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A view from inside the team that built (and debugged) the Wolfram|Alpha HPC infrastructure

We posted in mid may about the HPC resources being used to power Wolfram’s new Alpha computational portal When Wolfram|Alpha launches, it will be one of the most computationally intensive websites on the internet….What computing power have we gathered in these facilities for launch day? Two supercomputers, just about 10,000 processor cores, hundreds of terabytes […]

Commentary has Canadian HPC infrastructure "failing" to pass muster

From a blog post earlier this week The recent announcement of the collaborative effort between University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM to build Canada’s most powerful supercomputer (CBC blurb) came in a time when the Canadian supercomputer infrastructure is in dire straits. In the latest TOP50o list, released in June 2008, Canada is represented […]

Red Bull Formula1 Team on its HPC Infrastructure

Following the release of Appro’s commitment to Renault’s Formula1 team, Red Bull Racing has released details on its own HPC infrastructure.   The Red Bull Formula1 race team, a major competitor of Renault, is running a 1,024 core IBM cluster with AMD silicon in order to perform their CFD modeling.  Red Bull and their sister team, […]

HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?

A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….

Core Scientific to Provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center Infrastructure for AI and HPC

AUSTIN, Texas– Core Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company, and CoreWeave, a GPU cloud provider, today announced a multi-year contract for Core Scientific to supply up to 16 MW of data center infrastructure to CoreWeave. The total potential revenue associated with the contract is more than $100 million. Under the terms of the […]

Integrated Research Infrastructure: Argonne Combines HPC and Experiments to Speed Discovery

For over a decade, Argonne has been working to develop tools and methods to connect its powerful computing resources with large-scale experiments. Merging ALCF supercomputers with the APS has been a significant focus of…

@HPCpodcast: Aurora, the TOP500, a National Research Infrastructure and Other HPC Thoughts from Argonne’s Rick Stevens and Mike Papka

As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Laboratory for a wide ranging discussion of all things supercomputing-related.  Along with an update on the exascale-class Aurora system and the TOP500, we also discuss the ….

HPC News Bytes Podcast for 20230731: AWS’s GPU-Laden P5 Instance; TACC’s Stampede-3; Micron’s 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s ‘White Space’ Infrastructure

As August beckons let’s take a quick (4:14) look at the highlights of the latest news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced technologies. This week, Shahin and Doug discuss: AWS EC2 P5 cloud instance with Nvidia H100 and AMD Milan; TACC’s Stampede-3 mini Intel Aurora with Cornelis Network’s Omni-Path Express fabric; Micron 8-high 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s “white space” supercomputing infrastructure strategy.

BNP Paribas to Move More IT Infrastructure to atNorth HPC Data Center

Stockholm – 28 March 2023 – atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider, has announced that financial institution BNP Paribas continues to move portions of its workloads to the Nordic region. The migration of another portion of its IT workload to the atNorth site in Sweden is a continuation of BNP Paribas’ program to […]

Successfully Deploy Composable Infrastructure on the Edge to Improve HPC and AI Outside of Traditional Data Centers

Emerging CDI technologies allow you to achieve the cost and availability benefits of cloud computing using on-premises networking equipment. You also benefit from extreme flexibility, being able to dynamically recompose systems and support nearly any workload. Thanks to innovative engineering, these benefits are now available on the edge. ​