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A Beginner’s Guide to the ASC19 Finals

Three thousand watts. That's how much power the competitors in the 2019 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge here in Dalian, China, have to work with. Everybody would like more juice to run comput …

By Alex Woodie

ASC19 enters the final week with the participation of world renowned experts

The finals of ASC19 Student Supercomputer Challenge kicked off on April 21st, 2019 at Dalian University of Technology, China. Top 20 teams from around the world designed and built clusters of up …

Is Data Science the Fourth Pillar of the Scientific Method?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revived a decade-old debate last month when he said that modern data science (AI plus HPC) has become the fourth pillar of the scientific method. While some disagree with …

By Alex Woodie

At ASF 2019: The Virtuous Circle of Big Data, AI and HPC

We've entered a new phase in IT -- in the world, really -- where the combination of big data, artificial intelligence, and high performance computing is pushing the bounds of what's possible in b …

By Alex Woodie with Doug Black and Tiffany Trader

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Google Open Sources TensorFlow Version of MorphNet DL Tool

April 18, 2019

Designing optimum deep neural networks remains a non-trivial exercise. “Given the large search space of possible architectures, designing a network from scrat Read more…

By John Russell

BSC Researchers Shrink Floating Point Formats to Accelerate Deep Neural Network Training

April 15, 2019

Sometimes calculating solutions as precisely as a computer can wastes more CPU resources than is necessary. A case in point is with deep learning. In early stag Read more…

By Ken Strandberg

Intel Extends FPGA Ecosystem with 10nm Agilex

April 11, 2019

The insatiable appetite for higher throughput and lower latency – particularly where edge analytics and AI, network functions, or for a range of datacenter ac Read more…

By Doug Black

ANL Researchers Use ML to Improve Water Simulation

April 10, 2019

Every day there seems to be a new example of machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) speeding, simplifying, or improving what was previously an intractable Read more…

By Staff

Nvidia Doubles Down on Medical AI

April 9, 2019

Nvidia is collaborating with medical groups to push GPU-powered AI tools into clinical settings, including radiology and drug discovery. The GPU leader said Monday it will collaborate with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to provide clinicians with its Clara AI tool kit. The partnership would allow radiologists to leverage AI techniques for diagnostic imaging using their own clinical data. Read more…

By George Leopold

Digging into MLPerf Benchmark Suite to Inform AI Infrastructure Decisions

April 9, 2019

With machine learning and deep learning storming into the datacenter, the new challenge is optimizing infrastructure choices to support diverse ML and DL workfl Read more…

By John Russell

AI and Enterprise Datacenters Boost HPC Server Revenues Past Expectations – Hyperion

April 9, 2019

Building on the big year of 2017 and spurred in part by the convergence of AI and HPC, global revenue for high performance servers jumped 15.6 percent last year Read more…

By Doug Black

Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Gregory Kurtzer

March 28, 2019

As the next entry in our HPCwire People to Watch focus series, today we are highlighting our interview with 2019 Person to Watch Gregory Kurtzer. Gregory is th Read more…