The Chinese government has released a three-phase plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence. According to a document published by the countrys State Council, the development and deployment of AI is seen as a strategic opportunity to the country, and will be worth 10 trillion yuan (1.49 trillion USD) to the nations economy by 2030.
Cray has signed an agreement with Seagate to take over its ClusterStor high performance storage array business.
NVIDIA has donated 15 V100 Tesla GPUs to researchers attending the recent Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Honolulu. The giveaway was described in a blog posted by the company on July 22.
Episode 186: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss real-world comparisons of Skylake and EPYC, and consider Cray's latest layoffs.
A number of news outlets in India are reporting the government is close to deploying six new supercomputers, two of which will deliver a peak performance of two petaflops.
While a number of commentators have written off AMDs prospects of competing against Intel in HPC, testing of the latest server silicon from each chipmaker has revealed that the EPYC chip offers some surprising performance advantages against Intels newest "Skylake" Xeon destined for the datacenter.
Supercomputer-maker Cray is implementing a restructuring plan in which the company will lay off approximately 190 of its 1,300 workers.
Australias Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has deployed a Dell EMC supercomputer outfitted with NVIDIAs P100 GPUs. The system, known as Bracewell, will nearly double the computational power available to CSIRO researchers.
Episode 185: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the latest announcement from Intel.
A report published by James Kisner, an equity analyst at global investment banking firm Jeffries, shot a few holes in IBMs Watson and the companys cognitive computing strategy. Along the way, Kisner offered some interesting insights into the AI market and some of the major players competing in the space.
