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Now Comes The Hard Part, AMD: Software
From the moment the first rumors surfaced that AMD was thinking about acquiring FPGA maker Xilinx, we thought this deal was as much about software as it was about hardware. …
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To Cure Iron Anemia With SYCL, Intel Buys Codeplay
Intel doesn’t want to just create a rival to the CUDA programming model and library stack so it can better compete against Nvidia in the GPU compute market. …
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With ROCm Software And Instinct MI200 GPUs, AMD Has Ecosystem Critical Mass
Paid Feature Great hardware is the foundation of any compute platform. …
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Strong Showing for Julia Across HPC Platforms
There are good reasons for the persistence of C, C++ and Fortran in high performance computing, even with some the inherent productivity challenges (extensive memory management and debugging in particular). …
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U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes
The era of vector supercomputing might sound like ancient history to some but it’s still deeply rooted in major commercial and government institutions. …
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Coiling Python Around Hybrid Quantum Systems
At this nascent stage of quantum computing, each of the limited hardware/device makers have their own software stacks. …
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Nvidia Entangled in Quantum Simulators
Quantum simulators are a strange breed of systems for purposes that might seem a bit nebulous from the outset. …
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Python Could Reset the AI Inference Playing Field
When it comes to neural network training, Python is the language of choice. …
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Why Julia is Turning Heads in 2021
…After toiling away in relative obscurity for over a decade, open source Julia is right on time for the big enterprise AI/ML code modernization party.
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China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source
We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …