Designing an AI specialty chip that gains traction is a sure way to riches. That’s why so much money – $1.67 billion – is at stake in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against Google. Reuters reported this week on a federal trial in Boston in which computer scientist Joseph Bates, founder of Singular Computing….
Video: TensorFlow for HPC?
February 4, 2019 by
In this podcast, Peter Braam looks at how TensorFlow framework could be used to accelerate high performance computing. “Google has developed TensorFlow, a truly complete platform for ML. The performance of the platform is amazing, and it begs the question if it will be useful for HPC in a similar manner that GPU’s heralded a revolution.”
Radio Free HPC Looks at the TPU2 TensorFlow Processing Unit
May 22, 2017 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the announcements coming from Google IO conference. Of particular interest was their second-generation TensorFlow Processing Unit (TPU2). We’ve also got news on the new OS/2 operating system, Quantum Computing, and the new Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award.
