Deep learning
Performance, Scale, and Flexibility for Accelerating AI / ML
In the movie Top Gun, Tom Cruise had a famous line: “I feel the need–the need for speed!” When I talk to data scientists, they often express the same sentiment. Charged with the responsibility of mining value out of numerous data sources, they often feel that they need ever more…
The AI Mandate: To Boldly Go Where No Data Center Has Gone Before
As technologies go, artificial intelligence is not exactly new. It’s been the fodder for fantasy and science fiction writers for decades, if not centuries. In terms of its actual, real world development, it was born at a technology conference in Dartmouth University in 1956 and has gone through a se…
XR on the Bay Recap: aka the Day Roger Didn’t Get to Meet Silicon Valley’s Gilfoyle (Part 2)
(Continued from Part 1) Dave Ward, Cisco, left; Ben Havey, Walt Disney Studios, right, during “the reveal” of Disney’s StudioLAB Leslie Ellis: Such as what it takes to make a blockbuster film. As in, hundreds of people, and it takes months. Whereas with new and emerging VR tools,…
XR on the Bay Recap: aka the Day Roger Didn’t Get to Meet Silicon Valley’s Gilfoyle (Part 1)
Hi, it’s Rog. On June 26, at Cisco’s Building No. 9, in San Jose, we and the Advanced Imaging Society, hosted our first-ever “XR on the Bay: Where Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood” event. Jim Chabin, President of the AIS, kicked things off with a rather brilliant observation, which summed up the entir…
Talos Targets Disinformation with Fake News Challenge Victory
This post was authored by Sean Baird with contributions by Doug Sibley and Yuxi Pan Executive Summary For the past several months, the problem of “fake news” has been abuzz in news headlines, tweets, and social media posts across the web. With historical roots in information warfare and disin…
Cisco GPU-Accelerated Data Center
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC, is around the corner and it is a good time to reflect on the rise of GPUs in the data center and what they make possible. When I first attended GTC four years ago, machine learning and deep learning were barely on anybody’s radar outside academic circles an…
Cisco goes Platinum at GTC2016
This year Cisco was a Platinum sponsor of the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Colloquially known as “GTC2016” or “The Graphics Conference,” it gave us a great platform to show off some of the latest developments from Cisco and our partners. We showed a host of applications and solutions alon…
Deliver GPU-Accelerated Virtual Workstations from the Data Center
It’s that time of year again! April 4th kicks off NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose California. If you’ve never heard of GTC or wonder what goes on at a “Graphics Conference”, you might be surprised by the breadth of technology and solutions that surround this event. With every…