Kisaco Research: SigOpt is a Leader in AI Software

What’s New: A new report from analyst firm Kisaco Research positions SigOpt, an Intel company, as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) software acceleration, due to the quality of its optimization platform, breadth of its market penetration and strength of its go-to-market strategy. By making customers’ AI workloads more efficient, SigOpt helps them get the most out … Continued

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Intel Announces oneAPI Challenge Winners

What’s New: Intel today announced the winners of the Great Cross-Architecture Challenge, a collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Argonne National Laboratory, and run by CodeProject. The challenge attracted participants across five continents, demonstrating the growing momentum of oneAPI’s open, cross-architecture, multi-vendor programming approach. Entrants used oneAPI and Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) to … Continued

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Intel Embree Wins Academy Scientific and Technical Award

What’s New: Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the Intel® Embree ray tracing library, a component of the Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award. The Academy, who hosts the annual Academy Awards®, recognizes Intel Embree’s industry-leading ray tracing for geometric rendering as a contributing innovation in the … Continued

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AbbVie Uses Intel AI Tech to Improve Research Translations

What’s New: Global biopharmaceutical company AbbVie is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) for research translation, improving collaboration and search capabilities to enable the discovery of new treatments for patients. “We built Abbelfish Machine Translation and AbbVie Search to accelerate and scale the work of our researchers, reducing the time it takes to … Continued

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New Intel oneAPI Toolkits for XPU Software Development

» Download all images (ZIP, 2 MB) What’s New: Following a November announcement, Intel today released production of Intel® oneAPI toolkits for developing high-performance, cross-architecture applications for Intel® CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, collectively described as XPUs. The version 2021.1 toolkits deliver oneAPI, an open, standards-based, unified cross-architecture programming model that provides developers the freedom to choose the best hardware … Continued

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Intel Executing toward XPU Vision with oneAPI and Intel Server GPU

What’s New: Intel today announced key milestones in its multiyear journey to deliver a mix of architectures with a unified software experience. The company announced the gold release of Intel® oneAPI toolkits coming in December, and new capabilities in its software stack as part of the Intel’s combined hardware and software design approach. Intel also debuted … Continued

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SIGGRAPH 2020: Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit Unleashes Film Fidelity

What’s New: At SIGGRAPH 2020, Intel announced the latest additions to the Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit. Part of Intel’s oneAPI family of products, the toolkit brings premier high-performance, high-fidelity capabilities to the graphics and rendering industry. The toolkit is designed to accelerate workloads with large data sets and high complexity that require built-in artificial intelligence (AI) … Continued

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Unified Programming Model Critical to Uncompromised Application Performance, Saves Time and Money, Study Finds

What’s New: New computing accelerators are rapidly emerging, and organizations need to examine time and financial considerations associated with developing performance-sensitive applications that can run on both new and existing computing platforms. Commissioned by Intel, a recent research report from J.Gold Associates, “oneAPI: Software Abstraction for a Heterogeneous Computing World,” discusses the importance of application … Continued

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Intel Unveils New GPU Architecture with High-Performance Computing and AI Acceleration, and oneAPI Software Stack with Unified and Scalable Abstraction for Heterogeneous Architectures

News Highlights: Intel launches oneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model to harness the power of diverse computing architectures in the era of HPC/AI convergence. Intel introduces a general-purpose GPU optimized for HPC/AI acceleration based on the Xe architecture, code-named “Ponte Vecchio.” Intel unveils additional architectural details of the Aurora Supercomputer, delivering convergence at exascale at … Continued

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SIGGRAPH: Intel’s Vision for Exascale-Class Content Creation with 1,000x Performance Advancement

What’s New: At its inaugural Intel CREATE event today at SIGGRAPH 2019, the company outlined how its vision for exascale computing – driven by its six technology pillars – is foundational to enabling dramatic advancements in filmmaking and content creation. These advancements will be accelerated by a multiyear goal for a 1,000 times advancement in performance, underpinned by … Continued

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