At GTC 2024: Liqid UltraStack Servers with up to 20 NVIDIA GPUs

At GTC 2024 we caught up with Sumit Puri, co-founder of composable computing company Liqid, to discuss the company’s GPU-power UltraStack, which he said transforms 2U servers into high-density GPU systems powered by NVIDIA L40S GPUs.

Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he’s also an AI and cloud computing enthusiast. Here he talks about Microsoft as one of the […]

At GTC 2024: Lenovo’s New Blackwell-Powered ThinkSystem AI Portfolio Built in Collaboration with NVIDIA

Lenovo ThinkSystem AI servers with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs are set to power the era of generative AI for enterprises and cloud. In this interview at GTC 2024, we spoke with Pat Moakley….

At SC23: Achronix Talks Turnkey FPGA Solutions for Generative AI

We caught up with Achronix at SC23, the FPGA company that touts its turnkey solutions for generative AI workloads – automatic speech recognition in particular. Achronix Director of Product Marketing Ron Renwick walked us through the company’s solution strategy while making the case that FPGA-based genAI applications run faster than GPUs at significantly lower cost. […]

At SC23: AI Evangelist Milind Pandit on Intel’s ‘Bringing AI Everywhere’ Mission

In this interview at the SC23 conference, we caught up with Milind Pandit, AI Technical Evangelist at Intel, who discussed the company’s “Bringing AI Everywhere” mission and its significance for the HPC community. AI was everywhere at the Supercomputing event in Denver, and in his comments, Pandit takes up the theme of how large language […]

At SC23: Cristin Merritt Talks Women in HPC’s Inclusivity Mission

At SC23, we had a lively discussion with Cristin Merritt, Business Manager at the Women in HPC organization as well as chief marketing officer at Alces Flight, a UK-based creator and manager of versatile HPC clusters and cluster environments. Here, Merritt updates us on WHPC’s growth and mission, she reviews the organization’s activities at SC23, […]

At SC23: CGG’s Agnès Boudot on the Company’s Expanded HPC-AI Mission

In this interview with CGG’s EVP, HPC & Cloud Solutions, Agnès Boudot, she discusses the Paris-based company’s mission to use its decades in HPC to help provide companies across a range of domains and global regions with solutions enabling them to leverage the latest HPC-AI technologies. As Boudot points out, CGG has built large HPC […]

At SC23: CGG Talks its New ‘Outcome-as-a-Service’ for HPC and AI

At SC23 in Denver, we spoke with Paris-based CGG, a global technology and HPC company, which recently announced its Outcome-as-a-Service (OaaS) offering, delivering customized HPC and AI solutions for scientific and engineering domains, including generative AI and life sciences. In this interview we spoke with Jean-Marc Denis, Vice President of Sales, HPC and Cloud Solutions, […]

At SC23: DDC and TierPoint Talk ‘Liquid-Air Cooling’ Data Center Cabinets for HPC-AI

At SC23, we talked with Chris Orlando, CEO of DDC, maker of S-Series Cabinets, which utilize DDC’s liquid-air hybrid cooling technology for high-density data centers and cloud providers. Orlando says the cabinets combine the efficiency of liquid cooling with the risk-free flexibility of air. With him is Keith Markley, Executive Vice President, Data Center Operations, […]

At SC23: AWS’s Research and Engineering Studio Suite for HPC-Class, Cloud-Based Environments

At SC23 in Denver, Amazon Web Services announced the Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, an open source, web-based portal for administrators to manage cloud-based research and engineering environments. Here we interview AWS’s Debra Goldfarb, Director, AWS HPC Products and Strategy, and Brendan Bouffler, AWS Head of Developer Relations, HPC Engineering. They explain how scientists […]