tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post8033568605531311923..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: News from Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2013Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87985245466177755962013-07-19T07:39:40.530-04:002013-07-19T07:39:40.530-04:00I emailed Professor Ng about it and he pointed me ...I emailed Professor Ng about it and he pointed me to Adam Coates' ICML <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/CoatesHuvalWangWuNgCatanzaro_icml2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">brief</a> on it. It makes me chuckle, because economically speaking, it is probably $100k infiniband network with the GPU hosts on the ends. The cost of the networking gear probably dwarfs everything else.David Coughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-84097683041365108372013-07-17T07:06:54.098-04:002013-07-17T07:06:54.098-04:00Moore's Law (which is really about transistor ...Moore's Law (which is really about transistor density, not computing power) became defunct several years ago, maybe a decade. If it had been in effect during that time, your laptop computer would be operating at 20 to 30 GHz instead of 2 to 3.BobSykesnoreply@blogger.com