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At ISC 2023: Hyperion Reports HPC Industry Grew 4% in 2022; AI to Drive Stronger Growth Next and Following Years

The HPC industry managed to achieve modest overall growth in 2022, but growth of any kind was in doubt right up to the end of the year, according to HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, which hosted its bi-annual HPC market update at a breakfast event this week during the ISC 2023 conference in Hamburg. […]

Dell and NVIDIA in Generative AI Initiative

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have announced a joint generative AI initiative designed to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models on premises. Project Helix will offer various solutions with technical support and pre-built tools based on Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure and software. It includes a blueprint to help […]

AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer: In the Vanguard of HPC Performance and Energy Efficiency

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]   LUMI is a model of both supercomputing and sustainability. It also embodies Europe’s rise on the global HPC scene in recent years. The AMD-powered, HPE-built system, ranked no. 3 on the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, also ranks no. 7 on the GREEN500 list of the most energy […]

Flatiron Institute Using Argonne HPC to Design Peptide-based Drugs with Quantum Mechanics

A team from the Flatiron Institute is leveraging supercomputing resources from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to advance the design of peptides with the aim of speeding up the search for promising new drugs. “Existing peptide drugs rank among our best medicines, but almost all of them have been discovered in nature. They’re not something […]

NERSC RFP: 40 ExaFLOPS Mixed Precision Expected from Perlmutter AI Supercomputer Successor

Last August, NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced its intent to commission “NERSC-10,” a next-generation supercomputer to be delivered “in the 2026 timeframe” for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science research community. The system will succeed Perlmutter, the 6,000 NVIDIA GPU-powered (with AMD CPUs), 4-exaFLOPS […]

Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs

In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has created a firestorm of competitive responses. At least two companies – Cerebras, maker of the dinner-plate […]

Mitsui and NVIDIA Announce Generative AI Supercomputer for Pharma

March 21, 2023 — Japanese business conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd. announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA on Tokyo-1 — an initiative for Japan’s pharmaceutical industry with technology, including high-resolution molecular dynamics simulations and generative AI models for drug discovery. Announced today at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, the Tokyo-1 project features an NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer that […]

PNY Now Offers NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation for High Performance Computing (HPC) Workloads

The latest generation of graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA, based on their Ada Lovelace architecture, is optimized for high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The NVIDIA RTX™ 6000 Ada Generation, available from PNY,  is designed with the latest technology that provides superior performance and efficiency. The new RTX 6000      features an enhanced Gen-4 Tensor Core design for HPC use cases involving AI, including a new FP8 precision that delivers up to twice the performance of prior GPUs.

CoreWeave Announces NovelAI among First with NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs Online

Roseland, N.J. — March 21, 2023 — CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced general availability of instances of NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs online. This is CoreWeave’s second NVIDIA H100 offering, following the company’s launch of H100 PCIe CPU instances in January. Anlatan, developers of NovelAI, will be among the […]

Cloud Company Vultr Announces Availability of NVIDIA H100s and Data Science Partnerships with Anaconda and Domino Data Labs

March 21, 2023 — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vultr, cloud computing company, today announced availability of the NVIDIA HGX H100 for accelerated computing. Vultr also announced today a three-way strategic alliance with leading data science and machine learning operations platforms Anaconda Inc. and Domino Data Lab designed to accelerate the work of MLOps engineers. The NVIDIA […]