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Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem. The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to everything from semiconductor manufacturing to robotics and autonomous vehicles. These efforts are helping bring physical AI from development into real-world production. Samsung Advances Semiconductor Engineering With […]
Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components. The shift from locomotion to manipulation is taking center stage at this week’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in […]
How GPU derivatives could reshape the economics of AI
arXiv:2611.04683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Random walks are fundamental to graph analytics, yet executing them efficiently on large, evolving graphs remains challenging. Existing approaches must balance sampling efficiency, update overhead, and memory consumption. Sampling structures optimized for throughput often incur substantial memory overhead and costly maintenance, whereas lightweight alternatives can suffer from high sampling latency on high-degree vertices or skewed weight distributions. These challenges become more pronounced on heterogeneous CPU--GPU platforms, where host memory provides capacity but GPU memory limits the amount of graph data that can benefit from parallel acceleration. We present FenixWalk, a memory-efficient random-walk system that combines unified in-place sampling with selective GPU acceleration for large-scale dynamic graphs. At its core, FenixWalk employs an in-place Fenwick representation that supports both rejection sampling and inverse-transform sampling without duplicating edge-level weight storage. This representation enables expected O(1) weight lookup for rejection sampling, together with O(log d) prefix sampling and updates. To exploit heterogeneous hardware efficiently, FenixWalk maintains the complete graph and its sampling structures in host memory while selectively placing frequently reused vertex-local samplers on the GPU. By transferring compact walker states instead of repeatedly migrating graph partitions, the system reduces cross-device communication and makes effective use of limited GPU memory. Experiments on large real-world graphs and representative random-walk workloads demonstrate that FenixWalk achieves average speedups ranging from 2.06x to 400.57x over existing random-walk systems.
In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms. A GPU or fabric event may surface as NCCL errors on other ranks, scheduler state...
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, an MIT-licensed repo of 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists that its MiniMax Code team uses daily for code review, subagent splits, context budgets and long-running commands. The post MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily appeared first on MarkTechPost.
NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. These powerful systems combine an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an NVIDIA Grace CPU in a single superchip with up to 128GB of unified […]
Make every layer of your hardware PDN-aware and reach your maximum compute density. The post Foundations of Power Management in the Age of AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
STCO for heterogeneous design; physical AI interactions; signing off AI-generated designs; workload profile analysis. The post Blog Review: Oct. 28 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
Seekable OCI (SOCI) indexing for Amazon SageMaker AI training and processing jobs takes full container image download off the critical path. SageMaker AI lazy-loads your image to start containers in seconds instead of minutes, with no changes to your job definition. See the benchmarks and how to adopt it.
Unprecedented demand for bandwidth calls for bringing optics closer to silicon through a fundamental rethinking of the optical interconnect roadmap. The post The imec Report: Scaling Optical Interconnects For The AI Era appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
arXiv:2610.33501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) serving relies on batching to improve inference throughput, but the key-value (KV) cache grows with sequence length and limits GPU-resident concurrency. CPU offloading can expand KV capacity using host memory, yet existing systems remain largely GPU-gated: CPU-resident requests make progress only when the GPU scheduler exposes suitable overlap opportunities. As a result, host memory and CPU compute cannot act as an independent serving resource, leading to bursty CPU-side progress and inflated tail inter-token latency (ITL) under load. We present DualPace, an LLM serving runtime that turns the host into an independently scheduled decode engine. DualPace separates scheduling authority across two engines: the GPU engin
Today we are taking a look at ASRock's high-end Radeon AI inference card for workstations, the Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700. With 32GB of RAM and a $1700 price tag, the card is a highly affordable way to fill out a workstation for local AI inference The post ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation Inference, AMD Style appeared first on ServeTheHome.
Amazon SageMaker has released the Training Sessions API, enabling users to implement custom large-model training workflows—such as SFT, RLHF, GRPO, and KTO—using pure Python scripts. GPU resource scheduling, fault tolerance, distributed execution, and checkpoint management are all handled by the service.
