The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the top 10 of this year’s list has more changes than any list in recent memory….
NVIDIA Announces HGX H200 Systems and Cloud Instances
DENVER—SC23—Nov. 13, 2023—NVIDIA today announced the HGX H200 that is based on the Hopper architecture and features the H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance computing workloads. NVIDIA said the H200….
Lenovo at Center of Action at SC23: ‘Smarter Revolutionizes HPC’
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] At SC23 in Denver this week, Lenovo will be in the center of the action – at booth 601 – embodying the conference theme: “I Am HPC.” A leading vendor of HPC-class servers and ancillary technologies that make HPC go, Lenovo will address the challenges for which this technology sector, situated at the intersection of HPC and AI …
@HPCpodcast: Aurora, the TOP500, a National Research Infrastructure and Other HPC Thoughts from Argonne’s Rick Stevens and Mike Papka
As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Laboratory for a wide ranging discussion of all things supercomputing-related. Along with an update on the exascale-class Aurora system and the TOP500, we also discuss the ….
SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch in Denver
Getting the most out of SC23 calls for good preparation, so as an assist we spoke with four industry experts – Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware and the Exascale Computing Project, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research, Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research….
DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud
Aimed at cloud platform and large HPC, hyperscale and data center environments, Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and high performance. “The novel architecture accelerates and simplifies workflows for the data management demands of today and tomorrow, from generative….
@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution
Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He joins us to discuss the, well, “Cambrian explosion” we’re witnessing in AI chips, the general state of the AI semiconductor….
HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI
Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro’s appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings in Intersect360 Research’s HPC-AI new market update.
Dell and Intel Deploy UK AI Supercomputer at Univ. of Cambridge
UK AI supercomputers are breaking out all over. Today, Dell, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the deployment of the co-designed “Dawn” Phase 1 supercomputer. Claiming the system to be the U.K.’s fastest AI system, it will be comprised of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers combining two 4th Gen Xeon….