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NVIDIA GTC 2018 Shrewdly Incremental to Position NVDA Stock for Massive Growth

April 3, 2018 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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...]

NVIDIA Pascal in the Wild

August 15, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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...]

Pascal upgrade and Intel Xeon Phi at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

April 8, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

It was announced at GTC 2016 that the Piz Daint system at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland will be upgraded to 4,500 Pascal GPUs. No date was stated for when the upgrade will be completed. The upgrade is expected to more than double the performance of Piz Daint, which currently provides 7.8 PF/s of performance. The announcement provides a … [Read more...]

NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs spell the end of ‘offload mode is required’ for accelerators

April 5, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Today at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the first of a new line of Pascal architecture GPUs- the P100. Jen-Hsun noted that the P100 GPUs are in volume production now, but the initial production runs have already been purchased. Consumers should look to first run on the P100 GPUs in the cloud. While Jen-Hsun's keynote focused … [Read more...]

AMD to Support CUDA Compatibility in 2016

November 23, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

TechEnablment spoke with the AMD engineers at SC15 about the HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability) tool for porting CUDA-based applications to a common C++ programming model that can run on AMD FirePro™ graphics processing units (GPUs). AMD demonstrated the potential for HIP by running the CUDA-generated Rodinia benchmark suite on AMD GPUs. The tagline is "It's … [Read more...]

SC15 – Accelerator Use in World’s Top Supercomputers

November 16, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

NVIDIA notes more than 100 accelerated systems now on TOP500 list TOP500 Highlights: One-third of FLOPS now powered by accelerators NVIDIA Tesla GPUs sweep 23 of 24 new accelerated supercomputers Tesla supercomputers growing at 48% CAGR over past five years AUSTIN, Texas—SC15—Nov. 16, 2015—Today’s list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers shows the extent to which … [Read more...]

Pre-order Your $599 Tegra X1 Powered TX1 Developer Kit

November 11, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

NVIDIA is now taking pre-orders for the Tegra X1 powered TX1 development kit at the NVIDIA online store. You can develop OpenACC, CUDA, and OpenCL codes for this 64-bit ARM based system! No word yet on pricing of the actual credit card sized TX1 computer. JETSON TX1 MODULE NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU with 256 NVIDIA® CUDA® Cores Quad-core ARM® Cortex®-A57 MPCore … [Read more...]

NVIDIA Oct. 20 Webinar – GPU Powered Advances in 4k Facial Recognition

October 13, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

New GPU technologies are fueling a dramatic growth in the use of video surveillance and video analytics around the globe. The emergence of ultra-high resolutions and massive video content calls for faster and more accurate ways to accelerate facial analysis. Register here for the October 20, 2015 webinar from 10am to 11am Pacific Time. By attending this webinar, you'll … [Read more...]

Learn to Make Windows 10 Apps with Free Microsoft Course Then Add GPU Acceleration!

October 1, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Free Windows courses by themselves are not newsworthy, but those who wish to create Windows 10 apps for the Windows Marketplace - AND exploit the power of CUDA and OpenCL computing via C# should find the Free Microsoft course in combination with the TechEnablement tutorial "Combine C-Sharp With CUDA and OpenCL On Linux, iOS, Android and Windows" an enabling pair of … [Read more...]

Tenure Track Position in Computer Science at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

September 30, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science department is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in HPC. Click here for a direct link to the position description. They have a shiny new lab for teaching and research in parallel computing, along with a fantastic student body that will certainly attract  talented people for this position.Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is located … [Read more...]

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