A happy Monday morning to you in the run-up to the holidays. Here’s a quick run-down on recent HPC-AI news, including: Intel’s Gen-5 Emerald Rapids chip, New York State’s “Chips Act,” quantum market sizing, GPU “Benchmarketing”: Nvidia vs. AMD
HPC News Bytes 20231218: Intel’s Emerald Rapids Chip, New York State’s ‘Chips Act,’ Quantum Market Sizing, NVIDIA vs. AMD ‘Benchmarketing’
December 18, 2023 by
GigaIO’s SuperNODE to Power TensorWave Deployment with AMD MI300X
December 7, 2023 by
San Jose, California, December 6, 2023 – GigaIO, provider of open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, has announced what the company said is the largest order yet for its SuperNODE utilizing tens of thousands of the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators. GigaIO’s infrastructure will form the backbone of a bare-metal specialized AI cloud code-named […]
Taking on NVIDIA: AMD Announces Availability of MI300 GPU Accelerators
December 6, 2023 by
After years of NVIDIA having its dominant way in the GPU AI chip market — a market that has exploded over the last 12 months with the emergence of generative AI — AMD today announced the availability of the long-awaited and much previewed MI300X accelerator chip (pictured here) that AMD intends to be a worthy competitor with NVIDIA’s H100….
HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview – Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet
November 20, 2023 by
In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week’s conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands to 14,000; exascale update and future; raft of new chips, many focused on AI; Quantum Village at SC23; UCIe, PCIe and Ultra Ethernet
Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference
November 15, 2023 by
Nov. 15, 2023 — Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYC and Ryzen CPUs with AI engines. Microsoft’s new Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series….
At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display from Dell Technologies
November 14, 2023 by
[SPONSORED GUEST INTERVIEW] When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it’s an immersive VR….
AMD-based HPC Systems on TOP500 Grows 39%
November 14, 2023 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Nov. 14, 2023 — Today, AMD said its microprocessors now power 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list, representing a 39 percent year-over-year increase. Additionally, AMD powers 80 percent of the top 10 most energy efficient supercomputers in the world based on the latest Green500 list. “AMD technology continues to be […]
@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution
November 7, 2023 by
Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He joins us to discuss the, well, “Cambrian explosion” we’re witnessing in AI chips, the general state of the AI semiconductor….
HPC News Bytes 20231016: China and 300eFLOPS, Samsung’s 3nm Order, Exascale Day, Women and Coding, the Coming GPU Battle
October 16, 2023 by
A happy mid-October morning to you! Today’s HPC News Bytes podcast offers a rapid (5:08) romp through recent HPC developments, including: China’s goal of 300 exaflops in 2025; Samsung’s 3nm chip win; Exascale Day; fewer women computer scientists since 1984; the GPU competition between NVIDIA, AMD and Intel….
AMD MI300 Accelerators Expected to Bring Choice to GPU Market
October 11, 2023 by
[Sponsored Guest Article] If you agree that generative AI signifies a new chapter in IT, then you may also agree there’s a major storm gathering among GPU accelerator chip vendors vying for position in the GenAI market. It’s a competition with the potential to roil not only the microprocessor sector….
