Deep Learning Chip Upstart Takes GPUs to Task
Update – 8/9/16 1:00 p.m. Pacific – Not even 24 hours after this story was posted Intel bought Nervana Systems. …
Update – 8/9/16 1:00 p.m. Pacific – Not even 24 hours after this story was posted Intel bought Nervana Systems. …
Stacking up electronics equipment in precise form factors that slide into standard racks is not a new idea, and in fact it is one that predates the modern era of computing. …
Bad things sometimes happen to good companies, but the great ones are resilient; they ride out the difficulties and keep forging ahead. …
Over the years there have been numerous efforts to use unconventional, low-power, graphics-heavy processors for traditional supercomputing applications—with varying degrees of success. …
The two-socket Xeon server has been the default workhorse machine in the datacenter for so long and to such a great extent that using anything else almost looks aberrant. …
The concept of composable or disaggregated infrastructure is nothing new, but with approaching advances in technology on both the software and network sides (photonics in particular) an old idea might be infused with new life. …
With this summer’s announcement of China’s dramatic shattering of top supercomputing performance numbers using ten million relatively simple cores, there is a perceptible shift in how some are considering the future of the world’s fastest, largest systems. …
Just because Intel doesn’t make a lot of noise about a product does not mean that it is not important for the company. …
As we have seen with gathering force, ARM is making a solid bid for datacenters of the future. …
Would you rather have tens of thousands of customers who collectively spend a lot of money but their spending rises and falls with the gross domestic product, or a couple of dozen customers who spend almost as much on your product but who do so with massive checks that are not always predictable? …
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