Intel teams up with DARPA to make HIVE Big Data platform a reality ZDNet

Intel and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a new collaboration designed to create a new, powerful data-handling and computing platform which leverages machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. On Tuesday, the tech giant and US agency said DARPA's program, dubbed the Hierarchical Identify Verify & Exploit (HIVE), has the potential to surpass current hardware used to handle Big Data by up to 1,000 times in performance-per-watt, and Intel's technological expertise has been chosen to push HIVE research and development further. Intel's Data Center Group (DCG), Platform Engineering Group (PEG) and Intel Labs will work on the hardware research for DARPA HIVE. The joint research program, which is estimated to take 4 and a half years, is worth over $100 million. In only a few years, over 90 percent of the data available today has been created. This notion of "Big Data" is not only valuable to businesses to analyze and detect patterns and tailor business models based on consumer behavior, but also to researchers who can plunder this data treasure trove for projects relating to everything from healthcare, security, or software development, among others.