At ISC 2024: Hyperion’s Bob Sorensen on HPC-AI Complexities in a Time of Rapid Transition
We caught up with industry analyst firm Hyperion Research’s Bob Sorensen (SVP of Research) about HPC-AI trends and developments that were highlighted at the recently completed ISC 2024 conference in Hamburg. Hyperion studies show that organizations are implementing AI strategies even as they struggle with ….
At ISC 2024: DDC’s Chris Orlando on Air-Liquid Hybrid Cooling for High Density Infrastructures
At ISC 2024, we were given a tour of the DDC booth with the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Chris Orlando, an evangelist for DDC’s hybrid air-liquid cooling cabinets designed for data centers handling high-density HPC and AI ….
At ISC 2024: Lenovo’s Andreas Thomasch on ‘Reinventing HPC’ — Sustainably
At ISC 2024 in Hamburg, we caught up with Lenovo Director of HPC and AI in Europe Andreas Thomasch, who took us on a tour of the Lenovo booth while discussing the company’s vision for continually “reinventing HPC” ….
At ISC 2024: New Top500 List – Aurora Joins Frontier in Exascale HPC Club
At ISC 2024, Hamburg — Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion billion calculations/second) milestone ….
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‘Glow-in-the-Dark’ GPUs, Holes Burnt in Boards, Overprovisioning Systems ‘Until Funding Runs Out’ and Other Factors Calling for Optical I/O
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] …. developments in photonics-based interconnects are so intriguing, offering the promise of increasing bandwidth by up to 1000x at 10%….
@HPCpodcasts
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New Top500 List
In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of the new Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At ISC 2024 here in Hamburg, we learned that the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems, , […]
HPC News Bytes 20240513: ISC 2024 Starts, Quantum Investments, China-Taiwan-TSMC Scenario Planning, Electricity Supply Running Low
Let’s take a quick (6:21) run through new developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: ISC 2024 begins today, substantial new investments in quantum continue, U.S. Commerce ….
@HPCpodcast: John Shalf on the ‘Attack of the Killer Chiplets’ and the Future of HPC
Special guest and last year’s ISC program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug in this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, to discuss the rise of specialized architectures to boost HPC performance in the post-Moore’s Law era. It’s a topic ….
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At ISC 2024: Hyperion’s Bob Sorensen on HPC-AI Complexities in a Time of Rapid Transition
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Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’
We spoke with Eviden’s Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos’ financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring.
A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1
Denver — Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list….
Aurora Exascale Install Update: Cautious Optimism
The twice-annual TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not universally loved, arguments persist whether the LINPACK benchmark is an optimal way to assess HPC system performance. But few would argue it serves a valuable purpose: for those installing leadership-class supercomputers, the TOP500 poses a challenge and a looming deadline that “concentrates the mind wonderfully.”
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Cabinet Technology is Bridging the Efficiency of Air Cooling with the Performance of Liquid Cooling for HPC and AI Workloads
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Data center operators need to modernize and future-proof their facilities, so they don’t get left behind as AI and HPC deployments expand. While the industry is exploring several liquid cooling ….
Durham University Cosmologists, DiRAC and Dell Improve HPC Energy Efficiency without Sacrificing Performance
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC service at Durham ….
Microsoft and NVIDIA Together Advance AI
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Think of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform as analogous to a general contractor who brings together the most skilled and knowledgeable artisans, technologically speaking, offering the latest and most powerful advanced AI capabilities. This would include the latest NVIDIA AI hardware….
