Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales
There hardly seems to be a month that doesn’t go by without a different IT supplier being rumored to want to acquire network chip and system provider Mellanox Technologies, which has an intense focus on the high end, scale out, low latency segment of the datacenter switching market. …
Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan 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 .
First Silicon for Photonics Startup with DARPA Roots
Ayar Labs, a silicon photonics startup based in Emeryville, California, is getting set to tape out its electro-optical I/O chip, which will become the basis of its first commercial product. …
First Silicon for Photonics Startup with DARPA Roots was written by Michael Feldman 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 .
AI Chip Startup Puts Inference Cards on the Table
In the deep learning inferencing game, there are plenty of chipmakers, large and small, developing custom-built ASICs aimed at this application set. …
AI Chip Startup Puts Inference Cards on the Table was written by Michael Feldman at .
ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Targets Opioid Addiction
Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Targets Opioid Addiction was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates
For the first time in a very long time, and even including the Great Recession, chip maker Intel booked less revenue in the fourth quarter of the year than it did in the third quarter of that same year. …
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks
Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
France Merges Cascade Lake Xeons With Volta Tesla GPUs For AI Supercomputer
As part of France’s national strategy to advance to the forefront of artificial intelligent research in Europe, the government will install a 14 petaflops supercomputer for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). …
France Merges Cascade Lake Xeons With Volta Tesla GPUs For AI Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at .
Airbus Gets Aerodynamic With Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is often portrayed as a way to solve esoteric problems that can’t be attempted with conventional computers. …
Airbus Gets Aerodynamic With Quantum Computing was written by Michael Feldman at .
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle
Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. …
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Playing The Long Game In Systems
The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. …
Playing The Long Game In Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A Vision for the Future of Computing in Europe
This week at the High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Vision conference in Valencia Spain, researchers and industry stakeholders are gathering to talk about the future of computing and how Europe can ride some of the emerging trends. …
A Vision for the Future of Computing in Europe was written by Michael Feldman at .
HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research
This week we delved into a wide variety of European projects that address future needs of systems in research and industry at HiPEAC in Valencia, Spain. …
HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Battle Of The Document Databases
Cloud providers can be like sharks in that they have to keep moving forward – in their case, growing the number of services they can offer enterprises – or be overtaken by competitors. …
Battle Of The Document Databases was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
New Technologies Give Neuromorphic Computing Better Memories
Interest in neuromorphic computing has spurred research into new types of memory devices that can replicate the function of biological neurons and synapse. …
New Technologies Give Neuromorphic Computing Better Memories was written by Michael Feldman at .
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale
For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will of applications. …
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework
It might be a bit early to call generative adversarial networks (GANs) the next platform for AI evolution, but there is little doubt we will hear much more about this beefed up approach to deep learning over the next year and beyond. …
Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .