We have written much over the last few years about the convergence of deep learning and traditional supercomputing but as the two grow together, it is clear that the tools for one area don’t always mesh well with those of the other. …
Getting HPC Simulations to Speak Deep Learning was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
There are a lot of different kinds of machine learning, and some of them are not based exclusively on deep neural networks that learn from tagged text, audio, image, and video data to analyze and sometimes transpose that data into a different form. …
Shooting The Machine Learning Rapids With Open Source was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When IBM’s Summit supercomputer was officially unveiled in June, some hailed it as the first exascale system because of its peak performance in applications that made heavy use of GPU acceleration at low precision. …
Architecting Storage And Compute At Exascale was written by Daniel Robinson at .
Now that deep learning at traditional supercomputing centers is becoming a more pervasive combination, the infrastructure challenges of making both AI and simulations run efficiently on the same hardware and software stacks are emerging. …
HPC File Systems Fail for Deep Learning at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Advances in visualization are essential for managing—and maximizing value from—the rising flood of data, the growing sophistication of simulation codes, the convergence of machine learning (ML) and simulation workloads, and the development of extreme-scale computers. …
Accelerating the Shift to Software Defined Visualization was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Editors Note: We are arranging interviews with leads on both the hardware and software side of this story and will update it with more information throughout the day. …
Deep Learning Just Dipped into Exascale Territory was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is safe to say that a little more than a decade ago, when the clone of Google’s MapReduce and Google File System distributed storage and computing platform was cloned at Yahoo and offered up to the world as a way to transform the nature of data analytics at scale, that we all had much higher hopes for the emergence of platforms centered around Hadoop that would change enterprise, not just webscale, computing. …
Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As we argued a few weeks ago, the cloud is where quantum competition gets real. …
Full Qubit, Tooling Access a Game-Changer for Quantum Development was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Many programs have a tough time spanning across high levels of concurrency, but if they are cleverly coded, databases can make great use of massively parallel compute based in hardware to radically speed up the time it takes to run complex queries against large datasets. …
In A Parallel Universe, Data Warehouses Run On GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
European supercomputing centers are known for deploying innovative architectures and working on cutting-edge applications, but the sheer number of these systems lags rather far behind the U.S. …
Will a Billion Dollars Buy Europe Exascale Dominance? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. …
Inferring The Future Of The FPGA, And Then Making It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It is certainly true that no technology company can grow if they are not able to do business in China. …
Open Compute A Foot In the Datacenter Door For Inspur was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A few years ago the market was rife with deep learning chip startups aiming at AI training. …
Boosting the Clock for High Performance FPGA Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
We did not plan it, but today has become make-your-eyes-bleed-with-chip architecture-patent-applications day. …
A Rare Peek into IBM’s True North Neuromorphic Chip was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in the tooth. …
Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, knows a thing or two about running applications at extreme scale. …
How OpenStack Lassoes Yahoo’s 4 Million Server Cores was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
While deep learning models might not be able to simulate large-scale physical phenomena in the same way purpose-built supercomputers and their application stacks do, there is more research emerging that shows how traditional HPC simulations can be augmented, if not replaced in some parts, by neural networks. …
Deep Learning Infiltrating HPC Physics Domains was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is hard to say for sure, but a very substantial part of the hard work in buying supercomputers and creating simulations and models that tell us about the real world around us gets done in thousands of academic research institutions worldwide. …
Forging A Hybrid CPU-FPGA Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel is gearing up the FPGA user base it inherited from Altera for the release of Stratix 10 hardware and companion application acceleration stack. …
Intel Kicks FPGA Performance Up a Notch With Stratix 10 PAC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would otherwise acquire and run on premises. …
Microsoft Focuses Azure More Tightly On HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .