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Even at the Edge, Scale is the Real Challenge
Neural networks live on data and rely on computational firepower to help them take in that data, train on it and learn from it. …
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Just How Large Can Nvidia’s Datacenter Business Grow?
The combination of the excitement for new video games, the machine learning software revolution, the buildout of very large supercomputers based on hybrid CPU-GPU architectures, and the mining of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have combined into a quadruple whammy that is driving Nvidia to new heights for revenues, profits, and market capitalization. …
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AI Will Not Be Taking Away Code Jobs Anytime Soon
There has been much recent talk about the near future of code writing itself with the help of trained neural networks but outside of some limited use cases, that reality is still quite some time away—at least for ordinary development efforts. …
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The Machine Learning Opportunity in Manufacturing, Logistics
There is increasing pressure in such fields as manufacturing, energy and transportation to adopt AI and machine learning to help improve efficiencies in operations, optimize workflows, enhance business decisions through analytics and reduce costs in logistics. …
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How AlphaGo Sparked a New Approach to De Novo Drug Design
Researcher Olexandr Isayev wasn’t just impressed to see an AI framework best the top player of a game so complex it was considered impossible for an algorithm to track. …
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Deep Learning is the Next Platform for Pathology
It is a renaissance for companies that sell GPU-dense systems and low-power clusters that are right for handling AI inference workloads, especially as they look to the healthcare market–one that for a while was moving toward increasing compute on medical devices. …
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Graphcore Builds Momentum with Early Silicon
There has been a great deal of interest in deep learning chip startup, Graphcore, since we first got the limited technical details of the company’s first-generation chip last year, which was followed by revelations about how their custom software stack can run a range of convolutional, recurrent, generative adversarial neural network jobs. …
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Oil and Gas Industry Gets GPU, Deep Learning Injection
Although oil and gas software giant, Baker Hughes, is not in the business of high performance computing, the software it creates for the world’s leading oil and gas companies requires supercomputing capabilities for some use cases and increasingly, these systems can serve double-duty for emerging deep learning workloads. …
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Startup Builds GPU Native Custom Neural Network Framework
It is estimated that each day over a million malicious files are created and kicked to every corner of the web. …
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The Hard Limits for Deep Learning in HPC
If the hype is to be believed, there is no computational problem that cannot be tackled faster and better by artificial intelligence. …