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IBM, Partners Claim Energy Simulation Record

IBM, NVIDIA, and Stone Ridge Technology today reported setting the performance record for a “billion cell” oil and gas reservoir simulation. Using IBM Minsky servers with NVIDIA P100 GPUs ...Full Article

Nvidia Responds to Google TPU Benchmarking

Last week, Google reported that its custom ASIC Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) was 15-30x faster for inferencing workloads than Nvidia’s K80 GPU (see our coverage, Google Pulls Back the Covers ...Full Article

AI in the News: Rao in at Intel, Ng out at Baidu, NVIDIA on at Tencent Cloud

Just as AI has become the leitmotif of the advanced scale computing market, infusing much of the conversation about HPC in commercial and industrial spheres, it also is impacting ...Full Article

Nvidia Launches Pascal GPUs for Deep Learning Inferencing

Already entrenched in the deep learning community for neural net training, Nvidia wants to secure its place as the go-to chipmaker for datacenter inferencing. At the GPU Technology Conference ...Full Article

Nvidia Adds ‘Parker’ CPU to ‘Brain of Autonomous Vehicles’

Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle strategy took a step forward this week with the announcement of a new mobile CPU, called “Parker,” offered to automakers as a single unit or integrated ...Full Article

NVIDIA Cries Foul on Intel Phi AI Benchmarks

This week saw the eruption of a vendor spat when NVIDIA, developer of GPUs widely used in the AI/machine learning market, alleged foul play against Intel in recent comparative ...Full Article

Intel to Acquire AI Startup Nervana Systems

If we needed another sign that Intel is serious about mining AI market opportunities, it came today when the chip company announced it had inked a “definitive agreement” to acquire ...Full Article

NVIDIA Unleashes Monster Pascal GPU Card at GTC16

NVIDIA revealed its first Pascal-architecture based GPU card, the P100, at the seventh-annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose.Calling it “the most advanced accelerator ever built,” the P100 is ...Full Article

AMD GPU Helps Map Universe

Canadian researchers scanning the universe to develop the most detailed map of our three dimensions ever observed are using AMD's GPU accelerator to crunch the celestial data. Based on ...Full Article

OpenPower, French HPC Center Collaborate on Exascale

The French high-performance computing center will work with IBM and the OpenPower Foundation to hasten its path to exascale computing, the partners announced this week. IBM and GENCI (Grand ...Full Article