Tag: performance improvements
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Cloud Blog: We tested Intel’s AMX CPU accelerator for AI. Here’s what we learned
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/we-tested-intels-amx-cpu-accelerator-for-ai-heres-what-we-learned/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: We tested Intel’s AMX CPU accelerator for AI. Here’s what we learned Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we believe that cloud computing will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where users can be confident that their software and data are not being exposed to unauthorized actors. In support…
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Cloud Blog: From Cassandra to Bigtable: Database migration tips from Palo Alto Networks
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/palo-alto-networks-migrates-from-cassandra-to-bigtable/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From Cassandra to Bigtable: Database migration tips from Palo Alto Networks Feedly Summary: In today’s data-driven world, businesses need database solutions that can handle massive data volumes, deliver lightning-fast performance, and maintain near-perfect uptime. This is especially true for companies with critical workloads operating at global scale, where…
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The Register: Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/samsung_gddr7_dram_chip/ Source: The Register Title: Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems Feedly Summary: Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups Samsung has finally stolen a march in the memory market with 24 Gb GDDR7 DRAM being released for validation in AI computing systems from GPU customers before…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Analysis of the EPYC 145% performance gain in Cloudflare Gen 12 servers
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/analysis-of-the-epyc-145-performance-gain-in-cloudflare-gen-12-servers Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Analysis of the EPYC 145% performance gain in Cloudflare Gen 12 servers Feedly Summary: Cloudflare’s Gen 12 server is the most powerful and power efficient server that we have deployed to date. Through sensitivity analysis, we found that Cloudflare workloads continue to scale with higher core count…
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Hacker News: Upgrading Uber’s MySQL Fleet
Source URL: https://www.uber.com/en-JO/blog/upgrading-ubers-mysql-fleet/ Source: Hacker News Title: Upgrading Uber’s MySQL Fleet Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Uber’s strategic upgrade from MySQL v5.7 to v8.0 demonstrates a significant commitment to improving security, performance, and operational efficiency within their extensive data infrastructure. This migration involved substantial planning, automation, and collaborative problem-solving, providing valuable…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: lm.rs: run inference on Language Models locally on the CPU with Rust
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/11/lmrs/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: lm.rs: run inference on Language Models locally on the CPU with Rust Feedly Summary: lm.rs: run inference on Language Models locally on the CPU with Rust Impressive new LLM inference implementation in Rust by Samuel Vitorino. I tried it just now on an M2 Mac with 64GB…
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The Register: AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/amd_epyc_turin/ Source: The Register Title: AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut Feedly Summary: Just not on the same chip, of course Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired back with a family of fifth-gen Epycs that…
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The Register: MediaTek enters the 4th Dimensity with 3nm octa-core 9400 smartphone brains
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/mediatek_dimensity_9400/ Source: The Register Title: MediaTek enters the 4th Dimensity with 3nm octa-core 9400 smartphone brains Feedly Summary: Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs Fabless Taiwanese chip biz MediaTek has unveiled the fourth flagship entry in its Dimensity family of system-on-chips for smartphones and other mobile devices. It’s sticking with close…
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Hacker News: PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao
Source URL: https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-native-architecture-optimization/ Source: Hacker News Title: PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text announces the launch of “torchao,” a new PyTorch library designed to enhance model efficiency through techniques like low-bit data types, quantization, and sparsity. It highlights substantial performance improvements for popular Generative AI…