ANN ARBOR, Mich.—August 16, 2022 — Verge.io, with a mission to offer a simpler way to virtualize data centers, has added new features to its Verge-OS software designed to give users the performance of GPUs as virtualized, shared resources. The intent is to create a cost-effective, simple and flexible way to perform GPU-based machine learning, remote […]
Argonne’s Polaris Supercomputer Deployed for Scientific Research
Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Polaris supercomputer, a 44-petaflops HPE system powered by AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, is now open to the research community. Researchers can apply for computing time through the ALCF’s Director’s Discretionary allocation program. Details on the system can be found here. The system, housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility […]
Lenovo Brings a Decade of Liquid Cooling Experience to the Faster, Denser, Hotter HPC Systems of the Future
[SPONSORED CONTENT] HPC systems customers (and vendors) are in permanent pursuit of more compute power with equal or greater node density. But with that comes more power consumption, greater heat generation and rising cooling costs. Because of this, the IT business – with a boost from the HPC and hyperscale segments – is spiraling up […]
NVIDIA Announces GA of AI Enterprise 2.1
NVIDIA today announced the general availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise 2.1., an updated version of its AI and data analytics software suite designed to help enterprises deploy and scale AI applications across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud environments. NVIDIA said AI Enterprise 2.1 offers advanced data science with the latest NVIDIA RAPIDS and low […]
MLPerf: Latest Results Highlight ‘More Capable ML Training’
Open engineering consortium MLCommons has released new results from MLPerf Training v2.0, which measures how fast various platforms train machine learning models. The organizations said the latest MLPerf Training results “demonstrate broad industry participation and up to 1.8X greater performance ultimately paving the way for more capable intelligent systems….” As it has done with previous […]
Cerebras Claims Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single device, according to the company. By enabling a single CS-2 to train these models, Cerebras said […]
insideHPC’s Exclusive ISC 2022 Video Interviews
Check out our exclusive video interviews from the ISC 2022 conference! You can find them on the right side of our home page. They include: AMD – An update on the EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs powering the new no. 1 supercomputer, Frontier, which is also the first HPC system to exascale-certified, along with the […]