Our friends at Univa will host a Breakfast Briefing on HPC Cloud Efficiency at ISC 2019. The meeting takes place June 19 at 8:00am – 10:00am in Frankfurt, Germany. “Migrating workload to a hybrid cloud comes with expense and risks. Univa can greatly reduce the risk of HPC Cloud and save costs with intelligent workload placement, data staging and automation. A panel of product executives from Amazon Web Services will join Univa to share real-world use cases and discuss best practices.”
Speed Machine Learning with the Model Zoo for Intel Architecture
May 9, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Intel has launched a Model Zoo for Intel Architecture, an open-sourced collection of optimized machine learning inference applications that demonstrates how to get the best performance on Intel platforms. The project contains more than 20 pre-trained models, benchmarking scripts, best practice documents, and step-by-step tutorials for running deep learning (DL) models optimized for Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Red Hat Teams with NVIDIA to Accelerate Machine Learning in the Cloud
May 9, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today Red Hat announced it has deepened its alliance with NVIDIA to accelerate the enterprise adoption of AI, machine learning and data analytics workloads in production environments. To move thins along, Red Hat is launching an early access program for prospective customers. “High-performance technologies are moving at a brisk rate into enterprise data centers to accelerate product development and business operations – including financial services, ERP and sales analysis, fraud detection and cybersecurity, and machine learning-AI,” said Steve Conway, senior vice president of research, Hyperion Research. “The hybrid cloud solutions from Red Hat and NVIDIA are designed to make accelerated computing use easier for enterprises on-premise and in the cloud.”
Google Cloud TPU Pods Speed Machine Learning
May 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today Google announced that its Google Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta. Designed to help Machine Learning researchers iterate faster and train more capable machine learning models, TPU Pods can include more than 1,000 individual TPU chips connected by an ultra-fast, two-dimensional toroidal mesh network.
How Singularity Containers can ease the Transition to RHEL 8
May 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was announced this week at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. In this special guest feature, Ian Lumb writes that the company’s Singularity containers can ease the transition to RHEL 8. “RHEL 8 is a transition over time, not a discrete event in time. Singularity containers preserve your heavily vested legacy deployments, while enabling you to make the transition on your terms.”
Hyperion Research to host HPC Market Update Breakfast at ISC 2019
May 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Hyperion Research will hold their annual HPC Market Update briefing at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. “As Hyperion Research, we continue all the worldwide activities that spawned the world’s most respected HPC industry analyst group. For more than 25 years, we’ve helped IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy.”
Excelero Powers AI as a Service with Shared NVMe at InstaDeep
May 7, 2019 by Leave a Comment
“InstaDeep offers a pioneering AI as a Service solution enabling organizations of any size to leverage the benefits of AI and Machine Learning without the time, costs and expertise required to run their own AI stacks. Excelero’s NVMesh, in turn, allows InstaDeep to access the low-latency, high-bandwidth performance that is essential for running customer AI and ML workloads efficiently – and gain the scalability vital to InstaDeep’s own rapid growth.”
CoolIT Systems Launches Liquid Cooling Solution for Intel Server System S9200WK
May 7, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today CoolIT Systems announced an integrated liquid cooling solution to support the Intel Server System S9200WK. “The Intel Server System S9200WK uses CoolIT’s innovative Rack DLC coldplate solution, featuring patented Split-Flow design. The liquid cooling solution for this 2U, four node server manages heat from the recently announced dual Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processor CPUs, voltage regulators, and memory.”
DDN Moves Closer to the Edge with Nexenta Acquisition
May 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today DDN announced its intent to acquire Nexenta, the market leader in Software Defined Storage for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT). “Our clients benefit from the flexibility and performance of Nexenta’s robust SDS solutions and platform-agnostic strategy, which provide great differentiation for the HPC, AI, and high-performance data analytics (HPDA) verticals we serve. With escalating demands from our clients for ultra-scalable compute and data storage platforms, we look forward to the exciting developments which will result from this new relationship.”
‘AI on the Fly’: Moving AI Compute and Storage to the Data Source
May 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The impact of AI is just starting to be realized across a broad spectrum of industries. Tim Miller, Vice President Strategic Development at One Stop Systems (OSS), highlights a new approach — ‘AI on the Fly’ — where specialized high-performance accelerated computing resources for deep learning training move to the field near the data source. Moving AI computation to the data is another important step in realizing the full potential of AI.
