AI
Fueling AI With A New Breed of Accelerated Computing
A major transformation is happening now as technological advancements and escalating volumes of diverse data drive change across all industries. …
Compute
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Nvidia’s DGX-2 System Packs An AI Performance Punch
When Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang told the assembled multitudes at the keynote opening to the GPU Technology Conference that the new DGX-2 system, weighing in at 2 petaflops at half precision using the latest Tesla GPU accelerators, would cost $1.5 million when it became available in the third quarter, the audience paused for a few seconds, doing the human-speed math to try to reckon how that stacked up to the DGX-1 servers sporting eight Teslas. …
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Google And Its Hyperscale Peers Add Power To The Server Fleet
Six years ago, when Google decided to get involved with the OpenPower consortium being put together by IBM as its third attempt to bolster the use of Power processors in the datacenter, the online services giant had three applications that had over 1 billion users: Gmail, YouTube, and the eponymous search engine that has become the verb for search. …
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OpenPower At The Inflection Point
When IBM launched the OpenPower initiative publicly five years ago, to many it seemed like a classic case of too little, too late. …
Compute
Turbulence – And Opportunity – Ahead In The Oracle Sparc Base
You can’t swing a good-sized cat without hitting an enterprise running Oracle software in some shape or form. …
Compute
A Reference Architecture for NVMe over Fabrics
Cavium has raised its profile over the past several years as one of the pioneers in developing Arm-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for servers, rolling out multiple generations of its ThunderX chips in hope of pushing Arm’s low-power architecture make gains in a datacenter environment that for years has been dominated by Intel and its x86-based Xeons. …
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FPGA Maker Xilinx Says the Future of Computing is ACAP
The field programmable gate space is heating up with new use cases driven by everything from emerging network, IoT, and application acceleration trends. …
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How Spectre And Meltdown Mitigation Hits Xeon Performance
It has been more than two months since Google revealed its research on the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities in modern processors, and caused the whole IT industry to slam on the brakes and brace for the impact. …
AI
IBM Unwinds Tangled Data for Enterprise AI
These days, organizations are creating and storing massive amounts of data, and in theory this data can be used to drive business decisions through application development, particularly with new techniques such as machine learning. …
AI
Getting AI Leverage With GPU-Optimized Systems
The artificial intelligence revolution is quickly changing every industry, and modern data centers must be equipped to capitalize on these extraordinary new capabilities. …