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
Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Tens of Thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs
May 11, 2023 by
If a computer’s intelligence can be anthropomorphized, then an AI supercomputer that can scale to 26,000 GPUs (26 exaFLOPS AI throughput) is at the head of the class. That’s the case with Google’s new A3 GPU supercomputers for Google Cloud, introduced at the Google I/O 2023 conference. Google said A3 GPU VMs are designed to […]
Deutsche Börse Partners with Google Cloud
February 10, 2023 by
Deutsche Börse and Google Cloud have today announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance, economize and concentrate Deutsche Börse’s cloud adoption. Specifically, Deutsche Börse said it will leverage Google Cloud’s security and data analytics capabilities “to accelerate the development of its digital securities platform, D7, innovate its digital asset market operations, and enhance its data distribution and data use cases in the cloud.” Deutsche Börse said Google Cloud will become its preferred partner
Penguin Solutions Launches Cloud-Native HPC/AI Control Plane and Announces Partnership with Google Cloud
November 17, 2022 by
Fremont, Calif., – November 15, 2022 – Penguin Solutions, an SGH brand (Nasdaq: SGH) that provides HPC, AI, and IoT technologies for edge, core, and cloud, today launched Scyld Cloud Central control plane, a new cloud-native HPC/AI offering, and announced its partnership with Google Cloud. This unified solution for on-premises and cloud-based HPC/AI clusters will provide customers with simplified cluster deployment, streamlined […]
Arm Neoverse Adopted by Google Cloud
July 13, 2022 by
July 13, 2022 — Arm Ltd. announced that beginning today, Google Cloud customers and developers have access to Tau T2A VMs using the Ampere Altra CPU based on the Arm Neoverse N1 core. In addition, Arm said Google Cloud has joined the “Works on Arm” initiative that enables developers to build and test projects on […]
AMD to Use AMD EPYC-Powered Google Cloud’s C2D VM Instance for EDA
May 19, 2022 by
Google Cloud and AMD today announced a partnership in which AMD will run electronic design automation (EDA) for its chip-design workloads on Google Cloud, extending the on-premises capabilities of AMD data centers. AMD will also leverage Google Cloud’s global networking, storage, artificial intelligence, and machine learning capabilities to improve upon its hybrid and multicloud strategy […]
@HPCpodcast: Google Cloud’s 9 Exaflop AI Supercomputer, Chip Price Hikes, HPC Helps Photograph a Black Hole in Our Galaxy and IBM’s Quantum Ambitions
May 18, 2022 by
@HPCpodcast was so pleased with our last episode, an extensive interview with the University of Tennessee’s (and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s) Jack Dongarra (our followers liked it too), that we decided to let that episode stand as a special, double podcast edition podcast. Now Shahin and Doug are back behind our mics talking about a raft of interesting news in the HPC/AI world, including what Google Cloud bills as the fastest AI supercomputer, price hikes on chips from TSMC and Samsung, the role of the Frontera supercomputer in the visualization of a black hole in our Milky Way galaxy and IBM’s ambitious and well-executed quantum computing roadmap.
Google Cloud Says TPU-Powered Machine Learning Cluster Delivers 9 Exaflops Aggregate Power
May 12, 2022 by
As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this month at the ISC conference in Hamburg, will include systems that break the vaunted exaflops barrier. That said, Google Cloud yesterday unveiled what it called the […]
@HPCpodcast: Cloud HPC is Hot – But Is It Right for Everything?
February 10, 2022 by
Growth of cloud HPC for several years has outpaced overall HPC market growth, and public cloud providers continually add the latest and greatest chips, interconnects, memory and software applications to their HPC menus. No doubt public cloud HPC is a great place for HPC experimentation and POC projects. But beyond that, what about making a big move to cloud HPC – which kinds of companies and workloads should go to the cloud and which should stay on-prem?
Google Cloud Chooses 3rd Gen AMD EPYC for HPC, EDA, CFD Workloads
February 10, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 10, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that AMD EPYC processors will power the new C2D virtual machine offering from Google Cloud, bringing customers strong performance and compute power for high-performance (HPC) memory-bound workloads in areas like electronic design automation (EDA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This announcement continues […]
