Happy Labor Day to you! From the world of HPC-AI, we offer a rapid (5:57) review of recent news, including: Nvidia and Blackwell push technology’s limits, big AI inference numbers ….
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia
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Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference
August 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, according to the company, making it 20 times faster than GPU-based solutions in hyperscale clouds.
HPC News Bytes 20240617: Controlling AI, Big Tech Invests in Taiwan, A Step for Specialty AI Chips, Alternative Energy for AI Data Centers, Apple Silicon
June 17, 2024 by
A happy summer solstice week to you! The HPC-AI ecosystem produced a raft of news and insights over the past week, here’s a rapid (7:59) review: New paper in Science on controlling AI from an all-star lineup of strategists, Big Tech invests in Taiwan, Chip Wars; AI chip landscape, specialty AI chips take a step forward, AI data centers seek new energy sources, Apple silicon in the data center?
Cerebras to Collaborate with Dell, and AMD, on AI Model Training
June 12, 2024 by
Specialty AI processor company Cerebras Systems today announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver AI compute infrastructure for generative AI. It includes a new memory storage solution powered by Dell and AMD ….
HPC News Bytes 20240520: Expanding Exascale Club; Nvidia ‘Paints It Green’ at ISC; Specialty AI Chip News; Student Cluster Competition
May 20, 2024 by
A happy May morning to you! In the aftermath of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, we offer this quick (6:21) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including ….
Cerebras: Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms Frontier Supercomputer on Molecular Dynamics Simulations
May 16, 2024 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 15, 2024 – Accelerated generative AI chip company Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, said it has acheved a breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the second generation Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2). Researchers performed atomic scale simulations at the millisecond […]
ALCF Announces Online AI Testbed Training Workshops
March 27, 2024 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a series of training workshops to introduce users to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed. The four individual workshops will introduce participants to the architecture and software of the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system, the Graphcore Bow Pod system, and the GroqRack […]
HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?
March 18, 2024 by
A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….
@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….
KAUST and Cerebras Named Gordon Bell Award Finalist
September 20, 2023 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 20, 2023 — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and AI chip developer Cerebras Systems announced that its work on multi-dimensional seismic processing has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievements in HPC. By developing a Tile […]
