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IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
August 18th, 2020 Comments Off on IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
IBM this week introduced its next generation Power10 microprocessor, a 7nm device manufactured by Samsung. The chip features a new microarchitecture, broad new memory support, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, hardware enabled security, impressive energy efficiency, and a host of ...

Implement Photonic Tensor Cores for Machine Learning?
August 7th, 2020 Comments Off on Implement Photonic Tensor Cores for Machine Learning?
Researchers from George Washington University have reported an approach for building photonic tensor cores that leverages phase change photonic memory to implement a neural network (NN). Their novel architecture, reported online in AIP Applied Physics Review last week, promises ...

Get a Grip: Intel Neuromorphic Chip Used to Give Robotics Arm a Sense of Touch
July 16th, 2020 Comments Off on 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 uses Intel’s Loihi chip to control a robotic arm combining ...

Feds, Chipmakers Mull Jump-starting U.S. Chip-making Capacity
May 11th, 2020 Comments Off on Feds, Chipmakers Mull Jump-starting U.S. Chip-making Capacity
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel and TSMC to spur development of new chip factories in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Many observers have for years bemoaned the loss of ...

IBM Launches Power Server for AI Inferencing, Data Management
January 28th, 2020 Comments Off on IBM Launches Power Server for AI Inferencing, Data Management
IBM today launched a Power9-based inference server – the IC922 – that features up to six Nvidia T4 GPUs, PCIe Gen 4 and OpenCAPI connectivity, and can accommodate up to 24 SFF drives in a 2U form factor. Paired ...

SC19: IBM Bets on New HPC-AI Game Plan
November 26th, 2019 Comments Off on SC19: IBM Bets on New HPC-AI Game Plan
IBM is known for making big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power processors – jury’s out. At SC19, long-time IBM’er Dave Turek, vice president technical computing ...

At SC19: Intel Debuts GPU and Outlines oneAPI Aspirations
November 18th, 2019 Comments Off on At SC19: Intel Debuts GPU and Outlines oneAPI Aspirations
Last night at Intel's HPC Developer Conference here at the SC19 conference in Denver, the company revealed a few more details about its forthcoming Xe line of GPUs – the top SKU is named Ponte Vecchio and will be ...

AI Inference Benchmark Bake-off Puts Nvidia on Top
November 7th, 2019 Comments Off on 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 and others. Not bad considering the inference suite (v.5) itself ...

Cray Debuts ClusterStor E1000 for Converged AI-HPC Workloads
October 30th, 2019 Comments Off on Cray Debuts ClusterStor E1000 for Converged AI-HPC Workloads
Cray, now owned by HPE, today introduced the ClusterStor E1000 storage platform, which leverages Cray software and mixes hard disk drives (HDD) and flash memory (SSD) to accommodate converged HPC-AI workloads at many scales. Cray described the new system ...

IBM’s Post-Moore Vision: Bits Plus Neurons Plus Qubits
October 15th, 2019 Comments Off on IBM’s Post-Moore Vision: Bits Plus Neurons Plus Qubits
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there at last month’s MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab’s AI Research Week ...
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