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Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator
Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA. …
Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator was written by Michael Feldman at .
New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production
The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory (RAM) technologies. …
New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production was written by Michael Feldman at .
Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argues For Colocation
Nvidia’s DGX platforms are powerhouses for training neural networks, offering up to 2 petaflops of peak machine learning performance. …
Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argues For Colocation was written by Michael Feldman at .
The Singularity Is Nearer: Microsoft Places $1 Billion Bet On Artificial General Intelligence
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in AI research company OpenAI to build a set of technologies that can deliver artificial general intelligence (AGI). …
The Singularity Is Nearer: Microsoft Places $1 Billion Bet On Artificial General Intelligence was written by Michael Feldman at .
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC bare metal servers hooked together with a 100 Gb/sec RDMA network. …
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters was written by Michael Feldman at .
Intel Aims to Scale Up Neuromorphic Computing
Intel has moved a step closer to commercial neuromorphic computing with the development of a 64-chip system that provides eight million artificial neurons. …
Intel Aims to Scale Up Neuromorphic Computing was written by Michael Feldman at .
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. …
Intel Prepares To Graft Google’s Bfloat16 Onto Processors was written by Michael Feldman at .
New Approach Could Sink Floating Point Computation
In 1985, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established IEEE 754, a standard for floating point formats and arithmetic that would become the model for practically all FP hardware and software for the next 30 years. …
New Approach Could Sink Floating Point Computation was written by Michael Feldman at .
New Twists In The Intertwining Of HPC And AI
The alliance between high performance computing and artificial intelligence is proving to be a fruitful one for researchers looking to accelerate scientific discovery in everything from climate prediction and genomics to particle physics and drug discovery. …
New Twists In The Intertwining Of HPC And AI was written by Michael Feldman at .
A Storage Model for the Exascale Crowd
One bit of news that almost got lost in the shuffle at the recent ISC 2019 conference was Intel’s announcement that it is bringing DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage platform, to supercomputing. …
A Storage Model for the Exascale Crowd was written by Michael Feldman at .
Auto-Tiered Storage for AI and HPC
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched EXA5, the company’s fifth-generation Exascaler Lustre file system platform, which will be used to populate the company’s all-flash, mid-range, and high-end storage appliances. …
Auto-Tiered Storage for AI and HPC was written by Michael Feldman at .
Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path
When Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) installs its 1.5-exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path was written by Michael Feldman at .
Exascale Spending To Energize HPC Market Through 2025
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
Exascale Spending To Energize HPC Market Through 2025 was written by Michael Feldman at .
Europe Will Enter Pre-Exascale Realm With MareNostrum 5
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
Europe Will Enter Pre-Exascale Realm With MareNostrum 5 was written by Michael Feldman at .
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing
When the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing was written by Michael Feldman at .
AI Chip Startup Releases Training Accelerator to Challenge GPUs
Habana Labs has unveiled the Gaudi HL-2000, a custom-built AI processor that the company claims can outrun Nvidia’s best and brightest GPUs at training neural networks. …
AI Chip Startup Releases Training Accelerator to Challenge GPUs was written by Michael Feldman at .
Europe’s Homegrown HPC Compute Begins To Take Shape
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
Europe’s Homegrown HPC Compute Begins To Take Shape was written by Michael Feldman at .
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins was written by Michael Feldman at .
The Shape of Storage for the Exascale Era
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
The Shape of Storage for the Exascale Era was written by Michael Feldman at .
Maintaining Europe’s Edge in Supercomputing Software
As the era of exascale supercomputing approaches, Europe is making a concerted effort to become a first-class HPC power, on par with that of the United States, China, and Japan. …
Maintaining Europe’s Edge in Supercomputing Software was written by Michael Feldman at .