into the tens or hundreds of terabytes, the real drag sh Read more…
Why OpenLight Thinks Photonics Is the Key to AI’s Critical Bottleneck
GenAI is exposing a critical flaw in modern computing. While GPU performance continues to grow, the systems built to support these chips are struggling to keep pace. The key challenge now is data transfer. Shuttling huge Read more…
BigDATAwire Exclusive Interview: DataPelago CEO on Launching the Spark Accelerator
Apache Spark remains one of the most widely used engines for large-scale data processing, but it was built in an era when cloud infrastructure was mostly CPU-bound. Today’s cloud environments look very different. Read more…
This Just In
Oct 6, 2025 |
Oct. 6, 2025 –As workloads scale and demand for faster data processing grows, GPU-accelerated databases and query engines have been shown to deliver significant price-performance gains compared to CPU-based systems. Read more…
Oct 3, 2025 |
MANCHESTER, England, Oct. 3, 2025 — PEAK:AIO today announced that the company has raised over $6.8M in Seed Round funding led by Pembroke VCT with a $5 million investment, with participation from Praetura Ventures, and also joined by a Silicon Valley investor. Read more…
Oct 1, 2025 |
ARMONK, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 1, 2025 — IBM and AMD today announced a collaboration to deliver advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company based in San Francisco, California. Read more…
Sep 19, 2025 |
Sept. 19, 2025 — With the 2025–26 academic year underway, Rice University is taking bold steps to harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in teaching, research and operations. Read more…
Sep 9, 2025 |
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 9, 2025 — NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA Rubin CPX, a new class of GPU purpose-built for massive-context processing. This enables AI systems to handle million-token software coding and generative video with groundbreaking speed and efficiency. Read more…
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