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...]
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...]
Intel tutorial shows how to view OpenCL assembly code
In order to better optimize and debug OpenCL kernels, sometimes it is very helpful to look at the underlying assembly. This article shows you the tools available in the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications that allow you to view assembly generated by the offline compiler for individual kernels, highlight the regions of the assembly code that correspond to OpenCL C code, as well … [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...]
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...]