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nVidia & Snowflake cooperation for AI models from cloud

nVidia and Snowflake announce cooperation for generative AI models from the cloud.

The US graphics card manufacturer nVidia and the US software company Snowflake have announced a cooperation. They want to offer companies generative AI from the cloud.

Image: Artificial Intelligence, AI (Inteligencia artificial), via: pixabay, by: geralt.
Image: Artificial Intelligence, AI (Inteligencia artificial), via: pixabay, by: geralt.

The nVidia Corp. and Snowflake Inc. announced at the Snowflake Summit 2023 that they have entered into a partnership.

The goal of the agreement: Providing companies to build generative AI applications using their own data within the Snowflake Data Cloud. Snowflake along with Nvidia enables enterprises to use data in their Snowflake account clouds. So they can build advanced generative AI service. This includs chatbots.

“Data is the foundation for building generative AI applications that understand the complexities and unique voice of each businesss” said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of Nvidia.

“nVidia and Snowflake will create an AI factory that will help companies transform their own valuable data into custom generative AI models to build breakthrough new applications. Right from the cloud platform they can run their businesses” added Jensen Huang.

Expanding AI capabilities in Data Cloud enables these customers to build generative AI applications, just where the data they manage already resides. This will reduce costs and latency.

The Snowflake Data Cloud has more than 8,000 customers. In Future it will offer the companies the ability to unify, integrate, analyze and share data within their organizatio, customers, partners, suppliers.

Snowflake’s unified platform offers industry-specific data clouds. Advertising, media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, technology and telecom are included.

Snowflake also recently launched the Government and Education Data Cloud to enable data-driven decision-making for the public sector.

Snowflake plans to host and operate NeMo. NeMo is nVidia’s cloud-native enterprise platform for building, customizing and deploying generative AI models, on the data cloud.

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Devkits for PS5 Pro will ship by the end of 2023

The more powerful Playstation 5 Pro is to come. Now a leak gives an idea of ​​the time frame. Before that there will probably be a new standard PS5.

Image: Sony, Sony Playstation 5 (PS5) Artwork.
Image: Sony, Sony Playstation 5 (PS5) Artwork.

There have been rumors for a long time about a more powerful version of the Playstation 5. It will probably like the PS4 carry the name suffix Pro. Now the usually very well informed US journalist Tom Henderson has confirmed that Sony is working on such a console: The reports are “100 percent” correct.

While that doesn’t mean the PS5 Pro will actually launch. After all Sony could opt for a different business strategy. But it’s very likely.

Henderson reports on the Insider Gaming website that the manufacturer’s internal development studios should receive the first devkit prototypes within the next few months.

External studios should get the devkits towards the end of 2023. Henderson estimates that the PS5 Pro will appear in late 2024. Then the game developers would have had about a year to adapt their games to the new and basically compatible hardware.

Henderson also writes again that a new version of the Playstation 5 should be launched in the course of 2023. This is not a Slim like the ones seen in previous generations of consoles, but an only slightly modified PS5, to which an external drive can be connected if necessary.

Playstation 5: buy now or wait?

If you are thinking about buying a Playstation 5 that is currently available for immediate delivery, it is not that easy given the leaks. If you want to play the latest releases, it’s probably not worth waiting for the overhauled stock PS5.

According to the current state of information, the new console version should hardly take up less space and only have a moderately reduced power consumption. The next first-party title from Sony itself is not expected until the end of 2023 and it should be Spider-Man 2.

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Hogwarts Legacy promises over 100 side quests in an epic journey

Hogwarts Legacy promises over 100 side quests in an epic journey. Players can expect to spend a lot of time learning the ropes as they play Hogwarts Legacy.

Image: Hogwarts, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.

Promotion for the upcoming game Hogwarts Legacy is in full swing and the title is already promising gamers a lot of bang for their buck. Now we learn that they can expect more than 100 side quests as part of the larger wizarding experience.

We’ve already heard that players will need to allow 75 hours for the game, although those who just want to focus on the main storyline will likely be able to complete the game in around 40 hours. Now we seem to know where those extra 35 hours went.

“The main storyline is intricate and compelling, and involves a variety of different characters and points of view,” said author Moira Squier in an interview with GamesRadar+ , “but by giving the player choices throughout the game, we allow them to create their own version of this epic story to tell.”

These choices mean that the 100+ side quests can be completed in any order the player desires. There’s no linear progression, but that doesn’t mean player choices won’t have an impact. The order in which the player completes these quests will affect the story and the game. Everything is connected,” Squier told GamesRadar+, “while it was challenging, it was also a lot of fun and it’s nice to see how well it’s turned out.”

All of this sounds pretty epic, and Hogwarts Legacy is shaping up to be a game that some people should check out, even if they’re not that into the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Of course Potter doesn’t feature in this game – the story in Hogwarts Legacy takes place about 100 years before Potter was born and about 50 years before the Fantastic Beasts trilogy.

Hogwarts Legacy will be available on February 10th for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

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Competition for SSD

Competition for SSD: 1.4 petabytes of data on future magnetic tape

Tape storage technology seemed to be falling short of expectations recently. Now it looks like it’s catching up again – thanks to a new material.

Linear Tape Open (LTO) first appeared on the market in 2000. At that time, the storage media that recorded data as encoded tracks on magnetic tape still had a capacity of 200 gigabytes.

The tapes have now reached their ninth generation and are currently able to record data volumes of 18 terabytes (uncompressed). The technology is a cost-effective way, especially for companies, to preserve critical data reliably and durably.

Image: Data Storage, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.
Image: Data Storage, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.

LTO09 still fell short of expectations

But what sounds like an incredible amount of storage space was initially a disappointment. LTO09 was originally supposed to offer 24 terabytes of space, but could not meet these expectations.

According to a new roadmap presented by the developers IBM, HPE and Quantum at the beginning of September, it should be possible to store a whopping 1,440 terabytes (1.4 petabytes) from the 14th generation, which is expected to appear in 2033/34.

Magnetic storage tapes: New material creates new possibilities

According to Heise Online , this is made possible by coating the magnetic tapes with strontium ferrite (SrFe) instead of barium ferrite (BaFe), which has been used up until now. The first prototypes have already been developed and tested by Fujifilm. The new material is to be used from LTO13.

In contrast to SSD hard drives, whose maximum capacity is currently around 100 terabytes, LTO is also significantly cheaper. While the most expensive SSD medium with a price of 40,000 US dollars causes costs of 2.5 dollars per gigabyte, LTO are only 0.01 dollars per gigabyte.

According to Sam Werner, IBM vice president of storage product management, LTO “provides organizations with a sustainable, reliable and cost-effective solution to protect and store their critical business data.”

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Nvidia GeForce Now adds mobile touch controls to a new collection of games

Nvidia has expanded the list of titles available on its cloud gaming platform that work with touch controls.

GeForce Now has already offered some onscreen controls for mobile gamers – notably for Fortnite and Genshin Impact. This list is now expanding to include a number of games that work without a joypad on phones and tablets.

These include Trine 2, Slay the Spire, and Dota Underlords. There are also some games that only work with touch controls on the tablet, including Shadowrun Returns, Talisman: Digital Edition, and Magic: The Gathering Arena.

Image: Video Game, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.
Image: Video Game, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.

The full list of touch-enabled games:

Mobile and tablet

  • Dota Underlords (Steam)
  • Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
  • Into the Breach (Steam und Epic Games)
  • Papers, Please (Steam)
  • Slay the Spire (Steam)
  • Tabletop Simulator (Steam)
  • Trine 2: Complete Story (Steam)

Tablet only

  • Bridge Constructor Portal (Steam)
  • Door Kickers (Steam)
  • Magic: The Gathering Arena (Wizards.com und Epic Games)
  • March of the Empires (Steam)
  • Monster Train (Steam)
  • Shadowrun Returns (Steam and Epic Games)
  • Talisman: Digital Edition (Steam)

Nvidia’s GeForce Now works with your own games purchased from various supported digital stores such as Steam and Epic Games Store. Some, like Fortnite, are free to play.

The GeForce Now app for Android also now has a new Mobile Touch Controls row where you can find supported games. The Android app now also includes Apaptive VSync support for select games to improve performance.