Report: NVIDIA in Talks to Become Arm Anchor Investor, Intel May Join in

UK chip design company Arm is in negotiations with NVIDIA to be an anchor investor in Arm’s initial public offering, The Financial Times reported last week. The news comes nearly 18 months after NVIDIA ended its attempted acquisition of Arm from Japanese investment company SoftBank due to regulatory hurdles in several countries and Europe. The […]

GigaIO Introduces 32 GPU Single-Node Supercomputer

Carlsbad, California, July 13, 2023 – GigaIO, provider of workload-defined infrastructure for AI and technical computing, recently announced that it successfully configured 32 AMD Instinct MI210 accelerators to a single-node server utilizing the company’s FabreX PCIe memory fabric. Available today, the 32-GPU engineered solution, called SuperNODE, is designed to offer a simplified system capable of […]

NVIDIA Unveils GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Platform with HBM3e Processor

NVIDIA today at the SIGGRAPH conference announced the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper platform — based on a new Grace Hopper Superchip with the first HBM3e processor, according to NVIDIA — built for accelerated computing and generative AI. Built for large language models, recommender systems and vector databases, the new platform will be available in a range of configurations, according to the company. The dual configuration, which delivers up to 3.5x more memory capacity and 3x more bandwidth than the current generation offering, comprises a single server with 144 Arm Neoverse cores, eight petaflops of AI performance and 282GB of the latest HBM3e memory technology.

@HPCpodcast: An Architecture Update from RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein

Mark Himelstein, chief technology officer at RISC-V International, joins us to discuss the latest developments with the RISC-V instruction set architecture and its growing community and footprint. Topics include: HPC use cases from sensors to supercomputer, achieving customization without loss of compatibility, AI and its impact on chips and systems, and the question on everyone’s mind: when will we see RISC-V in servers and supercomputers? Himelstein also looks at RISC-V’s design wins, including EuroHPC’s backing of R&D to develop HPC hardware and software based on RISC-V. You may also be interested in Shahin’s conversation with Mark in August 2020 to hear how things have evolved since then.

Revolutionizing the Electronic Design Industry with Ansys and AWS

The electronics industry operates in a highly competitive landscape, where companies are constantly striving to launch products faster while meeting evolving consumer demands. However, this quest for speed and innovation comes with challenges. Electronics engineers often encounter complex designs, tight schedules….

MLCommons: MLPerf Results Show AI Performance Gains

Today ML Commons announced new results from two industry-standard MLPerf benchmark suites: Training v3.0, which measures the performance of training machine learning models, and Tiny v1.1, which measures how quickly a trained neural network can process new data for extremely low-power devices in the smallest form factors. To view the results and to find additional […]

AMD Introduces FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Semiconductor Emulation and Prototyping

AMD today announced the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip (SoC), which the company said is the largest1 adaptive SoC. The processor is an emulation-class, chiplet-based device for streamlining the verification of semiconductor designs. Offering 2X2 the capacity over the prior generation, AMD said designers can innovate and validate application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and SoC designs […]

Eviden in $100M HPC Weather Systems Deal with India’s Earth Sciences Ministry

Paris – June 22, 2023 – Eviden, the Atos business for advanced computing, today announced it was awarded a $100M contract with NCMRWF, on behalf of the India Ministry of Earth Sciences, to build two AMD- and NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF. These systems, based on Eviden’s BullSequana […]

AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI

At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company’s first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.

Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions

Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]