Business Wire India - Multimedia: Digest for December 14, 2023

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Table of Contents NVIDIA Hopper in Full Production New DHL Trade Growth Atlas: Strong Outlook for South Asia and India Despite Disruptions in Global Supply Chains Talent Critical for India's ECommerce Growth, Finds NIIT Survey A WALK FOR CAUSE by Alkem Foundation and ARDSI to Raise Awareness for Alzheimer's and Dementia at Mumbai University, Kalina

NVIDIA Hopper in Full Production Monday 26 September 2022 06:00 AM UTC+00 Business Wire India NVIDIA announced that the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production, with global tech partners planning in October to roll out the first wave of products and services based on the ground-breaking NVIDIA Hopper™ architecture. Unveiled in April, H100 is built with 80 billion transistors and benefits from a range of technology breakthroughs. Among them are the powerful new Transformer Engine and an NVIDIA NVLink® interconnect to accelerate the largest AI models, like advanced recommender systems and large language models, and to drive innovations in such fields as conversational AI and drug discovery. "Hopper is the new engine of AI factories, processing and refining mountains of data to train models with trillions of parameters that are used to drive advances in language-based AI, robotics, healthcare and life sciences," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Hopper's Transformer Engine boosts performance up to an order of magnitude, putting large-scale AI and HPC within reach of companies and researchers." In addition to Hopper's architecture and Transformer Engine, several other key innovations power the H100 GPU to deliver the next massive leap in NVIDIA's accelerated compute data center platform, including second-generation Multi-Instance GPU, confidential computing, fourth-generation NVIDIA NVLink and DPX Instructions. A five-year license for the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite is now included with H100 for mainstream servers. This optimizes the development and deployment of AI workflows and ensures organizations have access to the AI frameworks and tools needed to build AI chatbots, recommendation engines, vision AI and more. Global Rollout of Hopper H100 enables companies to slash costs for deploying AI, delivering the same AI performance with 3.5x more energy efficiency and 3x lower total cost of ownership, while using 5x fewer server nodes over the previous generation. For customers who want to immediately try the new technology, NVIDIA announced that H100 on Dell PowerEdge servers is now available on NVIDIA LaunchPad, which provides free hands-on labs, giving companies access to the latest hardware and NVIDIA AI software. Customers can also begin ordering NVIDIA DGX™ H100 systems, which include eight H100 GPUs and deliver 32 petaflops of performance at FP8 precision. NVIDIA Base Command™ and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software power every DGX system, enabling deployments from a single node to an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ supporting advanced AI development of large language models and other massive workloads. H100-powered systems from the world's leading computer makers are expected to ship in the coming weeks, with over 50 server models in the market by the end of the year and dozens more in the first half of 2023. Partners building systems include Atos, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, GIGABYTE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Supermicro. Additionally, some of the world's leading higher education and research institutions will be using H100 to power their next-generation supercomputers. Among them are the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Los Alamos National Lab, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Texas Advanced Computing Center and the University of Tsukuba. H100 Coming to the Cloud Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be among the first to deploy H100-based instances in the cloud starting next year. "We look forward to enabling the next generation of AI models on the latest H100 GPUs in Microsoft Azure," said Nidhi Chappell, general manager of Azure AI Infrastructure. "With the advancements in Hopper architecture coupled with our investments in Azure AI supercomputing, we'll be able to help accelerate the development of AI worldwide." "By offering our customers the latest H100 GPUs from NVIDIA, we're helping them accelerate their most complex machine learning and HPC workloads," said Karan Batta, vice president of product management at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Additionally, using NVIDIA's next generation of H100 GPUs allows us to support our demanding internal workloads and helps our mutual customers with breakthroughs across healthcare, autonomous vehicles, robotics and IoT." NVIDIA Software Support The advanced Transformer Engine technology of H100 enables enterprises to quickly develop large language models with a higher level of accuracy. As these models continue to grow in scale, so does the complexity, sometimes requiring months to train. To tackle this, some of the world's leading large language model and deep learning frameworks are being optimized on H100, including NVIDIA NeMo Megatron, Microsoft DeepSpeed, Google JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow and XLA. These frameworks combined with Hopper architecture will significantly speed up AI performance to help train large language models within days or hours. To learn more about NVIDIA Hopper and H100, watch Huang's GTC keynote. Register for GTC for free to attend sessions with NVIDIA and industry leaders.

