A good August morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:52) run though of recent news from the roiling world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s financial results and other woes, delays for Nvidia Blackwell ….
HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In
August 5, 2024 by
Chip Sector under Fire: DOJ Probes Nvidia, Big Intel Layoff
August 2, 2024 by
It’s been a rough week for Big Tech, both on Wall Street and at the U.S. Department of Justice, with share prices in the chip sector taking major hits and, now, the DOJ opening two antitrust probes into Nvidia, according to an article in The Information. Intel’s stock ….
Vultr and Run:ai Partner on NVIDIA GPU Orchestration
July 31, 2024 by
West Palm Beach, FL. – July 30, 2024 – Privately held cloud platform Vultr, the world’s largest, privately held cloud computing platform, today announced that Run:ai, a leader in AI optimization and orchestration, is the latest ecosystem partner to join its Cloud Alliance. Run:ai’s advanced AI workload orchestration platform, coupled with Vultr’s robust, scalable cloud infrastructure — including Vultr […]
ExaWind: Wind Turbine CFD Simulation on Frontier Exascale
July 31, 2024 by
The Exascale Comuting Project’s ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens of megawatt-class turbines spread across 30 square miles. Using the Frontier exascale supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the ExaWind team performed some of the highest fidelity wind energy simulations […]
Lambda Launches Nvidia-Based Cloud Clusters for AI Model Training
July 25, 2024 by
SAN JOSE, July 24, 2024 — GPU cloud company Lambda has unveiled Lambda 1-Click Clusters, designed for AI engineers’ and researchers’ short-term access to multi-node GPU clusters in the cloud for large-scale AI model training. Lambda said the launch marks the first time such access to NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs on 2 to 64 […]
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready
July 25, 2024 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the general availability of initial offerings of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of […]
HPC News Bytes 20240527: China and TSMC, CryptoSuper500 Report, Musk’s 100,000-GPU Cluster, EU and AI, Nvidia Keeps Hot Pace
May 27, 2024 by
Good Memorial Day morning to you! Here’s a rapid run-through of HPC-AI news: China, TSMC, and ASML; CryptoSuper500 report on bitcoin supercomputing, Musk’s ….
At ISC 2024: Intel’s Open Software Strategy for HPC and AI
May 22, 2024 by
At ISC 2024, we spoke with Andrew Richards, CEO of Codeplay Software, an Intel company based in Edinburgh. Richards tells us about Codeplay’s role in supporting the ecosystem for oneAPI, Intel’s unified programming model ….
AMD Showcases HPC at ISC High Performance 2024
May 15, 2024 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities at ISC High Performance 2024. For the third year in a row, the Frontier supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Lab – powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs – remains the fastest supercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) […]
JetCool Unveils Liquid Cooling for Nvidia H100 GPUs
April 30, 2024 by
Littleton MA – April 30, 2024 – Liquid cooling company JetCool today announced the availability of its liquid cooling module for Nvidia’s H100 SXM and PCIe GPUs. Unveiled initially at the 2023 Supercomputing Conference, JetCool’s SmartPlate technology has undergone extensive performance validation with Nvidia’s H100 GPUs. It surpasses conventional air cooling methods, delivering a performance improvement […]
