Archives for May 2020

ExaAM Project Aims to Transform Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation

In the latest episode of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, we are joined by John Turner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is principal investigator of the ExaAM project within the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP). ExaAM plans to transform AM through exascale computer simulations.

Purdue Data Science Student Delves into America’s Pastime through His Love of Statistics

It’s all a numbers game for Purdue student Jeremy Frank from his major in data science to his passion for baseball statistics, as captured in the popular @MLBRandomStats, which he runs on Twitter. Frank hopes to continue his passion beyond college by working in baseball, possibly for a major league team or as a sports statistician.

ISC 2020 Goes Digital Offering an Exciting Program for the HPC Community

ISC 2020 Digital will showcase the latest advancements in HPC, encompassing all the key developments happening in system design, applications, programming models, machine learning, and emerging technologies through a consolidated online event. This event is free from registration fee, and as the largest online HPC event this year, the organizers anticipate registration numbers to match the live Frankfurt conference [&] exhibition, which is approximately 3,700 attendees.

Research Highlights: MIDAS – Real-time Anomaly/Fake News/Intrusion Detection

In the insideAI News Research Highlights column we take a look at new and upcoming results from the research community for data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our readers need to get a glimpse for technology coming down the pipeline that will make their efforts more strategic and competitive. In this installment we review MIDAS – Real-time Anomaly/Fake News/Intrusion Detection developed by Ph.D. candidate Siddharth Bhatia and his team at the National University of Singapore.

Lucidworks Announces Advanced Linguistics Package to Improve Search Precision for Global Companies Serving Asian, European, and Middle Eastern Markets

Lucidworks, leader in AI-powered search, announced the Advanced Linguistics Package for Lucidworks Fusion to power personalized search for users in Asian, European, and Middle Eastern markets. Lucidworks now embeds text analytics from Basis Technology, a leading provider of AI for natural language processing. With the Advanced Linguistics Package, global organizations that support multiple languages can make the information and insights they manage more accessible, more relevant and more personalized for their global audience.

Infinidat De-risks Storage Infrastructure with New Offerings and Support for NVMe over Fabrics

Infinidat, a leading provider of multi-petabyte data storage solutions, announced new offerings that reduce storage infrastructure costs, mitigate the risks of technology failures and deficits, and add an extensible NVMe over Fabrics option. These offerings and functional enhancements will provide new and existing customers more flexibility in managing their high-end storage infrastructure while lowering the cost and risk associated with meeting enterprise service level objectives.

Matillion Launches Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse Empowering Users with Data Transformation Capabilities for Rapid Access to Insights

Matillion, a leading provider of data transformation software for cloud data warehouses (CDWs), announced the availability of Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse to enable data transformations in complex IT environments, at scale. Empowering enterprises to achieve faster time to insights by loading, transforming, and joining together data, the release extends Matillion’s product portfolio to further serve Microsoft Azure customers.

From Forty Days to Sixty-five Minutes without Blowing Your Budget Thanks to Gigaio Fabrex

In this sponsored post, Alan Benjamin, President and CEO of GigaIO, discusses how the ability to attach a group of resources to one server, run the job(s), and reallocate the same resources to other servers is the obvious solution to a growing problem: the incredible rate of change of AI and HPC applications is accelerating, triggering the need for ever faster GPUs and FPGAs to take advantage of the new software updates and new applications being developed.

Monte Carlo Method and Price Testing: Old Solution for Modern Problems

In this special guest feature, Vladimir Kuchkanov, Pricing Solution Architect at Competera, examines how data scientists often forget about classics while good old algorithms are still relevant and efficient. In particular, Monte Carlo method (MCM) pops up in mind. Among many fields of its application, MCM has established itself as a solid solution in price prediction and automation of pricing rules in retail. Like any analytical approach, MCM has limitations and inaccuracies. Despite this, many fields, including retail, still utilize it.

The Rise of No-code Knowledge Graphs

In this contributed article, Marta V. Lopata, Chief Growth Officer at Kgbase, discusses the use of knowledge graphs. With a no-code approach, they bring the best of the data science world to medicine, finance, business, education and the arts enabling anyone to generate and visualize unique insights from siloed data sources.