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Chips Hit a New Low with ‘Valleytronics’
A potential interim step between conventional semiconductors and quantum devices has emerged, promising improved information processing schemes that outperform current electronic charge- and spin-based chip architectures. The emerging quantum ...Full Article
Free GPUs? Startup Hopes Free Is Right Price for GPU Cloud Service
GPUs are famously expensive – high end Nvidia Teslas can be priced well above $10,000. Now a New York startup, Paperspace, has announced a free cloud GPU service for ...Full Article
IBM’s Post-Moore Vision: Bits Plus Neurons Plus Qubits
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there ...Full Article
Federated Learning Applied to Cancer Research
The ability to share and analyze data while protecting patient privacy is giving medical researchers a new tool in their efforts to use what one vendor calls “federated learning” ...Full Article
Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster
An HPC cluster with deep learning techniques will be used to process petabytes of scientific data as part of workload-intensive projects spanning astrophysics to genomics. AI partners Intel (NASDAQ: ...Full Article
DARPA Targets Network Bottlenecks
DARPA will seek to unclog the networking bottlenecks that are hindering wider use of powerful hardware in computing-intensive applications. The Pentagon research agency has unveiled another in a series ...Full Article
Advanced Technology on Wall Street – Rumors from the Trade Show Floor
New York is always an exciting, energetic city to visit and ... was made even more so as I attended the (recent) ‘HPC & AI on Wall Street’ conference, ...Full Article
Chiplet Effort Advances for Workload Acceleration
Chiplet-based designs, so called because they combine multiple components into a single package, are increasingly seen as addressing the inability of general-purpose CPUs to handle skyrocketing performance requirements. Lower-cost ...Full Article
Hybrid Approach Emerges for AI Workloads
The discussion surrounding enterprise adoption of AI technologies is shifting from if to when, and what mix of IT infrastructure will be required to deploy and scale machine learning ...Full Article
AWS Upgrades Nvidia GPU Cloud Instances for Inferencing, Graphics
Graphics processor acceleration in the form of G4 cloud instances have been unleashed by Amazon Web Services for machine learning applications. AWS (NASDAQ: AMZN) on Friday (Sept. 20) announced ...Full Article
