HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?
A good mid-October morning to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of the latest developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism
AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI
Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology for organizations implementing Big AI. The company also said it is speeding up its product release cadence, a move clearly aimed at ….
Foxconn to Install Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer
Nvidia and Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn are building what the companies said is Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. The system, to be housed at the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, will be powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture and feature the GB200 NVL72 ….
HPC News Bytes 20241007: Staggering Data Center Energy Costs, Optical Computing Update, AI at Decade’s End
Good October morning to you! We kick off HPC News Bytes for the month with a raft of developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: A new report on staggering data center energy costs, NTT on positive developments in optical computing and networking ….
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Meta VR Project Developers Turn to Liqid UltraStack for NVIDIA GPU-Packed Dell Servers
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI-related technologies, such as GPUs that drive AI workloads. Members of a virtual reality research project were in need of greater GPU-driven compute ….
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HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?
A good mid-October morning to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of the latest developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism
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HPC News Bytes 20241007: Staggering Data Center Energy Costs, Optical Computing Update, AI at Decade’s End
Good October morning to you! We kick off HPC News Bytes for the month with a raft of developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: A new report on staggering data center energy costs, NTT on positive developments in optical computing and networking ….
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HPC News Bytes 20240930: New Intel and AMD Chips, Advanced Chip Subsidies and a Quantum Update
A happy final day of September to you! Chips news dominated most of the developments coming out of the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX; Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies; AMD Turin ….
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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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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 ….
QCT’s New Server Portfolio Addresses Full Range of High-Demand Data Center Needs
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] QCT – a.k.a. Quanta Cloud Technology – is a bigger player in the data center server business than some might think. The Taiwan-based company, a long-term partner of Intel’s, reports that it produces one in every seven ….
Eviden’s Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP) – Accelerate Workloads, Add Value to Simulation!
[SPONSORED GUEST WHITE PAPER] This white paper spotlights Eviden’s Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP), which empowers organizations to ….
