We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the impact of hyperscalers on AI, the future of leadership computing (exascale.next), AI nationalism, the DeepSeek explosion, Nvidia’s AI chips leadership and challenges ….
@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing
DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7
Feb. 7, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. More information on the SCGSR program can be found […]
Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first facility within the U.S. nuclear security enterprise to do so, enabling Sandia staff to ask sensitive, unclassified questions. Rather than buying a corporate ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’
“One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale – sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ….”
Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. A company focused on sustainable thermal management systems for commercial buildings and infrastructure, Trane is adding to its data center thermal management systems with liquid cooling capabilities and introducing the Trane […]
HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….
Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results
Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report and facilitation guide from the Move the Needle Project, which ran throughout 2024 and examined practical approaches to goal-setting, accountability, and continuous improvement focused on the people side […]
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….
Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]