A good mid-September morn to you! In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: Oracle Cloud’s 130K Blackwell-powered supercluster, AMD and Intel poised to gain in the GPU market?, AI’s impact on data storage in the changing IT landscape, installation begins for Europe’s first exascale HPC ….
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Install
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Penguin Solutions’ Big Cluster Expertise Extends to Powerhouse Services for Big AI Deployments
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[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] These are the times that try the souls of IT staffs tasked with deploying AI at scale… Effectively implementing AI at scale involves a whole host of design, build, deployment, and management considerations. It requires ….
Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference Benchmark for GenAI
August 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and ….
HPC News Bytes 20240701: Silicon Photonics Advance, CPU Thread Count War, Quantum Memory Advantage, Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center
July 1, 2024 by
A happy Fourth of July week to you! Here we offer a quick (5:56) run through recent HPC-AI news, including: An “important milestone” in silicon photonics, CPU thread count war heats up, quantum vs. classical HPC ….
Dell, Supermicro to Build Musks’s Nvidia-Powered xAI Supercomputer
June 20, 2024 by
Reuters and other news outlets have reported that Dell Technologies and Supermicro will provide racks of servers for Elon Musks’s mammoth AI supercomputer for his xAI startup. Dell CEO Michael Dell disclosed ….
Nvidia AI Computing by HPE Portfolio Announced for Generative AI
June 18, 2024 by
On a day that saw Nvidia climb over Microsoft as the most valuable U.S. company measured by stock valuation, Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, a portfolio of ….
@HPCpodcast: John Shalf on the ‘Attack of the Killer Chiplets’ and the Future of HPC
May 10, 2024 by
Special guest and last year’s ISC program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug in this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, to discuss the rise of specialized architectures to boost HPC performance in the post-Moore’s Law era. It’s a topic ….
ISC 2024’s Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC
May 3, 2024 by
Overarching both themes is the slowing of Moore’s Law, the deceleration of improvement in HPC performance combined with increasing costs for new generations of systems. In addition, implementing and realizing the benefits of new systems is slowing ….
Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand
February 9, 2024 by
We’re seeing the chip industry’s version of the scientific aphorism: “nature hates a vacuum.” The vacuum is the short supply of – and vast demand for – AI chips, and it’s roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity….
HPC News Bytes: Eni’s Monster HPE Supercomputer, Intel’s New Mexico Fab, NSF’s AI Research Resource, D-Wave and IonQ Quantum Advancements
January 29, 2024 by
A good January morning to you! It was an interesting week in HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (6:07) rundown of the latest doings, including: Italy energy giant Eni’s 600 PFLOPS HPE supercomputer, Intel opens….
