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Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated, analysts said the ...Full Article
Cloud for Clouds: ClimaCell Leverages Cloud HPC to Deliver Weather Micro-Forecasting
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 ...Full Article
Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool
A machine programming framework for heterogeneous computing championed by Intel Corp. and university partners is built around an automated engine that analyzes code for similarities. The approach could eventually ...Full Article
Nvidia Dominates Latest MLPerf Training Benchmark Results
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 ...Full Article
Get a Grip: Intel Neuromorphic Chip Used to Give Robotics Arm a Sense of Touch
Moving neuromorphic technology from the laboratory into practice has proven slow-going. This week, National University of Singapore researchers moved the needle forward demonstrating an event-driven, visual-tactile perception system that ...Full Article
Accelerating HPC with a new memory and storage technology Sponsored Content by Dell EMC | Intel
Researchers at the University of Pisa shrank a 40-minute MRI examination procedure down to about 2 minutes through the use of new Intel Optane drives. The University of Pisa ...Full Article
Penguin Computing Brings Cascade Lake-AP to OCP Form Factor
On Monday (July 6), Penguin Computing, a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., introduced a new Tundra server, Tundra AP, that is the first to implement the Intel Xeon ...Full Article
CLIMB-ing higher in the UK with an HPC cloud for microbiologists Sponsored Content by Dell EMC | Intel
In the United Kingdom, microbiologists share world-class HPC resources via the groundbreaking CLIMB project — Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics. Thanks to dramatic advances in science and technology and ...Full Article
Intel Launches 3rd Gen Scalable Xeons for 4- and 8-Socket Platforms for AI, Datacenter
Intel today unveiled its third-generation Scalable Xeon processor family (codenamed Cooper Lake) for four- and eight-socket servers, aimed at AI and analytics workloads running in the datacenter. In total, ...Full Article
Intel Debuts Stratix 10 NX FPGAs Targeting AI Workloads
Intel today introduced its first AI-optimized FPGA – the Stratix 10 NX – which features expanded AI Tensor blocks (30 multipliers and 30 accumulators), integrated HBM memory, and high ...Full Article
