HPC News Bytes 20241028: US Chip Fab Beats Taiwan, Tech and Danish Royalty Unveil AI Supercomputer, White Houe Initiative on AI National Security Risk

Good Halloween Week to you! From the always-active world of HPC-AI here’s a quick ….

Pain of Porting: The Limitations and Costs of GPU-Driven HPC-AI

[OPINION/INSIGHT ARTICLE] At the heart of the porting challenge lies the need to harmonize diverse and rapidly evolving software ecosystems and hardware architectures. Current strategies to address the challenges of porting applications to diverse processor architectures often fall short….

Lenovo @ SC24: Smarter Creates Cooler HPC

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]   SC24, the industry’s leading HPC technical conference, is taking place next month, and Lenovo will be there. HPC enthusiasts, influencers, and experts will gather in Atlanta, Georgia from November 17 – 22nd at the Georgia World Congress Center. This year, Lenovo’s theme is Smarter ….

HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences

A happy peak foliage (for some) day to you! Here’s a quick (5:44) jaunt through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: a shift in Exascale Day focus, did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption?, the great Grace Hopper ….

Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design

A multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows and GPU-acceleration with the intent to advance scientific innovation and revolutionize digital design.

How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….

Lenovo Launches ‘100%’ Liquid Cooled Platforms with Nvidia for GenAI

Lenovo called the 6th generation ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune a “vertical liquid cooling breakthrough” that supports accelerated computing while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent… Lenovo, of course, has long been active in liquid cooling ….

Dell AI Factory Offers New Cooling, High Density Compute and AI Storage

Round Rock, TEXAS – October 15, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced integrated rack-scalable systems, server, storage and data management innovations to the Dell AI Factory, for  high density computing and AI workloads at scale. The Dell Integrated Rack 7000 (IR7000) is designed to handle accelerated computing demands with high density, more sustainable power management and […]

HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?

A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism

AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI

Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology for organizations implementing Big AI. The company also said it is speeding up its product release cadence, a move clearly aimed at ….