Container Approach to Boosting GPU Utilization Secures Bigger Backing

Getting peak utilization out of GPU farms in the age of AI will be the unending quest. …

Container Approach to Boosting GPU Utilization Secures Bigger Backing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

UK Startup Funded to Create End-All OS for Quantum Computing

The 2010s provided a range of new quantum hardware makers to evaluate but the 2020s will be focused far more software for broader use of nascent quantum devices. …

UK Startup Funded to Create End-All OS for Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Just Got More Accessible for Mainstream AI

While the promise of neuromorphic computing going mainstream is still mostly unrealized, there are steps being taken to bring it closer to reality. …

Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Just Got More Accessible for Mainstream AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

COVID Modeling Demands Mean Big Storage Boost for IHME

Over the course of the pandemic, you have probably encountered data from IHME, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. …

COVID Modeling Demands Mean Big Storage Boost for IHME was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces

With performance comparable to the Nvidia V100 GPU, a common accelerator in HPC but better energy consumption numbers and memory bandwidth potential, Graphcore can turn heads in supercomputing.

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Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What’s Next for FPGA Maker Achronix Post-IPO?

In addition to covering momentum in the FPGA market overall, from the first inklings that compute acceleration could be a large opportunity to recent acquisitions of the two largest FPGA device makers by Intel and AMD, we have kept an eye on FPGA startups. …

What’s Next for FPGA Maker Achronix Post-IPO? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Storage Pioneer on What the Future Holds for In-Memory AI

To catch a glimpse of the future of what memory devices and approaches will dominate the AI-centric datacenter, there are few better forecasters than Evangelos Eleftheriou. …

Storage Pioneer on What the Future Holds for In-Memory AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation

For those are the intersection of AI hardware and software, the open source Apache TVM effort is already well known and used among a number of chipmakers as well as developers. …

A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What’s Behind One NVMe Storage Company’s Meteoric Rise

There is plenty of potential to upset traditional storage via leveraging on-board NVMe devices and while the competition is thick and fierce, there are a few companies that are already standing out in 2021. …

What’s Behind One NVMe Storage Company’s Meteoric Rise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing

Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. …

A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Weather Company Raises GPU, Storage Forecasts

For those who follow supercomputing, weather forecasting is one area to watch for systems that are designed for maximum capability. …

The Weather Company Raises GPU, Storage Forecasts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery

While this new year might not mark the moment when the first drugs are discovered via molecular dynamics simulations running on a full-scale quantum, there are several signs that a number of important collaborations between the few quantum vendors and major biotech companies are announced. …

2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden?

While the related topics of fault tolerance and resiliency do not garner the same attention as performance and efficiency, being able to recover from and work around failures, especially as applications take over ever-large and increasingly heterogenous machines, is more important than ever. …

Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context

Medical imaging technologies are invaluable tools in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, allowing healthcare professionals to non-invasively see what lies deep inside the body, identify any disease and/or abnormalities, and determine appropriate treatments. …

The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Right Hammer for “Cobbled Storage”

Unless you work at an IT-sophisticated HPC or enterprise shop with a long-term view on high performance storage, you probably well understand the “just in time” nature of storage procurement. …

The Right Hammer for “Cobbled Storage” was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Reimagining Accelerators with Sparsity at the Core

There could be a new era of codesign dawning for machine learning, one that moves away from the training and inference separations and toward far less dense networks with highly sparse weights and activations. …

Reimagining Accelerators with Sparsity at the Core was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Evolving GPUs Power Content Recommendation at Scale

Although there are now well-engineered systems that tightly package compute, acceleration, and data movement for deep learning training, for some users, working on time-critical AI training (and constant retraining), the backend applications and frameworks require a different way of thinking. …

Evolving GPUs Power Content Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

U.S. Air Force Research Locates Possibilities in Quantum at the Edge

Global positioning systems (GPS) are in the crosshairs for quantum computing investment from the U.S. …

U.S. Air Force Research Locates Possibilities in Quantum at the Edge was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What COVID Means for Biotech Compute Investments in 2021

Don’t expect big on-prem HPC hardware investments from biotech companies given COVID drivers.

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What COVID Means for Biotech Compute Investments in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

“Wombat” Puts Arm’s SVE Instruction Set to the Test

We’ve been closely following momentum with Fujitsu’s Arm-based A64FX processor, from its inception to its placement inside the world’s most powerful supercomputer. …

“Wombat” Puts Arm’s SVE Instruction Set to the Test was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.