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Deep Learning In R: Documentation Drives Algorithms
Hard to believe, but the R programming language has been with us since 1993. …
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AWS Puts More Muscle Behind Machine Learning And Database
Amazon Web Services essentially sparked the public cloud race a dozen years ago when it first launched the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service and then in short order the Simple Storage Service (S3), giving enterprises access to the large amount compute and storage resources that its giant retail business leaned on. …
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Inside Nvidia’s NVSwitch GPU Interconnect
At the GPU Technology Conference last week, we told you all about the new NVSwitch memory fabric interconnect that Nvidia has created to link multiple “Volta” GPUs together and that is at the heart of the DGX-2 system that the company has created to demonstrate its capabilities and to use on its internal Saturn V supercomputer at some point in the future. …
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The Buck Stops – And Starts – Here For GPU Compute
Ian Buck doesn’t just run the Tesla accelerated computing business at Nvidia, which is one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable products in its twenty five year history. …
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Momentum for Bioinspired GPU Computing at the Edge
Bioinspired computing is nothing new but with the rise in mainstream interest in machine learning, these architectures and software frameworks are seeing fresh light. …
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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. …
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Removing The Storage Bottleneck For AI
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. …
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An Inside Look at What Powers Microsoft’s Internal Systems for AI R&D
For those who might expect Microsoft to favor its own Windows-centric platforms and tools to power comprehensive infrastructure for serving AI compute and software services for internal R&D groups, plan on being surprised. …
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Getting to the Heart of HPC and AI at the Edge in Healthcare
For more than a decade, GE has partnered with Nvidia to support their healthcare devices. …
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Nvidia’s DGX-2 System Packs An AI Performance Punch
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. …