The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving ...
Communications of the ACM

How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems

Traditional technical debt metaphors suggest something that can be paid down incrementally. Over-engineering does not behave ...
International Monetary Fund

A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...
TechCrunch

A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or any other popular social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that, ideally, its ...
IEEE

HD2FBCN: Hybrid Distributed Dual Deep Learning Model for Multiclass Object Classification

Abstract: Object classification refers to the identification, localization, and categorization of several objects present within a single image. The challenges faced using the traditional object ...
IEEE

Decentralized Model-Distributed Inference

Abstract: We introduce and study the problem of decentralized model distribution, where a deep neural network is partitioned into fixed blocks of layers, and the assignment of these blocks to ...