Geostatistical interpolation (Kriging) can be useful in a great number of applications where high fidelity models are required for mapping spatial effects and making predictions based on observations. It is widely utilized in the domain of spatial analysis and computer experiments and heavily used by the US Air Force and GIS services. The following images by Yang, et. al. … [Read more...]
Biadu Small NVIDIA-Powered Cluster for ‘Most Accurate’ Near Human ImageNet Recognition Results
Baidu Research utilized a small 36-node NVIDIA-powered cluster to attain the best computer vision ImageNet classification result to date with a 5.98% error vs. GoogleNet's 6.66%. These results are very close to the human error rate of 5.1%. Key to the Baidu performance is their mix of model- and data-parallelism as well as the use of higher-resolution images (512x512 vs … [Read more...]
Move Over Skype – Google Adds Multi-Language Voice Plus Text-In-Image Translation
The free Google Translate app now incorporates spoken voice translation for 38 languages plus text-in-image translation. The text-in-image translation runs locally on the phone, which is ideal as it works everywhere, while the voice recognition-and-translation requires a connection to the Google servers. In a rough real-world test, this first release appears to work quite well … [Read more...]
Intel to Spend $300M to Increase Gender/Ethnic Diversity by 2020
In his 2015 CES Keynote, Intel CEO announced Brian Krzanich announced a $300 million investment in training and recruiting female and other groups of under-represented computer scientists. The goal is to achieve “full representation” of women and minorities by 2020 at Intel and within the Intel supplier pipelines. The Intel announcement follows other diversity initiatives that … [Read more...]
Facebook HHVM Saves Wikipedia 30% Page Load Time and 50% CPU load over Zend
The Wikipedia blog, "How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast" by Ori Livneh discusses the tremendous impact of switching to the open-source Facebook Hip Hip Virtual Machine (HHVM) for PHP. The HHVM code essentially converts interpreted PHP code to x86 instructions that can run natively on the CPU. This translates to much higher performance by avoiding PHP's usual … [Read more...]
FieldView Data Center Infrastructure Management Reduces Energy Costs Around the World
Making informed decisions about data center operating costs requires the sharing of accurate, real-time data with those decision makers who are vested with maximizing profitability in both cloud and enterprise environments. The FieldView Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution is designed to help customers make effective use of their assets, space and especially … [Read more...]
PathScale EKO 5 Compiler Adds Support for ARM and C++11
PathScale - a well-known provider of one of the industry's highest-performance 64-bit C, C++, and Fortran compilers - has added support for ARM and C++11 in their EKOPath 5 compiler suite. “We are pleased to provide the ARM HPC ecosystem with our new EKOPath compiler,” said Christopher Bergstrom, the PathScale Chief Technology Officer. “Our C/Fortran compiler and BLAS … [Read more...]
Seven10 Storage Software Intelligently Manages Seamless Data Migration to the Cloud
TechEnablement caught up with Seven10 Storage Software's CTO Chris Magyar to speak about their enterprise software that claims to "make data migrations painless and cloud access effortless". Enterprise computing is moving to both private and public clouds to realize the benefits of "data everywhere". Seven10 Storage software makes this possible by providing a unified … [Read more...]
Intel Moving Big Into Tiny Wearables – Save Lives, Reduce Insurance Rates
The 2015 CES keynote by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has been receiving high praise. Spanning a wealth of product innovation, Krzanich discussed towards the end of his keynote the Intel® Curie™ module for wearable devices that has the potential to save lives and even reduce health and auto insurance rates. Specifically, the Intel Curie module is a complete low-power solution … [Read more...]
FAA and Industry Partners Launch Drone Safety Campaign for the Masses
Alarmed by increasing encounters between small drones and manned aircraft, drone industry officials said they are teaming up with the government and model aircraft hobbyists to launch a safety campaign. The FAA has been receiving about 25 reports per month this year of drones sighted flying near manned aircraft or airports, up from just a handful of reports two years ago. … [Read more...]