Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

At SC19: Who’s Accountable ‘When Technology Kills’?

November 27th, 2019 (0)

“One of the things we are witnessing is the compute requirement for (AI) training jobs is doubling every three-and-a-half months. So we were very impressed with Moore’s Law doubling every 18 months, right? This thing is doubling every three ...

AI: From Great Villain to Global Manufacturing Equalizer

November 26th, 2019 (0)

When computers were introduced to businesses in the 1950s and 60s, some people looked at them in fear. “They will replace us all,” they cried. Today, the computer industry is a pillar of our economy, employing millions and propelling ...

Hyperion: AI-driven HPC Industry Continues to Push Growth Projections

November 21st, 2019 (0)

Three major forces – AI, cloud and exascale – are combining to raise the HPC industry to heights exceeding expectations. According to market study results released this week by Hyperion Research at SC19 in Denver, HPC server sales in ...

Raj Hazra Retiring from Intel Data Center Group, Successor Not Known

November 20th, 2019 (0)

This article is an update to a story published earlier today. Rajeeb Hazra, corporate VP of Intel’s Data Center Group and GM for the Enterprise and Government Group, is retiring after more than 24 years at the company. At ...

ScaleMatrix and Nvidia Launch ‘Deploy Anywhere’ DGX HPC and AI in a Controlled Enclosure

November 18th, 2019 (0)

HPC and AI in a phone booth: ScaleMatrix and Nvidia announced today at the SC19 conference in Denver a joint offering that puts up to 13 petaflops of Nvidia DGX-1 compute power in an air conditioned, water-cooled ScaleMatrix Dynamic ...

SC19’s HPC Impact Showcase Chair: AI + HPC a ‘Speed Train’

November 15th, 2019 (0)

This year’s chair of the HPC Impact Showcase at the SC19 conference in Denver is Lori Diachin, who has spent her career at the spearhead of HPC. Currently deputy director for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing ...

SC19: AI and Machine Learning Sessions Pepper Conference Agenda

November 13th, 2019 (0)

AI and HPC are increasingly intertwined – machine learning workloads demand ever increasing compute power – so it’s no surprise the annual supercomputing industry shindig, SC19 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver next week, has taken on a ...

Intel AI Summit: New ‘Keem Bay’ Edge VPU, AI Product Roadmap

November 12th, 2019 (0)

At its AI Summit today in San Francisco, Intel touted a raft of AI training and inference hardware for deployments ranging from cloud to edge and designed to support organizations at various points of their AI journeys. The company ...

AI in Real Estate: Streamlined Apartment Leasing

November 11th, 2019 (0)

Real estate has long been an industry slower to adopt new technologies or be on the cutting edge of innovation. But that’s changing – this is especially true with the introduction of advanced automation, machine learning and AI into ...

Nvidia Launches Credit Card-Sized 21 TOPS Jetson System for Edge Devices

November 6th, 2019 (0)

Nvidia has launched what it claims to be the world’s smallest supercomputer, an addition to its Jetson product line with a credit card-sized (70x45mm) form factor delivering up to 21 trillion operations/second (TOPS) of throughput, according to the company. ...