Hyperion Research today announced the near-final agenda for the upcoming HPC User Forum meeting, a virtual three-day event to be held May 11-13 for Western Hemisphere participants and May 12-14 for those in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Updates will be posted here. Major topics and speakers confirmed to date are: Exascale Computing: Brookhaven National […]
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Meet the Frontier Exascale Supercomputer: How Big Is a Quintillion?
March 24, 2021 by
Are all comparisons so odious, really? Some can illuminate, some can awe. HPE-Cray has put out an infographic about its Frontier exascale supercomputer, the U.S.’s first, scheduled to be shipped to Oak Ridge National Laboratory later this year. It’s got interesting comparisons that shed light on how big a quintillion is. Make that 1.5 quintillion, […]
Leopard Imaging Teams with Socionext, Hailo, AWS for AI Video Analytics
March 3, 2021 by
FREMONT, CA, YOKOHAMA and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2021 — Leopard Imaging Inc., provider of embedded camera design and manufacturing, is collaborating with three leading companies to deliver EdgeTuring: an artificial intelligence (AI) processing solution for video analytics. Leopard is working with Hailo, an AI chipmaker for edge devices, Socionext, a provider of advanced […]
28 Years and Running: IBM Awarded Most Patents in 2020 – a “Sharp Uptick” in AI
January 12, 2021 by
For the 28th year in a row, IBM copped more U.S. patents than any other company, 9,130 in all, including what the company said was a “sharp uptick” in AI-related patents. Patents were awarded to more than 9,000 IBM inventors in 46 U.S. states and 54 countries. IBM said that since 1920, Big Blue has […]
The Case for ‘Center Class’ HPC: Think Tank Calls for $10B Fed Funding over Five Years
December 7, 2020 by
The Center for Data Innovation (CDI), a non-profit think tank that studies the intersection of data, technology and public policy, has gone to bat for increased federal funding for ‘center class’ and mid-range HPC systems, contending that “a decade of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has left the United States with an […]
Creators of MLPerf Launch MLCommons Consortium for Machine Learning Benchmarks, Metrics, Datasets, Models and Best Practices
December 3, 2020 by
SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 3, 2020 – Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons launched an industry-academic partnership to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this critical technology for the public good. MLCommons will focus on: Benchmarks and Metrics – that deliver transparency and a level playing field for comparing ML systems, software, and solutions, e.g., MLPerf, […]
SC20 Keynote: Climate Science in the Age of Exascale with Dr. Bjorn Stevens
October 5, 2020 by
SC20 has announced its keynote speaker, Prof. Bjorn Stevens of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Germany, who will speak on Monday, November 16, starting a day of plenary talks and panels at the virtual conference. Prof. Stevens will discuss how exascale computing is impacting two opportunities that are changing the face of climate science — […]
AI Chipmaker Hailo Launches M.2 and Mini PCIe AI Modules for Edge Devices
September 30, 2020 by
Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 30, 2020 – AI chipmaker Hailo announced today the launch of its M.2 and Mini PCIe high-performance AI acceleration modules for empowering edge devices. Integrating the Hailo-8 processor, the modules can be plugged into a variety of edge devices for such use cases as smart cities, smart retail, industry 4.0 and […]
insideHPC Special Report Optimize Your WRF Applications – Part 3
September 21, 2020 by
A popular application that simulates climate change is the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model. This white paper discusses how QCT can work with leading research and commercial organizations to lower the Total Cost of Ownership by supplying highly tuned applications that are optimized to work on leading-edge infrastructure.
GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms
July 6, 2020 by
This new GigaOm Radar Report “GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms” provided by our friends over at Vertica, examines the leading platforms in the data warehouse marketplace, describes the fundamentals of the technology, identifies key criteria and evaluation metrics by which organizations can evaluate competing platforms, describes some potential technology developments to look out for in the future, and classifies platforms across those criteria and metrics.
