AI
Flare Gives Spark SQL a Performance Boost
Spark has grown rapidly over the past several years to become a significant tool in the big data world. …
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Cloud
Open Hardware Pushes GPU Computing Envelope
The hyperscalers of the world are increasingly dependent on machine learning algorithms for providing a significant part of the user experience and operations of their massive applications, so it is not much of a surprise that they are also pushing the envelope on machine learning frameworks and systems that are used to deploy those frameworks. …
AI
Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer
A shared appetite for high performance computing hardware and frameworks is pushing both supercomputing and deep learning into the same territory. …
Compute
Nvidia Tesla Compute Business Quadruples In Q4
If Nvidia’s Datacenter business unit was a startup and separate from the company, we would all be talking about the long investment it has made in GPU-based computing and how the company has moved from the blade of the hockey stick and rounded the bend and is moving rapidly up the handle with triple-digit revenue growth and an initial public offering on the horizon. …
Cloud
Why Google Is Driving Compute Diversity
In the ideal hyperscaler and cloud world, there would be one processor type with one server configuration and it would run any workload that could be thrown at it. …
AI
Nvidia CEO’s “Hyper-Moore’s Law” Vision for Future Supercomputers
Over the last year in particular, we have documented the merger between high performance computing and deep learning and its various shared hardware and software ties. …
AI
Inside Intel’s Strategy to Integrate Nervana Deep Learning Assets
There is little doubt that 2017 will be a dense year for deep learning. …
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
A Deep Learning Supercomputer Approach to Cancer Research
Deep learning and machine learning are major themes at this year’s annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16), both in terms of vendors showcasing systems that are a fit for both high performance computing and machine learning, and in the revelation of new efforts to combine traditional simulations with neural networks for greater efficiency and insight. …
Compute
Pascal GPUs On All Fronts Push Nvidia To New Highs
Chip maker Nvidia was founded by people who loved gaming and who wanted to make better 3D graphics cards, and decades later, the company has become a force in computing, first in HPC and then in machine learning and now database acceleration. …