Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
Oliver Peckham
How Laika Uses Intel ML to Hide the Seams in Stop Motion Animation
September 2nd, 2020
The Oscar-nominated animators at Laika are practitioners of a grueling art. The 15-year-old movie studio – which has so far released Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link – works in stop motion animation, ...
NOAA Awards Nearly $700,000 to Enterpreneurial Machine Learning Projects
August 26th, 2020
In the computing sphere, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may be most well-known for its massive weather and climate models, which predominantly run on correspondingly massive supercomputers and clusters. With the advent of machine learning ...
With Strong Q2 Earnings, Nvidia’s System Play Comes Into Focus
August 20th, 2020
Nvidia has announced its Q2 2021 earnings: $3.87 billion, outperforming analyst expectations amid a global pandemic and showing signs of a successful (and ongoing) reorientation of its business strategy. Compared to the same quarter in the last fiscal year, ...
Toyota and AWS Team Up to Enable a Smarter Future for Cars
August 19th, 2020
Cars are getting smarter, and it’s not just Tesla at the wheel. Vehicles are increasingly connected to the cloud, allowing manufacturers to streamline smarter contextual and internet-driven services. Now, Toyota – the second-largest car manufacturer in the world – ...
Neuromorphic Computing to Assist Children Who Use Wheelchairs
August 19th, 2020
Intel’s neuromorphic chip has learned to smell, learned to touch – and now, it’s here to help. The chip, which mimics the behavior of the human brain, is being used in a collaborative effort to develop a wheelchair-mounted assistive ...
New AI Training Method Works on Individual Desktops, Laptops
August 5th, 2020
Training AI models can be incredibly computationally intensive. Researchers often use supercomputers to ready the models, and the impact can be severe: the training process for a single model can be intensive enough to produce the carbon emissions produced ...
Cloud for Clouds: ClimaCell Leverages Cloud HPC to Deliver Weather Micro-Forecasting
August 1st, 2020
Weather forecasting is a tricky, unforgiving business, and for weather-dependent clients in precise locations, like airlines and sports teams, accuracy is king. Making accurate predictions for a highly specific area, however, is not within the scope of many major ...
Nvidia Dominates Latest MLPerf Training Benchmark Results
July 29th, 2020
MLPerf.org released its third round of training benchmark (v0.7) results today and Nvidia again dominated, claiming 16 new records. Meanwhile, Google provided early benchmarks for its next generation TPU 4.0 accelerator and Intel previewed performance on third-gen processors (Cooper ...
Continental Debuts the Fastest Supercomputer in the Automotive Industry – and It’s Built for AI
July 29th, 2020
The automotive industry finds strong use cases for supercomputers, which can help industrial designers do everything from optimizing engines and aerodynamics to running virtual crash tests. Now, German automotive manufacturer Continental is announcing a new leap forward with the ...
Qumulo Locks Down $125M Financing, $1.2B Valuation
July 23rd, 2020
Data storage company Qumulo has landed a big win. The company announced $125 million in Series E funding, bringing Qumulo’s funding to $351 million and placing the firm at a total valuation in excess of $1.2 billion. The funding ...
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