New DHL Trade Growth Atlas: Strong Outlook for South Asia and India Despite Disruptions in Global Supply Chains Monday 26 September 2022 08:00 AM UTC+00 Business Wire India   International trade in goods has surged as high as 10% above pre-pandemic levels Despite the war in Ukraine, trade is projected to grow faster in 2022 and 2023 than it did over the previous decade New trade growth leaders emerging; India, Vietnam, and the Philippines stand out on both speed and scale of projected trade growth through 2026 From 2000 to 2021, trade grew faster in South & Central Asia, roughly doubling the region's share from 2.3% to 4.5% (primarily due to India's share rising from 0.7% to 2.2%) DHL and NYU Stern School of Business have published the new DHL Trade Growth Atlas, which maps the most important trends and prospects of global trade in goods. The report covers 173 countries, providing valuable business intelligence for policymakers and industry leaders. Despite recent shocks and market pessimism, it shines a positive light on the resilience of global trade.   "Our aim is for the DHL Trade Growth Atlas to become a go-to resource for understanding and navigating shifts in the global trade landscape. In the current global business environment, DHL can help customers rethink certain supply chains, basing them on a sensible trade-off between cost and risk so that they are both efficient and secure. As the world's leading logistics provider, we offer solutions for all logistics requirements, and have proven to provide stable and reliable services even in volatile market environments," says John Pearson, CEO of DHL Express. There was a surge of interest at the start of the pandemic in shortening supply chains and producing goods closer to customers. However, as trade recovered and global supply chains delivered a record amount of goods, many companies paused reshoring and nearshoring plans. Emerging economies, particularly those in Southeast and South Asia, became important exporters of sophisticated capital goods such as industrial equipment, engines, and raw materials. "It is fantastic to see emerging economies racing ahead in global trade. South Asia is expected to rapidly increase its share of global trade, with India doubling its trade volume growth rate in the next five years. Given the growing number of MSMEs in the region, it is only natural to enter this market and establish a strong supply chain network to access the ecosystem. We know that global trade growth impacts economic growth rates and enables countries to reduce inflation, as they gain access to key inputs such as industrial goods and raw materials through multiple trade routes. According to the data we have gathered, the shift in trading patterns will result in higher quality goods produced versus the quantity of goods produced by emerging markets in the future," says R.S Subramanian, SVP South Asia, DHL Express. Key Take-Aways: Growth, Shifts, and Opportunities As Asia led the trade expansion around the world during the past two decades, the growth of trade between regions tended to outpace the growth of trade within regions. This is largely because Europe and North America traded more with Asia as "Factory Asia" became increasingly central to global production networks. Between 2016 and 2021, China ranked first with the fastest growth in both exports and imports. But between 2021 and 2026, the ASEAN (Association of South­east Asian Nations) sub-region is forecasted to achieve the fastest export and import growth, followed by South & Cen­tral Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2000 to 2021, trade grew even faster in South & Central Asia, roughly doubling that region's share from 2.3% to 4.5% (primarily due to India's share rising from 0.7% to 2.2%). India's trade volume growth rate is forecast to double from 3% to 6%, boosting its speed rank from 72nd to 34th and its scale rank from 11th to 5th between 2021 and 2026. China was the dominant source of trade growth over the past five years and continues to be the single largest contributor to global trade growth, forecasted trade growth over the next five years is spread out more broadly across countries and regions China's growing domestic market—and policies aimed at a transition to consumption-led growth rather than export-led growth— boosted the share of output destined for China's own bur­geoning market. As a result, imports of goods and services fell from 28% of China's GDP in 2006 to 16% in 2020. Over the same period, China's exports-to-GDP ratio fell from 36% to 19%. Vietnam, India, and the Philippines all stand to benefit from efforts by many companies to diversify China-centric production and sourcing strategies. Emerging economies continue to race forward on measures of connectivity, innovation, and leading companies. They are becoming more important exporters of sophisticated manufactured products, and increasingly compete not only on low costs, but also on innovation and quality.   Understanding Global Trade and its Opportunities The DHL Trade Growth Atlas examines global trade growth trends, geographic shifts, the mix of products traded, and broader changes in the business environment. It analyzes trade in goods worldwide, by region, for advanced vs. emerging economies, and across 173 countries. The report features concise one-page summaries for each of these countries. The countries covered comprise more than 99% of world trade, GDP, and population. "We have sought to distill the most important data on the state and trajectory of global trade and to bring the data to life in maps, charts, and other visual content. The results show how there are still large trade growth opportunities in both advanced and emerging economies and in regions around the world. The trade landscape is shifting and presenting new challenges, but this report strongly rebuts predictions of a major retreat from global trade," says Steven Altman, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the DHL Initiative on Globalization at NYU Stern's Center for the Future of Management. The DHL Trade Growth Atlas complements the established DHL Global Connectedness Index series. While the DHL Trade Growth Atlas provides a special deep dive on global trade in goods, the DHL Global Connectedness Index, published regularly since 2011, analyzes the broader phenomenon of globalization – based on trade in goods and services, as well as worldwide flows of capital, people, and information. Both reports help pinpoint promising business opportunities, and support fact-based debates about trade and globalization. One can find the report for download as well as further information on https://bit.ly/3BEu2kL On the Internet: dpdhl.de/press Follow Deutsche Post DHL Group at: twitter.com/DeutschePostDHL

