Tag: gpus
Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode today with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning acceleration solutions, including a PCIe card that pl Read more…
Microsoft Claims Speech Recognition ‘Parity’
Microsoft speech recognition researchers report they have achieved parity with humans using a testing framework that gauges error rates for professional transcribers and the ability to understand "open-ended conversation Read more…
How GPU-Powered Analytics Improves Mail Delivery for USPS
When the United States Postal Service (USPS) set out to buy a system that would allow it to track the location of employees, vehicles, and individual pieces of mail in real time, an in-memory relational database was its Read more…
AI to Surpass Human Perception in 5 to 10 Years, Zuckerberg Says
Machine learning-powered artificial intelligence will match and exceed human capabilities in the areas of computer vision and speech recognition within five to 10 years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted this week. Read more…
GPU-Powered Deep Learning Emerges to Carry Big Data Torch Forward
The big data analytic ecosystem has matured over the last few years to the point where techniques such as machine learning don't seem as exotic as they once were. In fact, consumers have even come to expect their product Read more…
The GPU “Sweet Spot” for Big Data
GPUs have stirred some vicious waves in the supercomputing community, and these same performance boosts are being explored for large-scale data mining by a number of enterprise users. During our conversation with NVIDIA's Tesla senior manager for high performance computing, Sumit Gupta, we explored how traditional data... Read more…
GPUs Set to Boost Business Intelligence
GPU-driven companies like NVIDIA have been emphasizing the practical application of GPU computing in enterprise settings—and this year at their annual GTC conference, there are several compelling sessions for the business intelligence and.... Read more…
The New Era of Computing: An Interview with “Dr. Data”
When it comes to thought leadership that bridges the divides between scientific investigation, technology and the tools and applications that make research possible, Dr. Alexander Szalay is one of the first scientists that springs to mind. Read more…
GPUs Push Envelope on BI Performance
During GTC Asia in Beijing this year, Ren Wu from HP Labs presented (and not for the first time) research that demonstrates significant speedups on business intelligence applications using GPU computing. In addition to providing more details about the effort in Asia this year, Wu described common bottlenecks in BI applications that might find solutions in GPUs. Read more…
Live from SC11: Turning Big Data into Big Physics
GPU technology is playing a major role in boosting the efficiency and processing horsepower of businesses that are reliant on rapid-fire simulations. We speak with Matthew Scarpino from Eclipse Engineering and provide a glimpse of the visualization showcase from SC11. Read more…
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