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FPGA Startup Gathers Funding Force for Merged Hyperscale Inference
Around this time last year, we delved into a new FPGA-based architecture that targeted efficient, scalable machine learning inference from startup DeePhi Tech. …
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Big Bang For The Buck Jump With Volta DGX-1
One of the reasons why Nvidia has been able to quadruple revenues for its Tesla accelerators in recent quarters is that it doesn’t just sell raw accelerators as well as PCI-Express cards, but has become a system vendor in its own right through its DGX-1 server line. …
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Cray Supercomputing as a Service Becomes a Reality
For a mature company that kickstarted supercomputing as we know it, Cray has done a rather impressive job of reinventing itself over the years. …
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When Will AI Replace Traditional Supercomputing Simulations?
The science fiction of a generation ago predicted a future in which humans were replaced by the reasoning might of a supercomputer. …
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HPC to Deep Learning from an Asian Perspective
Big data, data science, machine learning, and now deep learning are all the rage and have tons of hype, for better—and in some ways, for worse. …
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Nvidia’s Tesla Volta GPU Is The Beast Of The Datacenter
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has taken more than a year and carefully and methodically transformed its GPUs into the compute engines for modern HPC, machine learning, and database workloads. …
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GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU
Moving data is the biggest problem in computing, and probably has been since there was data processing if we really want to be honest about it. …
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A Dive into Deep Learning Chip Startup Graphcore’s Software Stack
The last two years have delivered a new wave of deep learning architectures designed specifically for tackling both training and inference sides of neural networks. …
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Crunching Machine Learning And Databases Together On GPUs
While it is always best to have the right tool for the job, it is better still if a tool can be used by multiple jobs and therefore have its utilization be higher than it might otherwise be. …
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Generalizing a Hardware, Software Platform for Industrial AI
Industrial companies have replaced people with machines, systems analysts with simulations, and now the simulations themselves could be outpaced by machine learning—albeit with a human in the loop, at the beginning at least. …