Compute
With Agilex, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy
When Intel purchased Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, company officials predicted that up to a third of servers would be equipped with FPGAs by 2020. …
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HPC
Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development
There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital investment for private equipment, and gaining full, unfettered access to shared equipment. …
AI
Cray Spreads The AI Word To The Masses
Like any emerging technology, artificial intelligence and various components like machine learning and deep learning are getting a lot of hype, with a continuous flow of analyst reports and news stories detailing how they all will change how business is done, research is conducted and operations are run. …
Compute
Another Step Toward FPGAs in Supercomputing
There has been plenty of talk about where FPGA acceleration might fit into high performance computing but there are only a few testbeds and purpose-built clusters pushing this vision forward for scientific applications. …
AI
The Buck Stops – And Starts – Here For GPU Compute
Ian Buck doesn’t just run the Tesla accelerated computing business at Nvidia, which is one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable products in its twenty five year history. …
Enterprise
Bridging Object Storage And NAS In The Enterprise
Object storage may not have been born in the cloud, but it was the major public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform that have been its biggest drivers. …
Compute
Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel
For several years, GPU acceleration matched with Intel Xeon processors were the dominating news items in hardware at the annual Supercomputing Conference. …
AI
Escher Erases Batching Lines for Efficient FPGA Deep Learning
Aside from the massive parallelism available in modern FPGAs, there are other two other key reasons why reconfigurable hardware is finding a fit in neural network processing in both training and inference. …
AI
How Yahoo’s Internal Hadoop Cluster Does Double-Duty on Deep Learning
Five years ago, many bleeding edge IT shops had either implemented a Hadoop cluster for production use or at least had a cluster set aside to explore the mysteries of MapReduce and the HDFS storage system. …
Code
Molecular Dynamics a Next Frontier for FPGA Acceleration
Molecular dynamics codes have a wide range of uses across scientific research and represent a target base for a variety of accelerators and approaches, from GPUs to custom ASICs. …