Google chrome will be updated to utilize the Brotli compression scheme, but only for HTTPS connections. According to Google, Brotli is a whole new data format. that provides 20–26% higher compression ratios over the Zopfli scheme introduced two years ago. In a study ‘Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms, the authors show that … [Read more...]
Free Intermediate-Level Deep-Learning Course by Google
Vincent Vanhoucke, Principal Scientist at Google and technical lead in the Google Brain team, has teamed with Udacity to offer a free three month intermediate level Deep-Learning course. Register here. Mastering deep learning accordingly positions you at the very forefront of one of the most promising, innovative, and influential emergent technologies, and opens up … [Read more...]
Intel RealSense app developer winners 2015
Intel has announced the 2015 application developer winners. Intel® RealSense™ camera fits three cameras into into a small package.: a 1080p HD camera, an infrared camera, and an infrared laser projector. In combination these cameras “see” like the human eye to sense depth and track human motion. The Challenge, run by Intel® Software, aims to educate existing developers, … [Read more...]
2016 Looking Good for Virtual Reality
Being born is a good thing. Announcements at CES 2016 show that consumers will finally be able to get VR hardware in hand - or more aptly on their heads and even under their feet. Oculus announced it will be accepting pre-orders starting today (Jan. 6, 2016) for $599 USD. Deliveries will start March 28, 2016.. Every pre-ordered Rift comes bundled with Lucky’s Tale by … [Read more...]
3D XPoint Memory Poised to Revolutionize System Memory and Storage
3D XPoint™ memory (pronounced 3d cross-point) is a new nonvolatile, memory technology co-developed by Intel and Micron that can deliver, “Up to 4x system memory capacity at significantly lower cost than DRAM”, a hundred times lower latency than today’s best performing NAND, and write cycle durability that is 1000x that of NAND. The 3D XPoint memory technology is … [Read more...]
SC15 Excitement! Bright Computing Provisions and Manages HPC and Cloud Clusters Worldwide
The Bright Computing booth was a bustling hub of happy activity at SC15. Solving cluster deployment issues "headache free" has brought Bright Computing to the forefront in the under-appreciated world of HPC and cloud provisioning as well as generated a global customer (and fan) base. In short, Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and … [Read more...]
AMD to Support CUDA Compatibility in 2016
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...]
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Editor for Win, Linux, and Mac on Github
Microsoft has released the source-code for the Visual Studio Editor on github with versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX under the MIT license. This is Microsoft's first cross platform development environment. This is a free, cross platform, lightweight editor from Microsoft. The latest version supports plug-ins. Setup instructions for all platforms can be found … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s CEO Cuts to the Chase at SC15 about Accelerated Computing and Deep-learning
NVidia's President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave a short but very clear presentation in the NVidia booth at Supercomputing 2015 about accelerated computing and the impact of deep-learning. In short, look for HPC dominance and a technology transfer that will replace the browser and drive your car. "Moore's Law is utterly irrelevant" Huang said. With over $10 billion of … [Read more...]
SC15 – Accelerator Use in World’s Top Supercomputers
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...]