Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Thursday, April 25, 2024

Author Archives: John Russell

John Russell

IBM OpenPOWER to Join Open Source Linux Foundation
August 21st, 2019 Comments Off on IBM OpenPOWER to Join Open Source Linux Foundation
IBM has announced it was contributing the instruction set (ISA) for its Power microprocessor and the designs for the Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (OpenCAPI) and Open Memory Interface (OMI) to the Linux Foundation. It also reported the OpenPOWER ...

Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake
August 6th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake
Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel’s 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed form factor, leveraging the capabilities from its Xeon Platinum 9200 series. The new chip ...

STAC Floats ML Benchmark for Financial Services Workloads
January 16th, 2019 Comments Off on STAC Floats ML Benchmark for Financial Services Workloads
STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center) recently released an "exploratory" benchmark for machine learning which it hopes will evolve into a firm benchmark or suite of benchmarking tools to compare the performance of machine learning and deep learning workflows for ...

The Deep500 – Tackling a Deep Learning Benchmark
January 8th, 2019 Comments Off on The Deep500 – Tackling a Deep Learning Benchmark
How do you know if an HPC system, particularly a larger-scale system, is well-suited for deep learning workloads? Today, that’s not an easy question to answer because there's no widely agreed-upon benchmark or reference architecture for comparing DL performance ...

Is Amazon’s Plunge into Server Chips a Watershed Moment?
December 12th, 2018 Comments Off on Is Amazon’s Plunge into Server Chips a Watershed Moment?
For several years now the big cloud providers – Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, et al – have been transforming from technology consumers into technology creators in hardware and software. The most recent example being Amazon’s announcement two weeks ago ...

Cold Blanket Cast on Quantum Computing
November 30th, 2018 Comments Off on Cold Blanket Cast on Quantum Computing
Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Dyakonov published in IEEE Spectrum this month – "The Case Against Quantum ...

Move Over Lustre & Spectrum Scale – Here Comes BeeGFS?
November 29th, 2018 Comments Off on Move Over Lustre & Spectrum Scale – Here Comes BeeGFS?
Is BeeGFS – the parallel file system with European roots – on a path to compete with Lustre and Spectrum Scale worldwide? Frank Herold’s unsurprising answer is yes. Herold is CEO of ThinkParQ, the company created in 2014 to ...

Dell EMC’s HPC Chief on AI and Emerging Processor Diversity
November 19th, 2018 Comments Off on Dell EMC’s HPC Chief on AI and Emerging Processor Diversity
Last January, Thierry Pellegrino, a long-time Dell/Dell EMC veteran, became VP of HPC. His tenure comes at a time when the very definition of HPC is blurring with AI writ large (data analytics, machine learning, deep learning) clamoring for ...

Rise of the Machines – Clarion Call on AI Policy from House Subcommittee
October 2nd, 2018 Comments Off on Rise of the Machines – Clarion Call on AI Policy from House Subcommittee
Last week, the top U.S. Congressional subcommittee on IT weighed in on AI with a new report - Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence and its Growing Impact on U.S. Policy. It's a 15-page fast read, focused on policy, ...

Azure Expands CycleCloud Access, Now Supports Nvidia Containers
August 30th, 2018 Comments Off on Azure Expands CycleCloud Access, Now Supports Nvidia Containers
Microsoft Azure continued to beef up support for HPC and advanced scale workloads today announcing general availability of CycleCloud – its HPC cloud orchestration product based on technology from Cycle Computing which was acquired last August – and introducing ...
Page 4 of 6« First...23456
EnterpriseAI