A study led by G. K. Surya Prakash, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, along with the Nobel laureate George A. Olah, a distinguished professor at the University of Southern California has demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to methanol in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The benefits are … [Read more...]
NVIDIA video shows how machine-learning is redefining visual search
An NVIDIA video by Nervve shows how machine-learning is redefining visual search. The video can be viewed by clicking here. According to the meeting description: From the exabytes of user generated visual content created daily on web services to the projected 859 Petabytes created every day by surveillance cameras in 2017 - Visual content is all around us. However, huge … [Read more...]
Chrome ‘Brotli’ Compression claimed make web 20%-26% Faster
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...]
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...]
Press Release – Adaptive Computing Achieves Record High Throughput on Supermicro Solutions
Adaptive Computing Achieves Record High Throughput on Supermicro Solutions PROVO, UT (January 22, 2016) - Adaptive Computing, provider of award-winning workload and resource orchestration software, announces it has set a new record in High Throughput Computing (HTC) in collaboration with Supermicro, a leader in high-performance green computing solutions. Supermicro … [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...]
Opening Your Computer’s Mind – Google and Microsoft Open-Source Deep-Learning Software
Both Google and Microsoft have made open-source deep-learning toolkits available for download. TechEnablement.com also has a github repository containing our machine-learning teaching code that achieved 13 PF/s average sustained performance on the ORNL Titan supercomputer. Google's TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow … [Read more...]