Aramco and Cerebras Sign AI MoU

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Cerebras Systems today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Aramco under which they aim to bring high performance AI inference to industries, universities, and enterprises in Saudi Arabia. Aramco plans to build, train and deploy large language models using Cerebras’ CS-3 systems. Aramco’s new high-performance […]

ISC 2025 Is Open for Submissions

The ISC 2025 Contributed Program is now open for submissions. Scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government are invited to submit proposals. The contributed program comprises research papers, posters, birds of a feather, tutorials and workshop sessions.

TACC’s ‘Vista’ AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community

The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ….

2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box

English professors at Clemson University and Portland State University have been awarded a six-figure research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct fieldwork and interviews at Argonne ….

GPU Boost: $5M NSF Enhancement for PSC’s Bridges-2 HPC

A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add Nvidia H100 ….

NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC

Aug. 5, 2024 — The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). A $3.15-million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will fund the system’s operations, making it available without cost for non-commercial […]

HPC News Bytes 20240729: Nvidia Monster 2025 Revenue Projection and a Chip for China; China’s ‘New’ HPC Secrecy; Graphene Plasmon Progress

Good high-summer day to you! This week’s version of HPC News Bytes offers a rapid (6:20) romp through recent HPC-AI news, including: Nvidia’s ….

Lambda Launches Nvidia-Based Cloud Clusters for AI Model Training

SAN JOSE, July 24, 2024 — GPU cloud company Lambda has unveiled Lambda 1-Click Clusters, designed for AI engineers’ and researchers’ short-term access to multi-node GPU clusters in the cloud for large-scale AI model training. Lambda said the launch marks the first time such access to NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs on 2 to 64 […]

HPC News Bytes 20240715: AI Maturity ROI, OpenAI’s 5 Levels of AI, SoftBank Acquires Graphcore

Much has happened of late in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (5:55) run through of the news, including: survey commissioned by Vultr points to AI maturity ROI, OpenAI proposes five levels of AI based on capability, SoftBank ….

HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ….