HPC News Bytes 20240325: Final GTC Thoughts, Intel and CHIPS Act Largesse, Ultra Ethernet Consortium Expands, Samsung’s GPU/HBM Chip

A happy end-of-March morning to you! Here’s a rapid (5:57) run-though of the latest news in HPC-AI, including: final reflections on Nvidia GTC 2024, Intel to receive $8.5 billion via US CHIPS Act, the expanding Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Samsung’s upcoming GPU/HBM blend.

Hitachi Vantara to Collaborate with Nvidia on Industrial AI

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 18, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes […]

LBNL Researchers to Be Presented Hans Meuer Award at ISC 2024

Hamburg, Germany, March 22 – This year’s Hans Meuer Award recipients are a team of five researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their evaluation of the classical HPC hardware requirements for large-scale quantum computations. The Hans Meuer Award is an annual award presented at ISC High Performance. It recognizes the most outstanding research paper […]

Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he’s also an AI and cloud computing enthusiast. Here he talks about Microsoft as one of the […]

Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he’s also an AI and cloud computing…

At GTC 2024: Lenovo’s New Blackwell-Powered ThinkSystem AI Portfolio Built in Collaboration with NVIDIA

Lenovo ThinkSystem AI servers with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs are set to power the era of generative AI for enterprises and cloud. In this interview at GTC 2024, we spoke with Pat Moakley….

LightSolver Announces LPU100 Laser Computing System

TEL AVIV, Israel – March 19, 2024 –Laser-based computing company LightSolver  announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system utilizes the power of 100 lasers to solve optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100’s laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle […]

@HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia’s Week at the Center of the Tech World

Live from Nvidia’s GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast.  We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot….

Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions

NVIDIA GTC 2024 – SAN JOSE – March 18, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including with the new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, organizations can accelerate integration of their data, AI tools and on-premises infrastructure to […]

Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA

March 18, 2024 – At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud. Stemming from the expanded engineering collaboration announced with NVIDIA during Lenovo Tech World, the innovations help enterprises and cloud providers […]