GPUs
Deep Learning Portends ‘Sea Change’ for Oil and Gas Sector
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling the competitive sector to ...Full Article
IBM Adds V100 GPUs to IBM Cloud; Targets AI, HPC
IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence ...Full Article
FPGAs, ASICs Seen Driving Machine Learning
As machine learning makes steady progress in enterprise datacenters, industry observers are forecasting the emergence of a new wave of machine learning chips in the coming year, a market ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
Intel, AMD Moves Rattle GPU Market
Intel Corp. has lured away the former head of AMD's graphics business as the world's largest chipmaker forms a high-end graphics unit to compete with GPU market leader Nvidia. ...Full Article
SAP Upgrades AI Platform With Volta GPUs
Building on collaboration announced earlier this year, SAP said this week it would incorporate Nvidia's AI platform based on the graphics processing specialist's Volta architecture into its machine-learning portfolio. ...Full Article
Oracle Joins Shift to Cloud GPUs
Public cloud vendors continue to add processing horsepower in the form of Nvidia GPU accelerators and the graphics processor vendor's Tesla datacenter GPUs. Oracle announced this week it is ...Full Article
AWS Embraces AMD For Faster Graphics
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) streaming service, AppStream 2.0, introduced a new GPU instance called Graphics Design intended to accelerate graphics. The new instance is based on AMD’s ...Full Article
Microsoft Bolsters Azure With Cloud HPC Deal
Microsoft has acquired cloud computing software vendor Cycle Computing in a move designed to bring orchestration tools along with high-end computing access capabilities to the cloud. Terms of the ...Full Article
Nvidia’s ‘GPU Cloud’ Adopts Containers for AI Development
GPU powerhouse Nvidia's entry into the cloud market is differentiated from public cloud leaders by its focus on delivering development tools for training artificial intelligence models and running AI ...Full Article
