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 ….

AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI

AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million. AMD said the acquisition is part of its efforts to deliver end-to-end AI solutions based on open ….

Lenovo Is on a Mission to Transform HPC & AI for All

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]   High performance computing (HPC) systems run workloads to perform complex calculations to get answers to some of humanity’s toughest questions. The output from these calculations can result in game changing and life saving measures. HPC systems are used in ….

Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI….

Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA

Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations run HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy-efficient way.

GPU-powered HPC Workloads in the Cloud with AWS and NVIDIA

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Across industries cloud-based high performance computing (HPC) is on the rise. Find out from AWS and NVIDIA how GPU-accelerated compute is helping organizations run more HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy-efficient way.