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Major Roadblocks on the Path to Machine Learning
In part one of this series last week, we discussed the emerging ecosystem of machine learning applications and what promise those portend. …
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The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There
Earlier this month, Samsung acquired Viv, the AI platform built by the creators of Siri that seeks to “open up the world of AI assistants to all developers. …
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The State of Enterprise Machine Learning
For a topic that generates so much interest, it is surprisingly difficult to find a concise definition of machine learning that satisfies everyone. …
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Adapteva Joins The Kilocore Club With Epiphany-V
The computing industry is facing a number of challenges as Moore’s Law improvements in circuitry slow down, and they don’t all have to do with transistor counts and memory bandwidth and such. …
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Ganging up Accelerators to Beat Scale Limits
It is not news that offloading work from CPUs to GPUs can grant radical speedups, but what can come as a surprise is that scaling of these workloads doesn’t change just because they run faster. …
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Accelerating Slow Databases That Wear People Down
Todd Mostak, the creator of the MapD GPU-accelerated database and visualization system, made that database because he was a frustrated user of other database technologies, and as a user, he is adamant that accelerating databases and making visualization of queried data is about more than just being a speed freak. …
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Baidu’s New Yardstick for Deep Learning Hardware Makers
When it comes to deep learning innovation on the hardware front, few other research centers have been as forthcoming with their results as Baidu. …
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Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs
What is good for the simulation and the machine learning is, as it turns out, also good for the database. …
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The Next Wave of Deep Learning Applications
Last week we described the next stage of deep learning hardware developments in some detail, focusing on a few specific architectures that capture what the rapidly-evolving field of machine learning algorithms require. …
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Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning Inference With New Pascal GPUs
No one knows for sure how pervasive deep learning and artificial intelligence are in the aggregate across all of the datacenters in the world, but what we do know is that the use of these techniques is growing and could represent a big chunk of the processing that gets done every millisecond of every day. …