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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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Tech leaders size up what it’ll take to turn Pacific Northwest into a ‘Quantum Valley’

GeekWire

The Seattle area has been there before: as Jet City, by virtue of Boeing’s dominance in commercial aviation; as Satellite City, by virtue of the satellite factories built by SpaceX, Amazon, LeoStella and Xplore; and as Cloud City, by virtue of the leading roles played by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud computing.

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The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

CIO Business Intelligence

The giant pharmaceutical chain had put its lakehouse in place to address just such challenges in its quest, to, as Guadagno puts it, “To get the right product in the right place for the right patient.”. Starburst takes a mesh approach, leveraging open-source Trino technology in Starburst Enterprise to improve access to distributed data.

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