August 11, 2016

Fujitsu Technology Speeds Deep Learning

Fujitsu has announced that researchers at Fujitsu Labs have discovered a way to speed deep learning dramatically. According to the company, its new software accomplishes learning tasks 46 percent faster when using 16 GPUs and 71 percent faster when using 64 GPUs. It added that when it tested the software

Eventual Consistency

The CAP theorem (also known as Brewer’s theorem) of distributed systems says that you can have two out of these three: Consistency Availability Partitioning Consistency means that you have the same state across all the machines in your cluster. Availability means that all the data is always accessible and partitioning