When we want to start computing at biological scales and speeds – evolving today’s practical machine learning forward towards long-deferred visions of a more “artificial intelligence” – we’ll need to take advantage of new f... read more
Introduction For proper cluster functionality, all nodes in the cluster need to have their clocks synchronized, even when the cluster is isolated from the Internet and global time sync servers. To accomplish this, we installed NTP on Ubuntu/Linux and conf... read more
This short How-To post is a companion post to How to Install a Distributed Apache Storm Cluster, and shows how to debug an Apache Zookeeper installation. The debugging methods presented below include starting Zookeeper manually, pinging the Zookeeper serv... read more
Knowm Inc., a start-up pioneering next-generation advanced computing architectures and technology, today announced they are the first to develop and make commercially-available memristors with bi-directional incremental learning capability. The device was... read more
The name memristor is formed from memory + resistor. The fundamental component it labels behaves like a resistor, but one whose value changes based on the integral of the current passing through it, hence, the memory aspect. Innovative company Knowm is ma... read more
Your move, IBM. A small, Santa Fe, New Mexico-based company called Knowm claims it will soon begin commercializing a state-of-the-art technique for building computing chips that learn. Other companies, including HP and IBM, have already invested in develo... read more
Introduction This document will help you get up and running with your own development environment compatible with Knowm’s development stack. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but we’ve taken measures to make collaborating as easy as pos... read more
Running Apache Storm cluster on EC2 is greatly simplified with the open source project storm-deploy-alternative. With this handy project, you can define your Storm cluster in a simple configuration file and create the running instances as well as installi... read more
IBM, Intel, HP, Samsung and every big forward-looking semiconductor design organization knows that emulating the functions of the brain may be the only way forward when we finally get to atomic-level chip designs, sparking an exponential growth in the stu... read more
As researchers try to build more complex computers that get closer to emulating the way the human brain works, one of the areas of focus is memory. Existing chips, hard disks and tape drives are great at storing large amounts of data, but a new breed of m... read more