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- How to Balance the Corporate Grind with Your Health Goals in 2019
- We all start the year with the high hopes and the best intention to take better care of ourselves, finally fit fitness into our schedules, or clean up our eating habits. But given that 80% of people give up on New Year’s resolutions by February, the odds are not in our favor. In hopes to...
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- Intel Unite® ISE Booth: Showcasing the Future of Collaboration
- It’s the week of Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam and we are excited to be back for a third year in a row. This year’s conference is bigger than ever, and the Intel Unite® solution team is looking forward to joining industry experts to learn about new technologies and solutions, and partner to advance...
read more - Intel® Omni-Path Architecture Increases TOP500 Contribution
- Intel® OPA is interconnect of choice for six fastest academic clusters in world. The evidence is in. Powering some of the fastest supercomputers in the world, Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) strongly increased our contribution interconnecting TOP500 systems, with a record number of total PFLOPS increased to 146.2.1 This represents a 26% increase since June...
read more - Inference at Scale in Kubernetes
- Inference as a service is seeing wide adoption in the cloud and in on-premise data centers. Accommodating various types of model servers like TensorFlow* Serving, OpenVINO™ Model Server or Seldon Core* in Kubernetes* is a great mechanism to achieve scalability and high-availability for such workloads. Nevertheless, the task of configuring the Kubernetes load balancer can...
read more - Cisco HyperFlex*: Coming to a Store Anywhere Near You
- Intel has been working with Cisco for several years now to help build up the capabilities and value of Cisco’s HyperFlex* Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution. Cisco HyperFlex received tremendous recognition for the technology, including a Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave Leader ratings. I’ve written a couple of past blogs to celebrate our collaboration (New...
read more - Introducing int8 quantization for fast CPU inference using OpenVINO
- Deep learning framework optimizations and tools that streamline deployment are advancing the adoption of inference applications on Intel® platforms. Reducing model precision is an efficient way to accelerate inference on processors that support low precision math, with reduced memory bandwidth and improved operations-per-cycle. Currently, there are two mainstream ways to achieve a reduction in model...
read more - Introducing Nauta: A Distributed Deep Learning Platform for Kubernetes*
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to evolve and expand as enterprises explore use cases to augment their business models. According to a recent study from Gartner, AI deployments are adding real value, and are expected to reach nearly $4TN by 2022. One specific area of AI that has experienced massive growth is deep learning (DL)....
read more - PCAudioLabs Testing Finds Intel® Optane™ SSDs Accelerate Audio Production Workloads
- With respect to software, audio production is a specialized field. Many other disciplines make use of a common set of applications that include things like a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, and an email client. Those are tools that can be used widely across industries and job roles, whether you’re a financial advisor, a high...
read more - Multi-node Convergence and Scaling of Inception-Resnet-V2 Model Using Intel® Xeon® Processors
- TensorFlow* is one of the most popular, flexible open source software libraries for numerical computation and large-scale machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). Since 2016, Intel and Google engineers have been working together to optimize TensorFlow for Intel® Xeon® processors using Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL). This optimization improves training and inference performance...
read more - Scaling the Big Video Data Mountain
- At NABShow 2017, I had the pleasure of announcing the launch of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud Systems (VCS ISTC) with Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Dave Andersen. In the last year and a half, much progress has been made in the center and I’ll highlight the work of this...
read more - Intel’s Working Hard to Enable Your Data Center Transformation
- The journey to transform your data center to a modern autonomous data center can be a reality. What is a modern autonomous data center? Well, it’s taking the latest hardware from compute, storage, memory, network, and accelerators, and combining it with software automation for management and infrastructure efficiency. While this sounds exciting, there are fundamentals...
read more - Optimization of TensorFlow* WaveNet* Models on Intel® Xeon® Processors
- WaveNet* is a deep neural network for generating raw audio. The model was first introduced by the Google DeepMind team [1]. Per the authors, WaveNet yields state-of-the-art performance when applied to text-to-speech, and also has the ability to capture the characteristics of many different speakers with equal fidelity. WaveNet can be applied to music, and...
read more - Industry 4.0: Transforming People, Processes, Technologies and Organizations
- Industry 4.0 is here, and it promises to transform manufacturing operations with autonomous machines that are self-monitoring, organize their own maintenance, and link directly into scheduling and logistics systems — without human intervention. Customized products will be built on highly flexible production floors that are no longer tethered to a fixed flow conveyer belt. These...
read more - Retailers Get Big Sales Bump by Investing in RFID Technology
- Overhead and handheld radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is transforming brick-and-mortar retail. Today, as cited by the 2016 RFID in Retail Study, offered by Kurt Salmon, nearly 73 percent of all retailers are implementing RFID to track their inventory.1 The benefit is clear: As consumer shopping behaviors and expectations have shifted dramatically in the digital age,...
read more - Five Reasons to Embrace Enterprise Cloud in 2019
- Whether your organization is migrating to the cloud for the first time or starting to embrace a hybrid cloud solution with a mix of on-prem storage, 2019 is the year to transform your enterprise. If your company is only beginning to adopt cloud infrastructure, whether that’s migrating infrastructure, applications, or services, then you have some...
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