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Barcelona Supercomputing Center Powers Encrypted Neural Networks with Intel Tech

Homomorphic encryption provides two extraordinary benefits: first, it has the potential to be secure against intrusion by even quantum computers; second, it allows users to use the data for computation without necessitat Read more…

Persistent Memory Can Change the Way Enterprises Navigate Advanced Analytics

175 zettabytes. That is IDC’s prediction for how much data will exist in the world by 2025. This data is generated by millions of devices – everything from the cell phone in my pocket and PC in my home office, to th Read more…

Microsoft and Intel Test Malware Protection Through Computer Vision

The world of malware protection has come a long way since the wild west of the early 2000s, when Trojans lurked behind every download. The malware threats that loom now are more advanced – and more evasive. Now, resear Read more…

Aerospike Raises More Cash

Aerospike, the real-time NoSQL database vendor, said this week it raised $32 million in its most recent funding round, underscoring growing investor confidence in big data startups exhibiting the ability to scale and whi Read more…

Intel Debuts New VPU Chip at AI Summit

Intel today unveiled a new vision processing unit (VPU) designed to power neural networks on edge devices like cameras and drones. The company also used its AI Summit event in San Francisco to demonstrate two recently re Read more…

Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Plus DAOS Offer Significant Advantages for HPC

Forget what you previously knew about high-performance storage and file systems as Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Modules (Intel® Optane™ DCPMM) devices ingeniously package non-volatile Intel Optane memory in Read more…

Intel’s Sentiment Algorithm Needs Less Training Data

Intel’s AI lab has released an open-source version of a sentiment analysis algorithm designed to boost natural language processing applications that currently lack the ability to scale across different domains such as Read more…

Intel Unveils Nauta, a DL Framework for Containerized Clusters

Intel today unveiled Nauta, a new distributed computing framework for running deep learning models in Kubernetes and Docker-based environments. The chip giant says Nauta will make it easier for data scientists to develop Read more…

Aerospike Adds Intel’s Optane Persistent Memory

Aerospike Inc., the non-relational database vendor, is partnering with Intel Corp. to release what it bills as the first commercially available open database tuned to the chip maker’s Optane memory technology. The l Read more…

AMD Eyes Data-Driven Server Upgrades

AMD is zeroing in on datacenter overhauls needed to handle faster data and analytics as a means of chipping away at rival Intel Corp.’s x86 dominance of the enterprise IT infrastructure market. Some market analysts Read more…

A Wave of Purpose-Built AI Hardware Is Building

Google last week unveiled the third version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which is designed to accelerate deep learning workloads developed in its TensorFlow environment. But that's just the start of a groundswell Read more…

How ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ Will Impact Analytics

Organizations ramping up plans to employ big on-premise or cloud-based clusters to crunch big data sets are in for a nasty surprise thanks to the recently disclosed "Spectre" and "Meltdown" security vulnerabilities, whic Read more…

Intel Unveils Deep Learning Framework for Spark

Chip giant Intel last week rolled out a new deep learning framework that runs as a Spark job atop Hadoop. Called BigDL, the open source software is designed to take advantage of hardware acceleration capabilities that In Read more…

Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age

Intel today revealed its product roadmap for embedding its processors with key capabilities and attributes needed to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. It also used its Intel AI Day event in San Francis Read more…

Intel Xeon E7 Balloons In-memory Capacity, Targets Real-Time Analytics

Who crunches more data faster, wins. It’s this drive that cuts through and clarifies the essence of the evolutionary spirit in the computer industry, the dual desire to get to real time with bigger and bigger chunks of Read more…

Inside Redfin’s Cautious Approach to Big Data

There's a certain allure to big data technology that tempts us to view it as the solution to every business problem. But there are times when the simplicity of traditional technology--like relational databases--outweigh Read more…

Intel Investments Seek to Speed Big Data Rollouts

Chipmaker Intel Corp. is expanding its push into big data with an equity investment and a technology partnership with BlueData, the startup that specializes in generating virtualized big data clusters. Along with the Read more…

Health Alliance Looks to Leverage, Secure Patient Data

The health care IT sector is attracting major players as companies chasing lucrative government contracts form partnerships that combine big data technologies to improve public health while harnessing advances in genomic Read more…

Apache Spark Ecosystem Continues To Build

Apache Spark was everywhere at the recent Strata + Hadoop World conference. From Tableau's new Spark interface to the new Spark as a service (SaaS) offerings and Intel's new Spark initiative, the big data framework was v Read more…

Cloudera, Dell, Intel Target ‘Big Data Ecosystem’

Cloudera, Dell and Intel said they plan to launch dedicated Dell In-Memory Appliances for the Cloudera Enterprise as a way to boost real-time analytics performance. The partners said the goal of the engineering partne Read more…

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