Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he’s also an AI and cloud computing…

At GTC 2024: Lenovo’s New Blackwell-Powered ThinkSystem AI Portfolio Built in Collaboration with NVIDIA

Lenovo ThinkSystem AI servers with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs are set to power the era of generative AI for enterprises and cloud. In this interview at GTC 2024, we spoke with Pat Moakley….

LightSolver Announces LPU100 Laser Computing System

TEL AVIV, Israel – March 19, 2024 –Laser-based computing company LightSolver  announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system utilizes the power of 100 lasers to solve optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100’s laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle […]

@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….

Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions

NVIDIA GTC 2024 – SAN JOSE – March 18, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including with the new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, organizations can accelerate integration of their data, AI tools and on-premises infrastructure to […]

Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA

March 18, 2024 – At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud. Stemming from the expanded engineering collaboration announced with NVIDIA during Lenovo Tech World, the innovations help enterprises and cloud providers […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI

SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 – Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications. The updates include: Availability of two HPE and NVIDIA co-engineered full-stack GenAI solutions. A preview of HPE Machine Learning Inference […]

Nvidia Launches Flagship ‘Blackwell’ GPU at GTC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for a two-hour GTC keynote event and victory lap, which was held before a sold-out crowd at the 17,500-seat SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Today’s news begins with Blackwell, which Nvidia said delivers six….

HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?

A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….

HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA

March 17, 2024 — The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA.  The full agenda and registration information can be found here. Register at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2024/ “The forum is a meeting place for the HPC community to […]