A UK chip startup, VyperCore, says it has come up with a memory management scheme that does a software layer end-around and delivers as much as a 10x throughput improvement for high performance, general-purpose workloads without code modification. The company’s core insight, as described in a recent EE Times article: move “away from the processor’s […]
UK Startup VyperCore Says Its RISC-V Chip’s Memory Management Innovation Delivers 10X Performance Boost
Purdue Announces GPU Expansion of Gilbreth HPC Cluster
April 27, 2023, West Lafayette, IN — The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University has added 104 new NVIDIA A100 GPUs to the Gilbreth community HPC cluster. Based on Dell PowerEdge R7525 compute nodes with .5 TB of RAM, two Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs, and 100 Gbps HDR Infiniband, this expansion […]
TSMC Reports Progress on 2nm Technology and 3nm Process at 2023 Technology Symposium
SANTA CLARA, CA, Apr. 26, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) showcased its latest technology developments at its 2023 North America Technology Symposium, including progress in 2nm technology and new members of its 3nm technology family. These include N3P, an enhanced 3nm process for better power, performance and density, N3X, a process tailored for […]
@HPCpodast: Supercomputing Strategists Look out 20 Years at the Post-Exascale HPC Future
Post-exascale supercomputing for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) is the subject of a new report by a distinguished review committee comprised of notable supercomputing experts, three of whom presented their findings at a webinar last week. Among other observations Shahin and Doug came away with is that those responsible for guiding U.S. supercomputing leadership on the global stage are under relentless pressure, in an increasingly challenging environment, to make mistake-free, long-term strategic choices. Their task is like that of Sisyphus, except the boulder never rolls down the mountain, it must eternally be pushed up. As one of the panelists — Dan Reed of the University of Idaho — said, “in supercomputing, these are the best of times and the worst of times.”
Mythic Raises $13M for Edge AI Inference
Austin – March 9, 2023 – AI processing company Mythic has raised $13 million in a new round of funding. Mythic’s existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC, and Lux Capital contributed to the round, along with new investors Catapult Ventures and Hermann Hauser Investment (which is led by Hermann Hauser, one of the founders of Acorn Computers and […]
Intel Launches Intel Agilex 7 FPGAs
March 6, 2023 — Intel has launched new FPGAs, the Agilex 7 FPGAs with F-Tile, equipped with what the company said are the fastest FPGA transceivers on the market. Designed to address bandwidth-intensive environments such asdata centers and high-speed networks, the FPGAs deliver up to 116 gigabits per second (Gbps) and hardened 400 gigabit Ethernet […]
TSMC Offers Its FinFET Technology to Academia for IC Design Skills Development
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Feb. 3, 2023 – TSMC today announced the launch of its “TSMC University FinFET Program,” aimed at developing future IC design talent for the industry and empowering academic innovation. The program will provide broad educational access for students, faculty and researchers to the process design kit (PDK) of TSMC’s fin field-effect transistor […]
@HPCpodcast: Our Favorite 2023 Predictions, Puncturing the Myths of HPC and New Advanced Chips
In our opening episode of 2023, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent chip announcements from Intel and AMD and their implications for HPC. We also talk about are industry predictions for the year to come featured in this article on insideHPC — including the ones we think most interesting. We also discuss a recent paper from researchers in Japan and Europe — led by Satoshi Matsuoka of the RIKEN Center for Computation Science — on the 12 myths and legends of HPC, a buffet for thought.
Israeli AI Startup NeuReality Raises $35M Series A
Dec. 6, 2022 — NeuReality, an AI hardware startup specializing in AI inferencing platforms, announced a $35M Series A funding round led by Samsung Ventures, Cardumen Capital, Varana Capital, OurCrowd and XT Hitech. SK Hynix, Cleveland Avenue, Korean Investment Partners, StoneBridge, and Glory Ventures also participated in the round. The round brings NeuReality’s total funding to […]