Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind
(2020/09/19)
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Roundup Samples of Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100, [1]teased more than a year ago, are now shipping to select customers, the tech giant said this week. The hardware is due to officially launch in the first half of next year.
The Cloud AI 100 is a system-on-chip designed to accelerate machine-learning workloads at the edge of networks, in data centers, and in 5G infrastructure – the idea being running neural networks right where decisions need to be made rather than piping data back and forth between remote systems. It can handle INT8, INT16, FP16, and FP32 vector math in hardware; has up to 144MB of on-die SRAM; has up to 16 AI-focused processor cores; and supports LPDDR4x RAM and PCIe 3 and 4.
The hardware can be obtained in various form factors: a dual M.2 format for edge that has a 15W TDP and up to 70 TOPS performance; a dual M.2 format that's 25W and up to 200 TOPS; and a HHHL PCIe card that's 75W and up to 400 TOPS. Each card can have up to 32GB of RAM.
Accompanying this is a Cloud AI 100 Edge developer kit, [2]shipping next month, for those who want to experiment with the idea of machine-learning applications at the edge of networks before deploying silicon in anger. The dev kit features a Snapdragon 865 system-on-chip, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a Cloud AI 100 DM.2 board, a Snapdragon X55 5G modem, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and NVMe SSD storage.
IBM spins out AI toolkit collection as open source
IBM has [3]open sourced its PowerAI software under the moniker [4]Open-CE , or the Open Cognitive Environment. It is a suite of open-source deep-learning tools, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, all packaged up to make it a bit easier and less of a faff to train and use models.
Big Blue also this week followed up the [5]release of its A2I POWER processor core blueprints with its out-of-order cousin, the [6]A2O – that's a capital 'o' at the end, not a zero. This 64-bit CPU core is written in Verilog and prioritizes performance-per-thread over getting as many threads as possible into a chip.
Tesla driver accused of sleeping at the wheel as Autopilot went nuts
A 20-year-old Canadian bloke was [7]caught napping at the wheel of his speeding Autopilot-controlled Tesla Model S, Alberta Mounties said this week.
The driver and his passenger were both asleep with their chairs reclined as the flash motor sped along a highway between Edmonton and Calgary at more than 140 KMPH (87 MPH). When a cop car gave chase and turned its flashing lights on, other cars moved out of the way. But the Tesla's Autopilot seemingly interpreted this as a clear road, and increased its speed to precisely 150 KMPH, the police claim. The limit is 110 KMPH (68 MPH).
The British Columbia man was charged with speeding and dangerous driving. "Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going," RCMP Sgt Darrin Turnbull told CBC News. "I've been in policing for over 23 years and the majority of that in traffic law enforcement, and I'm speechless.
"We believe the vehicle was operating on the autopilot system, which is really just an advanced driver safety system, a driver assist program. You still need to be driving the vehicle." Amen to that.
Stock exchange launches money-laundering detector AI
Nasdaq [8]said this week it will deploy AI to help banks investigate money laundering scams. The software will sift through alerts of suspicious activities – as many as 300,000 a month – and pick out the ones that look most likely like wrongdoing.
“We have been thinking long and hard on how we want to go beyond trade surveillance,” said Nasdaq senior veep Valerie Bannert-Thurner. “It’s a product launch but strategically it’s a launch beyond trade surveillance. We have great ambitions in the space.” ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/09/qualcomm_ai_day/
[2] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2020/09/16/qualcomm-announces-first-shipments-qualcomm-cloud-ai-100-accelerator-and
[3] https://openpowerfoundation.org/openpower-foundation-introduces-ibm-hardware-and-software-contributions-at-openpower-summit-2020/
[4] https://github.com/open-ce/open-ce
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/
[6] https://github.com/openpower-cores/a2o
[7] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tesla-driver-napping-alberta-speeding-1.5727828
[8] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nasdaq-technology/nasdaq-makes-push-into-anti-money-laundering-tech-with-new-ai-based-system-idUSKBN2671UE
[9] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The Cloud AI 100 is a system-on-chip designed to accelerate machine-learning workloads at the edge of networks, in data centers, and in 5G infrastructure – the idea being running neural networks right where decisions need to be made rather than piping data back and forth between remote systems. It can handle INT8, INT16, FP16, and FP32 vector math in hardware; has up to 144MB of on-die SRAM; has up to 16 AI-focused processor cores; and supports LPDDR4x RAM and PCIe 3 and 4.
