AMD issued a raft of news at their Advancing AI 2025 event this week, an update on the company’s response to NVIDIA’s 90-plus percent market share dominance in the GPU and AI markets. And the company offered a sneak peak at what to expect from their next generation of EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs. Here’s […]
AMD Announces New GPUs, Development Platform, Rack Scale Architecture
HPC News Bytes 20250609: It’s ISC Week!, French Government to Buy Eviden, Huawei’s 5nm Chips, WSTS Semiconductor Forecast, AI Defies Human Control
A rare day in June to you! As much of the HPC community gathers this week in Hamburg for the ISC 2025 supercomputing conference, we reflect on interesting recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: French government to acquire Eviden, Made-in-China 5nm chips from Huawei, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics market forecast, AI eerily defies human control
Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS
Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed ….
HPC News Bytes 20250317: Intel’s New CEO, Is D-Wave Quantum Superior?, ‘AI Woodstock’ at GTC
A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone! As the accelerated computing world congregates in San Jose, here’s a rapid (6:36) rundown of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: What’s coming from Intel’s new CEO, did D-Wave achieve quantum supremacy?, “AI Woodstock” GTC25 in San Jose this week.
Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring two powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems combining massive computational capabilities with power efficiency. Engineered for generative AI, the Lenovo systems incorporate support for the NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs and the new Grace Blackwell….
@HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia’s Week at the Center of the Tech World
Live from Nvidia’s GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast. We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot….
HPC News Bytes 20240226: Intel Foundry Bash, Nvidia Earnings and AI Inference, HPC in Space, ISC 2024
A happy Monday of Leap Year Week to you! We offer a rapid run-through of the latest in HPC-AI, including: Intel Foundry bash, Gelsinger talks up the “Systems Foundry Era,” Wall Street hangs on Nvidia earnings, AI Training vs Inference, Digitial In-Memory Computing for inference efficiency, HPC in space, ISC 2024.
Exascale and Industry Innovation at GE Aerospace
Aug. 31, 2023 — GE Aerospace is partnering with French aerospace company Safran … on a next-generation technology demonstration program … that aims to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 20 percent compared to today’s most efficient engine technologies. The high-fidelity modeling and simulation capabilities provided by exascale computing enable researchers ….
ETH Prof. Torsten Hoefler Joins CSCS as Chief Architect for Machine Learning
August 31, 2023 — As of Sept. 1, ETH Professor Torsten Hoefler will be chief architect for machine learning of the architecture and technology workgroup at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Hoefler has headed the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL) at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since 2012.