HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta’s MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China’s Growth Strategy
Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta’s new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing, Category Theoryfor AI structure and compliance, China economic growth plans, high end manufacturing industrial policy
Los Alamos Announces Nvidia-HPE AI Supercomputer ‘Venado’
Venado’s computing capacity will house 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips in the exascale-class HPE Cray EX supercomputer. The system will also use 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, making it the first large-scale system with Nvidia Grace CPU superchips deployed….
NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K.
NTT Corporation (NTT) and NTT DATA announced the successful demonstration of All-Photonics Network (APN)-driven connections between data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.K., NTT connected data centers north and east of London….
Georgia Tech Unveils AI Makerspace with NVIDIA
Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has established an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub dedicated exclusively to teaching students. The initiative — the AI Makerspace — was launched in collaboration with NVIDIA. College leaders call it a digital sandbox for students….
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HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta’s MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China’s Growth Strategy
Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta’s new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing, Category Theoryfor AI structure and compliance, China economic growth plans, high end manufacturing industrial policy
HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress
A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC’s Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel foundry business’s losses, TSMC expands CoWoS capacity, SK hynix to investing in Indiana and Purdue, Quantinuum and Microsoft report 14,000 error-free instances
HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It’s Healthy, Alibaba’s RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation
Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and….
White Papers
Energy efficiency drives HPC to the cloud
The high-performance computing (HPC) market is witnessing a notable shift towards the cloud, partially driven by the benefits of enhanced energy efficiency. According to Hyperion Research nearly every organization running HPC workloads is either already using or investigating the cloud to accelerate application performance, with the cloud market for HPC workloads forecast to reach $11.5 […]
Accelerate Large FEA Simulations by 10 with Ansys Mechanical on Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
Product development teams are increasingly leveraging cloud computing for complex engineering simulations. Ansys Mechanical users can now amplify these benefits with Ansys Gateway powered by AWS, customizing cloud settings for various solvers and analysis types. Ansys’ study shows up to 10x faster solution times for simulations exceeding 60 million DOF, compared to average workstations. Download […]
Faster CFD Solution Times via the Cloud: The Power of Ansys Fluent and Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
A new study reveals that, for a complex CFD problem solved using Ansys Fluent, an optimized cloud setting results in accelerated solution runtimes. To optimize results for users, Ansys Gateway powered by AWS has preconfigured Fluent settings that enable customers to get the best performance right out of the box. Download this white paper to […]
Videos from GTC 2024 and SC23
At GTC 2024: Liqid UltraStack Servers with up to 20 NVIDIA GPUs
At SC23: Achronix Talks Turnkey FPGA Solutions for Generative AI
At SC23: Cristin Merritt Talks Women in HPC’s Inclusivity Mission
At SC23: CGG Talks its New ‘Outcome-as-a-Service’ for HPC and AI
At SC23: DDC and TierPoint Talk ‘Liquid-Air Cooling’ Data Center Cabinets for HPC-AI
Editor’s Choice
Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’
We spoke with Eviden’s Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos’ financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring.
A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1
Denver — Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list….
Aurora Exascale Install Update: Cautious Optimism
The twice-annual TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not universally loved, arguments persist whether the LINPACK benchmark is an optimal way to assess HPC system performance. But few would argue it serves a valuable purpose: for those installing leadership-class supercomputers, the TOP500 poses a challenge and a looming deadline that “concentrates the mind wonderfully.”
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Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
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Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA
Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations run HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy-efficient way.
Dell: Omnia Copes with Configuring HPC-AI Environments
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Computer scientist Alan Perlis once said that fools ignore complexity while pragmatists suffer it. But when it comes to the complexity of configuring HPC, AI and data analytics environments, Perlis might say Dell Technologies walks in the path of geniuses: they remove complexity…..
