What Could Stifle American AI Innovation?

There are many things the U.S. government can do, but innovating at a rapid pace in the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence is not necessarily one of them. …

What Could Stifle American AI Innovation? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

For UK Genomics Initiative, Compute is the Easy Part

Let’s face it. There is nothing simple about large-scale sequencing and targeted analysis of genomic data. …

For UK Genomics Initiative, Compute is the Easy Part was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030

One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep learning, and edge technologies for applications that are representative of what’s next. …

Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The GPU “Expanse”: HPC Acceleration for the Masses

In the early days of GPU-accelerated supercomputers, accelerators were installed with the mission of delivering ultra-high performance for a few select codes. …

The GPU “Expanse”: HPC Acceleration for the Masses was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads

Several years ago, the HPC systems designed for wide-ranging scientific computing were quite a bit different than those built for intense scalability and maximum peak performance. …

Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing

Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the hardware ecosystem has focused on general purpose approaches that rely on matrix math operations that brute force the problem instead of selectively operate on only the required pieces. …

Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost

The U.S. Department of Energy is backing a sweeping software to bring wind turbine and wind farm modeling into the exascale era with the open source “ExaWind” modeling and simulation environment. …

Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Intel Smells Neuromorphic Opportunity

Neuromorphic computing has a rather long way to go before it becomes an accepted part of systems. …

Intel Smells Neuromorphic Opportunity was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform Radio for March, 2020

Next Platform Radio for the month of March, 2020.

Join The Next Platform for interviews and analysis around each day’s events. …

Next Platform Radio for March, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer

Yesterday with the announcement of the forthcoming El Capitan supercomputer, which is set to be more powerful than the top 200 supercomputers combined, we got to thinking about a critical issue that is far less attention-capturing than big performance numbers. …

Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition

Supply Chain Impacts, HPC Investments, Event Disruptions

It is difficult to ignore the mounting impacts of supply chain disruption worldwide with the coronavirus crisis. …

Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition

We are just 18 days away from The Next AI Platform event on March 10, 2020 at The Glasshouse in San Jose. …

Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Quantum Control: More Than Meets the Eye

It is not difficult to oversimplify, even with something as complex and diverse as quantum computing, but these systems go far beyond mere qubits in deep freeze. …

Quantum Control: More Than Meets the Eye was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense

It is rare to find a story here at The Next Platform that does not focus on systems for large-scale use cases. …

Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Where Will Quantum Systems Succeed in AI Training?

Quantum computers will continue to fit in the “emerging technologies” category for some time, at least in terms of their ability to handle a large enough number of real-world applications. …

Where Will Quantum Systems Succeed in AI Training? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition

Much of what sets The Next Platform apart from other tech publications is depth and analysis. …

The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs

Keeping an eye on how the largest cloud providers choose to invest in hardware is always interesting but it does not often shed much light on how emerging workloads are driving new investments. …

Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share?

Over a decade ago we would not have expected accelerators to have be commonplace in the datacenter. …

Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues

Storage systems are inherently data intensive. But the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as a standard datacenter workload has storage vendors scrambling to design platforms that better meet the more stringent performance needs of these applications. …

AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

How HPC, AI, and IoT Drive the Future of Smarter Vehicles

When many think of the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected vehicles from a compute perspective, the first thing that springs to mind is likely the small processors that are hard at work sensing, analyzing, and feeding data to remote systems. …

How HPC, AI, and IoT Drive the Future of Smarter Vehicles was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.