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Talk to Me: Nvidia Claims NLP Inference, Training Records
Nvidia says it’s achieved significant advances in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex, immediate-response interchanges between customers and chatbots. And the company says it ...Full Article
Silicon Switching Shakes Up Datacenter Market
Recent jockeying within the datacenter networking market underscores the steady shift toward Ethernet-based silicon switching as Intel, Nvidia and others vie to unclog networking bottlenecks and perhaps challenge market ...Full Article
Intel Omni-Path Interconnect: One and Done
Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC, AI and other high performance workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chip maker confirmed to ...Full Article
Mellanox Delivers Record Revenue for the Second Quarter of 2019
July 25, 2019 SUNNYVALE, Calif. and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL, July 24, 2019 — Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage ...Full Article
Nvidia, Google Tie in Second MLPerf Training ‘At-Scale’ Round
Results for the second round of the AI benchmarking suite known as MLPerf were published today with Google Cloud and Nvidia each picking up three wins in the at-scale ...Full Article
IBM Claims No. 1 Commercial Supercomputer with Total Oil & Gas System
IBM can now boast not only the two most powerful supercomputers in the world, it also has claimed the top spot for a supercomputer used in a commercial setting. ...Full Article
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto ...Full Article
PayPal Feeds the DL Beast with Vault of Fraud Data
PayPal is no stranger to fraud. As one of the Internet’s first online payment services, PayPal has been exposed to every type of wire fraud imaginable (and some beyond ...Full Article
Nvidia EGX Pushes Real-Time AI to the Edge
Nvidia is putting a combination of its GPU processors and AI software stack out at the edge within a scalable compute platform designed to enable low latency edge AI ...Full Article
Microsoft AI ‘Distills’ Knowledge with New NLP Approach
A technique known as “ensemble learning” has been used to improve the performance of natural language processing models. However, the approach typically consists of hundreds of different deep neural ...Full Article