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Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI

March 18, 2019 0

To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update […]

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Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance

March 18, 2019 0

When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. But not for processors […]

Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms

March 15, 2019 0

The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but […]

AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers

March 14, 2019 0

If we are talking about infrastructure it might seem obvious to take a systems-level view. But the introduction of AI and machine learning with all […]

NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics

March 12, 2019 0

Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. NVM-Express started […]

Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology

March 15, 2019 1

This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. To […]

Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space

March 14, 2019 0

At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Professor Joe Oefelein, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is heading up a […]

The Evolving Infrastructure at the Edge

March 13, 2019 0

The edge is getting a lot of attention these days, given the fast-growing amount of data that is being generated by the proliferation of devices […]

Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal

March 12, 2019 0

The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much […]

Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox

March 11, 2019 1

The related but distinct HPC and AI markets gave Nvidia a taste for building systems, and it looks like the company wants to control more […]

Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing

March 11, 2019 0

Optalysys, a startup based in the United Kingdom, has introduced an entry-level optical coprocessor, the first such system of its kind on the market. The […]

IBM Pumps Up The Volume On Its Quantum Computing Effort

March 7, 2019 0

IBM has announced that it has achieved a new high-water mark in “quantum volume,” a metric the company is using to assess the capability of […]

Lighting a Fire Under Liquid Immersion Cooling

March 6, 2019 3

As server racks become more thermally dense, the costs and logistics of conventional cooling becomes ever-more challenging. These difficulties are compounded in high performance computing, […]

NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change

March 5, 2019 0

When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. […]