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The main purpose of VMware Private AI with Intel is to enable the virtualization giant’s customers to use existing Intel-based infrastructure and open-source software to ‘simplify building and deploying AI models’ with an emphasis on ‘practical privacy and compliance needs,’ the company says.

VMware and Intel said they are collaborating to help businesses adopt privacy-minded AI solutions faster by eliminating the guesswork to make the solutions run well on existing infrastructure.

At this week’s VMware Explore 2023 event in Barcelona, the virtualization giant said it has teamed with Intel to develop a validated reference architecture called VMware Private AI with Intel, which consists of VMware Cloud Foundation and its AI computing features as well as Intel’s Xeon CPUs, Max Series GPUs and AI software suite.

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The reference architecture is set for release by next month, and it will be supported by servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo running fourth-generation Intel Xeon CPUs and Intel Max Series GPUs.

Chris Wolf, vice president of VMware AI Labs, said in a statement to CRN that the reference architecture will create new opportunities for VMware and Intel’s joint partners.

“Our broad and growing ecosystem of AI apps and services, MLOps tools, AI hardware and data services is creating considerable optionality by which our joint partners can customize and differentiate,” he said.

The reference architecture is an alternative to the VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform, which was unveiled in August and enables businesses to develop and run AI models on Dell, HPE and Lenovo servers powered by Nvidia GPUs, DPUs and SmartNICs.

Intel is hurry to challenge Nvidia’s dominant position in the AI computing space with not just GPUs but also CPUs with AI acceleration capabilities such as Advanced Matrix Extensions. Tuning its hardware and software to run AI workloads well on VMware’s multi-cloud platform is an important step in giving the semiconductor giant a better fighting chance as it ramps up competition in silicon.

“With the potential of artificial intelligence to unlock powerful new possibilities and Excellerate the life of every person on the planet, Intel and VMware are well equipped to lead enterprises into this new era of AI, powered by silicon and software,” said Sandra Rivera, the outgoing executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center and AI Group, in a statement.

The main purpose of VMware Private AI with Intel is to enable the virtualization giant’s customers to use existing Intel-based infrastructure and open-source software to “simplify building and deploying AI models” with an emphasis on “practical privacy and compliance needs,” according to VMware.

This applies to infrastructure wherever “enterprise data is being created, processed and consumed, whether in a public cloud, enterprise data center or at the edge,” the company said.

By tapping into existing infrastructure, businesses can reduce total cost of ownership and address concerns of environmental sustainability, it added.

“When it comes to AI, there is no longer any reason to debate trade-offs in choice, privacy and control. Private AI empowers customers with all three, enabling them to accelerate AI adoption while future-proofing their AI infrastructure,” Wolf said.

The AI computing reference architecture covers the crucial steps of building and running AI models, from data preparation and model training to fine-tuning and inferencing. The use cases are wide open, from accelerating scientific discovery to enriching business and consumer services.

“VMware Private AI with Intel will help our mutual customers dramatically increase worker productivity, ignite transformation across major business functions and drive economic impact,” Wolf added.

Intel’s AI software suite consists of “end-to-end open-source software and optional licensing components to enable developers to run full AI pipeline workflows,” according to VMware. This includes Intel’s oneAPI framework for letting developers writing code once to target software for multiple types of processors as well as Intel’s Transformer Extensions and PyTorch Extensions.

VMware Cloud Foundation provides complementary features for building and running AI models, such as vSAN Express Storage Architecture for accelerating capabilities such as encryption, vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler for maximizing hardware utilization for AI models and training, and VMware NSX for micro-segmentation and threat protection capabilities.

The multi-cloud platform also comes with secure boot and Virtual Trusted Platform Module features for enabling model and data confidentiality.

Playing professional football, especially if you are a lineman, may shorten your life, a new study suggests.

The University of Minnesota researchers thought that perhaps professional football players are unlike "American men in general" in ways that determine their future health.