Talent Critical for India's ECommerce Growth, Finds NIIT Survey Monday 26 September 2022 09:26 AM UTC+00 Business Wire India As the Ecommerce players across the country gear up for the upcoming festive season, NIIT Limited, a leading global talent development corporation, today announced the launch of its thought paper titled "Talent Imperatives for ECommerce sector". Based on deep conversations and a survey with several Ecommerce leaders, across Product management, Program management, Engineering, New initiatives design, Operations, Real estate expansion and Sales, this paper highlights that Digital roles have already crossed Sales as the most On-demand job function in the Ecommerce industry, and Talent is the key differentiator in accelerating the growth.   The paper reiterates that in addition to the core Digital roles, business, and operations roles, such as Product Manager, Digital Marketer, Catalog Manager, and Supply Chain manager, extensively use the knowledge of Digital technologies to create great customer experiences and drive business growth. Unlike traditional retail companies, where Digital Commerce is created as a standalone vertical or centre of excellence, the contemporary ECommerce companies have 100% digital operating model. In such an integrated model, there is overlap and cross leverage of skills across verticals.   The paper also reports findings from a survey around the key skill sets and mind sets that are the most critical for ECommerce professionals across functions.    Additionally, the survey reflects that the top roles that drive Digital transformation and must be developed further are Leaders, followed by Product Managers and Category Managers.   Speaking on the thought paper and its findings, Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin, President, Skills, and Careers Business, NIIT Ltd. said, "India's ECommerce markets is poised for exponential growth over the next few years. Our paper highlights talent as the key differentiator for accelerating growth. To orchestrate a seamless workflow across functional verticals, the workforce needs a blend of functional as well as digital skills. NIIT has incubated multiple initiatives over the last few years to specifically address the growing demand for highly-skilled and contemporary technology and digital professionals in India. DigitALL by NIIT is an initiative that has helped organizations across IT Services, Digital Products, Global Captives, Large Banks and Financial Companies, and Consumer organizations build high-quality tech and digital talent. Our programs impart contextual digital and data skills to non-tech (business and operations) roles to enable them to drive digital businesses."   Please access the complete thought paper here.

A WALK FOR CAUSE by Alkem Foundation and ARDSI to Raise Awareness for Alzheimer's and Dementia at Mumbai University, Kalina Monday 26 September 2022 09:42 AM UTC+00 Business Wire India Alkem Foundation and the Mumbai Chapter of Alzheimer's & Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI) organized an Alzheimer's awareness campaign on 25th September, 2022 at the Mumbai University Campus, Kalina. The event saw more than 500 people participate, including citizens from all strata of society, medical practitioners, caregivers, corporate people, and non-governmental organizations. According to the Global Burden of Disease study (Lancet Public Health), 3.84 million individuals suffered from dementia in 2019, a figure expected to reach 11.44 million by 2050. This disease, Alzheimer's, gradually decreases the ability to remember and think clearly, escalating to a point where it affects an individual's daily lifestyle and well-being. Renowned psychiatrists, neurologists and neurosurgeons started the event with a message for the society, followed by a 1.5-kilometer walk to raise public awareness. During the event, Vidya Shenoy, Integrative Therapist and Dementia Care Specialist is Hon. Secretary, ARDSI Mumbai Chapter and Founder of Smriti Vishvam - Universe of Memory, a dementia Daycare Center in Mumbai said, "It is a pleasure to collaborate with Alkem for the third time to create more awareness of Alzheimer's and Dementia. Keeping in mind the challenge of Alzheimer's, dementia & its numbers shooting rapidly, once again ARDSI Mumbai Chapter and, now with Alkem Foundation Mumbai look forward to strengthening this collaboration for many years to come."   Ashok Priyadarshi V.P. Alkem Laboratories commented, "We need to inspire the community at large to be more aware and inclusive towards understanding Dementia and Alzheimer's. We pledge to stand with the Caregivers, Doctors and our Friends who are suffering from this challenging condition through support to AWARATHON 2.0."

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