New IBM POWER8 Chip with NVIDIA NVLinkTM Enables Data Movement 5x Faster than Any Competing Platform Systems Deliver Average of 80% More Performance Per Dollar than Latest x86-Based Servers(1) Expanded Linux Server Lineup Leverages OpenPOWER Innovations ARMONK, NY, September 8, 2016 … IBM (NYSE: IBM) today revealed a series of new servers designed to help … [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...]
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...]
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...]
NVIDIA Oct. 20 Webinar – GPU Powered Advances in 4k Facial Recognition
New GPU technologies are fueling a dramatic growth in the use of video surveillance and video analytics around the globe. The emergence of ultra-high resolutions and massive video content calls for faster and more accurate ways to accelerate facial analysis. Register here for the October 20, 2015 webinar from 10am to 11am Pacific Time. By attending this webinar, you'll … [Read more...]
Win $50k in Deep-learning Diabetic Retinopathy Detection Competition
Kaggle.com is listing a deep-learning competition sponsored by the California Healthcare Foundation to achieve the best accuracy identifying diabetic retinopathy (DR) from retinal images provided by EyePACS, a free platform for retinopathy screening. The goal of this competition is to push an automated detection system to the limit of what is possible – ideally resulting in … [Read more...]
Jeremy Howard – A Deep-Learning Education and Why It Can Take Your Job
An excellent TED.com talk by Jeremy Howard teaches how deep-learning can let computers see, hear, and comprehend sentences with human accuracy. He then looks ahead to the implications to jobs in the developed world. http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_terrifying_implications_of_computers_that_can_learn … [Read more...]
Facebook Open-Sources Torch for Deep-Learning Neural Networks
Facebook has made Torch, an open source development environment for numerics, machine learning, and computer vision, with a particular emphasis on deep learning and convolutional nets available to everyone. The latest release includes GPU-optimized modules for large convolutional nets (ConvNets), as well as networks with sparse activations that are commonly used in Natural … [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...]