SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2023 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai, intended to expand the company’s open AI software capabilities. AMD said the addition of Nod.ai “will bring an experienced team that has developed an industry-leading software technology that accelerates the deployment of AI solutions […]
HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up
October 2, 2023 by
A happy October morning to you! Our lineup of quick (4:36) commentary on recent HPC news includes: AMD’s Lisa Su on the AMD-NVIDIA GPU competition; ASML EUV at Intel-4 fab in Ireland starts volume production; AI’s job elimination impact; SC23 is coming Nov 12-17….
HPC News Bytes 20230918: New AMD CPUs and Intel FPGAs, Arm’s IPO and Strategic Pivot, AI for Science
September 18, 2023 by
A happy mid-September morning to you. Here’s a hop (4:54) through recent HPC news, including: AMD launches EPYC 8004 CPUs for energy- and space-constrained workloads; Intel announces FPGAs going into its Innovation 2023 event; Arm’s successful IPO and strategic pivot; a report on AI for science….
HPC News Bytes 20230828: Gartner on Composable; An ABI for MPI; AMD Acquires Mipsology; Google Cloud HPC Clone
August 28, 2023 by
A happy Monday morn to you. This week’s HPC News Bytes offers a quick (4:53) run-through of the major news in our sector over the past week. This morning we look at: Gartner predicts accelerated growth for composable computing; Proposed ABI (application binary interface) for MPI to simplify parallel apps; AMD buys AI software company Mipsology – a sign of more AI M&A activity to come?; HPC clone on Google Cloud Platform
NOAA Supercomputing Capacity Expanded for Advanced National Weather Forecasting
August 15, 2023 by
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The computing capacity of twin supercomputers used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been expanded by 20 percent….
SolidRun Launches Bedrock R7000, Fanless Edge-AI IPC with AMD Ryzen 7840HS and 3 Hailo-8 AI Accelerators
July 26, 2023 by
Acre, Israel, 26 July 2023 – SolidRun has announced the world’s first rugged system design that combines 8-core AMD Ryzen 7040 series processors with multiple Hailo-8 AI accelerators to create its Bedrock R7000 Edge AI for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. This new member in SolidRun’s Bedrock family of fanless modular industrial PCs is specifically designed to […]
Eviden in $100M HPC Weather Systems Deal with India’s Earth Sciences Ministry
June 22, 2023 by
Paris – June 22, 2023 – Eviden, the Atos business for advanced computing, today announced it was awarded a $100M contract with NCMRWF, on behalf of the India Ministry of Earth Sciences, to build two AMD- and NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF. These systems, based on Eviden’s BullSequana […]
Outgoing Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe Takes on New Role at Sandia Labs
June 16, 2023 by
Doug Kothe knows about transitions, including transitions on a grand scale. The outgoing director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project helped transition the supercomputing industry into the exascale era. He took the ECP helm in October 2017, and in May 2022, the project reached a milestone with the certification of the Frontier […]
AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI
June 13, 2023 by
At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company’s first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.
At ISC 2023: Hyperion Reports HPC Industry Grew 4% in 2022; AI to Drive Stronger Growth Next and Following Years
May 25, 2023 by
The HPC industry managed to achieve modest overall growth in 2022, but growth of any kind was in doubt right up to the end of the year, according to HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, which hosted its bi-annual HPC market update at a breakfast event this week during the ISC 2023 conference in Hamburg. […]
