Dr. Handel Jones, an expert on the economic, cultural and technology scene in China as well as a noted technopolitical analyst, joins Doug and Shahin for a second appearance on the @HPCpodcast.
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Handel Jones on the US-China AI Race and the Shifting Technopolitical Balance
March 7, 2025 by
AI Data Center Workaround? Startups Pursue Networked Aggregation of Idle GPUs
February 21, 2025 by
Problems associated with GPU deployment – interminable order wait times, high prices and, particularly, dire need – are leading to new GPU access strategies. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal, “Your Gaming PC Could Help Train AI Models,” reports that underused GPUs “inspire startups to stitch together …..
Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs
February 13, 2025 by
DeepSeek’s LLM has caused a stir, but … companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence, for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient they get, LLMs alone won’t be enough to achieve AGI.
Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage
February 11, 2025 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] In tech, you’re either forging new paths or stuck in traffic. Tier 0 doesn’t just clear the road — it builds the autobahn. It obliterates inefficiencies, crushes bottlenecks, and unleashes the true power of GPUs. The MLPerf1.0 benchmark has made one thing clear ….
Digihost to Develop HPC and AI-Tier Data Centers
February 11, 2025 by
MIAMI, Feb. 11, 2025 — Digihost Technology Inc. announced the formation of US Data Centers, Inc. (USDC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company dedicated to development of high-performance computing- and artificial intelligence-focused data centers. With the launch, Digihost said it is creating a dedicated platform focused on delivering AI and HPC solutions, ensuring purpose-built infrastructure […]
Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference
January 31, 2025 by
Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second – 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions. Cerebras said this speed enables instant reasoning capabilities for one of the industry’s ….
Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
January 31, 2025 by
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 […]
HPC News Bytes 20250120: Trump and the CHIPS Act, Quantum Stocks, Intel’s Potential Buyer, HPE’s $1B Deal
January 20, 2025 by
A happy Inauguration / Martin Luther King Jr. Day to you! The HPC-AI world continues to produce major news,here’s a quick (6:06) review: the Trump Administration’s reported CHIPS Act softening, quantum computing stocks take hit after Jensen-Zuck statements, Intel’s mystery acquirer, HPE’s $1 billion win
HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs
January 16, 2025 by
On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..
HPC News Bytes 20250113: China’s Opaque HPC List, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Exploding Hyperscale Data Center Capacity, New MPI ABI
January 13, 2025 by
As our thoughts go out to the victims of the southern California wildfires, here’s a quick (7:29) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China’s opaque TOP100 ….
