SEATTLE — Oct. 10, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips. Trn1 instances are built for high-performance training of machine learning models in the cloud. AWS said the offering saves up to 50 percent cost-to-train savings over comparable […]
UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI to Acquire NVIDIA-AMD-driven HPC System from HPE
October 11, 2022 — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it is building a supercomputer for Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), which is dedicated to AI, designed to accelerate scientific discovery. The goal is to enable the university to run complex AI models with large data […]
@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Steve Conway Ranges Across the Global HPC Scene
In this episode of @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug caught up with Steve Conway, former senior advisor at Hyperion Research and now head of his own consulting firm, Conway Communications. A well-known HPC executive and analyst who was formerly with IDC and Cray, Conway engages us in a wide ranging discussion – we start with edge HPC and trends towards massively-distributed, massively-heterogeneous computing, which takes us to the convergence of HPC and AI, mixed precision spectrum, the importance of simulation, the impact of exascale on general computing, the “indigenous technology” trend that has taken root in the U.S., China and Europe and it’s impact on scientific collaboration, U.S.-China funding model differences, and the necessary ingredients for attracting top talent.
MIT AI Policy Forum Virtual Summit Sept. 28 to Explore Challenges Surrounding AI Deployment
Cambridge, MA — Sept. 22, 2022 — On Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time, the MIT AI Policy Forum will host a free, virtual summit convening leading voices from government, business, and academia to explore the global policy challenges surrounding the implementation of AI technologies. The summit will feature a live […]
Supermicro Announces 8U ‘Universal GPU’ Server for NVIDIA H100’s
HPC-AI server maker Supermicro today announced what the company said is its most advanced GPU server incorporating eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Supermicro now offers three Universal GPU servers: the 4U, 5U and the new 8U. The Universal GPU platforms also support Intel and AMD CPUs up to 400W, 350W and higher, according to […]