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• The Parallel Universe Issue #33: What’s Big Deal about BigDL?By Henry Gabb (Intel) Published On July 11, 2018
  - When I started using Apache Spark* for large-scale data analytics, MLlib* was the only option to do machine learning within this framework. MLlib is a good—but limited—package. BigDL brought deep...
• The Early Days of Simics – An Interview with Bengt WernerBy Engblom, Jakob (Intel) Published On July 11, 2018
  - This is close to the 20th birthday of Simics as a commercial product, and in this blog post we take a look back at what happened before Simics went commercial. The product was officially launched in...
• Pushing the U.S. Forward in the Race to 5GBy Intel Blog Admin Published On July 10, 2018
  - By Asha Keddy, vice president in the Technology, Systems Architecture & Client Group and general manager, Next Generation and Standards This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will consider spectrum reforms to advance 5G in the U.S. This is a critical step because the 3.7 – 4.2 GHz band in question is part of the...
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• Strategies for Monetizing Data: 2018 and BeyondBy Ronald Van Loon Published On July 9, 2018
  - The data revolution is here, and it creates an investment priority for enterprises to stay competitive and drive new opportunities. One of the brightest areas is data monetization, which describes how to create economic benefits, either additional revenue streams or savings, utilizing insights provided by data resources. With B2B and B2C data needs reaching an...
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• Computer Vision Solutions and Privacy-by-DesignBy Charlotte Dryden (Intel) Published On July 9, 2018
  - These days cameras are ubiquitous - in our smart phones, our cars, homes, and around our cities. And opportunities for computer vision are endless, extending across robotics, retail, healthcare,...
• Fear no more! Drone shows create firework-like light displays that are fun for the whole family, pups includedBy We Are Intel Published On July 3, 2018
  - Could Intel® Shooting Star™ drones be the secret to perfect festivities? We asked Brad Whalen, one of Intel’s drone light show project managers, what it’s like to tour the world with this innovative new technology and how it could impact even our nation’s brightest (and loudest) holiday. Ear-friendly entertainment If you haven’t seen a drone...
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• Death on First Street. In My Little Town.By Jon Stine Published On July 2, 2018
  - A few weeks ago, I was at a conference in the downtown of a small U.S. city. The subject was retail, and, specifically, the future of downtown retail. Brick-and-mortar retail. It was the day after the United States Supreme Court ruled (South Dakota vs. Wayfair Inc.) that Internet retailers can be required to collect sales...
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• Intel® Developer Mesh: Editor’s Picks July 2018By Intel Developer Zone Blogs Published On July 2, 2018
  - Every month I pick out a few projects from Intel® Developer Mesh that I find interesting and share them with you.  Take a few minutes to find out why each of these projects caught my eye and then...
• Applications on Intel® Omni-Path Architecture Run 4.6 Percent Faster in 2018 than 2017—with Spectre and Meltdown MitigationsBy Joe Yaworski Published On July 2, 2018
  - Our customers have asked us what impact the Spectre and Meltdown issues are expected to have on computing and communications performance in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters—especially regarding Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) fabrics. We know it’s important for our customers to have access to accurate, useful, and complete data to assess the potential impact...
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• Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Help World Bank Team Create Image-Recognition Models for Crowdsourced PhotosBy Jeff Wittich Published On June 29, 2018
  - AI has made big strides in the past several years. E-commerce sites recommend future purchases based on past purchases, Alexa* and other digital assistants respond to our inquiries, and social media platforms help us organize and tag our photos for easier search. More and more organizations are bringing the power of AI to bear on...
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• Hybrid Cloud—Know What’s Under the HoodBy William Giard Published On June 28, 2018
  - Hybrid clouds are a little like hybrid cars. Hybrid cars have two operating modes that work together seamlessly to get you to a destination, but to the driver it all looks and acts the same. Similarly, hybrid clouds let you deploy applications into an on-premises private cloud or into linked public clouds—whichever best suits business...
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• Intel at SAP SAPPHIRE 2018: Delivering Persistent Memory to SAP HANA*By Tim Allen Published On June 26, 2018
  - SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG (Americas’ SAP Users’ Group), held June 4-7 in Orlando, was an unlikely place to run into a rock star. Not only did Justin Timberlake perform on the last evening of the conference, but Jon Bon Jovi spoke at one of the keynotes. Another session featured a panel of Winter Olympic...
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• Lenovo’s Secret HPC Weapon: Neptune’s TridentBy Vinod Kamath Published On June 26, 2018
  - In the struggle for data center ascendance, the forces of electricity and heat do battle with forces of density and computational power with each step up the Moore’s Law ladder. As more cores are added to each successive CPU release, computational power increases. However, the electricity needed also increases, which produces more heat. Taming these...
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• Stress Free: Intel’s Windows* 10 Self-Service UpgradeBy Malvina Nisman Published On June 25, 2018
  - At Intel, we made a self-service Microsoft Windows* 10 in-place upgrade available for our employees. Using this process, we’ve successfully upgraded more than 50,000 PCs, and we expect to double this by the end of 2018. At that point, nearly our entire fleet of PCs will have gone through this process. Before we introduced our...
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• Deploy Anywhere, Anytime, Any-scale Visualization with Intel® Select SolutionsBy Jim Jeffers Published On June 24, 2018
  - The HPC community is exploring new frameworks and approaches to converge simulation and machine learning workloads at massive-scale. At the same time, it is critical to help researchers make sense of increasingly large data sets and complex results. Sadly, the fastest supercomputer in the world is effectively useless if people cannot make sense of the...
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