In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC-class AI systems in a managed services model. We examine ….
Google: ‘Willow’ Quantum System Beats Classical HPC by Exascales
December 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Google has announced that its latest quantum computing system, “Willow,” delivers unprecedented performance on a quantum benchmark and has made significant advances in error correction: Willow can reduce errors “exponentially” ….
HPC News Bytes 20241209: Gelsinger’s Intel Exit, Marvell’s Rising Star, Quantum in China
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A happy December 9 to you! Here’s a quick (7:23) review of news from the world of HPC-AI: Potential whys and wherefores of Pat Gelsinger exit from Intel, Marvell-AWS custom AI chip alliance, China comes out of the shadows ….
HPC Helps Researchers Boost Tree Growth and Photosynthesis
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the field and by as much as 200 percent in the greenhouse.
At SC24: Intel, oneAPI and the UXL Foundation — Enabling Open Source Software for HPC-AI
December 6, 2024 by
HPC-AI chip companies have built out and manage major major software development operations, and at SC24, we caught up with two software managers associated with Intel’s open source software projects. Here is our ….
QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses
December 5, 2024 by
When we last took a close look at QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), the data center, hyperscale and cloud server maker based in Taiwan, we pointed out that the company is a bigger player in the server industry than ….
At SC24: Lenovo Update on Meeting New HPC-AI Demands — ‘From Exascale to Every Scale’
November 22, 2024 by
At SC24 this week in Atlanta, we caught up with Lenovo’s Moritz Manthey, Senior Manager of HPC Products and Solutions, for an update on Lenovo HPC-AI class servers built to address the emerging requirements for compute, data access ….
TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence ….
@HPCpodcast: Torsten Hoefler on the Present and Future of HPC-AI – ‘The Age of Computation’
November 15, 2024 by
Special guest and a leading light of the HPC community, Prof. Torsten Hoefler of ETH-Zurich, joins Shahin and Doug for a lively discussion on his vision of HPC-AI’s present and future, which he calls “The Age of Computation.” For Torsten this is an umbrella term covering all ….
Biden Administration ‘Races’ to Allocate CHIPS Act Funds
November 7, 2024 by
With the election over and potential threats to the CHIPS Act coming from victorious Republicans, the White Houe is reportedly racing “to get CHIPS Act money out the door” before the Biden presidency ends in January ….
