Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….

UK’s University of Southampton Deploys HPE ‘Iridis’ 6 HPC System

Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced it has built a sixth generation HPC cluster, Iridis 6, for the University of Southampton… The cluster was built using HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors for computational science at-scale ….

HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ….

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI

SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 – Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications. The updates include: Availability of two HPE and NVIDIA co-engineered full-stack GenAI solutions. A preview of HPE Machine Learning Inference […]

Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway

Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers across two of Green Mountain’s Norwegian locations.

Italian Energy Company Eni Acquiring 600 PFLOPS AMD-Powered HPE-Cray EX HPC System

Italian energy giant Eni, long  in the vanguard of commercial adoption of supercomputing, announced it is acquiring a monstrous 600 Pflops HPE-Cray EX4000 HPC system comprised of 3472 nodes, each one with a 64-core AMD EPYC CPU and four AMD Instinct….

HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it will acquire AI-native networks company Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR)in an all-cash transaction for $40.00 per share, an equity value of approximately $14 billion…. “This transaction will strengthen HPE’s position at the nexus of accelerating macro-AI trends, expand our total addressable market, and drive further…

HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI

Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro’s appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings in Intersect360 Research’s HPC-AI new market update.

HPE to Build NVIDIA-Powered 21 ExaFLOPS AI Supercomputer in UK

HPE will build an NVIDIA-powered £225 million supercomputer at the University of Bristol in the UK that is expected to deliver “well over” 200 petaFLOP/s using the Top500’s LINPACK benchmark, and more than 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI performance, according to the university. The system, called Isambard-AI, will be built on HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecte and will consist of 5,448 NVIDIA….

Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud services designed to drive sustainable computing for generative AI and other compute-intensive workloads. Crusoe will leverage custom HPE Cray XD supercomputers to train and tune large-scale AI models….