Cloudian plugs PyTorch into GPUDirect to juice AI training speeds
Cloudian engineers have added Nvidia GPUDirect support to a PyTorch connector to accelerate AI and machine learning workloads.
In the machine learning world, the Torch open source software library interfaces...
Meta superintelligence push to drive huge demand for storage
Meta is eyeing a massive AI datacenter expansion program with the chosen storage suppliers set for a bonanza.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook: "We're going to invest hundreds of...
Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount
Beleaguered storage vendor Quantum, which replaced CEO and chairman Jamie Lerner in June and CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard earlier this month, has made “a very large reduction” in staff,...
Kioxia UFS 4.1 flash promises smoother AI app performance
Kioxia is sampling the latest UFS v4.1 embedded smartphone and tablet flash with faster downloads and smoother app performance for on-device AI.
UFS (Universal Flash Storage) refers to small flash...
Graid going for Nvidia RAID gold
Graid occupies a technology niche with its Nvidia GPU-powered RAID cards and is powering ahead with a development roadmap featuring AI and high-performance computing (HPC) products.
The company, which says...
Nvidia extends LLM memory with tiered KV caching and Dynamo engine
Nvidia GPUs store vectors as key-value pairs in a large language model (LLM) memory cache – KV cache – which is tiered out in a multi-level structure ending with...
VAST Data cracks into HPC with Doudna supercomputer win
VAST Data is supplying an AI-focussed storage system for the Doudna supercomputer, sharing the storage billing with IBM’s Storage Scale and its traditional high-performance computing (HPC) parallel file system.
Doudna...
Kioxia tunes SSD-based vector search for RAG workloads
Kioxia has tweaked its AiSAQ SSD-based vector search by enabling admins to vary vector index capacity and search performance for different workloads.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is an AI large language...
Storage news ticker – June 30
Abstract Security announced LakeVilla, a new product aimed at offering customers a cloud-native cold storage facility built for long-term security telemetry retention that delivers compliance-ready, highly accessible storage at...
VDURA takes aim at VAST, WEKA, DDN with AI-HPC storage reboot
VDURA CEO Ken Claffey believes that the company should be classed alongside DDN, VAST Data, and WEKA as an extreme high-performing and reliable data store for modern AI and...
Micron touts 2600 QLC SSD with TLC-class write performance
The new 2600 client QLC SSD from Micron dynamically optimizes its cache to get QLC flash writing like TLC.
NAND has four basic formats for the number of bits in...
NetApp names Zscaler CTO Syam Nair as new chief product officer
NetApp has recruited Zscaler CTO Syam Nair to be its new chief product officer, replacing the departing Harvinder Bhela.
Bhela joined NetApp in January 2022 as EVP and CPO and...