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NVLink Takes GPU Acceleration To The Next Level

May 4, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

One of the breakthrough moments in computing, which was compelled by necessity, was the advent of symmetric multiprocessor, or SMP, clustering to make two or more processors look and act, as far as the operating system and applications were concerned, as a single, more capacious processor. …

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Baidu Eyes Deep Learning Strategy in Wake of New GPU Options

April 22, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

This month Nvidia bolstered its GPU strategy to stretch further into deep learning, high performance computing, and other markets, and while there are new options to consider, particularly for the machine learning set, it is useful to understand what these new arrays of chips and capabilities mean for users at scale. …

Compute

Nvidia’s Tesla P100 Steals Machine Learning From The CPU

April 21, 2016 Paul Teich 3

Pattern analytics, deep learning, and machine learning have fueled a rapid rise in interest in GPU computing, in addition to GPU computing applications in high performance computing (HPC) and cloud-based data analytics. …

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Drilling Down Into Nvidia’s “Pascal” GPU

April 19, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

Nvidia made a lot of big bets to bring its “Pascal” GP100 GPU to market and its first implementation of the GPU is aimed at its Tesla P100 accelerator for radically improving the performance of massively parallel workloads like scientific simulations and machine learning algorithms. …

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Power9 Will Bring Competition To Datacenter Compute

April 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …

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Nvidia Lead Details Future Convergence of Supercomputing, Deep Learning

April 15, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Deep learning could not have developed at the rapid pace it has over the last few years without companion work that has happened on the hardware side in high performance computing. …

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Nvidia Not Sunsetting Tesla Kepler And Maxwell GPUs Just Yet

April 7, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Switch chips have a very long technical and economic lives, considerably longer than that of a Xeon processor used in a server – something on the order of seven or eight years compared to three or four. …

Compute

IBM Unfolds Power Chip Roadmap Out Past 2020

April 7, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There are two things that underdogs have to do to take a big bite out of a market. …

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IBM Watson CTO on What’s Ahead for Cognitive Computing

April 7, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

After close to twenty years at IBM, where he began as an IBM Fellow and Chief Architect for the SOA Foundation, Rob High has developed a number of core technologies that back Big Blue’s enterprise systems, including the suite of tools behind IBM WebSphere, and more recently, those that support the wide-ranging ambitions of the Watson cognitive computing platform. …

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Inside The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System

April 6, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

The OpenPower effort to create an alternative to the Xeon architecture in the datacenter just got a whole lot more real now that hyperscaler Google and cloud builder Rackspace Hosting have agreed to partner on a future server design based on IBM’s future Power9 processor that both companies intend to deploy in their datacenters. …

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