The rumors are true. NVIDIA just announced that it will acquire ARM for $40 Billion. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang said during a media conference this evening (Sept. 13, 2020), that the view is to build the 10s of trillions to 100s of trillions of computers that will be needed in the future. The merger will "turn ARM into a world class data center CPU". Based on … [Read more...]
Farewell to a Familiar HPC Friend
Rich Brueckner was a friend and colleague who will be missed by the HPC community - myself included. He is a fallen comrade to those in media. Sadly we must now use the past tense and say he was a recognized and influential voice to his audience. Very simply, Rich raised the bar in reporting and life. His passing on May 18, 2020 means that we will no longer have the … [Read more...]
NVIDIA GTC 2018 Shrewdly Incremental to Position NVDA Stock for Massive Growth
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang noted for the press at GTC 2018 that NVIDIA is now a platform company, not just a chip vendor. This message was clearly conveyed by the content of Jensen’s keynote that occupied two hours and spanned a number of topics from an NVlink hardware switch to the Xavier platform and self-driving cars. Succinctly, NVIDIA provided two new key hardware designs … [Read more...]
Oil and Gas Industry Progress Towards Faster, More Power Efficient Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation is the single, most important calculation and Oil and Gas company can do. Attendees at the recent KAUST Global IT summit were told that armed guards are stationed inside the KAUST computer center when the ARAMCO simulation is running because the software is a state secret. The Oil and Gas Industry has been reporting heroic simulation sizes now … [Read more...]
Anaconda Machine Learning Platform comes to IBM Cognitive Systems plus the Open Power Machine Learning Workgroup Launches
IBM announced on April 17, 2017 that it will offer the Anaconda Open Data Science platform on IBM Cognitive Systems. "By adding Anaconda support, IBM continues to take an open, collaborative approach with like-minded tech companies pushing the limits of cognitive tech. Now Anaconda’s massive developer community have access to hardware that is tailor built to power the deep … [Read more...]
Accelerating Python and Deep Learning
Sponsored Content “For deep learning to have a meaningful impact and business value, the time to train a model must be reduced from weeks to hours,” observed Ananth Sankaranarayanan, Intel’s director of engineering, analytics and AI solutions. Demonstrating the performance benefits of Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi hardware and new Intel Architecture (IA) optimized software … [Read more...]
SC16 – Chinese Tech Capability Increase Over Last Year Now Matches or Exceeds US HPC Capability
During the press briefing at SC'16, TOP500 luminaries like Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Wu Feng, Martin Weuer, and Erich Strohmaier responded to questioning by the Press. The panel was gracious enough to respond to questions from TechEnablement about the state of the Chinese HPC capability along with observations about the state of the Chinese semiconductor, network, and … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Enables Pikazo’s Economics and Creates Opportunity
Sponsored Content “Pikazo is a tool that let’s anyone become an artist”, began Noah Rosenberg (CEO, Pikazo) when speaking about CPU-based artistic computing. “About grade 3-4 people begin to censor themselves and don’t give themselves permission to call what they draw art”. Pikazo changes that through an innovative blend of machine-learning and behind-the-scenes artistic … [Read more...]
Analysis of Intel share price drop after earnings call
Yesterday Intel held its 10/18 earnings call. Currently the stock is down by over 6%. The TechEnablement Analysis for the stock decrease is twofold: The decrease in enterprise revenue of 3% rather than staying flat impacted INTC as it drew down DCG revenue growth this year to single digits. The executive team downplayed the enterprise revenue decrease by pointing out (1) … [Read more...]
Come learn and meet the experts at the 2016 Intel HPC Developer Conference – Just Before SC16!
Sponsored Content Come learn and meet the experts at the Intel 2016 HPC Developer Conference - just before SC16! Arrive early at Supercomputing 2016 and fuel your insight with focused technical sessions and hands-on labs brought to you by your peers, industry experts, academic/governments institutions and Intel technologists. Plus it’s free! Register now for the 2016 … [Read more...]