HPC
More Proof Points for Low Precision HPC
While it might not happen anytime soon, traditional supercomputing could be in for a sea change with wider acceptance of lower-precision calculations. …
Precision
AI
Baidu Sheds Precision Without Paying Deep Learning Accuracy Cost
One of the reasons we have written so much about Chinese search and social web giant, Baidu, in the last few years is because they have openly described both the hardware and software steps to making deep learning efficient and high performance at scale. …
Compute
High Expectations for Low Precision at CERN
The last couple of years has seen a steady drumbeat for the use of low precision in growing numbers of workloads driven in large part by the rise of machine learning and deep learning applications and the ongoing desire to cut back on the amount of power consumed. …