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Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs

Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]

ClearML Certified to Run NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Suite

Tel Aviv — March 7, 2023 –  ClearML, an open-source MLOps platform, today announced it has been certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end platform for building accelerated production AI. ClearML said the certification makes its MLOps platform more efficient across workflows, enabling optimization of NVIDIA GPUs. It also ensures that ClearML is compatible with and optimized for NVIDIA DGX […]

NVIDIA Issues Update on Virtual GTC 2023, March 20-23

Feb. 22, 2023 — NVIDIA released on update on its virtual GTC 2023 conference, March 20-23. Registration is free and open at www.nvidia.com/gtc. CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the GTC 2023 opening keynote covering advancements in generative AI, the metaverse, large language models, robotics, cloud computing and other topics. The keynote will be livestreamed on […]

SK Telecom Doubles Capacity of ‘Titan’ Supercomputer for ChatGPT-like Language Model

SK Telecom of South Korea has boosted the power of its “Titan” AI supercomputer by roughly 100 percent by increasing its capacity to 1,040 NVIDIA A100 GPUs A story on the Korean news site Pulse stated that SKT announced on Sunday the news on the supercomputer, which powers of the company’s artificial intelligence model, called […]

Big Data Clusters

Getting the benefits of big data analytics can be challenging, but it is a necessary endeavor for any organization to succeed going forward. Understanding the challenges to maximizing big data analytics and DL, and how to overcome them, is crucial. Determining your expectations up front, and carefully orchestrating your infrastructure build, will allow you to construct an architecture […]

Ohio Supercomputer Center Launches ‘Ascend’ HPC GPU Cluster

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has officially launched Ascend, its new high performance computing (HPC) cluster for artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and machine learning. Ascend is comprised of Dell PowerEdge servers with 48 AMD EPYC CPUs and 96 NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs with NVIDIA NVLink and interconnected by the […]

ALCF Announces INCITE Hackathon, Applications Due March 8

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), together with NVIDIA and OpenACC, is co-organizing a hybrid hackathon to help research teams prepare for the upcoming 2024 INCITE call for proposals. Hackathon dates: April 18: Team/Mentor virtual meeting from 09:00 – 11:00 AM CT April 25: Virtual meeting 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM May 3-5: The event […]

An AI-Flavored Set of HPC Predictions for 2023

We recently read an interesting article in Wired magazine on neuromorphic computing stating that neuroscientists increasingly regard the human brain is a “prediction machine,” that people, as a rule, are in a constant state of anticipation, extrapolation and inference. In HPC, situated as it is at the forward edge of compute power, data analysis and […]

NVIDIA Partners With Azure to Build Massive Cloud AI Supercomputer

NVIDIA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build what the companies said will be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI. Azure’s cloud-based AI supercomputer includes […]

NVIDIA Announces Market Adoption of H100 GPUs and Quantum-2 Infiniband, including by Microsoft Azure

SC22, Dallas — NVIDIA today announced broad adoption of its next-generation H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand, including new offerings on Microsoft Azure cloud and more than 50 new partner systems for accelerating scientific discovery. NVIDIA partners described the new offerings at SC22, where the company released  updates to its cuQuantum, CUDA and BlueField DOCA acceleration libraries, […]