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Episode 188: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss two big announcements out of China.
This week IBM demonstrated software that was able to significantly boost the speed of training deep neural networks, while improving the accuracy of those networks. The software achieved this by dramatically increasing the scalability of these training applications across large number of GPUs.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to install Summit, the IBM-NVIDIA-powered system that is likely to become the most powerful supercomputer in the world when completed.
CSRA, a system integrator and service company, has installed the second phase of the Biowulf supercomputer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than doubling the systems capacity.
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Science have run the largest simulation of the universe on TaihuLight, the worlds fastest supercomputer.
AMD has demonstrated a supercomputer based on its latest AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs that can deliver one petaflop of single precision floating point performance in a single rack.
Episode187: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Cray's ClusterStor move and India's progress toward home-grown supercomputers.
The Chinese government has released a three-phase plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence. According to a document published by the countrys State Council, the development and deployment of AI is seen as a strategic opportunity to the country, and will be worth 10 trillion yuan (1.49 trillion USD) to the nations economy by 2030.
Cray has signed an agreement with Seagate to take over its ClusterStor high performance storage array business.
