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 .
The Era of General Purpose Computers is Ending
Moore’s Law has underwritten a remarkable period of growth and stability for the computer industry. …
The Era of General Purpose Computers is Ending was written by Michael Feldman at .
Running TensorFlow at Petascale and Beyond
TensorFlow, probably the most popular of the dozen or so deep learning frameworks, is typically used to develop neural networks on small or medium-sized clusters, and sometimes on just a single GPU-accelerated node. …
Running TensorFlow at Petascale and Beyond was written by Michael Feldman at .
Staking A Claim In The Cloud And At The Edge
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
Staking A Claim In The Cloud And At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion?
While there is no question that Amazon Web Services is the largest and most profitable public cloud on planet earth, and that it provides the best subsidy imaginable for a cut-throat online retail business that is its parent company, AWS has not taken over the entire IT world any more than Amazon has become the sole place to buy stuff. …
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AI And The Further Automation Of IT
Enterprises that are betting the massive amounts of data that they are collecting will deliver the insights they need to make better and faster businesses are finding that they could just as easily be overwhelmed by them. …
AI And The Further Automation Of IT was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Stage Set for Richer Machine Learning-Infused HPC
A research collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is demonstrating the value of using machine learning to overcome daunting computational challenges. …
Stage Set for Richer Machine Learning-Infused HPC was written by Michael Feldman at .
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 .