HPC
Testing Out HPC On Google’s TPU Matrix Engines
In an ideal platform cloud, you would not know or care what the underlying hardware was and how it was composed to run your HPC – and now AI – applications. …
TPU
Compute
What Chip Startups Can Learn from Google’s TPU Design Team
The inception of Google’s effort to build its own AI chips is quite well known by now but in the interests of review, we’ll note that as early 2013 the company envisioned machine learning could consume the majority of its compute time. …
AI
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. …
AI
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. …
AI
Google Rounds Out Insight into TPU Architecture and Inference
This week we have heard much about the inference side of the deep learning workload, with a range of startups emerging at the AI Hardware Summit. …
Cloud
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. …
AI
Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …
Uncategorized
Google Boots Up Tensor Processors On Its Cloud
Google laid down its path forward in the machine learning and cloud computing arenas when it first unveiled plans for its tensor processing unit (TPU), an accelerator designed by the hyperscaler to speeding up machine learning workloads that are programmed using its TensorFlow framework. …
Cloud
Under The Hood Of Google’s TPU2 Machine Learning Clusters
As we previously reported, Google unveiled its second-generation TensorFlow Processing Unit (TPU2) at Google I/O last week. …
AI
Does Google’s TPU Investment Make Sense Going Forward?
Google created quite a stir when it released architectural details and performance metrics for its homegrown Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerator for machine learning algorithms last week. …