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Compute
High Times for Low-Precision Hardware
Processor makers are pushing down the precision for a range of new and forthcoming devices, driven by a need that balances accuracy with energy-efficient performance for an emerging set of workloads. …
Compute
ARM Gains Stronger Foothold In China With AI And IoT
China represents a huge opportunity for chip designer ARM as it looks to extend its low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture beyond the mobile and embedded devices spaces and into new areas, such as the datacenter and emerging markets like autonomous vehicles, drones and the Internet of Things. …
Cloud
IBM Reorg Forges Cognitive Systems, Merges Cloud And Analytics
It is the first month of a new year, and this is the time that IBM traditionally does reorganizations of its business lines and plays musical chairs with its executives to reconfigure itself for the coming year. …
Compute
Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border
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. …
Compute
Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter
Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it. …
Building a reconfigurable future with FPGAs
Dave Altavilla recently penned an article for Forbes about the critical role FPGAs are playing in helping to build reconfigurable data centers and advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI). …
AI
Nervana CEO on Intel Acquisition, Future Technology Outlook
Following yesterday’s acquisition of deep learning chip startup Nervana Systems by Intel, we talked with the company’s CEO, Naveen Rao, about what plans are for both the forthcoming hardware and internally developed Neon software stack now that the technology is under a much broader umbrella. …
HPC
The Middle Ground for the Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU
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. …
Connect
Competition Heats Up In Cluster Interconnects
Any time a ranking of a technology is put together, that ranking is always called into question as to whether or not it is representative of reality. …