Fueling AI With A New Breed of Accelerated Computing
A major transformation is happening now as technological advancements and escalating volumes of diverse data drive change across all industries. …
A major transformation is happening now as technological advancements and escalating volumes of diverse data drive change across all industries. …
If the history of high performance computing has taught us anything, it is that we cannot focus too much on compute at the expense of storage and networking. …
When Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang told the assembled multitudes at the keynote opening to the GPU Technology Conference that the new DGX-2 system, weighing in at 2 petaflops at half precision using the latest Tesla GPU accelerators, would cost $1.5 million when it became available in the third quarter, the audience paused for a few seconds, doing the human-speed math to try to reckon how that stacked up to the DGX-1 servers sporting eight Teslas. …
It has happened time and time again in computing in the past three decades in the datacenter: A device scales up its capacity – be it compute, storage, or networking – as high as it can go, and then it has to go parallel and scale out. …
The expression, the tail wags the dog, is used when a seemingly unimportant factor or infrequent event actually dominates the situation. …
Six years ago, when Google decided to get involved with the OpenPower consortium being put together by IBM as its third attempt to bolster the use of Power processors in the datacenter, the online services giant had three applications that had over 1 billion users: Gmail, YouTube, and the eponymous search engine that has become the verb for search. …
When IBM launched the OpenPower initiative publicly five years ago, to many it seemed like a classic case of too little, too late. …
You can’t swing a good-sized cat without hitting an enterprise running Oracle software in some shape or form. …
There are two supercomputers named “Aurora” that are affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory – the one that was supposed to be built this year and the one that for a short time last year was known as “A21,” that will be built in 2021, and that will be the first exascale system built in the United States. …
It has been more than two months since Google revealed its research on the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities in modern processors, and caused the whole IT industry to slam on the brakes and brace for the impact. …
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