HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?

A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism

Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercluster with 131,000 Blackwells

Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available ….

Upping the AI Ante: AMD to Acquire Data Center Server Company ZT Systems for $5B

In a vertical integration move, AMD today announced an agreement to acquire data center and hyperscale systems supplier ZT Systems for nearly $5 billion. The acquisition underscores the high-stakes competition AMD is waging ….

Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale

[Sponsored Guest Article] The technology alliance between Lenovo and NVIDIA is one whose total is greater than the sum of its parts. NVIDIA processors are changing the world and Lenovo servers are the platforms in which world-changing compute is happening….

NVIDIA Declares ‘iPhone Moment of AI’ at GTC: Announces Raft of AI-related Chips, Systems and Services

Here’s a round-up of announcements delivered today at the opening of the NVIDIA GTC conference.
NVIDIA today announced what it said is a breakthrough that brings accelerated computing to the field of computational lithography that will set the foundation for 2nm chips “just as current production processes are nearing the limits of what physics makes possible,” NVIDIA said.

Running on GPUs, cuLitho delivers a performance boost of up to 40x beyond current lithography — the process of creating patterns on a silicon wafer — accelerating the massive computational workloads that currently consume tens of billions of CPU hours every year. NVIDIA said it enables 500 NVIDIA DGX H100 systems to achieve the work of 40,000 CPU systems, running all parts of the computational lithography process in parallel, helping reduce power needs and potential environmental impact.

NVIDIA Partners With Azure to Build Massive Cloud AI Supercomputer

NVIDIA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build what the companies said will be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI. Azure’s cloud-based AI supercomputer includes […]