Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang
At SC18: Nvidia’s Chief Delivers His Vision of HPC Future
For nearly two hours at SC18, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented his expansive view of the future of HPC (and computing in general) as only he can do: Animated. ...Full Article
Chip Makers Look Beyond Accelerators to ‘Balanced’ Systems
The Cambrian explosion of about 500 million years ago is a popular metaphor for the tail end of Moore’s Law scaling and the emergence of a variety of processing ...Full Article
U.S. Chip Initiative Aims For ‘Moore’s (Law) Inflection’
It is telling that the keynote speaker at a major U.S. computer engineering conference represents the Department of Defense, which is pouring billions of R&D dollars into new chip ...Full Article
AMD Epyc Wins Another Cloud; Debuts on AWS
AMD’s mission to add market share in the super-hot data center server processor market has taken its Epyc chip into the biggest data center of them all, Amazon Web ...Full Article
Ignore AI Fear Factor at Your Peril: A Futurist’s Call for ‘Digital Ethics’
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a ...Full Article
NCSA Industry Conference Recap – Part 2
Industry Program Director Brendan McGinty welcomed guests to the annual National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Industry Conference, Oct. 9-11 in Urbana, Illinois. One hundred eighty from 40 organizations ...Full Article
Inside a Colo Data Center that Keeps London’s Capital Markets Humming
London is the Olduvai Gorge of western capitalism. Under it lie layers of mercantile history, artifacts of trade left by the Celts, Britons, Romans, Vikings, Danes, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Jews, ...Full Article
‘AI Camera’ Combines Machine Vision, Deep Learning
Is it any wonder there are cameras everywhere imaging nearly everything? One reason is chip scaling, with key components from semiconductor makers allowing equipment manufacturers to fabricate quarter-size cameras ...Full Article
Xilinx Moves FPGAs Deeper into Datacenters
Three Chinese infrastructure vendors are embracing FPGA technology as a way of accelerating datacenter workloads. FPGA specialist Xilinx Inc. announced during a developer forum in Beijing this week that ...Full Article
Arm Unveils Cloud-to-Edge Internet Infrastructure
Arm today announced its Neoverse cloud-to-edge internet infrastructure foundation, designed to support a world in which a trillion intelligent devices will transmit data to and from the internet. Unveiled ...Full Article
