FPGAs To Shake Up Stodgy Relational Databases
So you are a system architect, and you want to make the databases behind your applications run a lot faster. …
So you are a system architect, and you want to make the databases behind your applications run a lot faster. …
Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. …
Every successive processor generation presents its own challenges to all chip makers, and the ramp of 14 nanometer processes that will be used in the future “Skylake” Xeon processors, due in the second half of this year, cut into the operating profits of its Data Center Group in the final quarter of 2016. …
Over the last couple of years, we have focused extensively on the hardware required for training deep neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. …
At the end of 2016, Amazon Web Services announced it would be making high-end Xilinx FPGAs available via a cloud delivery model, beginning first in a developer preview mode before branching with higher-level tools to help potential new users onboard and experiment with FPGA acceleration as the year rolls on. …
There is little doubt that this is a new era for FPGAs. …
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. …
FPGAs have been an emerging topic on the application acceleration front over the last couple of years, but despite increased attention around use cases in machine learning and other hot areas, hands have been tied due to simply on-boarding with both the hardware and software. …
At the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16) last week, the emphasis was on deep learning and its future role as part of supercomputing applications and systems. …
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. …
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