Providing the Computational Power for Machine Learning - DZone Big Data

Machine learning has largely been enabled by the coming together of large datasets, algorithms capable of making sense of the data, and affordable computing to underpin everything. It's interesting to see, therefore, that supercomputing giant Cray Inc. have recently undertaken a deep learning collaboration with Microsoft and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. The project aimed to improve the ability of companies to run deep learning algorithms at scale. The partnership worked to leverage their collective computing expertise to scale up the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit onto a Cray XC50 supercomputer. The aim is to speed up the training process, and thus obtain results in hours that would typically take weeks, or even months.