One of the more practical applications unveiled this week at the GPU Technology Conference was Project Clara, a medical imaging supercomputer that marries the graphics power of NVIDIAs chips with it deep learning capabilities.

Episode 216: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss IBM's focus on AI at the IBM Think Conference, plus Cray's Fusion Science supercomputer win.

This week at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), fastdata.io is introducing FDIO Engine, the companys GPU-native high performance computing software for real-time stream processing.

NVIDIA kicked off this years GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2018) with a trio of announcements about new Tesla products, including an upgraded V100, an NVLink switch, and a new DGX-2 machine learning platform.

Using the newly developed SNAP Machine Learning (SNAP ML) framework and Power9/V100 GPU servers, IBM researchers were able to blow past Googles previous benchmark for training an online advertising application.

Episode 215: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the advent of quantum and brain mapping in HPC.

Xilinx has unveiled its adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), a new FPGA product category that will form the basis for the companys push into the datacenter.

The prospects for OpenPower got a big boost this week, with the announcement that Google has deployed Power9 servers in its datacenters. That revelation was joined by the news that Tencent, PayPal, Uber, Alibaba, and LimeLight Networks are all adopting Power-based technology to support their various businesses. The announcements were made at the OpenPower Summit taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Optalysys says they have built the worlds first implementation of a convolutional neural network using its optical coprocessor.

The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) has selected a Cray XC50 supercomputer to support its mission to advance nuclear fusion research and development.