Author Archives: Michael Feldman
Author Archives: Michael Feldman
Optical computing, a technology that traces its roots back to the 1930s, is enjoying something of a revival these days. …
Startup Looks To Light Up Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …
AMD Puts Epyc In The HPC Driver’s Seat was written by Michael Feldman at .
The quantum computing effort at Honeywell appears to be heating up. …
Honeywell One Step Closer To Universal Quantum Computer was written by Michael Feldman at .
When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is deployed in the next decade, along side it will be a supercomputer tasked to process the deluge of astronomical data that the instrument will collect from the skies. …
Designing the SKA Supercomputer Platform was written by Michael Feldman at .
The commercial realization of artificial intelligence has companies scrambling to develop the next big hardware technology breakthrough for this multi-billion dollar market. …
The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks was written by Michael Feldman at .
Hailo, an AI startup based in Israel, has released its initial chip that the company claims is “the world’s top performing deep learning processor,” with the Hailo-8 chip claimed to deliver 26 tera-operations pers second (TOPS), while consuming only a few watts of power. …
Startup Claims Performance Leadership With New AI Edge Chip was written by Michael Feldman at .
In the fast-paced world of algorithmic trading, speed is of the essence – not just for the execution of the trades themselves, but also for developing the trading models that are becoming obsolete in increasingly shorter timeframes. …
GPUs Set High Water Mark for Financial Trading Algorithm was written by Michael Feldman at .
Intel’s struggles to get its 10 nanometer processors out the door has forced the company to do some serious soul-searching. …
Intel Gives Moore’s Law A Makeover was written by Michael Feldman at .
It is difficult to talk about AI at scale without invoking the decades of work that has happened in the supercomputing trenches. …
Storage Underpins Interplay Between HPC and AI was written by Michael Feldman at .
As the largest buyer of supercomputers of any government agency in the world, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has relied on the relentless improvement of semiconductors to pursue the science it needs to advance the nation’s energy goals. …
DoE on Collision Course with End of Moore’s Law was written by Michael Feldman at .
DataDirect Networks announced it is purchasing Nexenta, a software-defined storage (SDS) specialist based in Silicon Valley. …
DDN Adds Nexenta to Expanding Storage Empire was written by Michael Feldman at .
One reason China has a good chance of hitting its ambitious goal to reach exascale computing in 2020 is that the government is funding three separate architectural paths to attain that milestone. …
China Fleshes Out Exascale Design for Tianhe-3 Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at .
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have notched some noticeable wins as a platform for machine learning, Microsoft’s embrace of the technology in Azure being the most notable example. …
FPGAs Open Gates in Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
Although artificial intelligence is relatively new to the HPC scene, it can arguably cast as the quintessential high performance computing workload. …
AI Forces Storage and I/O Rethink was written by Michael Feldman at .
By all accounts, artificial intelligence is still in its early days. …
An Evolving View of AI Infrastructure was written by Michael Feldman at .
It is no accident that quantum computing is being undertaken by some of the biggest IT companies in the world. …
An Entirely Different Kind of Quantum Computer was written by Michael Feldman at .
Even though the race to the exascale computing is based entirely on an arbitrary milestone, it does serve to focus the attention of the HPC community to think about advancing the state-of-the-art for supercomputer hardware. …
Exascale Is An Opportunity To Advance The HPC Software Stack was written by Michael Feldman at .
Over the last two decades, hyperscale datacenters have reshaped the computing industry, making possible cloud computing, online retail, and media streaming on vast scales. …
Building Out The Edge One Datacenter At A Time was written by Michael Feldman at .
According to Hyperion Research’s latest market update, the high performance computing business boomed last year. …
High Performance Computing Racks Up The Bucks was written by Michael Feldman at .
When Intel purchased Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, company officials predicted that up to a third of servers would be equipped with FPGAs by 2020. …
With AgileX, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy was written by Michael Feldman at .