Enterprise AI adoption is still in its exploration stages, but companies are finding innovative ways to leverage their GPU investments beyond AI applications and reaping good results, according to a new report from Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle.
HEAVY.AI Accelerates Big Data Analytics with Vultr’s High-Performance GPU Cloud Infrastructure
Vultr, the privately held cloud computing platform, announced a partnership with GPU-accelerated analytics platform provider HEAVY.AI. Integrating Vultr’s global NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure into its operations, HEAVY.AI can interactively query and visualize massive datasets, enabling faster, more efficient decision-making for customers across diverse sectors.
NPUs are Emerging as the Main Rival to NVIDIA’s AI Dominance
Fueled by the rise of Generative AI, the semiconductor market has established itself as one of the most profitable industries globally − the sector is already worth over $600 billion, with this figure set to increase to $1 trillion by 2030. During this growth period, NVIDIA has achieved the status of undisputed leader, predominantly as a result of the superior performance of its graphics processing units (GPUs).
Storj Acquires Leading AI Compute Provider, Valdi
Storj announced a new era in distributed cloud innovation with the acquisition of Valdi. Storj is a leader in distributed cloud object storage, disrupting the $100 billion cloud storage market, delivering up to 90% cost savings and 90% less carbon emissions for customers. Valdi is the leader in on-demand high performance cloud computing (GPUs) widely used for AI training and inference in data-intensive industries like technology, research and life-sciences.
New Alluxio Enterprise AI Innovations Accelerate GPUs Anywhere with 97%+ GPU Utilization
Alluxio, the developer of the open-source data platform, announced the immediate availability of the latest enhancements in Alluxio Enterprise AI. Version 3.2 showcases the platform’s capability to utilize GPU resources universally, improvements in I/O performance, and competitive end-to-end performance with HPC storage.
Webinar: Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs
[Sponsored Post] This webinar: “Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs” provides a guide to installing Hugging Face transformers, Meta’s Llama 3 weights, and the necessary dependencies for running Llama locally on AMD systems with ROCm™ 6.0.
Hammerspace Advances GPU Data Orchestration Capabilities to Accelerate Access to S3 Data
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the addition of the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With today’s announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data. By adding S3 to all other standard protocols for data ingestion, the Hammerspace platform ensures a seamless and efficient transfer of existing data into a global file system fueled by its automated orchestration system.
Alice & Bob to Integrate Cat Qubits in Datacenters of the Future, Accelerated by NVIDIA Technology
Alice & Bob, a quantum hardware manufacturer and leading QPU designer, announced it is working to accelerate the integration of quantum technology into industry by introducing cat qubits into the datacenters of the future.
AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation
GTC—Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform—unveiled by NVIDIA at GTC 2024—is coming to AWS. AWS will offer the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and B100 Tensor Core GPUs, extending the companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to deliver the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to help customers unlock new generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search
Kinetica, the real-time GPU-accelerated database for analytics and generative AI, unveiled at NVIDIA GTC its real-time vector similarity search engine that can ingest vector embeddings 5X faster than the previous market leader, based on the popular VectorDBBench benchmark.