HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?

A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….

Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale

[Sponsored Guest Article] The technology alliance between Lenovo and NVIDIA is one whose total is greater than the sum of its parts. NVIDIA processors are changing the world and Lenovo servers are the platforms in which world-changing compute is happening. The Lenovo-NVIDIA….

Vast Data Annouces AI Cloud Architecture Built on Nvidia DPUs

AI data platform company VAST Data today announced a AI cloud architecture designed to deliver space/cost/power efficiency that buildson Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) technology. The architecture makes it possible to disaggregate VAST’s operating system into AI computing….

India Spending Billions on AI

India is getting into AI in a big way. The Indian government announced yesterday it has budgeted more than Rs 10,300 crore (US$1.24 billion) for India’s AI ecosystem over the next five years. The IndiaAI Mission includes standing up a 10,000-GPU AI supercomputer (no system details were released) to support such initiatives as….

DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs

E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include the Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper architectures. E4S is a community effort to provide open-source….

Switzerland’s ‘Alps’ HPC Infrastructure Extended Across Multiple Locations

As part of the “Alps” research infrastructure, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano is deploying hardware and software at various locations within Switzerland. This distributed infrastructure is designed to increase the efficiency and resilience of CSCS services. The extension of “Alps” to….

Exascale for ‘Hot Fusion’: Earthly Effort to Produce the Same Energy that Powers the Sun

Nuclear fusion processes similar to the sun’s have the potential to transform energy production on earth. At least that’s the goal of California-based TAE Technologies, which plans to build the world’s first prototype hydrogen-boron fusion power plant, called Da Vinci, in the early 2030s. With Da Vinci, TAE’s seventh-generation test….

HPC News Bytes 20240108: Ericsson and the Intel 4 Process, AI and VC in 2023, Samsung and CXL for RHEL, Quantum Cybersecurity

A good January morning to you! Here’s a brief (5:14) run-down of goings-on in HPC-AI: Ericsson may beat Intel to the Intel 4 process punch, AI a bright spot on 2023 venture landscape, Samsung optimizes CXL for RHEL, new quantum cybersecurity reearch.

HPC News Bytes 20240103: Gelsinger on Moore’s Law, TSMC 1nm Plans, Huawei Financials, DARPA’s Quantum Project

All the best to everyone in 2024! A number of interesting things happened in HPC-AI last week, here’s a brief (5:18) run-down: Gelsinger’s updated Intel view on Moore’s Law; TSMC’s 1nm chip plans, Arizona fab labor dispute; Huawei’s improved financials,; DARPA’s “utility scale” quantum….

‘No Resistive-Capacitive Delays’: Researchers at Argonne and Purdue Develop All-Optical Switch

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have created a “bimetallic” optical switch with the potential to bring dramatic efficiencies to how data is transmitted and stored, according to the lab. “The light-activated switch could bridge the gap between optical and electronic communications,” the lab ….