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
HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?
Upping the AI Ante: AMD to Acquire Data Center Server Company ZT Systems for $5B
In a vertical integration move, AMD today announced an agreement to acquire data center and hyperscale systems supplier ZT Systems for nearly $5 billion. The acquisition underscores the high-stakes competition AMD is waging ….
HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up
A happy October morning to you! Our lineup of quick (4:36) commentary on recent HPC news includes: AMD’s Lisa Su on the AMD-NVIDIA GPU competition; ASML EUV at Intel-4 fab in Ireland starts volume production; AI’s job elimination impact; SC23 is coming Nov 12-17….
Aurora on Schedule? Intel Says it’s Shipping Ponte Vecchio-Sapphire Rapids Blades to Argonne
The rumors had begun to cirulate – October is near, that starts the fourth quarter, 2023 isn’t far behind, all of which means Intel is coming up against a hard deadline to deliver its delayed Aurora exascale-class supercomputer to Argonne National Laboratory by the end of the year. Is another delay in the offing?
Then, yesterday, Intel tweeted this out: “Server blades with Intel 4th Gen Xeon and Ponte Vecchio, which uses Intel’s most advanced IP and packaging technology, are now shipping to Argonne National Labs to power the Aurora supercomputer!” And the tweet was backed by comments to the same effect from CEO Pat Gelsinger