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Former Nervana Leads Target Optimal Training Configurations
Ex-Nervana Systems engineers made the jump from a hardware-centric approach to efficient training to pushing better insight into optimization of models and systems. …
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Another Strange Shift for the AI Chip Startup Segment
Few of the AI hardware startups that have made it through the first round of reality (roughly 2016 until the present) have managed to navigate the choppy waters without shifting course, sometimes wildly. …
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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. …
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Intel Focuses on Scale Out AI Training With New Chip
Carey Kloss has been intimately involved with the rise of AI hardware over the last several years, most notably with his work building the first Nervana compute engine, which Intel captured and is rolling into two separate products: one chip for training, another for inference. …
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Intel Prepares To Graft Google’s Bfloat16 Onto Processors
Training deep neural networks is one of the more computationally intensive applications running in datacenters today. …
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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …
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Intel AI VP Gadi Singer On One Song To The Tune Of Another
In the United Kingdom, there is a topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. …
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Intel, Nervana Shed Light on Deep Learning Chip Architecture
Almost two years after the acquisition by Intel, the deep learning chip architecture from startup Nervana Systems will finally be moving from its codenamed “Lake Crest” status to an actual product. …
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The Next Battleground for Deep Learning Performance
The frameworks are in place, the hardware infrastructure is robust, but what has been keeping machine learning performance at bay has far less to do with the system-level capabilities and more to do with intense model optimization. …
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Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
Like all hardware device makers eager to meet the newest market opportunity, Intel is placing multiple bets on the future of machine learning hardware. …