At this month's SC16 Supercomputing conference, two trends stood out. The first is the appearance of Intel's latest Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) and Nvidia's latest Tesla (the Pascal-based P100) on the Top500 list of the fastest computers in the world; both systems landed in the top 20. The second is a big emphasis on how chip and system makers are taking concepts from modern machine learning systems and applying these to supercomputers.
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