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Nvidia CEO’s “Hyper-Moore’s Law” Vision for Future Supercomputers
Over the last year in particular, we have documented the merger between high performance computing and deep learning and its various shared hardware and software ties. …
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IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids
While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …
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Cray’s New Pascal XC50 Supercomputer Points to Richer HPC Future
Over the course of the last five years, GPU computing has featured prominently in supercomputing as an accelerator on some of the world’s fastest machines. …
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Pascal GPUs On All Fronts Push Nvidia To New Highs
Chip maker Nvidia was founded by people who loved gaming and who wanted to make better 3D graphics cards, and decades later, the company has become a force in computing, first in HPC and then in machine learning and now database acceleration. …
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Baidu’s New Yardstick for Deep Learning Hardware Makers
When it comes to deep learning innovation on the hardware front, few other research centers have been as forthcoming with their results as Baidu. …
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Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning Inference With New Pascal GPUs
No one knows for sure how pervasive deep learning and artificial intelligence are in the aggregate across all of the datacenters in the world, but what we do know is that the use of these techniques is growing and could represent a big chunk of the processing that gets done every millisecond of every day. …
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Deep Learning Drives Nvidia’s Tesla Business To New Highs
It is a coincidence, but one laden with meaning, that Nvidia is setting new highs selling graphics processors at the same time that SGI, one of the early innovators in the fields of graphics and supercomputing, is being acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
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Taking A Long View On HPC And Beyond
Bad things sometimes happen to good companies, but the great ones are resilient; they ride out the difficulties and keep forging ahead. …
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Nvidia Rounds Out Pascal Tesla Accelerator Lineup
Nvidia wants for its latest “Pascal” GP100 generation of GPUs to be broadly adopted in the market, not just used in capability-class supercomputers that push the limits of performance for traditional HPC workloads as well as for emerging machine learning systems. …
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Tesla Pushes Nvidia Deeper Into The Datacenter
If you are trying to figure out what impact the new “Pascal” family of GPUs is going to have on the business at Nvidia, just take a gander at the recent financial results for the datacenter division of the company. …