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Inside Nvidia’s New Desktop AI Box, ‘Project DIGITS’

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called Read more…

Big Data Career Notes for December 2024

It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…

Nvidia Touts Lower ‘Time-to-First-Train’ with DGX Cloud on AWS

Customers have a lot of options when it comes to building their generative AI stacks to train, fine-tune, and run AI models. In some cases, the number of options may be overwhelming. To help simplify the decision-making Read more…

NVIDIA’s Blackwell Showcases the Future of AI Is Water-Cooled – For Now

NVIDIA’s Blackwell processor is a game changer. It is also incredibly dense and it runs hot. Apparently, this heat doesn’t become a big problem until you have a whopping 72 of the processors in a rack, but if you get Read more…

AWS Goes Big on AI with Project Rainier Super and Nova FMs

At AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled a series of transformative AI initiatives, including the development of one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in partnership with Anthropic, the introduction of 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

AIC Showcases AI Storage and GPU Integration Innovations at COMPUTEX 2025

May 16, 2025 |

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 16, 2025 — AIC, a global leader in AI Storage and Computing solutions, is excited to announce its participation in COMPUTEX 2025, one of the world’s largest technology exhibitions. Read more…

GigaIO Partners with d-Matrix to Deliver Ultra-Efficient Scale-Up AI Inference Platform

May 1, 2025 |

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 1, 2025 — GigaIO today announced the next phase of its strategic partnership with d-Matrix to deliver an expansive inference solution for enterprises deploying AI at scale. Read more…

Oracle Expands OCI with 1st Wave of NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 Systems

Apr 28, 2025 |

April 28, 2025 — Oracle has stood up and optimized its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed and ready for customer use on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents. Read more…

Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera to Silver Lake in $8.75B Deal

Apr 14, 2025 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., SAN JOSE, Calif., and MENLO PARK, Calif., April 14, 2025 — Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51% of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing. Read more…

IEEE Study Leverages Silicon Photonics for Scalable and Sustainable AI Hardware

Apr 14, 2025 |

PISCATAWAY, N.J., April 14, 2025 — The emergence of AI has profoundly transformed numerous industries. Driven by deep learning technology and Big Data, AI requires significant processing power for training its models. Read more…

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