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Google Stands Up Exascale TPUv4 Pods On The Cloud
It is Google I/O 2022 this week, among many other things, and we were hoping for an architectural deep dive on the TPUv4 matrix math engines that Google hinted about at last year’s I/O event. …
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Neuromorphic Computing Will Need Partners To Break Into The Datacenter
The emerging field of neuromorphic processing isn’t an easy one to navigate. …
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Intel Pits New Gaudi2 AI Training Engine Against Nvidia GPUs
Nvidia is not the only company that has created specialized compute units that are good at the matrix math and tensor processing that underpins AI training and that can be repurposed to run AI inference. …
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Data Analytics Can Be The Next HPC For IBM Power
In the next few months, Big Blue will launch its entry and midrange Power10 servers, and to be blunt, we are not sure what the HPC and AI angle is going to be for these systems. …
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The Hyperscalers Point The Way To Integrated AI Stacks
Sponsored Feature. Enterprises know they want to do machine learning, but they also know they can’t afford to think too long or too hard about it. …
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HPE Creates Its Own AI Stack For Large Enterprises
While the hyperscalers have been running AI workloads against vast datasets in production for a decade and a half, many large enterprises have lots of data they think is relevant but they are not at all experiences with AI and the system requirements it has. …
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China Stretches Another AI Framework To Exascale
The nexus of traditional high performance computing and artificial intelligence is a fact, not a theory, and the exascale-class machinery installed in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan will be a showcase for how these two powerful simulation and analytical prediction techniques can be brought together in many different ways. …
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PSC Upgrades Neocortex AI Supercomputer With New Cerebras Engines
If you were going to build an electronic brain in 2022, it might look something like the Neocortex supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University. …
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The Performance Of MLPerf As A Ubiquitous Benchmark Is Lacking
Industry benchmarks are important because, no matter that comparisons are odious, IT organizations nonetheless have to make them to plot out the architectures of their future systems. …
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Revving Up Relational Databases For Scorching Native AI Performance
There may not be as much structured data in the world as there is unstructured data, but one could easily argue that the structured data – mostly purchasing transactions and other kinds of historical data data stored in systems of record – is at least of equal value. …