"When we started digging into the literature on later life health outcomes for professional American football players, we were initially surprised to find a relatively large number of studies that found football players lived longer than American men in general," said study co-author Gina Rumore. She is program development director of the university's Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation.

"We believe a better strategy for understanding the association between playing football and mortality is to compare football players to men who are like them in every respect -- except they never played professional football," Rumore added in a university news release.

So, the researchers compared men drafted to play professional football in the 1950s, some of whom played and some of whom never played in any professional league.

The investigators then compared professional football players who began their careers in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s to a nationally representative group of men who were employed, not disabled, not poor and who had completed at least three years of college.

The first analysis showed that linemen die earlier than otherwise similar men.

In the second analysis, the researchers saw that 3.1% of football players died within 25 years, while only 2.3% of their peers did.

"Professional football players may live longer than 'American men in general,' but this does not mean that playing professional football extends players' lives," said lead study author Rob Warren, a professor in the College of Liberal Arts.

"In fact, when we compare players to otherwise comparable men, linemen's lives are shorter and other players' lives are about the same length," Warren said.

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by the Minnesota Population Center and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center, both of which receive core funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Dre’ Abadie, public-sector senior solutions architect at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies that seek to strengthen the cybersecurity of their hybrid cloud or multicloud environments should partner with companies that provide cross-cloud visibility and analytical insights and advance automation of security tasks.

Abadie wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com that as agencies transition to zero trust, they should look for providers “that are clear and transparent in terms of what they can offer” instead of partnering with vendors that claim to have one-size-fits-all platforms.

“They should also choose companies that have robust ecosystems of partners so that together they can provide the comprehensive security coverage agencies need,” he noted.

Abadie, who spent over 25 years at the Department of Defense, highlighted the need for agencies to empower employees to focus on the mission as they advance information technology modernization.

“Employees understand the agency’s vision and purpose better than anyone. Let them concentrate on achieving the mission, and let industry partners run the infrastructure and platforms,” he stated.

The VMware executive said IT leaders should perform due diligence on agreements involving services being offered across multiple clouds.

“That effort is absolutely critical for agencies to have a clear understanding of their dependencies with cloud service providers,” Abadie added.

Have a challenging goal ahead? Some anger could help you achieve it, according to new research.

For the study, published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers analyzed the role of anger in different scenarios, including a variety of challenges and a survey. One experiment, for example, focused on participants' completion of word puzzles after being shown images designed to elicit specific emotional responses.  

Across all the experiments, researchers found anger improved the participants' ability to reach challenging goals compared to a neutral emotional condition. In some cases, anger was associated with higher scores or faster response times — while in one experiment, they found, it increased the rate of cheating to win prizes.

Anger did not, however, seem to Excellerate outcomes when the goals were easier instead of challenging. In certain experiments, amusement or desire were also associated with increased goal attainment, but anger was associated with increased success across the board.

"People often believe that a state of happiness is ideal, and the majority of people consider the pursuit of happiness a major life goal," lead author Heather Lench, a professor at Texas A&M University, said in a news release. "The view that positive emotion is ideal for mental health and well-being has been prominent in lay and psychological accounts of emotion, but previous research suggests that a mix of emotions, including negative emotions like anger, result in the best outcomes."

Researchers also analyzed survey data collected from the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections, where people were asked how angry they'd be if their candidate didn't win. Though it had no effect on who they voted for, those who said they would be angry were more likely to vote in the election. 

"These findings demonstrate that anger increases effort toward attaining a desired goal, frequently resulting in greater success," Lench said.

Nicholette Leanza, a licensed professional clinical counselor with mental health care company LifeStance Health, who was not involved in the study, told CBS News that the findings didn't surprise her. 

"Often with my own clients, I've noticed when they move from being sad about something that didn't happen for them to feeling angry about it, they're more likely to take action to make things better for themselves," she said. "Their anger about the situation is the motivator behind moving them forward."

Alyssa Mairanz, owner and executive director of Empower Your Mind Therapy, who was also not involved in the study, explained how emotions can be strong motivators.

