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...]
How Lustre and DAOS Enable Faster Deep Learning
Sponsored Content In this article we will focus on Lustre and DAOS and their implications for distributed machine learning. This is the third in a multi-part series on Faster Deep Learning with the Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF). Brent Gorda (General Manager, Intel HPC Storage) note, “Lustre currently runs on 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest supercomputers and … [Read more...]
How the Intel® OPA Fabric Facilitates Distributed Training
Sponsored Content In this article we will focus on Intel® Omni-Path Architecture and the implications for distributed machine learning. This is the second in a multi-part series on Faster Deep Learning with the Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF). Deep learning neural networks can be trained to solve complex pattern recognition tasks - sometimes even better than … [Read more...]
IBM Cloud Offers New NVIDIA Tesla Accelerator to Speed Big Data, Analytics and Visualization
IBM Cloud First To Offer NVIDIA's New “Tesla” Accelerator, Speeding Big Data, Analytics and Visualization for AI and Cognitive Workloads IBM Cloud delivers groundbreaking performance running GPU accelerators for tackling the toughest compute-intensive workloads Las Vegas – May 19, 2016 – IBM has become the first company to offer the latest NVIDIA GPU accelerator—the NVIDIA® … [Read more...]
Faster Deep Learning with the Intel® Scalable System Framework: Next Generation Processors
Sponsored Post This is the first in a multi-part series on machine-learning that examines the impact of Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF) technology on the valuable HPC field of deep-learning. In this article we will focus on Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors. Follow-on articles will discuss other Intel SSF components including networking and storage with … [Read more...]
IBM and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign collaborate to build the Cognitive Computing Systems Research Center (C3SR)
IBM and the University of Illinois to Pioneer Next-Generation Cognitive Computing Systems New Center advances how Watson and other machine learning systems can accelerate a range of cognitive computing applications such as multi-modal education YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and URBANA, IL. April 15, 2016 – IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans for a multi-year collaboration … [Read more...]
Lucid VR brings 3D cameras for Virtual Reality to the masses
Lucid VR develops 3D 180-degree VR cameras that amps up Virtual Reality (VR) content creation by adding 3D stereoscopic imaging to a VR video capture at a price point that makes VR cameras available to the masses. Videos from Lucid VR cameras can be viewed immediately after capture on a cell phone or any Virtual Reality headset. Further, using the camera requires little effort … [Read more...]
Pascal upgrade and Intel Xeon Phi at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
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...]
Power 9 info plus IBM to make NVlink demo system available
TechEnablement spoke with Brad McCredie (Vice President and IBM Fellow) today about the Power 9 announcement and the accessibility of an OpenPower system with NVlink. The good news is that interested groups can submit proposals now to get access to OpenPower systems and to get access - according to McCredie - to an OpenPower using NVlink in the third quarter of this … [Read more...]