Rapid GPU Evolution at Chinese Web Giant Tencent
Like other major hyperscale web companies, China’s Tencent, which operates a massive network of ad, social, business, and media platforms, is increasingly reliant on two trends to keep pace. …
Like other major hyperscale web companies, China’s Tencent, which operates a massive network of ad, social, business, and media platforms, is increasingly reliant on two trends to keep pace. …
When it comes to solving deep learning cluster and software stack problems at scale, few companies are riding the bleeding edge like Chinese search giant, Baidu. …
In Supercomputing Conference (SC) years past, chipmaker Intel has always come forth with a strong story, either as an enabling processor or co-processor force, or more recently, as a prime contractor for a leading-class national lab supercomputer. …
When it comes to deep learning innovation on the hardware front, few other research centers have been as forthcoming with their results as Baidu. …
Update – 8/9/16 1:00 p.m. Pacific – Not even 24 hours after this story was posted Intel bought Nervana Systems. …
Although the launch of Pascal stole headlines this year on the GPU computing front, the company’s Tesla K80 GPU, which was launched at the end of 2014, has been finding a home across a broader base of applications and forthcoming systems. …
Having made the improbable jump from the game console to the supercomputer, GPUs are now invading the datacenter. …
As we have noted over the last year in particular, GPUs are set for another tsunami of use cases for server workloads in high performance computing and most recently, machine learning. …
Nvidia made a lot of big bets to bring its “Pascal” GP100 GPU to market and its first implementation of the GPU is aimed at its Tesla P100 accelerator for radically improving the performance of massively parallel workloads like scientific simulations and machine learning algorithms. …
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