In this sponsored post by our friends over at AMD, discuss how the ROCm platform is designed so that a wide range of developers can develop accelerated applications. An entire eco-system has been created, allowing developers to focus on developing their leading-edge applications.
U.S. Announces AI R&D Agreement with UK
September 25, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The Trump Administration announced today that the United States and the United Kingdom signed a Declaration on Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development intended “to drive technological breakthroughs, promote researcher collaboration and advance the development of trustworthy AI.” The announcement is an outcome of the U.S.–UK Special Relationship Economic Working Group, established following a meeting between […]
Innovations in Simulation, HPC, Big Data and AI at Teratec Digital Forum 2020 — Oct. 13-14
September 21, 2020 by Leave a Comment
On October 13 and 14, the digital version of the next Teratec Forum will present a review of the latest international advances in simulation, HPC, Big Data and AI. The virtual exhibition will present the latest technologies from nearly 50 exhibitors, including manufacturers and publishers, suppliers and integrators of hardware, software and services solutions, universities […]
Accelerate Your Development of GPU Based Innovative Applications
September 18, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In this sponsored post by our friends over at AMD, we take a deep into how GPUs have become an essential component of innovative organizations that require the highest performing clusters, whether one server or thousands of servers. Many High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Machine Learning (ML) applications have demonstrated tremendous performance gains by using one or more GPUs in conjunction with powerful CPUs. Over 25% of the Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers on this planet use accelerators, specifically GPUs, to achieve teraflop and petaflop speeds.
OpenPOWER Foundation Unveils IBM Hardware/Software Contributions at OpenPOWER Summit
September 15, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, IBM announced it is contributing two technologies to the OpenPOWER community: the A2O Power processor core, an “out-of-order” follow-up to the A2I core and associated FPGA environment; and Open Cognitive Environment (Open-CE), based on IBM’s PowerAI, designed to enable improved consumability of AI and deep learning frameworks The contributions follow […]
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion – Jensen Huang Comments on ‘the Next Major Computing Platform’
September 14, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Nvidia and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) have announced an agreement under which Nvidia will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion. As part of Nvidia, “Arm will continue to operate its open-licensing model while maintaining the global customer neutrality that has been foundational to its […]
ScienceLogic Named Top AIOps Provider by EMA
September 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Reston, VA – Sept. 10, 2020 – ScienceLogic, provider of monitoring solutions for multi-cloud management and hybrid IT infrastructure, has been recognized for AIOps leadership in Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) AIOps Radar Report. From among 17 AIOps vendors, EMA ranked ScienceLogic no. 1 “Value Leader” in Incident, Performance, & Availability Management for Product Strength and “Strong Value” […]
Teradata Expands Data Science Collaboration Capabilities
September 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Cloud data analytics specialist Teradata has released collaborative features to its Vantage platform designed to reduce the friction between data scientists, business analysts, data engineers and business managers – some of whom may use different tools and languages. Enhancements include expanded native support for R and Python, with the ability to call more Vantage-native analytic […]
Videos, Slides from MUG ’20 Now Available
September 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG ’20), built around an implementation of the MPI standard developed by Ohio State University, has posted videos and slides from presentations on a variety of topics at its recent annual conference. The program included keynote talks from Brian van Essen from Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Michael Norman from San Diego Supercomputing […]
Woman-led Team to Research Human-AI Collaboration in Army Intelligence
September 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The Army Research Office is funding a $617,000 grant for a multi-institutional, majority-female research team for technology-enhanced intelligence analysis led by Dr. Susannah B.F. Paletz, research professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) College of Information Studies. The ARO said the team will soon recruit additional project support from undergraduate students. The research team also includes […]
