We caught up with Jeff McVeigh, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Super Compute Group, to learn more about the three new server chips Intel recently announced, the Max CPU and the Max GPU series, along with the 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processor. We also discussed Intel’s oneAPI and how it supports heterogeneous HPC […]
SC22: Jeff McVeigh on Intel’s 3 New Server Chips; oneAPI and Heterogeneity; and an Aurora Update
December 1, 2022 by
At SC22: DDN’s Kurt Kuckein Talks Advanced AI Data Management at Scale
December 1, 2022 by
At SC22, we caught up with DDN Senior Vice President of Marketing to discuss major trends driving AI data management at scale – trends that include growing adoption of GPUs for AI workloads, the emergence of other accelerator technology, DDN products and services in support of fast integration of these new technologies, along with growing […]
At SC22: Lenovo Discusses its HPC Water Cooling Technologies and Other News at the Conference
November 29, 2022 by
In this interview at SC22, Lenovo’s Martin Hiegl, Director, HPC Customer Solutions, discusses the company’s extensive experience with liquid cooling of high-performance servers in HPC cluster environments, he reviews what makes Lenovo’s Neptune line of liquid cooling solution different from other companies’, and he discusses other news and developments highlighted by Lenovo at the conference.
At SC22: New Offerings from NetApp-NVIDIA Partnership for Scalable, Flexible AI Deployments
November 14, 2022 by
Managers from two AI powerhouses, NVIDIA and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about the multi-year partnership between the two companies, along with its latest joint solutions, which are considerable. From NetApp we have Firmware Engineer Chris Weber and from NVIDIA we have Shawn Kaiser, Senior Product Manager. They discuss a slew of advancements […]
Aurora Update from Argonne, and a Look at Leadership Supercomputing on the Horizon
November 11, 2022 by
These are heady days at Argonne National Laboratory — more particularly, at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which we visited earlier this week. To accommodate the ALCF’s new exascale system, Aurora, now undergoing installation, the ALCF built more than a computer room, it added a computer wing — a computer building — to the facility. As system footprints go, Aurora is impressive. We talked with ALCF leaders Rick Stevens and Mike Papka….
Video Highlights: Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
November 9, 2022 by
Google Engineer Blake Lemoine (who worked for the company’s Responsible AI unit) joins Emily Chang of Bloomberg Technology in the video below to talk about some of the experiments he conducted that led him to believe that LaMDA (a Large Language Model) was a sentient AI, and to explain why he was placed on administrative leave and ultimately fired.
Video Highlights: Modernize your IBM Mainframe & Netezza With Databricks Lakehouse
November 3, 2022 by
In the video presentation below, learn from experts how to architect modern data pipelines to consolidate data from multiple IBM data sources into Databricks Lakehouse, using the state-of-the-art replication technique—Change Data Capture (CDC).
At ISC 2022: Microsoft Talks HPC-AI and AMD Chips in the Azure Cloud
September 29, 2022 by
We visited with Microsoft Azure during ISC – here is our conversation with two HPC-AI specialists, Alex Jean and Dr. Lukasz Miroslaw, for an update on Azure’s line-up of new capabilities and services in support of advanced AI and machine learning. The discussion highlights the cloud platform’s early adoption of the latest data center processors […]
Video Highlights: Why Does Observability Matter?
September 24, 2022 by
Why does observability matter? Isn’t observability just a fancier word for monitoring? Observability has become a buzz word in the big data space. It’s thrown around so often, it can be easy to forget what it even really means. In this video presentation, our friends over at Pepperdata provide some important insights into this this technology that’s growing in popularity.
Dell Technologies Interview: At the Univ. of Bristol’s Advanced Computing Research Centre ‘Typical Doesn’t Exist’
September 7, 2022 by
In this interview, part of our series done on behalf of Dell Technologies, we spoke with Simon Atack, HPC team leader of the Advanced Computing Research Centre at the UK’s University of Bristol, where he’s been for the past eight years. The centre supports about 2,000 users and has an extensive HPC infrastructure engaged in a range of scientific fields, including genomics, molecular dynamics and earth and environmental simulation. Much of this work runs on Dell Technologies supercomputing technology, which Atacks oversees.
