March 4, 2020: El Capitan Analysis; CPU Only Approaches Neural Networks, More

A quieter day than usual on the news front save one big item, the announcement of the much anticipated El Capitan supercomputer coming to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We have some analysis on that coming up in a moment. Later in the program we’ll be talking about CPU-based deep learning training. It’s been an uphill battle for chipmakers like Intel to make the case for CPUs as viable alternatives for training at scale but more work is showing how various optimizations, at least using TensorFlow, can take advantage of higher memory as training systems scale. Other news commentary and analysis to boot. Thanks for listening.