Cray – and the Cray Brand – to Be Positioned at Tip of HPE’s HPC/AI Spear
More so than with most acquisitions of this kind, HPE’s purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion, announced last week, seems to have elements of that overused, often abused term: ...Full Article
More HPC M&A: HPE to Acquire Cray for $1.3B
Venerable supercomputer pioneer Cray Inc. will be acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion under a definitive agreement announced this morning. The news follows HPE’s acquisition nearly three ...Full Article
Looking at AI/ML Edge-Core-Cloud Workflows
Edge computing is emerging as the killer app for AI and ML, with staggering growth predictions. Projections indicate there will be more than 50 billion internet-connected objects and devices ...Full Article
Beware Nuclear Winter: Another on the Way?
Hot as AI is right now, there are growing concerns that technology vendors may cause AI climate change – a new AI winter brought on by hype and unmet ...Full Article
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed ...Full Article
Nvidia Claims 6000x Speed-Up for Stock Trading Backtest Benchmark
A stock trading backtesting algorithm used by hedge funds to simulate trading variants has received a massive, GPU-based performance boost, according to Nvidia, which has announced a 6,250x acceleration ...Full Article
NSF Gets Pushback on AI Ethics Research
The National Science Foundation is taking some heat for collaborating with Amazon to fund research on AI fairness. With proposals due at the end of June (“letters of intent” ...Full Article
Intel 7nm GPU on Roadmap for 2021, OneAPI Coming This Year
At Intel’s investor meeting yesterday in Santa Clara, Calif., the company filled in details of its roadmap and product launch plans and sought to allay concerns about delays of ...Full Article
Solarflare: Network Processing Wastes 25% of Data Center Resources
Solarflare, the high performance network specialist under agreement to be acquired by Xilinx, has announced a network processing off-loading capability – one that its Wall Street customers have used ...Full Article
AI Used to Convert Brain Signals to Speech
A deep learning framework developed by university researchers aims to convert brain signals recorded by an implant into synthesized speech, aiding those who have lost the ability to speak ...Full Article
