Category: Technology

Category: Technology

Microsoft brings NVIDIA GPU-powered supercomputer to Azure – #microsoft #nvidia #azure
November 19, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

At the SC19 supercomputing show in Denver, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the new NDv2, the world’s largest GPU-accelerated cloud-based supercomputer on Azure. NDv2 VMs are designed specifically for most demanding distributed HPC, AI, and machine learning workloads. These VMs come with 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 NVLink interconnected GPUs each with 32 GB of HBM2 memory,

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Bing announce new AI-based improvements in image search – #microsoft #bing #search #ai #artificialintelligence
November 18, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has announced new AI-based improvements to their Bing search engine, particularly the image search section. The improvements enable multi-granularity matches, improved understanding of user queries, images and webpages, as well as the relationships between them. A bit like Google, Microsoft now incorporated BERT/Transformer technology leveraging 1) pre-trained knowledge to better interpret

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Japan’s NTT working with Microsoft and others to develop 6G technology – #microsoft #ntt #6G #wireless
November 16, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

NTT, a popular Japanese telecommunications company, is forming alliance (Innovative Optical and Wireless Network) to develop 6G technology. According to the report from Nikkei, NTT has revealed that Microsoft is planning to joining the alliance. NTT is currently in talks with 65 companies around the world for this 6G alliance. NTT is developing low-energy optical

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