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The AI I/O Bottleneck Pushes Creative Approaches to Storage
It is easy to focus on the specific accelerators and processors for deep learning training and inference and herald these as the enablers of what is next in AI. …
The AI I/O Bottleneck Pushes Creative Approaches to Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Supercomputer Mixes Streams with CPU, GPU, and FPGA
If this is truly the age of heterogeneous supercomputers, then the system installed earlier this month at the University of Tsukuba is its poster child. …
Supercomputer Mixes Streams with CPU, GPU, and FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Why HPE Abandoned Quantum Computing Research
Like all major server-focused tech companies, HPE has been keeping close tabs on where quantum computing might go in the future. …
Why HPE Abandoned Quantum Computing Research was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle
RIKEN and Fujitsu announced that they have finished the design of the Post-K exascale platform, paving the way for production of the hardware, followed by shipping and installation. …
Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
GPUs Setting the Pace for the Machine Learning Age
The emergence of machine learning has forced computer architects to realize the way they’ve been developing hardware for the last 50 years will no longer suffice. …
GPUs Setting the Pace for the Machine Learning Age was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon
The announcement last fall that top Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks were coming together in a $5.2 billion merger – and reports about the financial toll that their competition took on each other in the quarters leading up to the deal – revived questions that have been raised in recent years about the future of Hadoop in an era where more workloads are moving into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer a growing array of services that many of the jobs that the open-source technology already does. …
Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Lenovo Meshes with Software Defined Storage Specialist
Lenovo has partnered with Excelero, an up-and-coming NVM-Express solution provider that sells a scale-out software-defined storage platform. …
Lenovo Meshes with Software Defined Storage Specialist was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
AI Chip Startup Inches Forward with $800 Million in Series A
Add to the list of AI chip startups forthcoming new silicon based on the MiLDreD platform. …
AI Chip Startup Inches Forward with $800 Million in Series A was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It
In fact, a more salacious title might have said it will not be threat in most of our career spans, if in our lifetimes at all. … “Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It”
Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora
As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers
If we are talking about infrastructure it might seem obvious to take a systems-level view. …
AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change
When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. …
NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
An Introduction to SmartNICs
Mellanox has become a leading provider of networking hardware, particularly at the high performance end of the market where the company accounts for more than 70 per cent of ports shipped with speeds above 10GbE according to Crehan Research. …
An Introduction to SmartNICs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Summit Supercomputer Clears Path to Seismic Discoveries
“The goal is to image the earth’s interior on a 3D scale,” says Jeroen Tromp, Blair Professor of Geology at Princeton University, leader of a team carrying out seismic research at the Oak Ridge Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
Summit Supercomputer Clears Path to Seismic Discoveries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Why NVMe Will Flash Forward in 2019
Disaggregated storage has become the norm in large-scale infrastructure and we expect that in 2019 those who are pushing the limits with NVMe will have quite a successful year—vendors as well as their hyperscale and high performance computing users. …
Why NVMe Will Flash Forward in 2019 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Summit Supercomputer Boldly Goes to Where the Stars Die
In 2018 the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee installed Summit, the world’s most powerful supercomputer ever built, to help it break new ground in scientific research. …
Summit Supercomputer Boldly Goes to Where the Stars Die was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
A Reality Check on the Future of GANs
Generative adversarial neural networks are the next step in deep learning evolution and while they hold great promise across several application domains, there are major challenges in both hardware and frameworks. …
A Reality Check on the Future of GANs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
AMD Nails Its Epyc Server Targets For 2018
The second 5 percent chunk of server shipment market share for chip maker AMD is probably going to come easier than the first 5 percent share, which was attained as AMD exited the fourth quarter and, significantly, was a stake in the ground that chief executive officer Lisa Su drove into the ground in late 2016 as the “Naples” Epyc ramp got under way. …
AMD Nails Its Epyc Server Targets For 2018 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Take a Peek Inside ORNL’s GPU-Powered “Summit” Supercomputer
“We build the most powerful and efficient computer possible and make it available to scientists based on the quality of their proposals,” says Jack Wells, director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing facility in Tennessee. …
Take a Peek Inside ORNL’s GPU-Powered “Summit” Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
What is The Next AI Platform?
Machine learning, arguably the most interesting and successful form of artificial intelligence, only worked because of the confluence of enormous amounts of data to train models and tremendous amounts of compute to chew on that data with many-layered statistical algorithms. …
What is The Next AI Platform? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .