What I'd like to cover here goes beyond those AI headlines, however, and involves a special nugget just for folks doing data engineering, analytics and machine learning work with Apache Spark.

Dialing PhysX back up.

ADLINK has this week introduced a new piece of hardware to its range which will be available to preorder later this month and takes the form of the Pocket AI, “the first ever ultra-portable GPU ...

Dual GPU setup boosts RTX 5090 PhysX performance in tests Pairing an RTX 5090 with an RTX 5060 dedicated to PhysX calculations can deliver major gains in older GPU-accelerated physics titles. In ...

AMD CEO and President Dr. Lisa Su herself teased the next-gen AMD Instinct accelerator, as well as next-gen AMD EPYC CPUs that will be unveiled during their Accelerated Data Center Premiere on ...

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Nvidia has upgraded its Volta line of Tesla GPU-accelerator cards to work faster using the same power as its old model. Nvidia was all over Supercomputing 19 last week, not surprisingly, and made a ...

AMD launched what it claims is the fastest GPU accelerator for high performance computing with the ability to top 10 teraflops. The AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator is supported by platforms by Dell ...

The new AMD Instinct MI210 accelerator packs the "Aldebaran" MCM (multi-chip module) CDNA 2 GPU, with 1 MCM die (compared to the 2 MCM dies on the Instinct MI250 and MI250X). AMD's new Instinct MI210 ...

Matrox Imaging reports that its Supersight e2 HPC (high-performance computing) platform can now be configured with an ATI FirePro graphics accelerator from AMD. With its high-bandwidth PCIe 2.0 ...