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A New Datacenter Compels Arm To Create A New Chip Line

October 16, 2018 0

The gap between processor architectures in the datacenter server and on the desktop or on our laps or now in our hands thanks to transistor […]

Where The FPGA Hits The Server Road For Inference Acceleration

October 15, 2018 0

There are an increasing number of ways to do machine learning inference in the datacenter, but one of the increasingly popular means of running inference […]

Teasing Out The Bang For The Buck Of Inference Engines

October 12, 2018 1

There is a battle heating up in the datacenter, and there are tens of billions of dollars at stake as chip makers chase the burgeoning […]

Shooting The Machine Learning Rapids With Open Source

October 11, 2018 0

There are a lot of different kinds of machine learning, and some of them are not based exclusively on deep neural networks that learn from […]

Architecting Storage And Compute At Exascale

October 10, 2018 0

When IBM’s Summit supercomputer was officially unveiled in June, some hailed it as the first exascale system because of its peak performance in applications that […]

Cloud

Red Hat Flexes CoreOS Muscle In OpenShift Kubernetes Platform

October 15, 2018 0

The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. At first, users begin to get […]

Getting HPC Simulations to Speak Deep Learning

October 12, 2018 0

We have written much over the last few years about the convergence of deep learning and traditional supercomputing but as the two grow together, it […]

HPC File Systems Fail for Deep Learning at Scale

October 9, 2018 1

Now that deep learning at traditional supercomputing centers is becoming a more pervasive combination, the infrastructure challenges of making both AI and simulations run efficiently […]

Accelerating the Shift to Software Defined Visualization

October 9, 2018 0

Advances in visualization are essential for managing—and maximizing value from—the rising flood of data, the growing sophistication of simulation codes, the convergence of machine learning […]

Deep Learning Just Dipped into Exascale Territory

October 5, 2018 0

We all expected that the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab would be a major part of pushing deep learning forward in HPC given […]

Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform

October 5, 2018 2

It is safe to say that a little more than a decade ago, when the clone of Google’s MapReduce and Google File System distributed storage […]

Full Qubit Access a Game-Changer for Quantum Development

October 4, 2018 0

As we argued a few weeks ago, the cloud is where quantum competition gets real. With all of the major quantum players (and it is […]

In A Parallel Universe, Data Warehouses Run On GPUs

October 4, 2018 0

Many programs have a tough time spanning across high levels of concurrency, but if they are cleverly coded, databases can make great use of massively […]

Will a Billion Dollars Buy Europe Exascale Dominance?

October 2, 2018 4

European supercomputing centers are known for deploying innovative architectures and working on cutting-edge applications, but the sheer number of these systems lags rather far behind […]