Intel, Cloudera open source tech unleashes power of artificial intelligence workloads - Data Economy

Intel and data management company Cloudera have jointly launched a solution aimed at speeding up the process of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The need for next generation predictive analytics, with insights being used on real-time automated decision processes has become more relevant to the business layer as enterprises dependence on data increases. The newly launched solution, Benchmark, has been tested on Cloudera with Apache Spark and the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) to address their need for speed. The companies claim that by combining Spark, Intel MKL libraries, and Intel's optimised CPU architecture machine learning workloads can scale quickly. As machine learning solutions get access to more data they can provide better accuracy in delivering predictive maintenance, recommendation engines, proactive healthcare and monitoring, and risk and fraud detection.