When it comes to machine learning, a lot of the attention in the past six years has focused on the training of neural networks and how the GPU accelerator radically improved the accuracy of networks, thanks to its large memory bandwidth and parallel compute capacity relative to CPUs. … “Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs”
Moore’s Law is effectively boosting compute capability by a factor of ten over a five year span, as Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang reminded Wall Street this week when talking about the graphics chip maker’s second quarter of fiscal 2019 financial results. … “Nvidia’s Datacenter Growth Beats Moore’s Law Big Time”
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. … “The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here”
Even if Nvidia had not pursued a GPU compute strategy in the datacenter a decade and a half ago, the company would have turned in one of the best periods in its history as the first quarter of fiscal 2019 came to a close on April 29. … “Nvidia Hitting On All GPU Cylinders”
As humankind continues to stare into the dark abyss of deep space in an eternal quest to understand our origins, new computational tools and technologies are needed at unprecedented scales. … “GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets For Golden Insight Nuggets”
Nvidia launched its second-generation DGX system in March. In order to build the 2 petaflops half-precision DGX-2, Nvidia had to first design and build a new NVLink 2.0 switch chip, named NVSwitch. … “Building Bigger, Faster GPU Clusters Using NVSwitches”
There is a direct correlation between the length of time that Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang speaks during the opening keynote of each GPU Technology Conference and the total addressable market of accelerated computing based on GPUs. … “Talking Up the Expanding Markets for GPU Compute”
The Open Compute Project (OCP) held its 9th annual US Summit recently, with 3,441 registered attendees this year. … “Open Compute Iron Is All About Acceleration”
In the long run, provided there are enough API pipes into the code, software as a service might be the most popular way to consume applications and systems software for all but the largest organizations that are running at such a scale that they can command almost as good prices for components as the public cloud intermediaries. … “MapD Fires Up GPU Cloud Service”
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. … “The Buck Stops – And Starts – Here For GPU Compute”
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