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VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
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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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Intel’s First Discrete Xe Server GPU Aimed At Hyperscalers
We have been waiting for years to see the first discrete Xe GPU from Intel that is aimed at the datacenter, and as it turns out, the first one is not the heavy compute engine we have been anticipating, but rather a souped up version of the Iris Xe LP and Iris Max Xe LP graphics cards that were launched at the end of October, which themselves are essentially the GPU extracted from the hybrid CPU-GPU “Tiger Lake” Core i9 processors for PC clients. …
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Machine Learning for Future System Designs
As an engineering director leading research projects into the application of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to computational software for electronic design automation (EDA), I believe I have a unique perspective on the future of the electronic and electronic design industries. …
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Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind the scenes in conjunction with its largest OEM partners as well the hyperscalers and large public cloud builders that drive about a third of its revenues these days. …
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Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
AI
Deep Divides Between AI Chip Startups, Developers
It’s par for the course for AI chip startups to focus on peak performance on outdated benchmarks to appeal to the hardware folks who might give their gear a go for deep learning training or inference. …
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GPUs Setting the Pace for the Machine Learning Age
The emergence of machine learning has forced computer architects to realize the way they’ve been developing hardware for the last 50 years will no longer suffice. …
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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …
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Data Science Sparks The Gap Between HPC And Hyperscale
In a wide-ranging keynote address that ran nearly three hours at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang talked up the company’s successes and new products across its graphics, robotics, and AI and HPC lineups. …