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Talk to Me: Nvidia Claims NLP Inference, Training Records

Nvidia says it’s achieved significant advances in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex, immediate-response interchanges between customers …

By Doug Black

Liquid Cooling Makes a Splash in Enterprise Data Centers

Direct liquid cooling is now gaining momentum in mainstream data centers — for many good reasons.

As servers get faster, they generate more heat, and that increases the need for innovative a …

Xilinx vs. Intel: FPGA Market Leaders Launch Server Accelerator Cards

The two FPGA market leaders, Intel and Xilinx, both announced new accelerator cards this week designed to handle specialized, compute-intensive workloads and unburden already overworked CPUs in d …

By Doug Black

Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake to Lineup

Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel's 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed form factor, leveraging the capabilit …

By John Russell

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IEEE Releases Expansive 2018 Roadmap for Devices and Systems

July 24, 2019

IEEE yesterday released the 2018 update to its International Roadmap for Devices and System (IRDS). It’s part history text, part crystal ball, and as IEEE emp Read more…

By John Russell

R Systems Intros ‘Under One Roof’ Cloud Bursting Model

July 24, 2019

R Systems formed in 2003 as a a spin-off of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). One of a handful of small, on-demand HPC cloud providers Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

AWS Expands Worldwide Availability to AMD-based Instances

July 22, 2019

Setting aside potential setbacks caused by U.S. trade policies, the steady cadence of AMD’s revival in HPC and the datacenter continued last week with AWS exp Read more…

By Staff

Informing Designs of Safer, More Efficient Aircraft with Exascale Computing

July 18, 2019

During the process of designing an aircraft, aeronautical engineers must perform predictive simulations to understand how airflow around the plane impacts fligh Read more…

By Rob Johnson

Mellanox Partners with Storage Startups

July 10, 2019

As GPU leader Nvidia closes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies announced earlier this year, the HPC network interconnect specialist’s venture arm remains active, investing in two storage startups. Read more…

By George Leopold

M2DC Releases Microserver Appliances

July 9, 2019

The continuous acceleration in technological development (from advanced financial applications to DNA sequencing) provides society with new challenges in the co Read more…

By Jens Hagemeyer (UBI), Micha vor dem Berge (CHR), Ariel Oleksiak (PSNC), Joao Costa (XLAB)

Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips

July 9, 2019

Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enablin Read more…

By Doug Black

Quantum Bits: Neven’s Law (Who Asked for That), D-Wave’s Steady Push, IBM’s Li-O2- Simulation

July 3, 2019

Quantum computing’s (QC) many-faceted R&D train keeps slogging ahead and recently Japan is taking a leading role. Yesterday D-Wave Systems announced it ha Read more…