“I feel the need…the need for speed.” That quote could be as easily applied to business users eager for the power to move forward with Advanced Analytics as it could to generations of Naval pilots inspired by Tom Cruise in the 1986 movie Top Gun. With Version 6.0 of its GPU-accelerated database, released in January, […]
NVIDIA and Microsoft Boost AI Cloud Computing with Launch of Hyperscale GPU Accelerator
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “NVIDIA with Microsoft today unveiled blueprints for a new hyperscale GPU accelerator to drive AI cloud computing. Providing hyperscale data centers with a fast, flexible path for AI, the new HGX-1 hyperscale GPU accelerator is an open-source design released in conjunction with Microsoft’s Project Olympus. HGX-1 does […]
H2O.ai Launches Deep Water, Deep Learning for Enterprise
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “H2O.ai, the company bringing AI to business, last month announced the release of its Deep Water product, a GPU-powered deep learning offering that’s giving Fortune 500 companies the ability to optimize business operations by analyzing and processing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as images, video, text […]
IBM and NVIDIA Team Up on World’s Fastest Deep Learning Enterprise Solution
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “IBM and NVIDIA today announced collaboration on a new deep learning tool optimized for the latest IBM and NVIDIA technologies to help train computers to think and learn in more human-like ways at a faster pace… Deep learning is a fast growing machine learning method that […]
Fujitsu Doubles Deep Learning Neural Network Scale
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release out of the company, “Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced development of technology to streamline the internal memory of GPUs to support the growing neural network scale that works to heighten machine learning accuracy. This development has enabled neural network machine learning of a scale up to […]
World’s Highest Density Deep Learning Supercomputer in a Box
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Orange Silicon Valley, a Silicon Valley Business Innovation Center for global telecom operator Orange, and CocoLink Corp, a spinoff of Seoul National University, have built a functional prototype of one of the world’s highest density Deep Learning Supercomputer in a box using CoCoLink’s KLIMAX 210, a […]
Inside Intel’s Big Machine Learning Announcements
by Angela Guess Rob Farber of TechEnablement recently wrote in InsideHPC, “Intel provided a wealth of machine learning announcements following the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor (formerly known as Knights Landing) announcement at ISC’16. Building upon the various technologies in Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF), the machine learning community can expect up to 38% better […]
Nvidia Supports Deep Learning Startups with Nvidia Inception Program
by Angela Guess Stephen Withers reports in ITwire, “GPU vendor Nvidia has announced a support program to help startup companies that are applying deep learning technologies. The Nvidia Inception Program offers a range of resources to participating startups. Benefits include early access to the latest GPU hardware and supporting software; Nvidia’s deep learning experts and […]
The Future of the Data Center: Heterogeneous Computing
“The whole point of Heterogeneous Computing is to have the right tools available, so you can use the right processor, in the right place, at the right time,” said Pat McGarry, the VP of Engineering at Ryft in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Such a statement certainly sounds both pertinent and beneficial, but in reality what […]
Facebook Is Donating 25 GPUs to European Labs for AI Research
by Angela Guess Natalie Gagliordi recently reported in ZDnet, “Facebook is donating 25 state-of-the-art GPU servers to European research labs in an effort to spur advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement from Berlin (via live video, of course) on behalf of the social network’s AI Research division […]