NVIDIA announced the P4 and P40 GPUs that are optimized for machine learning inference performance and efficiency. The products are positioned to gain market share for NVIDIA in the data center. (Inference, sometimes called scoring or prediction, utilizes a trained machine learning algorithm to perform some difficult or valuable task like recognizing a picture, predicting an … [Read more...]
Inside the IBM POWER Systems 2x Price-Performance over x86 Claims
Today (Sept. 8, 2016) IBM POWER Systems unveiled a new family of servers that IBM claims will transform the economics of the Data Center: purpose-built for AI and machine learning and that can deliver a 2X Price-Performance Advantage over x86-Based Servers. Designed in collaboration with the OpenPOWER Foundation (including some of the biggest and innovative tech companies in … [Read more...]
IBM Linux Servers Designed to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Advanced Analytics
New IBM POWER8 Chip with NVIDIA NVLinkTM Enables Data Movement 5x Faster than Any Competing Platform Systems Deliver Average of 80% More Performance Per Dollar than Latest x86-Based Servers(1) Expanded Linux Server Lineup Leverages OpenPOWER Innovations ARMONK, NY, September 8, 2016 … IBM (NYSE: IBM) today revealed a series of new servers designed to help … [Read more...]
Adaptive Computing Acquired by ALA Services LLC
PROVO, UT (September 2, 2016) - Adaptive Computing, a provider of workload and resource orchestration software, announced it has been acquired by ALA Services LLC (ALA), the investment entity of Arthur L. Allen, founder, former President and CEO of ASG Software Solutions Inc. Art Allen and team bring a wealth of experience in understanding software platforms used for … [Read more...]
The Exascale Project Starts – Announces $39.8M in First-Round Application Development Awards
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 07, 2016 – The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced its first round of funding with the selection of 15 application development proposals for full funding and seven proposals for seed funding, representing teams from 45 research and academic organizations. The ECP does not yet have a website – but one will be coming … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Speeds Python and Other Machine Learning Packages
Sponsored Content Recent benchmarks from respected sources such as Kyoto University and Colfax Research show Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel SSF) balanced technologies approach coupled with optimized software including Python, Theano, and Torch can provide a tremendous performance benefit for deep learning and more generally both machine learning and generic HPC … [Read more...]
Up To Orders of Magnitude More Performance with Intel’s Distribution of Python
Intel has created a freely downloadable, optimized Python distribution that can greatly accelerate Python codes. Benchmarks show that two order of magnitude speedups (over 100x) can be achieved by using the Intel Distribution for Python. The Intel® Distribution for Python 2017 Beta program (product release will be in September) provides free access to this optimized version. … [Read more...]
NVIDIA – “[Intel] Should Get Their Facts Straight” on Machine Learning Benchmarks
NVIDIA responds to the machine learning benchmark results presented by Intel at ISC'16, "It’s great that Intel is now working on deep learning. This is the most important computing revolution with the era of AI upon us and deep learning is too big to ignore. But they should get their facts straight." (Source: NVIDIA) NVIDIA notes further that, "While we can correct each of … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Pascal in the Wild
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang last week hand-delivered an NVIDIA DGX-1 to OpenAI in San Francisco. “I thought it was incredibly appropriate that the world’s first supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence would go to the laboratory that was dedicated to open artificial intelligence,” Huang said. OpenAI’s team is working at the cutting-edge of a field that promises … [Read more...]
How Intel® MPI Enables Scalable Distributed Machine Learning
Sponsored Content In this article we focus on Intel® MPI and how it supports scalable distributed machine learning both now and in the future. This is the fourth in a multi-part series on Faster Deep Learning with the Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF). The Intel® MPI library provides programmers a “drop-in” MPICH replacement library that can deliver the … [Read more...]