New Top500 List: Aurora Joins Frontier in the Exascale HPC Club
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, but barely. According to the new Top500 list released today in Hamburg at the ISC 2024 conference, Aurora turned in a LINPACK benchmark of 1.012 exaFLOPS.
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 ….
Lenovo Is on a Mission to Transform HPC & AI for All
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] High performance computing (HPC) systems run workloads to perform complex calculations to get answers to some of humanity’s toughest questions. The output from these calculations can result in game changing and life saving measures. HPC systems are used in ….
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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….
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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 ….
HPC News Bytes: ASML and China Trade Wars, TikTok, HPC-AI 2023 Market Size, WHPC at ISC
A good May morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:10) run through recent developments in HPC-AI, including: ASML’s new CEO and US-China trade wars, the TikTok ban, Intersect360 Research sizes the HPC-AI market, Women in HPC at ISC 2024
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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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Microsoft and NVIDIA Together Advance AI
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Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale
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