New AI Training Method Works on Individual Desktops, Laptops
Training AI models can be incredibly computationally intensive. Researchers often use supercomputers to ready the models, and the impact can be severe: the training process for a single model ...Full Article
Syntiant, AI Chip Specialist, Raises Funds, Ramps Production
Syntiant Corp., the “neural decision processor” startup, announced completion of another funding round this week along with the shipment of more than 1 million low-power edge AI chips. The ...Full Article
OpenShift Gets Virtual Upgrades to Handle Mixed Workloads
Red Hat continues to expand its OpenShift container applications platform with virtualization capabilities aimed at virtual machine-based workloads while integrating VM tools into its enterprise Linux distribution to handle ...Full Article
AWS re:Invent Goes Virtual (and Free) as COVID-19 Conference Cancellations Continue
AWS re:Invent has been re-imagined as a free, three-week virtual conference taking place in early December, Amazon Web Services announced last week, as the fall lineup of physical tech ...Full Article
Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated, analysts said the ...Full Article
Cloud for Clouds: ClimaCell Leverages Cloud HPC to Deliver Weather Micro-Forecasting
Weather forecasting is a tricky, unforgiving business, and for weather-dependent clients in precise locations, like airlines and sports teams, accuracy is king. Making accurate predictions for a highly specific ...Full Article
How AI and ML Applications Will Benefit from Vector Processing
As expected, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications are already having an impact on society. Many industries that we tap into daily—such as banking, financial services and ...Full Article
Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool
A machine programming framework for heterogeneous computing championed by Intel Corp. and university partners is built around an automated engine that analyzes code for similarities. The approach could eventually ...Full Article
Nvidia Dominates Latest MLPerf Training Benchmark Results
MLPerf.org released its third round of training benchmark (v0.7) results today and Nvidia again dominated, claiming 16 new records. Meanwhile, Google provided early benchmarks for its next generation TPU ...Full Article
Continental Debuts the Fastest Supercomputer in the Automotive Industry – and It’s Built for AI
The automotive industry finds strong use cases for supercomputers, which can help industrial designers do everything from optimizing engines and aerodynamics to running virtual crash tests. Now, German automotive ...Full Article
