HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24

A good mid-August morn to you! Here’s a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including: the UK government cuts more than £1 billion for an exascale-class system ….

TSMC Reports July Revenue up 45% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 9, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2024 was approximately NT$256.95 billion, an increase of 23.6 percent from June 2024 and an increase of 44.7 percent from July 2023. Revenue for January through July […]

Lambda Launches Nvidia-Based Cloud Clusters for AI Model Training

SAN JOSE, July 24, 2024 — GPU cloud company Lambda has unveiled Lambda 1-Click Clusters, designed for AI engineers’ and researchers’ short-term access to multi-node GPU clusters in the cloud for large-scale AI model training. Lambda said the launch marks the first time such access to NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs on 2 to 64 […]

Quantum Computing: What You Need to Know to Get Started

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  Eviden’s approach to quantum computing involves developing a quantum emulator, Qaptiva™ solution, to focus on algorithm and application development for quantum processors. This allows industry and research ….

HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ….

Exascale: SUPERLU/STRUMPACK Solvers Get Frontier Upgrade

“Before (the Exascale Computing Project), both packages had very little support for GPUs. We could get some benefit from running on a single GPU, but without updating the code, even 10 GPUs wouldn’t make it run much faster. We had to redesign a lot of algorithms ….”

@HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Getting AI Infrastructure Right

…. we dig into the design and deployment of AI infrastructures with Jonathan Ha of Penguin Solutions, who delivers a master class in AI at scale ….

HPC News Bytes 20240708: Low Yield Huawei AI Chip, AI ROI Questions, ASIC AI Chip

A good July morning to you! It was a short Fourth of July holiday week in the (U.S.) world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (6:04) run-down of news highlights: China’s SMIC wafer yields for Huawei AI chip yield to sanctions, Goldman joins generative AI ROI doubters, startup takes on Nvidia with special-purpose chip

Quantum vs. Classical HPC: Sandia Labs and Boston Univ. Challenge Conventional Wisdom that Speed Rules Supreme

Theoretical scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University say they have discovered that quantum computers are unrivaled at solving an advanced math problem. But the big advantage delivered by quantum ….

Neuromorphic Company Innatera Attracts $21M in Series A Funding

DELFT, NETHERLANDS, 27 June, 2024 — Neuromorphic processor company Innatera, a spin-off from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has announced the oversubscription of its Series A funding round, securing capital totaling $21 million. This amount includes the initial Series A investment of $16 million that the company announced in March this year, […]