Register to learn about using R - and Intel Xeon Phi accelerated R - in your HPC applications via this TACC webcast. For more information about accelerated R see the pdf of the TACC presentation, "High-Performance R". This workshop will introduce participants to data intensive computing using R on Stampede. Prior experience with R is necessary in order to benefit from the … [Read more...]
Unlike Oculus – Microsoft HoloLens Lets You Move
By itself, the 3D Microsoft HoloLens is interesting, but the big news is that the device is real-world - you can wear it while standing and walking around! http://youtu.be/aThCr0PsyuA?t=1m40s In comparison, Oculus Rift DK2 is still a closed-world, not-recommended-to-move visor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ignn19Ajvs See our summary visor review for more … [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...]
Intel’s $2.1B 2014 Revenue Shows Internet of Things is Here to Stay
IoT (Internet of Things) is here to stay as demonstrated by Intel's $2.1B revenue from IoT reported in the latest 2014 earnings report. IoT is characterized by a diversity of sensors, wireless radios, and truly miniature processors that enhance what devices around us can sense and do. For example, TechEnablement wrote about the new Curie module, which fits a sensor hub, a Quark … [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...]
Intel to Spend $300M to Increase Gender/Ethnic Diversity by 2020
In his 2015 CES Keynote, Intel CEO announced Brian Krzanich announced a $300 million investment in training and recruiting female and other groups of under-represented computer scientists. The goal is to achieve “full representation” of women and minorities by 2020 at Intel and within the Intel supplier pipelines. The Intel announcement follows other diversity initiatives that … [Read more...]
CUDA 7 For Registered Developers – LAPACK Dense Solvers 3-6x faster than MKL
The CUDA Toolkit 7.0 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to members of NVIDIA’s free registered developer program. Especially interesting is the claim of 3-6x faster LAPACK dense solvers over MKL (The Intel Math Kernel Library). C++11 support makes it easier for C++ developers to accelerate their applications Write less code with ‘auto’ and ‘lambda’, especially when … [Read more...]
Facebook HHVM Saves Wikipedia 30% Page Load Time and 50% CPU load over Zend
The Wikipedia blog, "How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast" by Ori Livneh discusses the tremendous impact of switching to the open-source Facebook Hip Hip Virtual Machine (HHVM) for PHP. The HHVM code essentially converts interpreted PHP code to x86 instructions that can run natively on the CPU. This translates to much higher performance by avoiding PHP's usual … [Read more...]
FieldView Data Center Infrastructure Management Reduces Energy Costs Around the World
Making informed decisions about data center operating costs requires the sharing of accurate, real-time data with those decision makers who are vested with maximizing profitability in both cloud and enterprise environments. The FieldView Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution is designed to help customers make effective use of their assets, space and especially … [Read more...]