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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
At the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma, Calif., last week (Dec. 7-9), CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company's vision to accelerate machine intelligence over the next five to ten years with an open and heterogeneous computing approach and a new suite of hardware and open-source software offerings.
The roots for this strategy can be traced back to the company's acquisition of graphics chipset manufacturer ATI in 2006 and the subsequent launch of the CPU-GPU hybrid Fusion generation of computer processors. In 2012, the Fusion platform matured into the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA), now owned and maintained by the HSA Foundation.
Ten years since launching Fusion, AMD believes it has found the killer app for heterogeneous computing in machine intelligence, which is driven by exponential data surges.
"We generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day – whether you're talking about Tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook, Instagram, Google searches or emails," said Su. "We have incredible amounts of data out there. And the thing about this data is it's all different – text, video, audio, monitoring data. With all this different data, you really are in a heterogeneous system and that means you need all types of computing to satisfy this demand. You need CPUs, you need GPUs, you need accelerators, you need ASICS, you need fast interconnect technology. The key to it is it's a heterogeneous computing architecture.
"Why are we so excited about this? We've actually been talking about heterogeneous computing for the last ten years," Su continued. "This is the reason we wanted to bring CPUs and GPUs together under one roof and we were doing this when people didn't understand why we were doing this and we were also learning about what the market was and where the market needed these applications, but it's absolutely clear that for the machine intelligence era, we need heterogeneous compute."
Aiming to boost the performance, efficiency, and ease of implementation of deep learning workloads, AMD is introducing a brand-new hardware platform, Radeon Instinct, and new Radeon open source software solutions.
[...] "We are going to address key verticals that leverage a common infrastructure," said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect of Radeon Technologies Group. "The building block is our Radeon Instinct hardware platform, and above that we have the completely open source Radeon software platform. On top of that we're building optimized machine learning frameworks and libraries."
AMD is also investing in open interconnect technologies for heterogeneous accelerators; the company is a founding member of CCIX, Gen-Z and OpenCAPI.
[...] The AMD Tech Summit is a follow-on to the inaugural summit that debuted last December (2015). That first event was initiated by Raja Koduri as a team-building activity for the newly minted Radeon Technologies Group. The initial team of about 80, essentially hand-picked by Koduri to focus on graphics, met in Sonoma along with about 15 members of the press. The event was expanded this year to accommodate other AMD departments and nearly 100 media and analyst representatives.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @11:31AM
The very idea is protocol-ist!
internet > world wide web > social media
I never use social media, and I don't even like the web. Http is so boring. There are so many other more exciting protocols on the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @04:02PM
They included email; this at least involves the protocol SMTP, which is much older than http.
The times when lots of data were generated over NNTP are long over, the same is true for gopher and ftp.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday December 19 2016, @10:20PM
Like 9p.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:20PM
"We generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day – whether you're talking about Tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook, Instagram, Google searches or emails," said Su.
Sad!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:22PM
How much neural networks could result in compression of all that data down to managable sizes, and maybe also help flag intellectual undesirables for our future 'Temporary Solution'. (Since the 'Final Solution' would be wiping out all of humanity.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:43PM
First they came for the jews, and I spoke out, because I was an anti-sementic troll! Then they came for the trolls, and nobody spoke out, because everybody hates trolls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:30PM
"Instinct" is a marketing name
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:43PM
I noticed that in general people complain about word choice when they can't find anything wrong with the content, and they are envious.
I think it's a very nice thing that the AMD people are doing, but I don't have the background to understand everything properly.
I am excited about a future when my simulations will run more efficiently because computations will be distributed in a smarter way, although I don't know if I'll be smart enough to program for these complicated new machines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:46PM
Don't worry, dummy. After you get laidoff from your codemonkey job, you can get a new job as a crash dummy for Tesla.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @01:14PM
I don't have a codemonkey job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:32AM
AC #3 here.
What non-codemonkey job do you have, if one? If not, how do you spend your waking time?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 19 2016, @01:10PM
AMD has to get through NVIDIA, which controls most of machine learning right now, as well Intel, Google with its TPUs, and maybe Microsoft (FPGAs).
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday December 19 2016, @10:31PM
Intel bought out Altera, second biggest FPGA maker, to leverage their FPGA's for this type of stuff. And interestingly enough, Altera is no more. It's all Intel branded now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @02:00PM
You are too dumb to read through marketing gibberish. The long summary boils down to AMD announcing marketing brand "Radeon Insticint," sprinkled with buzzwords ("machine learning", "heterogenous", "platform"), devoid of any specifics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @08:31PM
good job for recognizing that FOSS is the future(or present, actually).