Intel Launches Cascade Lake Xeons — Up to 56 Cores
At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Day in San Francisco (April 2), the company unveiled its second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) family and debuted its Optane persistent memory module, along with ...Full Article
Systems Vendors Refresh Product Lines as Intel Launches New Xeon, Optane Server Technologies
Five of the biggest systems vendors – Dell EMC, Lenovo, Supermicro, Cisco and Cray – in concert with Intel’s launch this morning of its second-generation Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade ...Full Article
As AI Begets IA, Whither Tomorrow’s Workers?
Deep thinkers pondering the role of automation in the workplace are defining a new domain of appropriate—and controllable—technologies under the rubric of “intelligent automation” that promises to handle rote ...Full Article
10 Ways AI Affects HPC in 2019
AI workloads are becoming ubiquitous, including running on the world’s fastest computers — thereby changing what we call HPC forever. As every organization plans for the future, AI workloads are ...Full Article
MIT Researchers Look to Speed Neural Net Design
The design of a neural network architecture remains a daunting problem, requiring human expertise and lots of computing resources. The soaring computational requirements of neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms ...Full Article
Google Brings in Outside AI Advisors
Growing unease about the arc of AI technology is prompting companies to step back from their breakneck development efforts to consider the ethical implications of AI and how to ...Full Article
ScaleMatrix Extends Density to the Edge
The edge is anywhere, everywhere (and any size) you want it to be, including some forbidding places that – until the advent of AI and IoT workloads that demand ...Full Article
GTC 2019: Chief Scientist Bill Dally Gives Glimpse into Nvidia Research Engine
Amid the frenzy of GTC – Nvidia’s annual conference showcasing all things GPU (and now AI) – William Dally, chief scientist and SVP of research, provided a brief but ...Full Article
Data Science a New Pillar of the Scientific Method – Nvidia
We already knew that GPUs are useful for lots of things besides making Fortnite uncomfortably realistic. All the biggest supercomputers in the world use GPUs to accelerate math, and ...Full Article
AI Ecosystem Coalesces Around Hardware Accelerator
The requirement for hardware accelerators used in machine and deep learning applications along with HPC are driving efforts to establish specifications that take account for growing bandwidth and interconnect ...Full Article
