NVIDIA Outperforms the Latest Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Tests

In the third round of submission, MLCommons recently released the results for MLPerf Inference. It is a set of standard AI inference benchmarking tests using seven different applications. These seven tests are predominantly based on the range of workloads that include computer vision, medical imaging, recommender systems, and natural language processing. The test mainly measures how fast the neural network can process data from each application.

In the results announced, the NVIDIA A100 GPU was the highest performing accelerator in each application. The company submitted each and every offline and server data scenario. It outperformed the much-impressive Qualcomm AI 100 in every aspect and also by an extensive margin. NVIDIA's edge GPUs - A100 PCIe and A100 SXM-was also introduced. The company submitted Jetson Xavier NX and Jetson AGX Xavier with a higher performance than the NX version. 

NVIDIA's all-new A100 has 80 GB of memory, and it provides over two terabytes per second of memory bandwidth, which is the highest for any AI-based company. With enhanced power, it is known that the applications cannot fully utilize A100 capabilities. It separated the GPU into seven isolated instances to create the biggest MIG. Along with Qualcomm, Centaur also had submissions. Again, NVIDIA dominated the performance landscape in every case.

 

Xsolla Successfully Acquires Slemma, an Advanced Data Analytics and Visualization Company

Xsolla, the video game commerce company powered by its transaction engine and business engine to help developers sell, connect, and optimize their games globally, has completed the acquisition of Slemma, an advanced analytics and visualization reporting platform. Its web-based tools allow users to create simple, easy-to-use, and dynamic data reports with customizable dashboards and data analytics output.

Xsolla has stated that it will integrate its Slemma's product suite into the Publisher Account to provide clients with next-level data visualizations; it will also connect Slemma's products to third-party tools and services such as Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure, Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, Zendesk, Salesforce, and many more. Its product suite will also be available on Xsolla's previously existing offerings.

Xsolla primarily focuses on providing the best experience, tools, and services to all its developers, publisher, and platform partners so that they can have the most successful product launch possible. The company is committed to adding its slate of services into additional companies and products into the fold. New Slemma features will be incorporated into Xsolla's already existing data analytics offerings in the Publisher Account dashboard throughout this year.

 

 

Member Driven Technologies launches new data analytics division to help credit unions

Member Driven Technologies (MDT), a CUSO company that primarily hosts the Episys core processing system from Symitar that provide a private cloud alternative for core processing and IT needs, in a recent announcement has stated the launch of its data analytics division which will help credit unions to organize their data better and make it more actionable. MDT has also hired a team of specialists focused on hosting Symitar's Advanced Reporting for Credit Unions™ (ARCU) clients.

ARCU combines and integrates the present data analytics from multiple sources that improve visibility and track crucial business indicators. MDT will install and support a business intelligence solution for credit union clients and offer additional reporting capability to its users very soon. The firm now no longer has to spend time on maintaining data warehousing, which frees resources for other member-facing initiatives.

With the new offering, MDT will help credit unions leverage data to understand the users' unique needs and provide the personalized experiences they expect. The company will continue to be an increasingly important foundation for credit unions' operational and member service strategy. It will expand its business to help its clients with critical initiatives.

 

Men&Mice unleash the all-new Micetro 10.0 to provide sustainable networking for enterprises

Men&Mice, the leading network management expert in a recent press meet, has announced that Micetrro 10.0, the latest version of its unified DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) orchestration software. It is primarily aimed to establish sustainable networking best practices that are diverse and heterogeneous in the current global enterprise networks—Micetro 10.0, formerly known as the Men&Mice Suite.

It comes with the company's new branding, and it is focused on creating a robust and unified user experience. Micetro 10.0 is a big step, and it is on the way to becoming the world leader in sustainable networking. The company streamlined the vision for the product as well as the company. The company is renaming the product and infusing a new interface with its new brand identity.

The product creates consistency for the user, strengthens the company's mission to provide a single pane of glass orchestration paradigm, and reinforces the core values of the new brand. Micetro 10.0 supports the latest version of ISC's, including its enterprise-grade high availability configuration to diversify and strengthen network resilience. It is delivering official support for the PostgreSQL database and high availability features to maintain the network environment's fault tolerance.

 

Koch Industries Embraces Networking as a Service Delivered Via Alkira

Koch Industries, Inc., an American multinational corporation, has joined a growing list of organizations and enterprises where the IT organization is evolving to become a general manager of IT that is consumed as a service rather than being built on platforms that are maintained by an internal IT team. With this shift, even Koch Industries, which encompasses cloud platforms and network services, is starting to rely on interconnect.

Rather than securing, deploying, and maintaining routers and firewalls to deliver enterprise-class networking services, the company is becoming economically efficient to consume networking services like any other cloud service. Akira, a provider of wide-area network (WAN) service to Koch Industries, has constructed Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) using $76 million it raised from Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) to aggregate multiple points-of-presence provisioned through a console that Alkira customers access as a cloud service.

The decision made by Koch Industries to employ the Alkira networking service is part of a more extensive series of initiatives. The Alkira approach eliminates the need to acquire networking infrastructure and hire specialists to maintain it. Koch Industries is now primarily focusing on its internal resources on building applications that make a strategic difference in the networking sector. The company aims to elevate the role of an internal IT organization.

 

Northvolt Partners With Fluence to Develop Grid-Scale Battery Storage Technology

 

Northvolt, a battery gigafactory startup, has stated that it will form a partnership with Fluence, an energy storage technology provider, to develop next-generation battery technology for grid-scale storage applications. The co-development of grid storage technology will draw on Fluence's long-standing experience in the sector. It has already been the space for almost a decade as AES Energy Storage. It has since gone on to become one of the leading players in the energy storage system integration and technology space.

This partnership between Northvolt and Fluence will see them developing battery hardware and battery management systems (BMS) optimized for energy storage solutions. Both the companies aim to lower the cost of energy storage using digital intelligence integrated into the full battery lifecycle. As grid-scale energy storage will play a crucial role in transforming energy storage, this partnership will deliver technology with significant societal and environmental benefits.

Both the companies have stated that as part of the agreement, Fluence will also buy batteries produced by Northvolt, which aims to produce 150GWh of cells annually by 2030. This deal will help Fluence avoid potential pitfalls for its rivals in the stationary energy storage system (ESS) industry. Northvolt has also said that it intends to have the most sustainably produced batteries of its manufacturer, which could help its ESS partner meet growing requirements.