AI’s Cool New Thing: Capsule Networks (explained)
A buzz is about in AI circles around “capsule networks,” a new variant on neural networks that backers say could simplify, cut the costs of, commoditize and, in the ...Full Article
SC17 Takeaways: Machine Learning + HPC = ‘Synthesis Modeling’, and Other Developments
The annual supercomputing confab, SC17, was held last week in Denver, and there were many important announcements. Stories about science, silicon and systems all vied for attention and center ...Full Article
Turnaround Complete, HPE’s Whitman Departs
Having turned around the aircraft carrier the Silicon Valley icon had become, Meg Whitman is leaving the helm of a restructured Hewlett Packard. Her successor, technologist Antonio Neri will ...Full Article
How Cities Use HPC at the Edge to Get Smarter
Cities are sensoring up, collecting vast troves of data that they run through predictive models to address problems that, in some cases, city managers didn’t even know existed. Speaking ...Full Article
Rolling Thunder Forecast for Booming Cloud Market
There is a broad consensus among industry analysts and the vendors they track that enterprise adoption of cloud services is booming. The only variable is the expected rate of ...Full Article
Facebook Unleashes Open/R Networking Software
Facebook's network routing software is now available as an open source tool for developing new network applications and functions, the company announced this week. Open/R is currently used in ...Full Article
‘AI Layer’ Seeks to Fill Machine Learning Gaps
It has been asserted that the algorithm has overtaken traditional software code as the driving force behind the AI Era. On the assumption that assertion is accurate, startups are ...Full Article
Hyperion HPC Market Update: ‘Decent’ Growth Led by HPE; AI Transparency a Risk Issue
The HPC market update from Hyperion Research (formerly IDC) at the annual SC conference is a business and social “must,” and this year’s presentation at SC17 played to a ...Full Article
Scaling Commercial CFD Code at 3 Supercomputing Centers
The year isn’t over yet and already we've seen new records posted for proprietary physics-based simulations on two Cray machines – at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) ...Full Article
Nvidia Pushes GPU Access With Containers
Having migrated its top-of-the-line datacenter GPU to the largest cloud vendors, Nvidia is touting its Volta architecture for a range of scientific computing tasks as well as AI development ...Full Article
