In 2014, a disruptive approach to HPC enabled IBM to be awarded two contracts to build the next generation of supercomputers as part of the US Department of Energy’s Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (known as CORAL program). In partnership with Nvidia and Mellanox, IBM demonstrated to CORAL that a data-centric … Read more
Can an AI be creative? Using AI to learn the styles of artistic elements in dance, music, painting, and writing and then applying them to create a like example is not creative. It is imitative. The basic definition of creative is: relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. This is … Read more
Based on Intel’s 8th gen CPU, and Nvidia—no AMD, no surprise When Intel introduces a new CPU series, shortly thereafter, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, and others announce a new product line based on the new CPU. Dell is usually the last of the bunch to do so, and again with Intel’s 8th gen this is the case. Saving the best … Read more
The triumphant now wear blue badges
Another adventure ended In 2013, with great fanfare, the new devices group (NDG) was started under the direction of Mike Bell, a former Apple and Palm executive. Then Intel acquired fitness watch maker Basis in 2014 for around $100 million, and in 2015 acquired sports glasses maker Recon for around $175 million. Shortly thereafter, Intel folded the New Devices Group … Read more
What Nvidia is doing to Intel, Wave is trying to do to Nvidia, and it might just work We got a look at Nvidia’s DGX2 datacenter accelerator at GTC a few weeks ago and about the same time Wave Computing started dropping hints that their DPU (Dataflow Processing Unit) is about ready to ship in datacenter-ready systems and that we … Read more
Hanson Robotics builds on its legacy; how real is the AI of this charming robot? Hanson Robotics, founded in 2003, has developed an AI-based animatronics robot that is strikingly compelling and a little scary, and for the cynics, highly questionable; its name is Sophia, and “she” tells jokes, winks, and has a philosophic Sophia awakens point of view — or … Read more
Beats the competition in 11 out of 12 tests We ran a series of tests on a new AMD 4-core, 3.6 GHz, Ryzen 5 2400G (in a custom built Cooler Master PC) and a HP ProDesk Intel 4-core 3.4 GHz, Core i5-7500 PC and in 38 benchmarks the AMD had an average gain of 207% better performance. AMD Ryzen 5 … Read more
Major versions of SPECviewperf and SPECwpc (to be renamed SPECworkstation) are on tap for Q2 of this year. SPECviewperf 13 will feature new volume visualization viewsets for energy and medical applications, radically new shaders, and updated viewsets to match more recent versions of the applications on which they are based. SPECworkstation 3.0 will include new GPU performance measurement, completely redesigned … Read more
Expanded SPECworkstation benchmark slated for Q2
ONNX API now available in Windows At the recent Windows Developer Day, Microsoft exec. Kevin Gallo announced a number of new products for developers, the most interesting of which was what he called “the intelligent edge” and the Windows AI Platform. In a nutshell, this means that while Microsoft has previously focused mainly on cloud-based AI, it is now turning … Read more
Units up 3.6% from last quarter, 5.4% from last year
