Tag: GPU
Solving Storage Just the Beginning for Minio CEO Periasamy
Yesterday marked the first day of general availability for the free and open source object storage system from Mino. But as Minio co-founder and CEO AB Periasamy explains, delivering the deceptively simple, S3-compatible Read more…
Why Deep Learning, and Why Now
Deep learning is all the rage today, as companies across industries seek to use advanced computational techniques to find useful information hidden across huge swaths of data. While the field of artificial intelligence i Read more…
IBM: We’re the Red Hat of Deep Learning
IBM today took the wraps off a new release of PowerAI, the prepackaged bundle of deep learning frameworks that debuted last fall. With the addition of Google's TensorFlow framework, the company says its AI business model Read more…
Kinetica Aims to Broaden Appeal of GPU Computing
Kinetica today unveiled a new iteration of its in-memory, GPU-accelerated database that it says will help to democratize data science and traditional business intelligence by simultaneously running SQL-based queries and Read more…
Artistic Algorithms, Deep Learning Shift to Cloud
Application builder Algorithmia has expanded its marketplace to include a cloud-based platform for creating deep learning environments for training style transfer models, a type of filter that can for example convert ima Read more…
Baidu Ups AI Ante With Deep Learning Release
Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. is publicly releasing Chinese language APIs for its primary speech technologies as it and rivals continue to open up their portfolios of AI-based deep learning technologies. The Beijing Read more…
Unstructured Data Search Engine Has Roots in HPC
A search engine first developed in the HPC world to identify anomalies in biomedical images and then used by the military to track terrorists from UAV imagery is now being applied to the world's vast supply of unstructur Read more…
AI Platforms Seen Emerging in 2017
Technology predictions for next year are already filtering in, with artificial intelligence and full-blown analytics and other platforms increasingly seen as among the keys to opening the big data floodgates in 2017. Read more…
Spark ML Runs 10x Faster on GPUs, Databricks Says
Apache Spark machine learning workloads can run up to 10x faster by moving them to a deep learning paradigm on GPUs, according to Databricks, which today announced that its hosted Spark service on Amazon's new GPU cloud. Read more…
Why America’s Spy Agencies Are Investing In MapD
In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of American spy agencies, announced yesterday that it has invested in MapD. Why are the nation's spooks interested in MapD Technologies, which develops a parallel SQL database that runs on GPUs? Read more…
Power8 with NVLink Coming to the Nimbix Cloud
Starting later this month, HPC professionals and data scientists wishing to try out NVLink’d Nvidia Pascal P100 GPUs won’t have to spend upwards of $100,000 on NVIDIA’s DGX-1 server or fork over about half that for Read more…
GPUs Seen Lifting SQL Analytic Constraints
Big data analytics has traditionally been about developing cutting-edge software to run on commodity hardware. But there are signs that innovation at the hardware layer, such as with GPUs, can take analytics to the next Read more…
AWS Beats Azure to K80 General Availability
Amazon Web Services has seeded its cloud with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to meet the growing demand for accelerated computing across an increasingly-diverse range of workloads. The P2 instance family is a welcome addition fo Read more…
IBM Debuts Power8 Chip with NVLink and 3 New Systems
Not long after revealing more details about its next-gen Power9 chip due in 2017, IBM today rolled out three new Power8-based Linux servers and a new version of its Power8 chip featuring on-chip NVLink interconnect. One Read more…
GPU-driven Mobile Device for Deep Learning Medical Diagnostics – at Scale, at the Edge, at ‘the Roof of the World’
By bringing to India, Bangladesh and Nepal a low-cost, GPU-driven mobile device trained to recognize chronic disease “signatures” in medical images, a healthcare start-up is building a distributed cognitive computing Read more…
Anaconda Platform Gets Boost From Intel
The latest version of the Anaconda open source analytics platform incorporates Intel Corp.'s math kernel library (MKL) to significantly boost performance. Version 2.5 extends Anaconda capabilities rolled out last fall. Read more…
Microsoft Releases Deep Learning Toolkit
Microsoft has released to the open source community a set of internal GPU-powered tools designed to boost the performance of artificial intelligence technology used for computer speech recognition. In a blog post, Mic Read more…
New NVIDIA GPU Drives Launch of Facebook’s ‘Big Sur’ Deep Learning Platform
Facebook continues to pour internet-scale money into Deep Learning and AI, announcing its new “Big Sur” computing platform designed to double the speed for training neural networks of twice the size. NVIDIA’s Read more…
Harnessing GPUs Delivers a Big Speedup for Graph Analytics
Looking for a quick way to boost the performance of your graph-based machine learning algorithms? If you run the algos atop the Blazegraph database, you will see your queries execute 200 to 300 times faster when you add Read more…
Startup to Offer Neural Network Training in the Cloud
One of the most time-consuming components of using deep neural networks is training the algorithms to do their jobs. It can often take weeks to train or re-train the network--and that's after you set it up. A startup cal Read more…
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