AI
An Early Look at Baidu’s Custom AI and Analytics Processor
In the U.S. it is easy to focus on our native hyperscale companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.) …
Xilinx
AI
Wrenching Efficiency Out of Custom Deep Learning Accelerators
Custom accelerators for neural network training have garnered plenty of attention in the last couple of years, but without significant software footwork, many are still difficult to program and could leave efficiencies on the table. …
AI
FPGA Startup Gathers Funding Force for Merged Hyperscale Inference
Around this time last year, we delved into a new FPGA-based architecture that targeted efficient, scalable machine learning inference from startup DeePhi Tech. …
Compute
The Case For IBM Buying Nvidia, Xilinx, And Mellanox
We spend a lot of time contemplating what technologies will be deployed at the heart of servers, storage, and networks and thereby form the foundation of the next successive generations of platforms in the datacenter for running applications old and new. …
AI
FPGAs Focal Point for Efficient Neural Network Inference
Over the last couple of years, we have focused extensively on the hardware required for training deep neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. …
Cloud
AWS Details FPGA Rationale and Market Trajectory
At the end of 2016, Amazon Web Services announced it would be making high-end Xilinx FPGAs available via a cloud delivery model, beginning first in a developer preview mode before branching with higher-level tools to help potential new users onboard and experiment with FPGA acceleration as the year rolls on. …
Compute
FPGA Frontiers: New Applications in Reconfigurable Computing
There is little doubt that this is a new era for FPGAs. …
Cloud
The FPGA Accelerated Cloud Push Just Got Stronger
FPGAs have been an emerging topic on the application acceleration front over the last couple of years, but despite increased attention around use cases in machine learning and other hot areas, hands have been tied due to simply on-boarding with both the hardware and software. …
Compute
Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter
Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it. …
AI
Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale
While much of the work at Baidu we have focused on this year has centered on the Chinese search giant’s deep learning initiatives, many other critical, albeit less bleeding edge applications present true big data challenges. …