@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers

SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!

@HPCpodcast: Torsten Hoefler on the Present and Future of HPC-AI – ‘The Age of Computation’

Special guest and a leading light of the HPC community, Prof. Torsten Hoefler of ETH-Zurich, joins Shahin and Doug for a lively discussion on his vision of HPC-AI’s present and future, which he calls “The Age of Computation.” For Torsten this is an umbrella term covering all ….

HPC News Bytes 20241111: TSMC 2nm Restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu Team on Arm, AMD Passes Intel, US Data Center Green Energy Uptake

With a salute to our service men and women on this Veteran’s Day, here’s a rapid (6:07) review of recent news ….

@HPCpodcast: MLCommons’ David Kanter on AI Benchmarks and What They’re Telling Us

Special guest David Kanter of ML Commons joins us to discuss the critical importance AI performance metrics. In addition to the well-known MLPerf benchmark for AI training, ML Commons provides ….

HPC News Bytes 20241104: India Rising with AI, HBM an HPC-AI Bottleneck, Novel Accelerator Architectures, CHIPS Act for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

A happy first Monday of November to you! The world of HPC-AI was notably active last week, here’s a rapid (7:36) run through: India seen as a rising tech power….

HPC News Bytes 20241028: US Chip Fab Beats Taiwan, Tech and Danish Royalty Unveil AI Supercomputer, White Houe Initiative on AI National Security Risk

Good Halloween Week to you! From the always-active world of HPC-AI here’s a quick ….

HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences

A happy peak foliage (for some) day to you! Here’s a quick (5:44) jaunt through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: a shift in Exascale Day focus, did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption?, the great Grace Hopper ….

HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?

A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism

HPC News Bytes 20241007: Staggering Data Center Energy Costs, Optical Computing Update, AI at Decade’s End

Good October morning to you! We kick off HPC News Bytes for the month with a raft of developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: A new report on staggering data center energy costs, NTT on positive developments in optical computing and networking ….

HPC News Bytes 20240930: New Intel and AMD Chips, Advanced Chip Subsidies and a Quantum Update

A happy final day of September to you! Chips news dominated most of the developments coming out of the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX; Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies; AMD Turin ….