• Home
  • News
  • Tutorials
  • Analysis
  • About
  • Contact

TechEnablement

Education, Planning, Analysis, Code

  • CUDA
    • News
    • Tutorials
    • CUDA Study Guide
  • OpenACC
    • News
    • Tutorials
    • OpenACC Study Guide
  • Xeon Phi
    • News
    • Tutorials
    • Intel Xeon Phi Study Guide
  • OpenCL
    • News
    • Tutorials
    • OpenCL Study Guide
  • Web/Cloud
    • News
    • Tutorials
You are here: Home / Archives for Featured article

The cornerstone is laid – NVIDIA acquires ARM

September 13, 2020 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

May 27, 2020 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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...]

TechEnablement Blog Sunset or Sunrise?

February 12, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Apologies to our readers but the TechEnablement blog is no longer actively updated. Please feel free to examine the older content until we find a way to revamp and revitalize our site. … [Read more...]

Third-Party Use Cases Illustrate the Success of CPU-based Visualization

April 14, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

John Stone (Research Staff, The Beckman Institute) points out that improvements in the AVX-512 instruction set in the Intel Xeon Phi (and latest generation Intel Xeon processors) can deliver significant performance improvements for some time consuming molecular visualization kernels over most existing Intel Xeon CPUs. Based on his recent results using the Intel Xeon Phi … [Read more...]

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...]

Face It: AI Gets Personal to Make You Look Better!

March 12, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Sponsored Content Face it, a mobile AI-based hairstyle app, “is guaranteed to make you look your best” according to its creator Pallab Paul. Paul is an Intel student ambassador who presented his work at the 2017 Intel Developers conference in Denver, Colorado. The app has a very simple interface: all you have to do is provide some simple information about your hair, skin, and … [Read more...]

SURFsara Achieves Accuracy and Performance Breakthroughs for Both Deep Learning and Wide Network Training

November 10, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Sponsored Content SURFsara posted the best accuracy and an under 40 minute training time on some popular deep learning architectures and data sets to establish new single-model state-of-the-art results using only general-purpose CPU-based hardware, as opposed to special accelerators. Specifically SURFsara reports under 40 minutes to train the ResNet50 model on the ImageNet-1k … [Read more...]

NVIDIA GTC’17 announcements make them a complete ‘soup to nuts’ solution for specialized deep-learning applications

May 12, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Amid a stronger-than-expected quarter (NVDA revenue $1.94B, datacenters sales of $409M), Jensen Huang (CEO/cofounder) Nvidia provided a comprehensive set of announcements during his GTC'17 keynote to position Nvidia for growth in the datacenter, cloud, embedded computing, plus IoT with low power domain level hardware (not a processor). Pre-emptive Intel Skylake comparative … [Read more...]

Oil and Gas Industry Progress Towards Faster, More Power Efficient Reservoir Simulation

April 26, 2017 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

April 21, 2017 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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...]

Next Page »

Tell us you were here

Recent Posts

Intel Software Defined Visualization (SDVis) Appliance Delivers Efficient CPU-Based In Situ Visualization

June 19, 2017 By James Reinders Leave a Comment

Accelerating Python and Deep Learning

February 20, 2017 By Rob Farber Leave a Comment

SC16 – Chinese Tech Capability Increase Over Last Year Now Matches or Exceeds US HPC Capability

November 14, 2016 By Rob Farber Leave a Comment

OpenACC Adoption Continues to Gain Momentum in 2016

November 7, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

More Tutorials

Learn how to program IBM’s ‘Deep-Learning’ SyNAPSE chip

February 5, 2016 By Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Free Intermediate-Level Deep-Learning Course by Google

January 27, 2016 By Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Intel tutorial shows how to view OpenCL assembly code

January 25, 2016 By Rob Farber Leave a Comment

More Posts from this Category

Top Posts & Pages

  • Face It: AI Gets Personal to Make You Look Better!
  • Learn how to program IBM's 'Deep-Learning' SyNAPSE chip
  • OpenCL Study Guide
  • Part 1: OpenCL™ – Portable Parallelism
  • ARM64 and x86 With OpenMP 4.0 For HPC and Enterprise in GNU and Possibly Clang

Archives

© 2021 · techenablement.com