“Hood” is Cray’s next-generation supercomputer, and is based on the XT3 architecture. It uses Opterons and an improved SeaStar network (torus topology). Details are pretty light at the moment, but it will be installed next year.
NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivers unparalleled GPU accelerated performance and energy ….
Highlighted in this white paper by Intersect360 Research, the fastest growing provider of HPC cloud solutions has been Microsoft Azure. Azure’s momentum is based on completeness of services and solutions for HPC, and this is reflected in the loyalty of Azure users. Microsoft Azure has a greater proportion of its HPC users likely to increase their usage in the future. Meanwhile, in recent years, HPC has seen a new surge in compute from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). As both AMD and Azure have surged in HPC, Microsoft is combining both with its HBv3 instances, featuring AMD EPYC 7003 processors.
