AiMOS AI Supercomputer - source: RPI
IBM Unveils Power9-based AI Supercomputer
Designed to push the frontiers of computing chip and systems performance optimized for AI workloads, an 8 petaflop IBM Power9-based supercomputer has been unveiled in upstate New York that ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets a GPU Boost
An infrastructure vendor zeroing in on AI and machine learning workloads has added GPU support to a Kubernetes-based appliance designed to handle those emerging applications in containers while adding ...Full Article
New Chips from AWS: Arm-based General Purpose and ML Inference
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has now encompassed CPUs offered ...Full Article
Hyperion: AI-driven HPC Industry Continues to Push Growth Projections
Three major forces – AI, cloud and exascale – are combining to raise the HPC industry to heights exceeding expectations. According to market study results released this week by ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Adds Graphcore’s IPU
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding collaboration with Microsoft to offer its intelligent processing units on the Azure cloud, making Microsoft the first large public cloud vendor ...Full Article
AMD Gains Design Win for Tencent Server
Tencent, the Chinese cloud giant, said it would use AMD’s newest Epyc processor in its internally-designed server. The design win adds further momentum to AMD’s bid to erode rival ...Full Article
SC19: AI and Machine Learning Sessions Pepper Conference Agenda
AI and HPC are increasingly intertwined – machine learning workloads demand ever increasing compute power – so it’s no surprise the annual supercomputing industry shindig, SC19 at the Colorado ...Full Article
AI Inference Benchmark Bake-off Puts Nvidia on Top
MLPerf.org, the young AI-benchmarking consortium, has issued the first round of results for its inference test suite. Among organizations with submissions were Nvidia, Intel, Alibaba, Supermicro, Google, Huawei, Dell ...Full Article
Nvidia Launches Credit Card-Sized 21 TOPS Jetson System for Edge Devices
Nvidia has launched what it claims to be the world’s smallest supercomputer, an addition to its Jetson product line with a credit card-sized (70x45mm) form factor delivering up to ...Full Article
Chips Hit a New Low with ‘Valleytronics’
A potential interim step between conventional semiconductors and quantum devices has emerged, promising improved information processing schemes that outperform current electronic charge- and spin-based chip architectures. The emerging quantum ...Full Article
