AMD Announces ROCm 6.2 Software Stack for GPU Programming

AMD has released a version 6.2 of its ROCm software stack for GPU programming. Global AI GPU Product Marketing Manager Ronak Shah wrote a blog in support of the announcement: Whether you’re working on cutting-edge AI models, developing next-gen AI applications, or optimizing complex simulations, this new release brings amazing performance, efficiency, and scalability enhancements. […]

HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In

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 ….

Chip Sector under Fire: DOJ Probes Nvidia, Big Intel Layoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) […]