Tsar Putin orders glorious Russian supercomputer
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Made with invincible and advanced Russian chips based on proven technology

Terrified that ordering invasions of other countries might prevent his country getting its paws on technology, Tsar Putin has ordered that a supercomputer be built around Russian-made Elbrus processors.

Xilinx announces Alveo U55C most powerful accelerator card
Published in AI


HBM2 Purpose-built for HPC and big data

Xilinx has introduced the most powerful accelerator card ever purpose-built for HPC and big data workloads. It will launch with the Alveo U55C to target even bigger big data workloads from its predecessor. The new card uses new HBM2 memory, doubles the capacity, and uses a new form factor.

Freedom of the Press Foundation wades into Apple
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All those Tame Apple Press reporters could be vulnerable

While Apple has the unanalysed love of most of the press, the Freedom of the Press Foundation is worried they could be invulnerable due to Jobs’ Mob’s scanning of its iCloud.

A third of data will be generated in real time by 2025
Published in Cloud


IDC crunches some numbers in real time


IDC number crunches have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and worked out that by 2025 consumers and enterprise needs will drive the creation of real-time data.

Intel: X86 not sexy, oily data is
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Submerge yourself in a deep data lake

The CEO of chip giant Intel has looked into his crystal ball, read some tea leaves and shuffled his Tarot cards and predicted that Big Data will have the same impact on human existence as oil.

Artificial Intelligence is very artificial indeed
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Opinion
Buzz words and the facts

Manufacturers - or vendors as I prefer to call them -  have touted artificial intelligence (AI) almost since the beginning of the dawn of the computer. Which was 70 or 80 years ago, depending on how you're counting things.

Acer plays the AI, deep learning, and robot games
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Focusing on transportation sector in Taiwan


Acer is expected to break into new territory in the fields of artificial intelligence, deep learning in 2017 and has begun talking with several potential clients about shipping its first in-house robotics devices, according to company CEO Jason Chen.

Qualcomm demonstrated of 24-core FinFet server
Published in PC Hardware


Server Development Platform (SDP) in the open

Earlier this year Fudzilla mentioned that Qualcomm was working on a Server Development Platform (SDP) and now the company is ready to talk about it .

Oracle shows off SPARC details
Published in PC Hardware


Sonoma ready for the big time

Oracle has been sharing a few details about its SPARC processor code-named Sonoma. Sonoma is not a sleeping Italian mama at all but a place where Americans grow wine that Europeans will not touch.

Waiting for Hadoop could be waiting for Godot
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Gartner warns

Gartner has said that Big Data framework Hadoop will not make any serious impact for at least two years.