With a salute to our service men and women on this Veteran’s Day, here’s a rapid (6:07) review of recent news ….
HPC News Bytes 20241111: TSMC 2nm Restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu Team on Arm, AMD Passes Intel, US Data Center Green Energy Uptake
@HPCpodcast: MLCommons’ David Kanter on AI Benchmarks and What They’re Telling Us
Special guest David Kanter of ML Commons joins us to discuss the critical importance AI performance metrics. In addition to the well-known MLPerf benchmark for AI training, ML Commons provides ….
Lenovo Launches ‘100%’ Liquid Cooled Platforms with Nvidia for GenAI
Lenovo called the 6th generation ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune a “vertical liquid cooling breakthrough” that supports accelerated computing while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent… Lenovo, of course, has long been active in liquid cooling ….
HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?
A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism
AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI
Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology for organizations implementing Big AI. The company also said it is speeding up its product release cadence, a move clearly aimed at ….
Supermicro Introduces 3U Server for Edge AI
San Jose, October 8, 2024 – Supermicro announced a high-density infrastructure platform optimized for AI inferencing at the network edge. Supermicro’s system delivers up to 10 double-width GPUs in a single system capable of running in traditional air-cooled environments, according to the company. The SYS-322GB-NR includes two powerful Intel Xeon 6900 processors with P-cores, 8800 MT/s […]
HPC News Bytes 20240930: New Intel and AMD Chips, Advanced Chip Subsidies and a Quantum Update
A happy final day of September to you! Chips news dominated most of the developments coming out of the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX; Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies; AMD Turin ….
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 Aimed at AI
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
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
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 ….