The hardware can be obtained in various form factors: a dual M.2 format for edge that has a 15W TDP and up to 70 TOPS performance; a dual M.2 format that's 25W and up to 200 TOPS; and a HHHL PCIe card that's 75W and up to 400 TOPS. Each card can have up to 32GB of RAM.
Accompanying this is a Cloud AI 100 Edge developer kit, [2]shipping next month, for those who want to experiment with the idea of machine-learning applications at the edge of networks before deploying silicon in anger. The dev kit features a Snapdragon 865 system-on-chip, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a Cloud AI 100 DM.2 board, a Snapdragon X55 5G modem, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and NVMe SSD storage.
IBM spins out AI toolkit collection as open source
IBM has [3]open sourced its PowerAI software under the moniker [4]Open-CE , or the Open Cognitive Environment. It is a suite of open-source deep-learning tools, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, all packaged up to make it a bit easier and less of a faff to train and use models.
Big Blue also this week followed up the [5]release of its A2I POWER processor core blueprints with its out-of-order cousin, the [6]A2O – that's a capital 'o' at the end, not a zero. This 64-bit CPU core is written in Verilog and prioritizes performance-per-thread over getting as many threads as possible into a chip.
Tesla driver accused of sleeping at the wheel as Autopilot went nuts
A 20-year-old Canadian bloke was [7]caught napping at the wheel of his speeding Autopilot-controlled Tesla Model S, Alberta Mounties said this week.
The driver and his passenger were both asleep with their chairs reclined as the flash motor sped along a highway between Edmonton and Calgary at more than 140 KMPH (87 MPH). When a cop car gave chase and turned its flashing lights on, other cars moved out of the way. But the Tesla's Autopilot seemingly interpreted this as a clear road, and increased its speed to precisely 150 KMPH, the police claim. The limit is 110 KMPH (68 MPH).
The British Columbia man was charged with speeding and dangerous driving. "Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going," RCMP Sgt Darrin Turnbull told CBC News. "I've been in policing for over 23 years and the majority of that in traffic law enforcement, and I'm speechless.
"We believe the vehicle was operating on the autopilot system, which is really just an advanced driver safety system, a driver assist program. You still need to be driving the vehicle." Amen to that.
Stock exchange launches money-laundering detector AI
Nasdaq [8]said this week it will deploy AI to help banks investigate money laundering scams. The software will sift through alerts of suspicious activities – as many as 300,000 a month – and pick out the ones that look most likely like wrongdoing.
“We have been thinking long and hard on how we want to go beyond trade surveillance,” said Nasdaq senior veep Valerie Bannert-Thurner. “It’s a product launch but strategically it’s a launch beyond trade surveillance. We have great ambitions in the space.” ®
Get our [9]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/09/qualcomm_ai_day/
[2] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2020/09/16/qualcomm-announces-first-shipments-qualcomm-cloud-ai-100-accelerator-and
[3] https://openpowerfoundation.org/openpower-foundation-introduces-ibm-hardware-and-software-contributions-at-openpower-summit-2020/
[4] https://github.com/open-ce/open-ce
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/
[6] https://github.com/openpower-cores/a2o
[7] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tesla-driver-napping-alberta-speeding-1.5727828
[8] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nasdaq-technology/nasdaq-makes-push-into-anti-money-laundering-tech-with-new-ai-based-system-idUSKBN2671UE
[9] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Some tweaks for Tesla's image processing needed?
martinusher
In the US and Canada at least if a car comes up behind you and shines a very bright red light at you then its asking you to pull over. If it follows you as you move to the right and slow down then its telling you it wants you to stop. You obviously need to stop somewhere safe so you acknowledge the signal using the right turn signal (its 'common practice', I don't think its in the driver's handbook). So Tesla has a bit of software work to do. Recognizing the 'pull over' signal should be relatively straightforward, the system then at a minimum should alert the driver, restrict the maximum speed of the vehicle and maybe move to the right if its safe to do so. If nothing else it would help the cops manage sleeping or unfit drivers.
Traffic stops are going to vary by country but the Autopilot system should at least recognize them.
Re: Money-Laundering Detector AI
Cometh the hour, cometh the application, cometh the exercise for deployment* :-) ...... [1]https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/experts-baffled-50-billion-bank-18955414
The RATs are in the system and helping themselves to the goodies. And what a diabolical cheek of some, to call themselves experts, eh?
* Don't be holding your breath on the system being in any way ultra helpful though, and fully expect it to be strangely less than enthusiastic and welcoming of new disruptive detective technology ........ postmodern virtual machine whistleblowing.
As Corporal Jones would say ...... "They don't like it up 'em "
[1] https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/experts-baffled-50-billion-bank-18955414