Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the upgrade of the supercomputer system of Eni, the Italian multinational supermajor energy company. The upgrade of the company’s supercomputer, HPC4, will be delivered as a service through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and is intended increase performance and double storage capacity to improve accuracy of image-intensive modeling […]
Exxact Corporation Releases NVIDIA HGX A100-powered Servers for AI and HPC
October 8, 2021 by
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 6, 2021 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data center solutions, announced that it is now offering a new line of TENSOREX servers featuring the NVIDIA HGX A100 platform. This new line of GPU-accelerated systems allows researchers and scientists to combine simulation, data analytics, and AI […]
Building the GPU-accelerated Datacenter
September 30, 2021 by
[Sponsored Post] To learn about GPU-accelerated datacenters, join the upcoming live webinar from Thinkmate and PNY. You’ll hear about the future of the datacenter, why the GPU is crucial, the technology behind GPU acceleration, and what sort of options exist for different industries or types of organizations.
NVIDIA’s Huang to Unveil AI Technologies, Products at Virtual GTC, Nov. 8-11
September 29, 2021 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 — NVIDIA today announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from AI research and industry leaders. Agenda and registration information can be found here. Huang’s keynote will be livestreamed on Nov. 9 […]
AMD Targets HPC-AI for 30x CPU-GPU Energy Efficiency Boost by 2025
September 29, 2021 by
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a goal to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPU accelerators used in artificial intelligence (AI) training and high performance computing (HPC) applications by 2025.1 Achieving this will will require AMD to increase the energy efficiency of a compute node at a rate that […]
Taking Altair Structural & CFD Analysis to New Heights with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
September 20, 2021 by
At the recent ISC 2021 virtual event in June, I sat down with Kevin Mayo of AMD and InsideHPC’s Doug Black. We discussed how the latest AMD EPYC™ processors are helping accelerate Altair applications for the most demanding engineering workloads. AMD and Altair have been busily collaborating to deliver better performance for resource-intensive FEA and CFD applications. In this sponsored post, we share some benchmarks resulting from these efforts below.
Cerebras Alliance Offers CS-2 AI Supercomputer as Cloud Service
September 16, 2021 by
High performance AI chip maker Cerebras, maker of the Wafer-Scale Engine, the world’s largest computer chip, today announced Cerebras Cloud @ Cirrascale, delivering its AI accelerator as a cloud service. The alliance combines Cerebras’s CS-2 HPC/AI system, featuring 850,000 AI-optimized compute cores, with Cirrascale’s deep learning cloud services infrastructure. “With Cerebras Cloud @ Cirrascale, (the […]
Avalue Launches HPS-621D4A and HPS-246U4A HPC Servers
September 2, 2021 by
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Sep. 2, 2021 – Avalue Technology Inc. (TAIEX: 3479-TW), a global industrial PC solution provider and an associate member of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, has announced its high performance rackmount servers, HPS-246U4A and HPS-621D4A, available as L6 barebone or L10 full systems, designed for wide ranging applications including AI, 5G, […]
NVIDIA and HPE to Deliver 2,240-GPU Polaris Supercomputer for Argonne
August 25, 2021 by
NVIDIA and Argonne National Laboratory this morning announced Polaris, a GPU-based supercomputer, with 2,2240 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs delivering 1.4 exaflops of theoretical AI performance and about 44 petaflops of peak double-precision performance, up to 4X faster performance than Argonne’s current supercomputers. Argonne is calling the new system, called “Polaris,” a “testbed” supercomputer to […]
ALCF GPU Hackathon and Computational Performance Workshop: Prepping Researchers for Current & Future HPC
August 4, 2021 by
As the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) continues its transition to deploying and operating supercomputers powered by graphics processing units (GPUs), training researchers to use the powerful new resources for science is becoming increasingly important. Last year, the facility expanded its Theta supercomputer with GPUs to provide a dedicated resource for COVID-19 research as well […]
