New information on AI and Machine Learning
The annual International Supercomputer Conference (ISC), held virtually this year, kicked off today. Not surprisingly, NVIDIA has already made a few announcements of note. Especially of interest to me was the announcement of Selene, NVIDIA’s in-house 1+ Exaflop AI supercomputer, which ranks as the fastest industrial system in the USA and #7 overall in the …
Software for new processor designs is critical to enabling application deployment and optimizing performance. UK-based startup Graphcore, the unicorn provider of silicon for application acceleration, places significant emphasis on software, dedicating roughly half its engineering staff to the challenge. Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) utilizes the expression of an algorithm as a directed graph, and …
Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000 CPU cores and will be used to advance the industry’s …
Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside? Read More »
Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a few reasons. Machine learning is a killer app and with …
Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker Read More »
I attend hundreds of events a year as an analyst and one way I rate them is by the number and industry impact of the announcements. I watched NVIDIA’s GTC 2020 virtual keynote today, and the company scored high on both. Architecture is everything when you are a platform provider and NVIDIA rolled out its …
While many of us missed watching Jensen Huang on stage in his trademark leather jacket, he did not disappoint his on-line audience at the virtual GTC Keynote this week. In a session lasting over two and a half hours, the CEO and founder of NVIDIA announced new hardware to fend off a slew of potential …
NVIDIA Launches Ampere A100 GPU For Data Center Computing And AI Read More »
