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NVIDIA  has announced two solutions for high-performance, secure artificial intelligence (AI) processing at the edge — the EGX A100 for larger commercial off-the-shelf servers and the much smaller EGX Jetson Xavier NX for micro-edge servers. With the NVIDIA EGX Edge AI platform, hospitals, stores, farms and factories can carry out real time processing and protection of the massive amounts of data streaming from trillions of edge sensors. The platform makes it possible to securely deploy, manage and update fleets of servers remotely. The EGX A100 converged accelerator and EGX Jetson Xavier NX micro-edge server are created to serve different size, cost and performance needs. Servers powered by the EGX A100 can manage hundreds of cameras in airports, for example, while the EGX Jetson Xavier NX is powerful enough to manage a handful of cameras in convenience stores. Cloud-native support ensures the entire EGX lineup can use the same optimised AI software to easily build and de...

In his online keynote at GTC 2000 , NVIDIA founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang has announced innovations that rewrite what powers data centres worldwide: - The NVIDIA A100, the first GPU based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. - The NVIDIA DGX A100 system, which features eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink. - Two products for its EGX Edge AI platform — the EGX A100 for larger commercial off-the-shelf servers and the tiny EGX Jetson Xavier NX for micro-edge servers for high-performance, secure AI processing at the edge. The NVIDIA A100 is in full production and shipping to customers worldwide. The A100 draws on design breakthroughs in the NVIDIA Ampere architecture — offering the company’s largest leap in performance to date within its eight generations of GPUs — to unify artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference and boost performance by up to 20x over its predecessors. A universal workload accelerator, the A100 is also built for d...

NVIDIA has unveiled NVIDIA DGX A100, a third-generation artificial intelligence (AI) system delivering 5 petaflops of AI performance and consolidates the power and capabilities of an entire data centre into a single flexible platform. Source: NVIDIA. The NVIDIA DGX A100 AI system. A single rack of five DGX A100 systems replaces a data centre of AI training and inference infrastructure, with 1/20th the power consumed, 1/25th the space and at 1/10th the cost. Prices begin at under US$200,000. Immediately available, DGX A100 systems have begun shipping worldwide. “NVIDIA DGX A100 is the ultimate instrument for advancing AI,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA DGX is the first AI system built for the end-to-end machine learning workflow — from data analytics to training to inference. And with the giant performance leap of the new DGX, machine learning engineers can stay ahead of the exponentially growing size of AI models and data.” DGX A100 systems inte...

Proton, Malaysia’s first automobile manufacturer, has switched to Rimini Street for support of its SAP ECC 6.0 applications. Rimini Street is a global provider of enterprise software products and services, a third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. By leveraging Rimini Street Support, Proton was able to immediately reduce its annual support costs by 50%, while also securing a premium-level, ultra-responsive support. Additionally, the automaker retained the flexibility to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA when it makes sense for their business, rather than being driven by SAP’s timeline. Once Proton made the switch to Rimini Street, the company was able to shift its resources and support savings into more strategic areas of the business, including the expansion of its manufacturing plant in Perak, Malaysia to enable increased production volumes. Proton was established over 35 years ago as Malaysia’s first national car company. With its mos...

Tableau Software, the analytics platform, has announced the general availability of Tableau 2020.2. The release delivers a new data model that simplifies the analysis of complex data with no coding or scripting skills required. The latest release also introduces Metrics, a new mobile-first way for customers to instantly monitor key performance indicators (KPIs). “Now more than ever, organisations need a combination of speed, agility, and empowerment to ensure everyone is able to make data-driven decisions quickly,” said Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer at Tableau Software. Source: Tableau website. The set control allows users to dynamically change the members of a set using a familiar, quick filter-like interface. “With new data modelling capabilities, Tableau 2020.2 reduces the effort needed to analyse even the most complex datasets and simplifies analysis for anyone, regardless of expertise. In addition, Metrics enables everyone to instantly access the most vital d...