Doug Black

AI End Game: The Automation of All Work

June 28th, 2017 (0)

Last week we reported from ISC on an emerging type of high performance system architecture that integrates HPC and HPA (High Performance Analytics) and incorporates, at its center, exabyte-scale memory capacity, surrounded by a variety of accelerated processors. Until ...

At ISC – Goh on Go: Humans Can’t Scale, the Data-Centric Learning Machine Can

June 22nd, 2017 (0)

I've seen the future this week at ISC, it’s on display in prototype and Powerpoint form, and it’s going to blow you away. The future is an AI neural network designed to emulate, compete with and, ultimately, dwarf the ...

AMD Charges Back into the Datacenter and HPC Workflows with EPYC Processor

June 21st, 2017 (0)

AMD is charging back into the enterprise datacenter and select HPC workflows with its new EPYC 7000 processor line, code-named Naples, announced today at a “global” launch event in Austin TX. In many ways it was a full frontal ...

Intersect 360 at ISC: HPC Industry at $44B by 2021

June 21st, 2017 (0)

The care, feeding and sustained growth of the HPC industry increasingly is in the hands of the commercial market sector – in particular, it’s the hyperscale companies and their embrace of AI and deep learning – that will drive ...

Hyperion: Deep Learning, AI Helping Drive Healthy HPC Industry Growth

June 19th, 2017 (0)

To be at the ISC conference in Frankfurt this week is to experience deep immersion in deep learning. Users want to learn about it, vendors want to talk about it, analysts and journalists want to report on it. Deep ...

ISC Deep Learning Day: New Computing & Algorithmic Paradigms for Industry and Science

June 18th, 2017 (0)

Deep Learning Day, an all-day series of sessions at ISC this week in Frankfurt, looks to offer some of the conference’s most compelling discussions for the excellent reason that deep learning itself is one of – if not the ...

ISC: Extreme-Scale Requirements to Push the Frontiers of Deep Learning

June 16th, 2017 (0)

Deep learning is the latest and most compelling technology strategy to take aim at the decades-old “drowning in data/starving for insight” problem. But contrary to the commonly held notion, deep learning is more than a big data problem per ...

MemSQL Touts 1st Real Time Data Warehouse for Cloud

June 15th, 2017 (0)

Data lake vs. data warehouse: what’s the difference? Are they different? More to the point, what contrasting analytics workloads do they support? While both store massive amounts of data in multiple formats from multiple sources, and though data lake ...

We’ll Be Enslaved to Proprietary Clouds Unless We Collaborate

June 14th, 2017 (0)

Cross project integration is not exactly prevalent in today’s open source ecosystem, and it’s a problem. Open source projects that enable large scale collaboration and are built on a layered and modular architecture – such as Linux – have ...

GE Predix IIoT to Offer Integrated Field Service/Asset Performance Management

June 14th, 2017 (0)

For each front-line combat soldier there are 10 soldiers laboring behind the lines on logistics and supplies, so goes the military axiom; similarly, it’s been observed that for every salesperson pushing product for a manufacturing company there’s a field ...

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