In the race to harness ever-more-powerful computing resources, we’ve created an unexpected bottleneck: our own code. Today, the brightest minds in scientific computing face challenges not from hardware limitations, but from adapting existing applications to new architectures. What should be a straightforward path to acceleration has instead become a detour that can consume years of … continue reading
The Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK) was put on GitHub this week by researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab, according to an Inside Microsoft Research blog post. The toolkit is designed for distributed machine learning, and it contains a parameter server-based programming framework that makes machine-learning tasks scalable, according to the blog. It … continue reading
Google has announced the new Google Cloud Console, a mobile app for Android and iOS to help developers manage cloud platform resources from their devices. Google Cloud Console lets developers view the overall health of their system, view projects, set alerts, monitor billing, and manage Google Cloud Platform resources. The console has the ability to … continue reading
