Nvidia’s Tesla Volta GPU Is The Beast Of The Datacenter
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has taken more than a year and carefully and methodically transformed its GPUs into the compute engines for modern HPC, machine learning, and database workloads. …
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has taken more than a year and carefully and methodically transformed its GPUs into the compute engines for modern HPC, machine learning, and database workloads. …
We have been saying for the past two year that the impending “Skylake” Xeon processors represented the biggest platform architectural change in the Xeon processor business at Intel since the transformational “Nehalem” Xeon 5500s that debuted back in March 2009 into the gaping maw of the Great Recession. …
Petabytes are in the future of every company, and luckily, the future is always being invented by the IT ecosystem to handle it. …
There is increasing interplay between the worlds of machine learning and high performance computing (HPC). …
Google created quite a stir when it released architectural details and performance metrics for its homegrown Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerator for machine learning algorithms last week. …
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. …
Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. …
The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. …
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. …
ARM has rearchitected its multi-core chips to they can better compete in a world where computing needs are becoming more specialized. …
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