Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Erin Acquesta, Extroverted Mathematician and Emerging Leader
In our ongoing Vanguards of HPC-AI series, we now feature Erin Acquesta, who holds a PhD in mathematics from North Carolina State University. She became involved in HPC-AI in 2014, when she worked as a data scientist at Lenovo. In 2016, she joined the team at Sandia National Laboratories as a senior member of the […]
Trying to Read China’s New Top 100 Supercomputing List
Since 2017, China stopped taking part in the LINPACK benchmark used by the TOP500 organization to rank the world’s most power supercomputers. Yet for the past several years, the Chinese Society of Computer Science has released a listing of the country’s top 100 supercomputers. Yet China’s HPC opacity remains ….
Berkeley Lab’s Jennifer Doudna Awarded National Medal of Technology & Innovation
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a professor at UC Berkeley, has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for ….
Nvidia at CES: Omniverse Blueprint for Industry, Generative Physical AI, Access to Blackwells, Cosmos Model for Physical AI
Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, here’s an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins… The company said Mega is an omniverse framework ….
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Optical I/O: The Key to Unlocking AI Infrastructure, Profitability and Performance
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Scaling GenAI inference performance requires increasing the number of GPUs or accelerators working in parallel within the scale-up domain. In-package optical I/O offers a path forward by breaking the ….
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@HPCpodcast: Former AWS VP Adrian Cockcroft Talks HPC-AI Trends Coming out of 2024’s End-of-Year Conferences
With the new year upon us, this is a good time to review what we learned at conferences held toward the end of last year. In this episode, sponsored by Lenovo, Adrian Cockcroft joins Shahin and Doug to discuss SC24, the RISC-V Summit and AWS Reinvent. Adrian, who has appeared on this podcast previously ….
HPC News Bytes 20250106: ‘Beyond’ EUV Lithography, China Chip Sanction Workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI Build-Out, TSMC 2nm in 2025
Here’s a rapid (5:54) rundown of recent news from the HPC-AI sector, including: DOE and LLNL lead effort to go ‘beyond’ EUV lithography, report: ByteDance pursues chip trade sanction workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI ….
HPC News Bytes 20241230: China’s ‘Surprising’ AI Progress, Silicon Valley Biggies to Chase Federal Contracts, New Neuromorphic Chips, Farewell to 2024
A happy penultimate day of 2024 to you! We’ll close out the year with this quick ( ) update on news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China’s progress in AI despite GPU import restrictions, AI-driven ….
White Papers
The Graphcore Second Generation IPU
Our friends over at Graphcore, the U.K.-based startup that launched the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018, has released a new whitepaper introducing the IPU-Machine. This second-generation platform has greater processing power, more memory and built-in scalability for handling extremely large parallel processing workloads. This paper will explores the new platform and assess its strengths and weaknesses compared to the growing cadre of potential competitors.
Elevate your AI strategy to a business conversation
Isn’t ChatGPT a lot of fun? AI is now something everyone can use, even if they don’t have a technical background. But what does that mean for businesses, and do they need to have a new conversation about how they can leverage AI? In this new hero article, Mike Mason and Barton Friedland write about […]
insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters
This technology guide will show how the Silicon Mechanics Miranda CDI Cluster™ reference architecture can be a CDI solution blueprint, ideal for tailoring to specific enterprise or other organizational needs and technical issues.
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Editor and Data Scientist Daniel Gutierrez on the Relaunch of insideAI News: Illuminating AI’s Frontiers
Last week, we announced that insideHPC’s sister publication, insideBIGDATA, has been relaunched and rebranded as insideAI News, reflecting the evolution of data analytics and data science into the broad-based application of artificial intelligence.
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….
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How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….
Optical I/O: The Key to Unlocking AI Infrastructure, Profitability and Performance
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Scaling GenAI inference performance requires increasing the number of GPUs or accelerators working in parallel within the scale-up domain. In-package optical I/O offers a path forward by breaking the ….
Penguin Solutions’ Big Cluster Expertise Extends to Powerhouse Services for Big AI Deployments
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] These are the times that try the souls of IT staffs tasked with deploying AI at scale… Effectively implementing AI at scale involves a whole host of design, build, deployment, and management considerations. It requires ….
