At SC23: Lenovo’s Advancements in Liquid Cooling, Storage, Digital Twins and HPC-AI Software

[SPONSORED GUEST INTERIVEW] We spoke at the Lenovo booth with Andreas Thomasch, Director of HPC and AI, European Markets, in this sponsored interview about recent developments across critical HPC-AI challenge areas: Water Cooling: Lenovo was an….

At SC23: AMD’s Brent Gorda Talks TOP500-GREEN500 and the ‘Imminent’ MI300 GPU

At ISC 2023, we talked with Brent Gorda, AMD Senior Executive, HPC & AI, who updated us on, among other items: AMD’s presence on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers (including the surprising benchmark from the no. 20 AMD EPYC-powered system at KAUST research university) and on the GREEN500, (eight of the […]

At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display from Dell Technologies

[SPONSORED GUEST INTERVIEW] When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it’s an immersive VR….

SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch in Denver

Getting the most out of SC23 calls for good preparation, so as an assist we spoke with four industry experts – Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware and the Exascale Computing Project, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research, Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research….

At ISC 2023: AWS’s Debra Goldfarb Talks Cloud HPC Growth and the Fight against Global Food Insecurity

At ISC 2023, we spoke with Debra Goldfarb, director, HPC Products and Strategy at Amazon Web Services. As part of the conference’s “HPC Solutions Forum” series, Goldfarb delivered a presentation on “Harnessing the Power of HPC to Bend the Curve on Global Food Insecurity” in which she reviewed the scale of the problem (800 million […]

At ISC 2023: A DDN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI

At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company. A long-time HPC storage stalwart, many of the same challenges faced by HPC end users are now encountered by companies adopting AI – efficient access and transfer of […]

At ISC 2023: Addison Snell on the Return of Healthy, Pre-Pandemic Growth for HPC-AI

At ISC 2023, we talked with Addison Snell, CEO of HPC-AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research, about the firm’s latest market update, released before the conference. Snell said the top-line finding from Intersect360’s latest research: the HPC-AI market grew 11.3 percent, reaching $44.4 billion last year, a return to steady growth that the industry enjoyed […]

At ISC 2023: Intel on its Support for Multi-Architecture Computing and the oneAPI Standard

At ISC 2023, we caught up with Joe Curley, Intel vice president and general manager, Software Products and Ecosystem, who updated us on Intel’s strategic support for multi-architecture computing. Our discussion highlighted the open standard oneAPI unified application programming interface, adopted by Intel, which is used across different compute accelerator architectures, including GPUs, AI accelerators […]

At ISC 2023: Panasas Pushes HPC and AI Storage to the Edge

High performance storage company Panasas had an active profile at ISC 2023, highlighting its new ActiveStor Ultra Edge platform, an HPC and AI/ML storage offering for edge computing environments. We spoke with Jeff Whitaker, vice president of product strategy and marketing, on the company’s software-wrapped-around-hardware evolution. We also discuss the company’s investment in edge computing […]

At ISC 2023: Catching Up with CoolIT Liquid Cooling

At ISC 2023 this week, we stopped by the CoolIT Systems booth to catch up with Dominik Dziarczykowski (Global Channel Sales Manager) on the company’s latest achievements. CoolIT Systems specializes in scalable liquid cooling for demanding HPC and data center computing environments. As Dziarczykowski explains in this interview, CoolIT partners with major OEM server integrators […]