"In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) we like to look at emotions as neither good nor bad; they are the reality," she says. "In DBT we also talk about emotions having three main functions: Emotions can communicate to and influence others; they can organize and motivate for action, which is what the study showed; and they can be self-validating and indicators of our needs."

While any emotion, including anger, is valid, Mairanz says, they should be used as guidance on how to proceed — but this can be done effectively or ineffectively.

"Impulsively acting on an emotion can lead to negative consequences if we don't act in our best interests," she says. "Anger is an especially risky emotion because it tends to be the one where people act most impulsively. Acting on anger without thought can cause someone to lash out verbally or even physically. Generally, that is not the most effective action in the situation."

Even if anger can help with certain goals, prolonged states or intense bouts of it can be unhealthy for your mind and body. It has also been linked to mental health challenges including depression.

"As we can see from the study, anger can be a motivator. But if a person stays angry for extended periods of time, that is not helpful or healthy at all," Leanza says. "We often say anger turned inward is depression, and we definitely see this when people struggle to manage their anger over long periods of time. So, anger can be positive for short blasts of motivation, but long periods of it can really turn a person toxic."

And because of the connection between brain and body, anger can also impact our physical health.

"Like other emotions, (anger) is accompanied by physiological and biological changes; when you get angry, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of your energy hormones, adrenaline, and noradrenaline," according to the American Psychological Association.

Adding an extra cup of unsweetened coffee each day was associated with a reduced risk of gaining weight over a four-year period, according to a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on Oct. 1.

The benefit, however, was canceled if a person added a teaspoon of sugar to the hot beverage.

Adding "cream or non-dairy coffee whitener" did not have an effect on weight, the published report said.

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Researchers from the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, collected data from three prospective cohort studies: the Nurses’ Health Study (1986-2010), the Nurses’ Health Study II (1991-2015) and the Health Professional Follow-up Study (1991-2014).

The research zeroed in on the relationship between coffee consumption habits and body weight changes during four-year increments.

Participants completed questionnaires about the foods and beverages they consumed. 

The researchers looked at both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption and considered whether the drinks were prepared with sugar, non-sweeteners or cream, the study said.

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The findings revealed that one additional cup of unsweetened coffee per day was associated with a decrease of .12 kilograms or .26 pounds over a four-year period. 

Participants who increased their daily intake by one teaspoon of sugar, however, gained .09 kilograms or .20 pounds over that same period.

These associations between coffee and sugar consumption with changes in body weight were more significant among younger participants and those who were considered overweight or obese.

Nutrition experts who were not involved with the study shared their thoughts with Fox News Digital on the findings.

"Increasing intake of a warm, low- to no-calorie beverage may Excellerate body weight, as increasing fluids, especially warm fluids, can Excellerate the feeling of satiety, which may lead to fewer overall calories consumed throughout the day," Erin Palinski-Wade, a New Jersey-based registered dietitian, told Fox News Digital.

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Adding sugar could negate the benefit of weight loss associated with coffee, as sugar can be a source of extra calories without providing a feeling of satiety, Palinski-Wade said.

However, adding certain creamers/whiteners may have benefits, she indicated.  

"Milk and creamer additions can add protein/fat, which may help with satiety," she said. 

"In addition, few individuals use excessive quantities of milk or creamer as they do with added sugar, due to a preference for sweets."

The study did have some potential limitations, Palinski-Wade noted.

"It is important to remember that these findings show an association and not a causation," she said. 

"Individuals who add sugar to coffee may also be more likely to eat added sugar in other ways throughout the day, which can impact body weight and health."

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On the other hand, those who consume unsweetened coffee may be more likely to focus on reducing added sugar in their overall diet, she added.

Kim Kulp, a registered dietitian-nutrition and owner of the Gut Health Connection in San Francisco, told Fox News Digital that the study shows an association between sweetened coffee and long-term weight gain — but that’s very different from showing that a small amount of sugar added to coffee actually causes weight gain. 

"A teaspoon of sugar contains 16 calories and only 4 grams of carbohydrates," she said. 

