Today Intel announced Baidu is architecting the in-memory database of its Feed Stream services to harness the high-capacity and high-performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC persistent memory. Paired with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, building a new memory platform based on Intel Optane DC persistent memory allows Baidu to lower its total cost of ownership (TCO) while delivering more personalized search results to users. Intel and Baidu disclosed details of this deployment and other joint collaborations on Thursday at the 2019 Baidu ABC Summit in Beijing.
Archives for August 2019
How Big Data Is Changing the Job Market
August 29, 2019 by
In this contributed article, Magnolia Potter explains how big data has had a significant impact on the way candidates look for jobs, as well as on how employers make hiring decisions. Also provided are some of the ways in which big data has changed the job market.
Tachyum Joins CXL High-Speed Interconnect Consortium
August 29, 2019 by
Today Tachyum announced it has joined the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium, a group of companies dedicated to advancing a new, open-industry standard interconnect designed to address the increasing demands of high-performance computational workloads. “With worldwide data center capacity doubling every five years, and with AI, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing rapidly migrating from purpose-built systems to the cloud, the importance of a fast industry-standard interconnect, which supports memory coherency, cannot be overstated.”
Chapel Comes of Age: a Language for Productivity, Parallelism, and Performance
August 29, 2019 by
Brad Chamberlain from Cray gave this talk at the HPCKP’19 conference. “Though Chapel has been under development for some time now, its performance and feature set have only recently reached the point where it can seriously be considered by users with HPC-scale scientific, data analytic, and artificial intelligence workloads. In this talk, I will introduce Chapel for those who are new to the language, and cover recent advances, milestones, and performance results for those who are already familiar with it.”
Dr. Steven Squyres from Cornell to Keynote SC19
August 28, 2019 by
Dr. Steven Squyres from Cornell University will keynote the SC19 conference in Denver. His talk will be entitled “Exploring the Solar System with the Power of Technology.” Steve Squyres’ research focuses on the robotic exploration of planetary surfaces, the history of water on Mars, geophysics and tectonics of icy satellites, tectonics of Venus, planetary gamma-ray and x-ray spectroscopy.
Atos delivers Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service to Xofia for Big Data Challenges
August 28, 2019 by
Today Atos announced the delivery of Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service (QLaaS) to Xofia to help develop quantum-powered artificial intelligence solutions for the enterprise. “Xofia is a startup based in Houston that combines artificial intelligence with quantum-based algorithms to implement problem-solving strategies to create a futuristic platform for the enterprise. Engaging Atos’ QLaaS model, Xofia’s research and development team will access a remote Atos Quantum Learning Machine, a stand-alone appliance that provides access to an evolutive quantum programming environment and simulates the behavior of any kind of quantum computing technology.”
Best of arXiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – July 2019
August 28, 2019 by
In this recurring monthly feature, we will filter all the recent research papers appearing in the arXiv.org preprint server for subjects relating to AI, machine learning and deep learning – from disciplines including statistics, mathematics and computer science – and provide you with a useful “best of” list for the month.
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language in M&A: When Context Matters
August 28, 2019 by
In this contributed article, Ned Gannon, President of DFIN’s eBrevia subsidiary, explores how AI is proving invaluable in the legal world of mergers and acquisitions, especially in contract analysis. For large deals, the amount of time required to review decades worth of legal documentation to find an anomaly or problematic contractual provision is daunting, and something AI solutions are much better suited for.
Interview: Knowledgebase is power for nuclear reactor developers
August 28, 2019 by
AI technologies are being used to help develop Next-gen nuclear energy systems that could help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. In this special guest feature, Dawn Levy and Weiju Ren from ORNL explore the challenges and opportunities in sharing nuclear materials knowledge internationally. “A knowledgebase is more than a database. Data are just symbols representing observations or the products of observations. Knowledge is not only data, but also people’s understanding of the data.”
Federal Agencies Tap New Data Streaming Solution from PSSC Labs
August 28, 2019 by
Federal agencies are leveraging the new CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline from PSSC Labs to achieve their goals. Certified compatible with Cloudera Dataflow (and Apache NiFi), CyberRax DataFlow Pipeline provides high-speed data ingestion, edge data collection, and IoT scale streaming data processing…in real time. “The U.S. Air Force recently deployed several CyerRax Data Flow Pipelines for both their NIPR and SIPR networks.”
