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Someone Has To Pay To Push The Bleeding Edge Of Systems

October 17, 2018 0

When you look at IBM, it is as if you are seeing many different instantiations of Big Blue across time playing out in the present, […]

Hadoop And Spark Get A Vector Performance Boost

October 17, 2018 0

Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool […]

Cloud

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 […]

Cloud

Spanning The Clouds, Public And Private, With The Kubernetes Stack

October 18, 2018 0

Enterprises are looking at a future of multiple clouds and hybrid clouds where they can run not only their new cloud-native applications but also migrate […]

Deep Learning Is Coming Of Age

October 18, 2018 0

In the early days of artificial intelligence, Hans Moravec asserted what became known as Moravec’s paradox: “It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult-level […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]