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Someone Has To Pay To Push The Bleeding Edge Of Systems
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, side by side. …
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Hadoop And Spark Get A Vector Performance Boost
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 to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation and modeling jobs that are based on crunching numbers in single and double precision floating point. …
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Where The FPGA Hits The Server Road For Inference Acceleration
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 workloads is the combination of traditional CPUs acting as a host for FPGAs that run the bulk of the inferring. …
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Teasing Out The Bang For The Buck Of Inference Engines
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 market for engines that do machine learning inference. …
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Shooting The Machine Learning Rapids With Open Source
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 tagged text, audio, image, and video data to analyze and sometimes transpose that data into a different form. …
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HPC File Systems Fail for Deep Learning at Scale
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 on the same hardware and software stacks are emerging. …
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Deep Learning Just Dipped into Exascale Territory
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 its balanced GPU and IBM Power9 profile (not to mention the on-site expertise to get those graphics engines doing cutting-edge work outside of traditional simulations). …
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Inferring The Future Of The FPGA, And Then Making It
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. …
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Open Compute A Foot In the Datacenter Door For Inspur
It is certainly true that no technology company can grow if they are not able to do business in China. …
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Boosting the Clock for High Performance FPGA Inference
A few years ago the market was rife with deep learning chip startups aiming at AI training. …