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LLNL beefs up its Lassen supercomputer with the world’s largest processor
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said today it has integrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Lassen supercomputer with the world’s largest computer chip. The integration means the Lassen system (pictured) is the first supercomputer in the world that combines artificial intelligence technology with high-performance computing modeling and simulation capabilities. LLNL said the system has been designed ...
AWS announces AI tools to assist contact center workflows
Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a suite of Contact Center Intelligence services that customers can use to add more intelligence to their contact center operations. AWS CCI is a combination of services that enables companies to bring machine learning capabilities including text-to-speech, language comprehension, translation, enterprise search, business intelligence and chatbots to their contact ...
VMware updates its vRealize cloud management suite
VMware Inc. today updated its popular vRealize suite of cloud management tools to help customers deploy and operate applications, infrastructure and platform services more consistently across on-premises data centers, the cloud and the network edge. VMware’s vRealize suite is used by enterprises to manage and provision workloads such as compute, storage, network and application services ...
Ananda Networks exits stealth with a faster, more secure global LAN
Ananda Networks Ltd. is emerging from stealth mode today armed with $6 million in seed funding and a new cloud-based Secure Global Local Area Network product that it says helps ensure a faster connection for remote workers and the devices and services they use. MizMaa Ventures, Citrix Systems, Gefen Capital, Cyber Mentor Fund, GreatPoint Ventures, South ...
Germany launches probe over Amazon price-fixing claims
Germany’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Amazon.com Inc. to determine if the company has abused its dominant market position by fixing prices of products sold on its website there. The probe, led by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, is looking into the company’s relationship with third-party sellers that use its platform. The investigation is said to have ...
Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service now supports its Graviton2 Arm processors
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event that its Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is now generally available on its AWS Graviton2 processor. Amazon EKS provides a fully managed Kubernetes service on AWS infrastructure. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration tool that’s used to manage large deployments of containers, which ...
NeuVector adds compliance reporting for Kubernetes-based apps
Container security company NeuVector Inc. is updating its platform today with compliance reporting tools that help companies ensure their software deployments adhere to industry standards. It’s also adding new workflows to help DevOps teams keep track of critical vulnerabilities in their software. NeuVector sells a security platform for companies that use the open-source Kubernetes tool to ...
Nvidia built its Selene supercomputer for coronavirus research in just 3 weeks
Nvidia Corp. said today it managed to build Selene, the world’s seventh-fastest supercomputer, in just under three weeks. Selene is based on the DGX A100 systems also used by the Argonne National Laboratory to research ways to stop the coronavirus. The Selene supercomputer has been deployed to tackle problems around concepts such as protein docking and quantum chemistry, which ...
Facebook finally signs up as a platinum member of The Linux Foundation
Facebook Inc. said today it has signed up as a Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit technology consortium that supports hundreds of open-source software projects. The social media giant is one of the best-known contributors to the world of open-source software, so its membership could be considered long overdue. The company contributes to ...
Amazon makes its quantum computing service Braket generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its Amazon Braket quantum computing service is now generally available. Announced in preview at the AWS Re:Invent conference in December, Amazon Braket is a fully managed service that lets developers, researchers and scientists play around with quantum machines from three different hardware providers. Quantum computers are a rapidly advancing ...