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
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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….
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 […]
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.
At ISC 2022: Vik Malyala Puts the Spotlight on Supermicro’s AMD-based Servers
July 20, 2022 by
In this interview at ISC 2022 with Supermicro’s Vik Malyala, he discusses the company’s latest AMD-based server products. Malyala, who is president and managing director for Supermicro EMEA and SVP for field applications engineering, reviews the range of Supermicro’s AMD-powered servers, emphasizing the company’s mission to offer the right servers with the right density and […]
At ISC 2022: DDN’s James Coomer Talks Storage and Data Management That Simplifies HPC/AI at Scale
July 12, 2022 by
At ISC 2022 in Hamburg, we sat down with DDN Senior Vice President Products James Coomer to discuss the company’s evolving mission as more customers move toward HPC/AI use cases. To its line of HPC, AI and analytics storage products, DDN is steadily adding data management capabilities designed to simplify increasingly complex workloads. The company […]
At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions
July 5, 2022 by
We spoke at ISC 2022 with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris across a range of topics, including: The 10 exaflop (AI performance) “Venado” supercomputer to be installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and powered by NVIDIA Grace and Grace Hopper processors. The machine reflects the company’s HPC + AI […]
