Amid swirling reports of a multi-billion capital infusion offer from an investment firm along with a reported acquisition attempt, Intel proceeded today with launches of the Xeon 6 CPU and the Gaudi 3 AI GPU, both chips aimed at exploding demand for AI compute — and at competitors Nvidia and AMD. Intel said the Xeon 6 (“Granite Rapids”) with Performance-cores (P-cores) delivers twice the performance of its predecessor and features increased core count, double the memory bandwidth ….
Supermicro Adds Intel-Based X14 Servers for AI, HPC, Cloud and Edge
September 24, 2024 by
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2024 — Supermicro today announced GPU, multi-node and rackmount systems to the X14 portfolio, which are based on the Intel Xeon 6900 Series Processors with P-Cores (formerly code named Granite Rapids-AP). The new servers are designed to address the needs of modern data centers, enterprises, and service providers. Joining the efficiency-optimized […]
HPC News Bytes 20240923 Podcast: Intel-Qualcomm, Responses to AI Energy Crisis, HPC-AI Beyond GPUs
September 23, 2024 by
A belated happy autumnal equinox to you! The white-water HPC-AI world produced major news over the past week, including: previously unthinkable Intel M&A reports, chips and software ….
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Install
September 16, 2024 by
A good mid-September morn to you! In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the ….
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240909: AI vs. Copyright, TSMC’s CoWoS Capacity, Intel’s 18A Fab, an RFP for the Future of HPC
September 9, 2024 by
Good late summer morning to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a quick (6:10) recap of recent news developments, including: DOE’s $23M future of HPC RFP ….
Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference Benchmark for GenAI
August 28, 2024 by
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and ….
HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In
August 5, 2024 by
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
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 ….
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 […]
Full Circle: Cornelis Names Intel Veteran Lisa Spelman CEO
July 18, 2024 by
Interconnect company Cornelis Networks today said it has named Lisa Spelman its new CEO. Spelman joins the company from Intel, which made a major push into the HPC fabric market in 2015 with Omni-Path, which became the flagship product of Cornelis ….
