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Third-Party Use Cases Illustrate the Success of CPU-based Visualization

April 14, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Third-Party Use Cases Illustrate the Success of CPU-based Visualization

John Stone (Research Staff, The Beckman Institute) points out that improvements in the AVX-512 instruction set in the Intel Xeon Phi (and latest generation Intel Xeon processors) can deliver significant performance improvements for some time consuming molecular visualization kernels over most existing Intel Xeon CPUs. Based on his recent results using the Intel Xeon Phi … [Read more...]

NVIDIA GTC 2018 Shrewdly Incremental to Position NVDA Stock for Massive Growth

April 3, 2018 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

NVIDIA GTC 2018 Shrewdly Incremental to Position NVDA Stock for Massive Growth

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang noted for the press at GTC 2018 that NVIDIA is now a platform company, not just a chip vendor. This message was clearly conveyed by the content of Jensen’s keynote that occupied two hours and spanned a number of topics from an NVlink hardware switch to the Xavier platform and self-driving cars. Succinctly, NVIDIA provided two new key hardware designs … [Read more...]

Face It: AI Gets Personal to Make You Look Better!

March 12, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Face It: AI Gets Personal to Make You Look Better!

Sponsored Content Face it, a mobile AI-based hairstyle app, “is guaranteed to make you look your best” according to its creator Pallab Paul. Paul is an Intel student ambassador who presented his work at the 2017 Intel Developers conference in Denver, Colorado. The app has a very simple interface: all you have to do is provide some simple information about your hair, skin, and … [Read more...]

SURFsara Achieves Accuracy and Performance Breakthroughs for Both Deep Learning and Wide Network Training

November 10, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

SURFsara Achieves Accuracy and Performance Breakthroughs for Both Deep Learning and Wide Network Training

Sponsored Content SURFsara posted the best accuracy and an under 40 minute training time on some popular deep learning architectures and data sets to establish new single-model state-of-the-art results using only general-purpose CPU-based hardware, as opposed to special accelerators. Specifically SURFsara reports under 40 minutes to train the ResNet50 model on the ImageNet-1k … [Read more...]

Accelerating Python and Deep Learning

February 20, 2017 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Accelerating Python and Deep Learning

Sponsored Content “For deep learning to have a meaningful impact and business value, the time to train a model must be reduced from weeks to hours,” observed Ananth Sankaranarayanan, Intel’s director of engineering, analytics and AI solutions. Demonstrating the performance benefits of Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi hardware and new Intel Architecture (IA) optimized software … [Read more...]

SC16 – Chinese Tech Capability Increase Over Last Year Now Matches or Exceeds US HPC Capability

November 14, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

SC16 – Chinese Tech Capability Increase Over Last Year Now Matches or Exceeds US HPC Capability

During the press briefing at SC'16, TOP500 luminaries like Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Wu Feng, Martin Weuer, and Erich Strohmaier  responded to questioning by the Press. The panel was gracious enough to respond to questions from TechEnablement about the state of the Chinese HPC capability along with observations about the state of the Chinese semiconductor, network, and … [Read more...]

Come learn and meet the experts at the 2016 Intel HPC Developer Conference – Just Before SC16!

September 22, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Come learn and meet the experts at the 2016 Intel HPC Developer Conference – Just Before SC16!

Sponsored Content Come learn and meet the experts at the Intel 2016 HPC Developer Conference - just before SC16! Arrive early at Supercomputing 2016 and fuel your insight with focused technical sessions and hands-on labs brought to you by your peers, industry experts, academic/governments institutions and Intel technologists. Plus it’s free! Register now for the 2016 … [Read more...]

Inside the IBM POWER Systems 2x Price-Performance over x86 Claims

September 8, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Inside the IBM POWER Systems 2x Price-Performance over x86 Claims

Today (Sept. 8, 2016) IBM POWER Systems unveiled a new family of servers that IBM claims will transform the economics of the Data Center: purpose-built for AI and machine learning and that can deliver a 2X Price-Performance Advantage over x86-Based Servers. Designed in collaboration with the OpenPOWER Foundation (including some of the biggest and innovative tech companies in … [Read more...]

IBM Linux Servers Designed to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Advanced Analytics

September 8, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

IBM Linux Servers Designed to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Advanced Analytics

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...]

Adaptive Computing Acquired by ALA Services LLC

September 7, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Adaptive Computing Acquired by ALA Services LLC

PROVO, UT (September 2, 2016) - Adaptive Computing, a provider of workload and resource orchestration software, announced it has been acquired by ALA Services LLC (ALA), the investment entity of Arthur L. Allen, founder, former President and CEO of ASG Software Solutions Inc.  Art Allen and team bring a wealth of experience in understanding software platforms used for … [Read more...]

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