AI
Nvidia Elevates The Conversation For Natural Language Processing
As artificial neural networks for natural language processing (NLP) continue to improve, it is becoming easier and easier to chat with our computers. …
Articles by Michael Feldman
HPC
US Military Buys Three Cray Supercomputers
Under two unrelated US Department of Defense procurements, Cray has been awarded a total of $71 million to supply the Air Force and Army with a trio of HPC systems. …
Compute
Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator
Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and spatial envelopes of modern processors. …
Store
Nvidia GPU Accelerators Get A Direct Pipe To Big Data
Nvidia has unveiled GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that enables its GPUs to talk directly with NVM-Express storage. …
Compute
Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator
Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA. …
Store
New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production
The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory (RAM) technologies. …
Cloud
Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argue For Colocation
Nvidia’s DGX platforms are powerhouses for training neural networks, offering up to 2 petaflops of peak machine learning performance. …
AI
The Singularity Is Nearer: Microsoft Places $1 Billion Bet On Artificial General Intelligence
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in AI research company OpenAI to build a set of technologies that can deliver artificial general intelligence (AGI). …
Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC bare metal servers hooked together with a 100 Gb/sec RDMA network. …
Compute
Intel Aims to Scale Up Neuromorphic Computing
Intel has moved a step closer to commercial neuromorphic computing with the development of a 64-chip system that provides eight million artificial neurons. …