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GPUs Advance Deep Learning
Over the last decade, GPU-acceleration techniques have infiltrated the high-end of supercomputing, but increased adoption of GPUs is occurring in other compute-driven disciplines too, like deep...
View ArticleMachine Learning Guru Sees Future in Multi-GPU Clusters
Machine learning has made enormous strides in the few years, owing in large part to powerful and efficient parallel processing provided by general-purpose GPUs. The latest example of this trend is...
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Tech Giants Battle for Image Recognition Supremacy
The race to exascale isn’t the only rivalry stirring up the advanced computing space. Artificial intelligence sub-fields, like deep learning, are also inspiring heated competition from tech...
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NVIDIA Wades Farther into Deep Learning Waters
Continuing the machine learning push that set the tone for this year’s GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA is refreshing its GPU-accelerated deep learning software in tandem with the 2015 International...
View ArticleAI’s Forward March: Machine Teaches Itself to Play Chess in 72 Hours
The field of artificial intelligence has had a rocky history with numerous setbacks, but there have been high points too, like when IBM’s Deep Blue beat reigning chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in...
View ArticleGoogle’s AlphaGo Defeats Go Star Lee Sedol
Remember the IBM Deep Blue-Gary Kasparov chess match? It ended somewhat controversially in 1997 when Deep Blue – after a significant upgrade – rebounded from a deficit to escape with a 3½-2 ½ win. The...
View ArticleFPGA with OpenCL Solution Released to Deep Learning
A deep learning acceleration solution based on Altera’s Arria® 10 FPGAs and DNN algorithm from iFLYTEK, an intelligent speech technology provider in China, results in Inspur with HPC heterogeneous...
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HPE Expands HPC Lineup; Targets Deep Learning, Lustre, and FS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for the second straight week introduced new server products with today’s launches aimed at high performance computing. The centerpiece is a GPU-accelerated deep...
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GTC16: NVIDIA Updates SDK; Expands Support for Deep Learning
As always, there’s a flood of news coming out of NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference, being held this week in San Jose. In addition to the much-anticipated Pascal debut, which we’ll be reporting...
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Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer to Get Pascal GPU Upgrade
Already Europe’s fastest supercomputer at 7.8 petaflops, the Piz Daint (hybrid CPU/GPU Cray XC30) at the Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS) will double its performance with a massive upgrade that...
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Intel® Scalable System Framework: Using Next Generation Processors Opens the...
Deep learning has inspired a gold rush of technology innovation across a wide range of markets from Internet search, to social media, to real-time robotics, self-driving vehicles, drones and more....
View ArticleInspur Shares Innovative Deep Learning Technology at GTC16
Recently, the 2016 GPU Technology Conference (GTC16) was held in Silicon Valley. Inspur released the Caffe-MPI, a multi node parallel version open source framework for Deep Learning. Meanwhile, Inspur...
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Intel Launches Silicon Photonics Chip, Previews Next-Gen Phi for AI
At the Intel Developer Forum, held in San Francisco this week, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager Diane Bryant announced the launch of Intel’s Silicon Photonics product line and teased a...
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Nvidia Launches Pascal GPUs for Deep Learning Inferencing
Already entrenched in the deep learning community for neural net training, Nvidia wants to secure its place as the go-to chipmaker for datacenter inferencing. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in...
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Deep Learning Paves Way for Better Diagnostics
Stanford researchers are leveraging GPU-based machines in the Amazon EC2 cloud to run deep learning workloads with the goal of improving diagnostics for a chronic eye disease, called diabetic...
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AWS Beats Azure to K80 General Availability
Amazon Web Services has seeded its cloud with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to meet the growing demand for accelerated computing across an increasingly-diverse range of workloads. The P2 instance family is a...
View ArticleGraphcore Promises AI-Speedup with ‘Intelligent Processing Unit’
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode today with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning acceleration solutions, including...
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Inspur Launches GPU Deep Learning Appliance
Salt Lake City-November 16, 2016-Inspur today announced the Inspur D1000 deep learning appliance at SC16. The D1000 is a total HPC solution enabled by NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPU high-performance computing...
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Nvidia Sees Bright Future for AI Supercomputing
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia made a strong showing at SC16 in Salt Lake City last week. Most prominent wins were achieving the number one spot on the Green500 list with new in-house DGX-1 supercomputer,...
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Enlisting Deep Learning in the War on Cancer
Sometime in Q2 2017 the first ‘results’ of the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer (JDACS4C) will become publicly available according to Rick Stevens. He leads one of three JDACS4C...
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