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No Waiting: Mellanox Uses Univa to Extend Silicon Design HPC Operation to Azure
Call it a corollary to Murphy’s Law: When a system is most in demand, when end users are most dependent on the system performing as required, when it’s crunch ...Full Article
Intel 7nm May Arrive Sooner than Expected; Moore’s Law Cadence to Follow?
2018 has been a rough one for Intel, abuse has been heaped on the company for its dilatory delivery of a 10nm process technology – first slated for 2016, ...Full Article
Mass Shootings, Contraband Cargo in Crosshairs of AI, Advanced Scanning
AI may be on the cusp of combating menaces of American life: mass shootings and terrorism. Two start-ups have technologies under development designed to spot bad actors, and bad ...Full Article
AWS Firecracker Takes on Serverless Security, Speed Challenges
Better security and more speed – what else could we ask of serverless computing? At re:Invent this week, AWS launched a new take on virtual machines with a virtualization ...Full Article
Cold Blanket Cast on Quantum Computing
Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Dyakonov published ...Full Article
AWS Rolls ‘Inferentia’ Chip Amid Raft of New ML Services, Technologies
Amazon Web Services poured forth a rolling tide of new product announcements today at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, an impressive portfolio of technologies that extend the cloud ...Full Article
Quantum Startup Targets the Stack
Add the Israeli startup Quantum Machines to the list of innovators pursuing the building blocks of the elusive computing architecture. The web site Techcrunch.com reported Wednesday (Nov. 21) that Tel ...Full Article
Intel Labs Looks to Scale its Neuromorphic Test Chip
Among the post-Moore’s Law chip architectures entering the test phase are neuromorphic chip designs that go beyond today’s CPUs and programmable logic chips to achieve near-term goals such as ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s HPC Chief on AI and Emerging Processor Diversity
Last January, Thierry Pellegrino, a long-time Dell/Dell EMC veteran, became VP of HPC. His tenure comes at a time when the very definition of HPC is blurring with AI ...Full Article
AMD Sets Up for Epyc Epoch
It’s been a good two weeks, AMD’s Gary Silcott and Andy Parma told me on the last day of SC18 in Dallas at the restaurant where we met to ...Full Article
