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Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…

Watch for New BigDATAwire Column: AI Today and Tomorrow

In response to our readers’ many questions about AI, showing a mix of excitement and concern, we will soon debut a series of monthly articles on the status of AI in the global HPC community and the path toward AGI, art Read more…

The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…

How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World

There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when p Read more…

Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?

A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…

News In Brief

Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI

With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

Meet MATA, an AI Research Assistant for Scientific Data

Researchers with Southern Methodist University (SMU) and NASA today announced they have received a patent for MATA, an AI-powered research assistant that can answer questions on scientific data. Consumers have grown a Read more…

Big Data Career Notes: August 2023 Edition

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…

IBM’s New Geospatial AI Model on Hugging Face Harnesses NASA Data for Climate Science

IBM recently announced its watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model for Earth observation is now available on Hugging Face, the popular open source machine learning platform and community. The HLS Geospatial Foundation Read more…

This Just In

Alabama Power and E Source Win DOE Prize for Data Analytics Innovation

Feb 21, 2025 |

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 21, 2025 — E Source and Alabama Power have won the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Digitizing Utilities Prize for the development of a custom Enterprise Graph Database, a predictive power mapping data system. Read more…

EU Launches InvestAI Initiative to Build AI Gigafactories Across Europe

Feb 13, 2025 |

Feb. 13, 2025 — At the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20 billion for AI gigafactories. Read more…

Esri Developer & Technology Summit Features Expanded Program to Reflect Growth of Geospatial Development

Feb 12, 2025 |

REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 12, 2025 — On March 11, 2025, Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, is hosting the Developer & Technology Summit in Palm Springs, California. Read more…

PEAK:AIO Powers AI Data for University of Strathclyde’s MediForge Hub

Feb 5, 2025 |

MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 5, 2025 — PEAK:AIO, a pioneering software company known for redefining data infrastructure for modern AI and GPU applications, today announced its role in the University of Strathclyde‘s MediForge Hub, a new initiative set to enhance pharmaceutical manufacturing by reducing raw material usage and waste by 60%. Read more…

Hydrolix Releases Apache Spark Connector for Databricks Integration

Feb 5, 2025 |

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 5, 2025 — Hydrolix, the company improving the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, has shipped a new Apache Spark connector. Read more…

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