Tag: scaling

Feed: Recent Announcements. P3dn instances come in one size, P3dn.24xlarge, and offer twice as much GPU memory as previous P3 instances to enable ML training on higher resolution images and can accommodate larger batch sizes for more accurate training results and faster throughput. New Intel Skylake CPUs also offer Intel’s AVX-512 instruction set to help accelerate pre-processing of images. Finally, the 100 Gbps networking provides better scaling efficiency when scaling out workloads across multiple instances. These instances are great for machine learning training along with HPC jobs like 3D rendering, video transcoding, and financial risk modeling. With this regional expansion, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Capri Granville. By Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan (2018).  Computer science as an academic discipline began in the 1960s. Emphasis was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, and the mathematical theory that supported these areas. Courses in theoretical computer science covered finite automata, regular expressions, context-free languages, and computability. In the 1970s, the study of algorithms was added as an important component of theory. The emphasis was on making computers useful. Today, a fundamental change is taking place and the focus is more on applications. There are many reasons ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vivek Raju. By Kautham Dhanasekaran, Solutions Architect at Tech MahindraBy Saurabh Shrivastava, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Vivek Raju, Manager, Global Integrator SA at AWSAs cloud becomes the new normal, many businesses want to use its potential to improve their customer experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps businesses migrate to the cloud and provides best practices for the modernization of their applications. Organizations all around the world are using the breadth and depth of AWS services to become more cloud-native. Telia used the AWS platform to modernize their customer information management (CIM) platform ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; Traffic Means BusinessYou want your company to be popular. You want to be #trending. Today, it’s a part of doing business.However, trending means traffic and traffic means a heavy load on your servers.Can your servers—your site—handle viral marketing campaigns and social media campaigns where incoming end users can spike dramatically?Can you host a live stream or media event without having to worry about slowdowns or (we shudder even thinking about it) a total systems failure?One way you can make sure that you’re ready for whatever comes your way (well, your site’s way, anyway) is ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: dan-sutherland; A modern data architecture (MDA) must support the next generation cognitive enterprise which is characterized by the ability to fully exploit data using exponential technologies like pervasive artificial intelligence (AI), automation, Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain. In addition, an MDA must support a platform-centric business model that fully supports people, process and technology and is optimized around business goals.These goals are admirable but difficult. In today’s rapidly-changing landscape, it is difficult to keep up with the latest technologies – AWS alone released over 1,800 new services and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brandon Purcell. As companies strive to improve customer experience through better customer and employee engagement, they inevitably face the problem of scalability. How can we provide a seamless, convenient, and consistent experience to all our customers? And how can we best equip our employees to do so, as well? The technologies in our recently published “The Forrester Tech Tide™: AI, Automation, And Robotics For Customers And Employees, Q2 2019” may seem like a diverse set at first blush, but they all tackle the problem of scaling customer and employee engagement. They just go about it ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Michael Buzzetti, Principal Engineer at The New York TimesBy Barry Tait, Director of Modernization and Cloud Strategies at Modern SystemsBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSThe New York Times had a critical business workload running on a mainframe as the core IT system supporting the daily Home Delivery Platform of its newspaper. They collaborated with Modern Systems, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Select Technology Partner, to successfully transform their legacy COBOL-based application into a modern Java-based application, which today runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Meng Tang. During Microsoft Build we announced the preview of the visual interface for Azure Machine Learning service. This new drag-and-drop workflow capability in Azure Machine Learning service simplifies the process of building, testing, and deploying machine learning models for customers who prefer a visual experience to a coding experience. This capability brings the familiarity of what we already provide in our popular Azure Machine Learning Studio with significant improvements to ease the user experience. Visual interface The Azure Machine Learning visual interface is designed for simplicity and productivity. The drag-and-drop experience is tailored for: ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Listen closely… can you hear the rainforest?Rainforest Connection is a 501c3 that creates technology to empower protectors of the rainforest who wish to end illegal deforestation in real-time. But, when a tree falls in the forest, how many people are around to hear it? A quick look at the facts shows why this issue is relevant to anyone reading this post. It’s about the quality of the air we all breathe. When you cut down a tree in the rainforest, carbon stored for hundreds of years releases back into the atmosphere ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alicia Li. We are excited to share the preview of the Autoscale feature for Azure HDInsight. This feature enables enterprises to become more productive and cost-efficient by automatically scaling clusters up or down based on the load or a customized schedule.  Let’s consider the scenario of a U.S. based health provider who is using Azure HDInsight to build a unified big data platform at corporate level to process various data for trend prediction or usage pattern analysis. To achieve their business goals, they operate multiple HDInsight clusters in production for real-time data ingestion, batch and ... Read More