In the weeks leading to today’s Exascale Day observance, we set ourselves the task of asking supercomputing experts about the unique challenges, the particularly vexing problems, of building a computer capable of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second. Readers of this publication might guess, given Intel’s trouble producing the 7nm “Ponte Vecchio” GPU for its delayed Aurora system for Argonne National Laboratory, that compute is the toughest exascale nut to crack. But according to the people we interviewed, the difficulties of engineering exascale-class supercomputing run the systems gamut. As we listened to exascale’s daunting litany of technology difficulties….
EuroHPC: 4 Nvidia-based AI Supercomputers Coming from Atos, HPE; 4 More on Way
October 16, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Four new supercomputers backed by a pan-European initiative will use Nvidia data center accelerators, networks and software for AI and high-performance computing. They include a system dubbed Leonardo, unveiled today at Italy’s CINECA research center, using Nvidia technologies to deliver what the company said is the world’s most powerful AI system. The four systems are […]
Brookhaven’s Advanced Computing Lab Expands with DDN A3I Storage and Nvidia DGX-2
October 13, 2020 by Leave a Comment
High performance storage vendor DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, today announced Brookhaven National Laboratory has selected DDN’s A3I AI400X all-NVME flash appliance storage for fast optimum experimental design for its Computational Science Initiative (CSI). Brookhaven National Laboratory plans to use DDN products along with the Nvidia DGX-2 AI supercomputer to expand its project […]
CMKL University, Thailand, Deploys Nvidia and DDN for AI Supercomputing and Research
October 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Oct. 6, 2020 – DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, announced its A3I all-flash and hybrid storage system alongside Nvidia’s DGX POD will help amplify capabilities at CMKL University, Thailand (CMKL), the number-one AI University in Southeast Asia, to support an increasingly diverse set of research projects spanning from machine learning, connected and automated transportation, […]
Los Alamos, HPE, Nvidia Form HPC Scientific Computing Partnership
October 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Los Alamos, NM, Oct. 6, 2020 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced a partnership with HPE and Nvidia intended to deliver HPC technologies to accelerate scientific computing that advance greater performance efficiency, workflow efficiency and analytics. Additional details on the collaboration will be unveiled this fall. “We are excited to be part of this […]
Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Nvidia’s Geetika Gupta on a Decade of Driving GPUs into the Data Center
October 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Geetika Gupta, senior product manager at Nvidia, is a veteran of the company’s drive to bring GPU processing power to the data center. In this conversation, part of our Dell Technologies HPC Community series of interviews, Gupta talks about her work in product management of multiple generations of Nvidia GPUs – including Kepler, Pascal and […]
GTC: A Summary of Today’s Announcements from Nvidia
October 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Here is a summary of today’s news and announcement released by Nvidia at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC), this year held virtually: Data Center and Networking New Family of BlueField DPUs for Center Networking, Storage and Security Performance – The company announced a new kind of processor — the DPU, or data processing unit — featuring DOCA, […]
Nvidia Says It’s Building UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Targeting AI Research in Healthcare
October 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Today at Nvidia’s virtual GTC event, the company announced what it said will be the United Kingdom’s most powerful supercomputer, to be made available by the end of this year to UK healthcare researchers using AI to solve medical challenges, including COVID-19. Powered by 80 Nvidia DGX A100 GPU-based Systems connected by Nvidia Mellanox InfiniBand, […]
Nvidia Announces DGX SuperPODs for AI, Available in 20-Node Increments
October 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Nvidia today announced at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise, the world’s first turnkey AI infrastructure, making it possible for organizations to install incredibly powerful AI supercomputers with extraordinary speed — in many cases in just a few weeks’ time. Available in cluster sizes ranging from 20 to 140 […]
VMware and Nvidia Partner on Hybrid Cloud Architecture
September 29, 2020 by Leave a Comment
VMware and Nvidia announced today what the companies called “a broad partnership” in support of an enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data center, cloud and edge using Nvidia DPUs (data processing units). The collaboration will enable AI software on the Nvidia NGC hub to be integrated into VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud […]
