Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring two powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems combining massive computational capabilities with power efficiency. Engineered for generative AI, the Lenovo systems incorporate support for the NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs and the new Grace Blackwell….
Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA
Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden’s BullSequana….
Stanford AI Index: Lax LLM Reponsibility, AI for Science Accelerates, Impact on Workers, US Leads China in Models
The AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI is out, it’s an annual, thoroughgoing snapshot of the state of AI begun by the HAI in 2019. This year’s edition presents new estimates on AI training….
Los Alamos Announces Nvidia-HPE AI Supercomputer ‘Venado’
Venado’s computing capacity will house 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips in the exascale-class HPE Cray EX supercomputer. The system will also use 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, making it the first large-scale system with Nvidia Grace CPU superchips deployed….
Sponsored Guest Article
‘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%….
@HPCpodcast
HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta’s MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China’s Growth Strategy
Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta’s new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing….
HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress
A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC’s Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel foundry business’s losses, TSMC expands CoWoS capacity, SK hynix to investing in Indiana and Purdue, Quantinuum and Microsoft report 14,000 error-free instances
HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It’s Healthy, Alibaba’s RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation
Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and….
White Papers
Energy efficiency drives HPC to the cloud
The high-performance computing (HPC) market is witnessing a notable shift towards the cloud, partially driven by the benefits of enhanced energy efficiency. According to Hyperion Research nearly every organization running HPC workloads is either already using or investigating the cloud to accelerate application performance, with the cloud market for HPC workloads forecast to reach $11.5 […]
Accelerate Large FEA Simulations by 10 with Ansys Mechanical on Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
Product development teams are increasingly leveraging cloud computing for complex engineering simulations. Ansys Mechanical users can now amplify these benefits with Ansys Gateway powered by AWS, customizing cloud settings for various solvers and analysis types. Ansys’ study shows up to 10x faster solution times for simulations exceeding 60 million DOF, compared to average workstations. Download […]
Faster CFD Solution Times via the Cloud: The Power of Ansys Fluent and Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
A new study reveals that, for a complex CFD problem solved using Ansys Fluent, an optimized cloud setting results in accelerated solution runtimes. To optimize results for users, Ansys Gateway powered by AWS has preconfigured Fluent settings that enable customers to get the best performance right out of the box. Download this white paper to […]
Videos from GTC 2024 and SC23
At GTC 2024: Lenovo’s New Blackwell-Powered ThinkSystem AI Portfolio Built in Collaboration with NVIDIA
At SC23: Achronix Talks Turnkey FPGA Solutions for Generative AI
At SC23: Cristin Merritt Talks Women in HPC’s Inclusivity Mission
At SC23: CGG Talks its New ‘Outcome-as-a-Service’ for HPC and AI
At SC23: DDC and TierPoint Talk ‘Liquid-Air Cooling’ Data Center Cabinets for HPC-AI
Editor’s Choice
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.”
Sponsored Guest Articles
Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale
[Sponsored Guest Article] The technology alliance between Lenovo and NVIDIA is one whose total is greater than the sum of its parts. NVIDIA processors are changing the world and Lenovo servers are the platforms in which world-changing compute is happening….
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI….
Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA
Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations run HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy-efficient way.