Happy February to one and all! The HPC-AI world was upended last week by AI benchmark numbers from DeepSeek, as the dust settles we offer a brief commentary on what, at this stage, it may mean ….
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Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]
Podcast: The Batch 7/31/2024 Discussion
Here is a an example of a wild new experimental feature from Google called NotebookLM. This new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging two-party discussions with one click. Two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go.
Google Cloud Announces BigQuery Omni for Multi-cloud Analytics
A recent Gartner research survey on cloud adoption revealed that more than 80% of respondents using the public cloud were using more than one Cloud Service Provider (CSP)1. To address this multi-cloud reality, Google Cloud has announced BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics solution that enables customers to bring the power of BigQuery to data stored in Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure (coming soon).
Kubernetes Driving Google Cloud
Kubernetes is increasingly being used with big data deployments. This trend is driving more big data apps to move to GCP, which offers homegrown support for Kubernetes. To make these workloads simpler and cheaper, there’s a need for a new solution for managing data workloads on Google Cloud Dataproc. With GCP’s CAGR estimated to grow by 64% CAGR through 2021, the cloud is now clearly a three-horse race.