March 14, 2025 — Registration is open for the spring HPC User Forum, to be held in Santa Fe, NM and hosted by HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research: https://www.hpcuserforum.com or directly at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2025/ Here’s the updated agenda: Tuesday, April 8th: 7:15 – 8:00 am Breakfast and Badging 8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome and Meeting Overview Welcome & Logistics, Piyush Mehrotra […]
HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences
October 21, 2024 by
A happy peak foliage (for some) day to you! Here’s a quick (5:44) jaunt through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: a shift in Exascale Day focus, did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption?, the great Grace Hopper ….
Hyperion/HPC User Forum: 2 Weeks Left to Apply for Innovation Excellence Award
October 17, 2024 by
The HPC Innovation Excellence Awards recognize noteworthy achievements by users of high-performance computing (HPC). The 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award winners will be announced at the Hyperion Research AI/HPC Market Update breakfast briefing during SC24. To honor their achievements, a trophy and a $1,000 USD prize will be presented, and a press release will announce […]
Hyperion Research to Host HPC User Forums: Barcelona Oct. 21-22, Stuttgart Oct. 24-25
September 27, 2024 by
HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has announced two upcoming HPC User Forums: The 86th HPC User Forum, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 21-22 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Barcelona, Spain. Agenda and free registration are here. The event will spotlight the use of AI and GPUs in HPC, BSC as a testbed and a […]
Nominations Open for 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
September 5, 2024 by
Sept. 5, 2024 — HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum announced that nominations are open for the 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Winners will be announced at the Hyperion Research AI/HPC Market Update Breakfast Briefing during SC24 this November in Atlanta. To nominate a candidate, use the application form found […]
HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta’s MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China’s Growth Strategy
April 15, 2024 by
Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta’s new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing….
HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA
March 17, 2024 by
March 17, 2024 — The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. The full agenda and registration information can be found here. Register at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2024/ “The forum is a meeting place for the HPC community to […]
HPC User Forum Announces Agenda for April 9-10 Event in Reston, VA
February 12, 2024 by
ST PAUL, Minn., February 12, 2024— The HPC User Forum, established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to user, has published an updated agenda spotlighting its list of featured speakers for its upcoming meeting, on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10 at the Hyatt Regency […]
HPC User Forum: ‘Lawyers Who Use AI Will Replace Lawyers Who Don’t’
September 26, 2023 by
“Lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t.” That was the coda of a presentation given at the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson by Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a professor at ASU since 1999. Marchant’s presentation at the Forum, hosted by Hyperion Research, was one of the conference’s most talked-about sessions. In this interview, Marchant shares his observations on how generative AI and large language models….
Large Language Models: The Largeness, the Power and the ‘Emergent’ Mystery
September 22, 2023 by
Large language models fit the classic model of a red-hot technology in an early stage of commercial viability: there’s more talk about it than knowledge, and FOMO – the fear that your competitors are implementing it at your peril – is helping to drive explosive demand. There’s also an allure and mystery around LLMs: some of the awe-inspiring “zero shot” things they do surprise even the data scientists who trained the models (more on this below). Against this backdrop….
