HPC News Bytes 20241202: Do LLM’s Understand?, Agentic AI, Simulating the Universe, France Adding Reactors, TSMC 2nm Chips

A happy December start to you! From the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (7:38) romp through recent news, including: LLMs and “emergent” understanding, collaborative Agentic AI, Frontier exascale ….

Red Hat Signs Agreement with AWS for Virtualization and AI in Hybrid Cloud

RALEIGH, N.C. – Dec. 2, 2024 — Red Hat, Inc., open source solutions provider, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale availability of Red Hat open source solutions in AWS Marketplace, building upon the two companies’ long-standing relationship. Red Hat intends to help organizations with leading hybrid cloud platforms, […]

insideHPC Vanguard: NNSA’s Si Hammond and the ‘Almost Impossible’

In our continuing series on HPC-AI Vanguards, in which we recognize young members of the HPC-AI community showing potential to become industry leaders of tomorrow, we here profile Si Hammond, Federal Program Manager at the National ….

AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3

Nov. 26, 2024: AMD today announced the release of ROCm Version 6.3 open-source platform, introducing tools and optimizations for AI, ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct GPU accelerators. ROCm 6.3 is engineered for a range of organizations, from AI startups to HPC-driven industries, and is designed to enhance developer productivity Features of this release […]

At SC24: Alex Bouzari on HPC-AI Trends Driving DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform

We sat down with DDN co-founder and CEO Alex Bouzari at SC24 to discuss new trends in high performance storage – or, as Bouzari refers to DDN’s core offering, its data intelligence platform. Bouzari is a stalwart of modern HPC ….

HPC News Bytes 20241125: SC24 Hit Show in Atlanta, Hyperion’s Booming Market Update, Report: TSMC Tech in Huawei AI Chips

A happy Thanksgiving week to you Americans and a happy last week of November to the rest of the world. Here’s a rapid (6:43) run-through of recent news and trends from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC24 in Atlanta ….

At SC24: Lenovo Update on Meeting New HPC-AI Demands — ‘From Exascale to Every Scale’

At SC24 this week in Atlanta, we caught up with Lenovo’s Moritz Manthey, Senior Manager of HPC Products and Solutions, for an update on Lenovo HPC-AI class servers built to address the emerging requirements for compute, data access ….

Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for the project, “Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials.”  The members of the team are Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, […]

DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at academic institutions. Total funding is $31 million for projects lasting up to three years in duration. The list of projects […]

CIQ Demos Preview of ‘Fuzzball Federate’ to Streamline HPC Workflows

ATLANTA — November 18, 2024 — SC24 — As high performance computing teams move more workloads to cloud-native environments to take advantage of scale and agility, orchestration of jobs across on-premises and cloud environments slows progress. CIQ Fuzzball Federate, unveiled today in early access at SC24, addresses these challenges and enables researchers to use a comprehensive management […]