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NVIDIA Is Increasingly the Secret Sauce in AI Deployments, But You Still Need Experience

I’ve been through a number of briefings from different vendors from IBM to HP, and there is one constant: they are all leaning heavily on NVIDIA for their AI services strategy. That may be a best practice, but NVIDIA d Read more…

DataPelago Unveils Universal Engine to Unite Big Data, Advanced Analytics, and AI Workloads

DataPelago today emerged from stealth with a new virtualization layer that it says will allow users to move AI, data analytics, and ETL workloads to whatever physical processor they want, without making code changes, the Read more…

Will New Government Guidelines Spur Adoption of Privacy-Preserving Tech?

Michael Hughes, the chief business officer for Duality Technologies, could barely conceal his excitement when the White House Office of Science and Technology issued a directive calling for the adoption of privacy-enhanc Read more…

Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks

Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…

The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says

We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang, who shared his vision for the future of computing to Read more…

News In Brief

Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories

The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and se Read more…

Kinetica Elevates RAG with Fast Access to Real-Time Data

Kinetica got its start building a GPU-powered database to serve fast SQL queries and visualizations for US government and military clients. But with a pair of announcements at Nvidia’s GTC show last week, the company i Read more…

Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…

Big Data Career Notes: January 2024 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…

Anyscale and Nvidia In LLM Hookup

GenAI developers building atop large language models (LLMs) are the big winners of a new partnership between Anyscale and Nvidia unveiled this week that will see the GPU maker’s AI software integrated into Anyscale’s Read more…

This Just In

Rackspace Expands Spot Platform with On-Demand NVIDIA GPU-as-a-Service for AI Workloads

Nov 5, 2024 |

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 5, 2024 — Rackspace Technology has announced the expansion of Rackspace Spot with a new geographic location and an on-demand GPU-as-a-Service powered by NVIDIA. Read more…

DeepL to Debut NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 Systems in Europe

Oct 31, 2024 |

COLOGNE, Germany, Oct. 31, 2024 — DeepL, a leading global Language AI company, today announced it will be among the first to commercially deploy the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems. Read more…

NextSilicon Introduces Maverick-2, Advancing Performance and Efficiency for AI Workloads

Oct 30, 2024 |

TEL AVIV, Israel and MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 30, 2024 — NextSilicon, a pioneer in high-performance computing (HPC) innovation, today announced its emergence from stealth with the launch of Maverick-2, the industry’s first Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA). Read more…

Cisco Introduces NVIDIA-Powered AI Servers and PODs for Scalable AI Workloads

Oct 29, 2024 |

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2024 — Cisco today announced new additions to its data center infrastructure portfolio: an AI server family purpose-built for GPU-intensive AI workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing, and AI PODs to simplify and de-risk AI infrastructure investment. Read more…

GMI Cloud Raises $82M to Drive Global Access to Advanced GPUs and Cloud Infrastructure

Oct 29, 2024 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 29, 2024 — GMI Cloud, a leading AI-native GPU cloud provider, has announced today that it has raised $15 million in equity funding and $67 in debt financing in a Series A round led by Headline Asia, bringing the company’s total capital to over $93 million. Read more…

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