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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…
Colossus AI Hits 200,000 GPUs as Musk Ramps Up AI Ambitions
Elon Musk's Colossus AI infrastructure, said to be one of the most powerful AI computing clusters in the world, has just reached full operational capacity. Designed to push the boundaries of AI, this massive computing sy 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…
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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…
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Promises Return to Engineering Innovation in Major Address
In his first major address since taking over the CEO job at Intel, Lip-Bu Tan explained why he took the job, recounted the challenge that Intel faces, and detailed how he’ll work to turn the chipmaker around. Tan co Read more…
Nvidia Cranks Up the DGX Performance with Blackwell Ultra
At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introd Read more…
NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?
All eyes are on NVIDIA this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year - the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipa Read more…
Google Launches Data Science Agent for Colab
Getting started with data science and AI often means spending a lot of time setting things up - loading libraries, organizing data, and setting environments. This tedious work can often take away focus from tasks that tr Read more…
This Just In
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2025 — OpenLight, a leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing based on heterogeneous integration, today announced the close of its oversubscribed $34 million Series A. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2025 — NVIDIA today announced leading global enterprises have adopted NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers — a new category of enterprise data center infrastructure powered by the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU — speeding the shift from general-purpose computing clusters to AI factory infrastructure, without a complete data center overhaul. Read more…
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 13, 2025 — Qubrid AI, a pioneer in high-performance GPU Cloud solutions, has announced the launch of its 2-Step No-Code Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Service, a new way for businesses, researchers, and innovators to extract intelligence from their own data – Read more…
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Aug. 8, 2025 — Blaize Holdings, Inc., a leader in programmable, energy-efficient edge AI computing, has unveiled the Blaize AI Platform, a purpose-built, edge-native solution engineered to efficiently and flexibly deliver multimodal intelligence for mission-critical workloads across a wide range of industries. Read more…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 — DataPelago today announced the launch of the DataPelago Accelerator for Spark, the world’s first accelerator to combine native execution, CPU vectorization, and GPU acceleration for Apache Spark workloads. Read more…