AI
AMD Is Beating Nvidia At Its 2017 Game, But The Game Has Moved On
Hold on a second. Nvidia’s sales of chips and systems to supercomputer centers are not as big as we might be thinking. …
AI
Compute
Where China’s Long Road To Datacenter Compute Independence Leads
While we are big fans of laissez faire capitalism like that of the United States and sometimes Europe — right up to the point where monopolies naturally form and therefore competition essentially stops, and thus monopolists need to be regulated in some fashion to promote the common good as well as their own profits — we also see the benefits that accrue from a command economy like that which China has built over the past four decades. …
AI
RISC-V Upstart Targets ML Inference Performance, Power Efficiency
There is a growing number of vendors big and small going hard to the hoop to make processors for artificial intelligence workloads. …
AI
DOE AI Expert Says New HPC Architecture Is Needed
Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in the IT industry, fueled by the massive growth in the data being generated and the increasing need in HPC and mainstream enterprises for capabilities ranging from analytics and automation. …
Compute
IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron
Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
Compute
Maybe Nvidia Should Buy VMware Instead Of Intel
It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. …
Compute
Nvidia’s Next Major Wave Of AI Revenues
It is a good thing for Nvidia that most of the hyperscalers in the world – or at least the ones that matter – also have substantial public cloud businesses. …
Compute
Tuning Up Nvidia’s AI Stack To Run On Virtual Infrastructure
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
HPC
South Korea Funds First Supercomputing CPU Designed for AI, HPC
Researchers at South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Institute (ETRI), in conjunction with Arm, are one step closer to designing and deploying a native CPU that can handle double-precision supercomputing applications and low-precision, low-power AI inference. …
AI
Seismic Shifts Ahead for Big Banking Infrastructure
The move to integrating AI into current operations and finding its role in entirely new applications at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is similar to what we’re seeing among other large-scale enterprises. …