Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence ….
The Power of Now: Accelerate the Datacenter
Datacenter service providers currently face a confluence of challenges, which require that they adapt and modernize to cope with upcoming requirements of their principal customers. These include the growth and proliferation of new compute-intensive and storage-intensive workloads and applications, such as those that leverage AI. They also include applications whose viability and success depends on […]
Lamini Chooses SuperMicro GPU Servers for LLM Tuning Offering
Lamini is developing an infrastructure for customers to run Large Language Models (LLMs) on innovative and fast servers. End-user customers can use Lamini’s LLMs or build their own using Python, an open-source programming language. Lamini has developed a software environment for customers that allows them to focus on their business needs and develop innovative AI […]
NEC Wins HPC Order from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology and National Institute for Fusion Science
Tokyo, November 13, 2024 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has received an order for a next-generation supercomputer system from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), under the National Research and Development Agency, and the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), part of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences under the Inter-University Research Institute […]
HPC News Bytes 20241111: TSMC 2nm Restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu Team on Arm, AMD Passes Intel, US Data Center Green Energy Uptake
With a salute to our service men and women on this Veteran’s Day, here’s a rapid (6:07) review of recent news ….
@HPCpodcast: MLCommons’ David Kanter on AI Benchmarks and What They’re Telling Us
Special guest David Kanter of ML Commons joins us to discuss the critical importance AI performance metrics. In addition to the well-known MLPerf benchmark for AI training, ML Commons provides ….
How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….
Lenovo Launches ‘100%’ Liquid Cooled Platforms with Nvidia for GenAI
Lenovo called the 6th generation ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune a “vertical liquid cooling breakthrough” that supports accelerated computing while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent… Lenovo, of course, has long been active in liquid cooling ….
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
HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI
HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators. The new HPE system is optimized to quickly deploy high-performing, secure and energy-efficient AI clusters for use in large […]