HPC
HPC In 2020: AI Is No Longer An Experiment
If we could sum up the near-term future of high performance computing in a single phrase, it would be more of the same and then some. …
machine learning
AI
Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space
During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. …
Compute
Arm Adds Muscle To Machine Learning, Embraces Bfloat16
Arm Holdings has announced that the next revision of its ArmV8-A architecture will include support for bfloat16, a floating point format that is increasingly being used to accelerate machine learning applications. …
AI
Habana Takes Training And Inference Down Different Paths
Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …
AI
Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications
Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive amounts of customer and operational data they are keeping. …
AI
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here?
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
Edge
Startup Claims Performance Leadership With New AI Edge Chip
Hailo, an AI startup based in Israel, has released its initial chip that the company claims is “the world’s top performing deep learning processor,” with the Hailo-8 chip claimed to deliver 26 tera-operations pers second (TOPS), while consuming only a few watts of power. …
AI
Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last?
History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then being used, perhaps after some tweaking, for an entirely new and usually unexpected task. …
AI
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware
This story has been temporarily removed. If you want to learn more about Inspur’s machine learning hardware, check it out here. …
AI
Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo
Lenovo is, among all of the major suppliers of HPC systems in the world, perhaps uniquely positioned to have a very large share of the HPC market. …