IBM, Micron, Others Partner with NY State in $10B Project for Sub-2nm Chip Fab

New York state has announced a partnership with IBM, Micron, and other industry players to invest $10 billion into expanding the Albany NanoTech Complex with a new High NA EUV Center that will drive what the organizations said will be the next decade of semiconductor technology innovations.

Exascale Software for Disaster Weather Warnings

…“the (Exascale Computing Project) software presents an array of possibilities and examples that have proven effective. The accelerated abilities afforded by ECP software give access to faster machines, improve our infrastructure, and give scientists tools that could significantly improve the accuracy of our models by supporting new science.”

IBM Quantum Debuts 133-Qubit Processor and New System

Today, at its annual IBM Quantum Summit in New York, the company debuted the 133-qubit Quantum Heron, the first in what IBM said will be a series of utility-scale quantum processors whose architecture has been engineered over the past four years. IBM said the processor “deliver(s) IBM’s highest performance metrics and lowest error rates….”

SC23: TOP500 Trends, the AI-HPC Crossover, Chiplet Standardization, the Emergence of UCIe and CXL Advancements

By Adrian Cockcroft, Partner & Analyst, OrionX Last year the UCIe chiplet standard had just been launched, and since then just about everyone has joined it, about 130 companies. The idea is that to build a complete CPU or GPU you don’t have to put it all on the same chip from the same….

Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference

Nov. 15, 2023 — Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYC and Ryzen CPUs with AI engines. Microsoft’s new Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series….

At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display from Dell Technologies

[SPONSORED GUEST INTERVIEW] When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it’s an immersive VR….

Life Is Fleeting, But Data Is Forever – Meet Your Digital Twin

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE BY HPE AND NVIDIA] With the transformation of medicine from analog to digital, plus the rise of new data-generating devices for health tracking and genomic information, we can look forward to a new world in which virtually every aspect of a patient’s….

SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch in Denver

Getting the most out of SC23 calls for good preparation, so as an assist we spoke with four industry experts – Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware and the Exascale Computing Project, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research, Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research….

@HPCpodcast: Pete Ungaro Sounds Off on the State of HPC-AI

In this episode, the second in our “Industry View” series (see our conversation with Alain Andreoli), we are delighted to speak with Pete Ungaro, long-time luminary and respected industry leader in HPC-AI. Ungaro, a globally recognized technology executive, ws named to the “40 under 40” by Corporate Leader Magazine in 2008, and CEO of the Year….

HPC News Bytes 20231023: Flared Gas GPU Cloud, IBM AI Chip, TSMC Q3 Earnings, Aurora Install; AI and More AI

Our fleet-footed (5:20) run through recent HPC news looks at: HPE Cray supercomputers  to be used at flared gas generative AI data centers; IBM announces NorthPole AI chip prototype, TSMC’s down Q3 earnings; new trends in advanced AI, including detection of brain waves as an AI input; an Aurora installation update….