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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. …
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ConocoPhillips Sparks Tooling For Seismic HPC, Cloud, AI/ML
Seismic processing and analysis at scale take scalable HPC resources but also need an analytics backend that can scale with massive datasets. …
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How Facebook Architects Around Silent Data Corruption
Silent but deadly: there is nothing more destructive than data corruptions that cannot be caught by the various error capture tools in hardware and even in software, can be hard to spot before they have infected an entire application. …
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Rethinking MPI for GPU Accelerated Supercomputers
In the accelerated era of exascale supercomputing, MPI is being pushed to its logical limits. …
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Jupyter Expands Orbit in Supercomputing
Jupyter may have had its beginnings in enterprise data problems but some in the high performance computing community has been adopting it as the prime platform for both data science and AI at massive scale. …
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Can SYCL Slice into Broader Supercomputing?
There are a few unignorable trends in high performance computing, especially in the exascale age. …
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UK Startup Funded to Create End-All OS for Quantum Computing
The 2010s provided a range of new quantum hardware makers to evaluate but the 2020s will be focused far more software for broader use of nascent quantum devices. …
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Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Just Got More Accessible for Mainstream AI
While the promise of neuromorphic computing going mainstream is still mostly unrealized, there are steps being taken to bring it closer to reality. …
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A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation
For those who are at the intersection of AI hardware and software, the open source Apache TVM effort is already well known and used among a number of chipmakers as well as developers. …