Over the last couple of years, the idea that the most efficient and high performance way to accelerate deep learning training and inference is with a custom ASIC—something designed to fit the specific needs of modern frameworks. …
At the last five annual Supercomputing Conferences, an underlying theme has been the potential of accelerators. …
IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
There has been a noticeable interest uptick in reconfigurable computing devices, most notably, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). …
As we touched on last week, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are not a silver bullet that will rip through the enterprise datacenter world anytime soon. …
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