"This tiny increase in calories by itself isn’t likely to cause weight gain, but it may tell us something about those who prefer to start their day with a little sweetness."

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There are other associations to explore aside from adding sugar to coffee, the expert noted, such as whether they eat more sugar each day than those who don’t, as well as any other diet and lifestyle factors.

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"Most of the time, weight gain is about so much more than just one food," Kulp said.

Experts emphasized the importance of discussing any dietary concerns or weight loss efforts with a health care professional.

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VMware and Intel said they are collaborating to help businesses adopt privacy-minded AI solutions faster by eliminating the guesswork to make the solutions run well on existing infrastructure.

At this week’s VMware Explore 2023 event in Barcelona, the virtualisation giant said it has teamed with Intel to develop a validated reference architecture called VMware Private AI with Intel, which consists of VMware Cloud Foundation and its AI computing features as well as Intel’s Xeon CPUs, Max Series GPUs and AI software suite.

The reference architecture is set for release by next month, and it will be supported by servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo running fourth-generation Intel Xeon CPUs and Intel Max Series GPUs.

Chris Wolf, vice president of VMware AI Labs, said in a statement to CRN that the reference architecture will create new opportunities for VMware and Intel’s joint partners.

“Our broad and growing ecosystem of AI apps and services, MLOps tools, AI hardware and data services is creating considerable optionality by which our joint partners can customise and differentiate,” he said.

The reference architecture is an alternative to the VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform, which was unveiled in August and enables businesses to develop and run AI models on Dell, HPE and Lenovo servers powered by Nvidia GPUs, DPUs and SmartNICs.

Intel is hurry to challenge Nvidia’s dominant position in the AI computing space with not just GPUs but also CPUs with AI acceleration capabilities such as Advanced Matrix Extensions.

Tuning its hardware and software to run AI workloads well on VMware’s multi-cloud platform is an important step in giving the semiconductor giant a better fighting chance as it ramps up competition in silicon.

“With the potential of artificial intelligence to unlock powerful new possibilities and Excellerate the life of every person on the planet, Intel and VMware are well equipped to lead enterprises into this new era of AI, powered by silicon and software,” said Sandra Rivera, the outgoing executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Centre and AI Group, in a statement.

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The main purpose of VMware Private AI with Intel is to enable the virtualisation giant’s customers to use existing Intel-based infrastructure and open-source software to “simplify building and deploying AI models” with an emphasis on “practical privacy and compliance needs,” according to VMware.

This applies to infrastructure wherever “enterprise data is being created, processed and consumed, whether in a public cloud, enterprise data centre or at the edge,” the company said.

By tapping into existing infrastructure, businesses can reduce total cost of ownership and address concerns of environmental sustainability, it added.

“When it comes to AI, there is no longer any reason to debate trade-offs in choice, privacy and control. Private AI empowers customers with all three, enabling them to accelerate AI adoption while future-proofing their AI infrastructure,” Wolf said.

The AI computing reference architecture covers the crucial steps of building and running AI models, from data preparation and model training to fine-tuning and inferencing.

The use cases are wide open, from accelerating scientific discovery to enriching business and consumer services.

“VMware Private AI with Intel will help our mutual customers dramatically increase worker productivity, ignite transformation across major business functions and drive economic impact,” Wolf added.

Intel’s AI software suite consists of “end-to-end open-source software and optional licensing components to enable developers to run full AI pipeline workflows,” according to VMware.

This includes Intel’s oneAPI framework for letting developers writing code once to target software for multiple types of processors as well as Intel’s Transformer Extensions and PyTorch Extensions.

VMware Cloud Foundation provides complementary features for building and running AI models, such as vSAN Express Storage Architecture for accelerating capabilities such as encryption, vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler for maximising hardware utilisation for AI models and training, and VMware NSX for micro-segmentation and threat protection capabilities.

The multi-cloud platform also comes with secure boot and Virtual Trusted Platform Module features for enabling model and data confidentiality.