AI
Risk or Reward: First Nvidia DGX-1 Boxes Hit the Cloud
If you can’t beat the largest cloud players at economies of scale, the only option is to try to outrun them in performance, capabilities, or price. …
Compute
Compute
Xeon E3: A Lesson In Moore’s Law And Dennard Scaling
If you want an object lesson in the interplay between Moore’s Law, Dennard scaling, and the desire to make money from selling chips, you need look no further than the past several years of Intel’s Xeon E3 server chip product lines. …
Compute
Fujitsu Takes On IBM Power9 With Sparc64-XII
While a lot of the applications in the world run on clusters of systems with a relatively modest amount of compute and memory compared to NUMA shared memory systems, big iron persists and large enterprises want to buy it. …
Compute
First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture
Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. …
Compute
Machine Learning, Analytics Play Growing Role in US Exascale Efforts
Exascale computing promises to bring significant changes to both the high-performance computing space and eventually enterprise datacenter infrastructures. …
Compute
Intel “Kaby Lake” Xeon E3 Sets The Server Cadence
The tick-tock-clock three step dance that Intel will be using to progress its Core client and Xeon server processors in the coming years is on full display now that the Xeon E3-1200 v6 processors based on the “Kaby Lake” have been unveiled. …
Compute
Google Researchers Measure the Future in Microseconds
The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. …
AI
Neuromorphic, Quantum, Supercomputing Mesh for Deep Learning
It is difficult to shed a tear for Moore’s Law when there are so many interesting architectural distractions on the systems horizon. …
Compute
Intel Vigorously Defends Chip Innovation Progress
With absolute dominance in datacenter and desktop compute, considerable sway in datacenter storage, a growing presence in networking, and profit margins that are the envy of the manufacturing and tech sectors alike, it is not a surprise that companies are gunning for Intel. …
Compute
Stanford Brainstorm Chip to Hints at Neuromorphic Computing Future
If the name Kwabena Boahen sounds familiar, you might remember silicon that emerged in the late 1990s that emulated the human retina. …