Artificial Intelligence Saves Standby Energy
A newly developed component can shut down devices when they are not in use. Image Credit: HSLU With the building intelligence research center at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), the iHomeLab, Schurter AG has developed a component for office equipment and other devices that aims to prevent their unnecessary energy use in standby mode. …
Intel’s Habana Labs Announces Turnkey AI Training Solution
Habana Labs, an Intel Company, announced the availability of an enterprise-class turnkey artificial intelligence (AI) training solution featuring the Supermicro X12 Gaudi AI training server and DDN AI400X2 storage system. With eight Habana® Gaudi® purpose-built AI processors, the Supermicro X12 Gaudi AI server provides customers with highly cost-efficient AI training, ease of use and system …
Cloud Storage As A File System In AI Training
Cloud Storage is a common choice for Vertex AI and AI Platform users to store their training data, models, checkpoints and logs. Now, with Cloud Storage FUSE, training jobs on both platforms can access their data on Cloud Storage as files in the local file system. This post introduces the Cloud Storage FUSE for Vertex AI Custom Training. On AI Platform Training, the feature is …
Sowing The Seeds Of Ethical AI: 4 Tasks To Stay On Track
The future of AI is better AI—designed with ethics and responsibility built in from the start. This means putting the brakes on AI-driven transformation until you have a well-functioning strategy and process in place to ensure your models deliver fair outcomes. Failing to recognize this imperative is a threat to your bottom line. The following …
Introducing Quantum Serverless, A New Programming Model For Leveraging Quantum And Classical Resources
To bring value to our users and clients with our systems we need our programing model to fit seamlessly into their workflows, where they can focus on their code and not have to worry about the deployment and infrastructure. In other words, we need a serverless architecture. Summary Today, IBM Quantum also launched Eagle, a …
ABB Partners With Start-Up Sevensense To Drive Next Generation Autonomous Mobile Robots
ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense, founded in 2018 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, to enhance ABB’s new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology. The technology will offer customers unprecedented levels of flexibility as mobile robots will be able to navigate …
IBM Unveils Breakthrough 127-Qubit Quantum Processor
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its new 127-quantum bit (qubit) ‘Eagle’ processor at the IBM Quantum Summit 2021, its annual event to showcase milestones in quantum hardware, software, and the growth of the quantum ecosystem. The ‘Eagle’ processor is a breakthrough in tapping into the massive computing potential of devices based on quantum physics. It heralds the …
The Chip That Changed The World
“You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket, work it out.” If you were born during the first three-quarters of the 20th century when a digital pocket calculator was a thing of science fiction, you are probably familiar with the phrase. In 2021, however, it would be rare to hear, even in a classroom. Today, …
Supercomputing For All Is Closer Than You Think
High performance computing (HPC) represents the pinnacle of technology, with some of the world’s most significant modern-day discoveries made using these advanced machines. Today, we are at the threshold of a new generation of HPC, where the technology’s scalability and ubiquity can transform all our lives. Nowhere has this been more obvious than with the …
The First-Ever Multilingual Model To Win WMT, Beating Out Bilingual Models
Building a universal translation system to help everyone access information and better connect with one another is the ultimate goal of the machine translation (MT) field. But the MT field needs to solve fundamental limitations in order to make that future a reality. Most MT systems today use groups of bilingual models, which typically require …