Computing
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The next 10 years for cloud computing
Despite AI’s explosive growth, the industry still needs to face facts that customers are unhappy about costs and vendor lock-in. The landscape of cloud computing is changing significantly as enterprises question the value of public cloud solutions. This shift marks a departure from previous years when the public cloud was widely regarded as the panacea for…
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World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu
DeepComputing partners with Canonical to unveil a huge boost to the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop family The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is the world’s first RISC-V laptop pre-installed and powered by Ubuntu, which is one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world, providing developers with an outstanding mix of usability and reliability, as well…
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Decoding The Digital. Distinguishing Computer Science And Information Technology In Society And Industry.
Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) are closely related fields but differ in their scope, focus, and the specific skills and knowledge they encompass. Understanding these differences is crucial across various contexts, including as fields of study, professions, businesses, industry sectors, geopolitical forces, and socioeconomic levers. 1. As a Field of Study. Computer Science.…
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Asteroid Institute And Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids, Revolutionizing Minor Planet Discovery With Cloud Technology
With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering within weeks as many asteroids as were found worldwide in an entire year MILL VALLEY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced the most significant results of their partnership to date: identifying 27,500 new,…
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat
Canonical’s 10th Long Term Supported release sets a new standard in performance engineering, enterprise security and developer experience. London, 25 April 2024. Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat”, available to download and install from https://ubuntu.com/download. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS builds on the advancements of the last three interim releases as well…
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What Is Infrastructure From Code?
Maybe you’ve heard of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources (mostly but not entirely in the cloud) through version-controlled, machine-readable definition files (or configurations), rather than via manual hardware configuration or web consoles at the source. But what is Infrastructure from Code (IfC)? Throughout this post, we’ll…
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Canonical Delivers Secure, Compliant Cloud Solutions for Google Distributed Cloud
Today, Canonical is thrilled to announce our expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to provide Ubuntu images for Google Distributed Cloud. This partnership empowers Google Distributed Cloud customers with security-focused Ubuntu images, ensuring they meet the most stringent compliance standards. Since 2021, Google Cloud, with its characteristic vision, has built a strong partnership with Canonical. This…
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10 Cloud Development Gotchas To Watch Out For
Cloud-based development has many advantages but some big downsides, too. Here are 10 reasons to think twice before developing, testing, or deploying your apps in the cloud. The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud-based development also presents a host of challenges. Knowing what to…
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Huawei Cloud and Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau Announce Regional AI Model
[Shenzhen, China, March 25, 2024] Huawei Cloud and the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality jointly announced that their regional AI weather forecasting model has officially been put into use. The regional model is one of the first of its kind. It enables the rapid generation of five-day forecasts for a precise 3 km range. The…
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NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Powering a new era of computing, NVIDIA today announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell platform has arrived — enabling organizations everywhere to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor. The Blackwell GPU…
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TSMC and Synopsys Bring Breakthrough NVIDIA Computational Lithography Platform to Production
NVIDIA cuLitho Accelerates Semiconductor Manufacturing’s Most Compute-Intensive Workload by 40-60x, Opens Industry to New Generative AI Algorithms GTC—NVIDIA today announced that TSMC and Synopsys are going into production with NVIDIA’s computational lithography platform to accelerate manufacturing and push the limits of physics for the next generation of advanced semiconductor chips. TSMC, the world’s leading foundry,…
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NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing and AI Infrastructure
GTC—NVIDIA today announced a new wave of networking switches, the X800 series, designed for massive-scale AI. The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads. They feature software that further accelerates AI, cloud, data processing and HPC applications in every…
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Intel Core 14th Gen i9-14900KS Powers Desktop PCs to Record-Breaking Speeds
At 6.2 GHz frequency out of the box, the i9-14900KS gives PC enthusiasts top-end power for desktop systems. What’s New: Intel today announced full specifications and availability of Intel® Core™ 14th Gen i9-14900KS processors, again reaching the cutting edge of CPU frequency to retain the title as the world’s fastest desktop processor.1 The processors deliver up to…
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Are The Different Public Clouds Really That Different?
Cloud providers are becoming commoditized, so you have to be careful to determine where the best value lies. In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature…
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Chess.com Boosts Performance, Cuts Response Times By 71% With Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
Editor’s Note: Launched in 2007, Chess.com is a premium platform for online chess and one of the largest of its kind. A Cloud SQL for MySQL shop, it transitioned to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition, improving the user experience, cutting costs, and significantly reducing response times, decreasing p99 latency response from 14ms to 4ms. Read…
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI Alleging Breach Of Founding Agreement
The lawsuit could hold far reaching implications for Microsoft’s use of GPT-4 and other upcoming models in its products. Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s founding board members and investors, has filed a lawsuit against the company and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that the now Microsoft-financed creator of ChatGPT has breached its founding mission. “This…
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When Cloud AI Lands You In Court
It’s clear that AI, including generative AI, will be tested in the courts. Cloud and AI architects must practice defensive design and governance to stay out of trouble. In a recent legal ruling against Air Canada in a small claims court, the airline lost because its AI-powered chatbot provided incorrect information about bereavement fares. The…
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Waldo’s Dollar Mart Streamlines Retail Operations With Oracle Cloud
Retailer unifies business processes to support agility, reliability, and growth with Oracle’s finance and retail cloud solutions Austin, Texas and Lerma, Mexico—February 20, 2024 Mexican retailer Waldo’s Dollar Mart is using Oracle Cloud finance and merchandising applications to manage its complex, multi-format business model while continuing to scale to offer customers more choices in products…
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3 Killer Apps For Cloud-Based Generative AI
Natural language generation, recommendation systems, and anomaly detection are good opportunities to create strong business value with genAI. I’ve been working with artificial intelligence systems since the 1980s. Back then, AI was considered a revolution in leveraging computer systems to achieve unheard-of capabilities. Things are much the same today with generative AI (genAI). But to…
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Research Finds IT Leaders Are Choosing Hybrid Cloud Strategies Due To Flexibility, Cost-Effectiveness, And Security
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – February 14, 2024 – According to a recent study by Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, 42% of organizations surveyed in the United States are considering or already have moved at least half of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures, a phenomenon known as cloud repatriation. The survey1, which questioned 350…
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Recorded Future Launches Enterprise AI For Intelligence
Built on Recorded Future’s Intelligence Graph – the World’s Largest Intelligence Holdings – Enterprise AI Augments Humans and Defends Democracy Against Converging Threats BOSTON — February 14, 2024 — Recorded Future, the world’s largest intelligence company, today announced that Recorded Future AI is emerging out of beta to augment humans and defend democracy against converging global…
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AWS Is Readying LLM-Based Debugger For Databases To Take On OpenAI
AWS researchers have published a paper that pitches a proprietary LLM-based debugger, dubbed Panda, against OpenAI’s GPT-4. AWS researchers are working on developing a large language model-based debugger for databases in an effort to help enterprises solve performance issues in such systems. Dubbed Panda, the new debugging framework has been designed to work in a manner…
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You Should Be Worried About Cloud Squatting
Just when you thought you knew all the ways hackers could access your data on a public cloud, a new threat has emerged. Luckily, the fixes are manageable. Most security issues in the cloud can be traced back to someone doing something stupid. Sorry to be that blunt, but I don’t see ingenious hackers out there.…