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

Foxconn to Install Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer

Nvidia and  Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn are building what the companies said is Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. The system, to be housed at the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, will be powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture and feature the GB200 NVL72 ….