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At ISC: DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads

DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage and data management for AI, big dat …

By Doug Black

Inspur Showcases Latest AI HPC Convergence Products and Solutions at ISC19

June 17th, Frankfurt, Germany – Today, Inspur showcased its latest AI HPC products and solutions at ISC19 to help users meet the challenges in the convergence of AI and HPC. These included a va …

Final Countdown to ISC19: What to See

If you're attending the International Supercomputing Conference, taking place in Frankfurt next week (June 16-20), you're either packing, in transit, or are already ensconced at the venue. In any …

By Tiffany Trader

Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive

Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Espe …

By George Leopold

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Report: US Competitiveness Called Into Question (Again)

June 6, 2019

A new report from the Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) claims the United States is in jeopardy of losing its leadership position in technology, science and innovation. The report, titled “Benchmarks 2019: Second Place America? Increasing Challenges to U.S. Scientific Leadership,” includes an overview of the global state of supercomputing as one of the metrics to gauge competitiveness. Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

China Launches AI Testbed in Shenzhen

June 5, 2019

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen launched a testbed for artificial intelligence (AI) experiments on Friday. Project officials, cited by Chinese news portal Xinhua, said the AI system, named Tai, supports the research, development and application testing for AI inventions. Read more…

By Staff report

Intel Suggests New Approach to Optical Neural Network Design

May 29, 2019

Use of optical neural networks in AI is an attractive idea that has long spurred significant work. Potential advantages include low power, high speed, and the a Read more…

By John Russell

Cray’s Emerging Market & Technology Director Arti Garg Peers Around HPC/AI Corner

May 23, 2019

In her position as emerging market and technology director at Cray, Arti Garg doesn't just have a front-row seat to the future of computing, she plays an active role in making that future happen. Key to Garg's role is understanding how deep learning scientists are using state-of-the-art HPC infrastructures and figuring out how to push those limits further. Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Cray – and the Cray Brand – to Be Positioned at Tip of HPE’s HPC Spear

May 22, 2019

More so than with most acquisitions of this kind, HPE’s purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion, announced last week, seems to have elements of that overused, often Read more…

By Doug Black and Tiffany Trader

HPE to Acquire Cray for $1.3B

May 17, 2019

Venerable supercomputer pioneer Cray Inc. will be acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion under a definitive agreement announced this morning. T Read more…

By Doug Black & Tiffany Trader

What’s New in HPC Research: Image Classification, Crowd Computing, Genome Informatics & More

May 15, 2019

In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programm Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia

May 14, 2019

There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network. Separately, Israeli AI chip startup Hailo.ai... Read more…