At the Hot Chips conference this week, Intel lifted the curtain a little higheron Knights Mill, a Xeon Phi processor tweaked for machine learning applications.
At the Hot Chips conference this week, Microsoft has revealed its latest deep learning acceleration platform, known as Project Brainwave, which the company claims can deliver real-time AI. The new platform uses Intel's latest Stratix 10 FPGAs.
While AI is poised to sweep through major sectors of the economy over the next decade, perhaps no industry should be more welcoming to this technology than that of healthcare. And given that the US is the most technologically advanced nation in the world, and the one with the most expensive healthcare, the country could end up being the proving ground for AI-powered medicine.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting proposals from US universities to acquire a $60 million next-generation supercomputer two to three times as powerful as Blue Waters.
Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss IBM's record benchmark and Oak Ridge's Summit build.
Melbournes Swinburne University is going to deploy its first petascale supercomputer, a Dell EMC machine that will be tasked to support cutting-edge astrophysics and other scientific research.
Microsoft has bought Cycle Computing, an established provider of cloud orchestration tools for high performance computing users. The acquisition offers the prospect of tighter integration between Microsoft Azures infrastructure and Cycles software, but suggests an uncertain future for the technology on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Googles cloud platform.
Using off-the-shelf servers, NASA and HPE are devising a way to allow a Mars-bound spacecraft to house an on-board supercomputer.
One of the biggest impediments to more widespread use of AI is the lack of developer expertise in machine learning software. Bonsai, a startup based in Berkeley, California, is looking to change that in a big way by offering a platform that abstracts away a lot of the low-level nuts and bolts that makes machine learning such a daunting challenge for businesses.
Flash storage specialist Nimbus Data has announced ExaDrive, an SSD that offers more capacity than any commercial hard disk drive (HDD) available today.
