Lenovo announced it has won a contract for the joint construction of an AMD/NVIDIA-powered HPC cluster with the University of Paderborn in Germany. The system will include the Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665 V3 server with AMD EPYC processor technology….
Eviden to Deliver Modular Data Center for Europe’s 1st Exascale System
This morning, Eviden made it official: it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany to build the modular data center to host the EuroHPC JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s first exascale system. This is not surprising because….
Chip War: Banned NVIDIA GPUs Trickle into China, TSMC Shares Jump on AI
The advanced chips sector and its geopolitical significance is in the news this week as a Reuters story reports that “Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over the past year purchased small batches of NVIDIA semiconductors,” including….
HPC News Bytes 20231218: Intel’s Emerald Rapids Chip, New York State’s ‘Chips Act,’ Quantum Market Sizing, NVIDIA vs. AMD ‘Benchmarketing’
A happy Monday morning to you in the run-up to the holidays. Here’s a quick run-down on recent HPC-AI news, including: Intel’s Gen-5 Emerald Rapids chip, New York State’s “Chips Act,” quantum market sizing, GPU “Benchmarketing”: Nvidia vs. AMD
Taking on NVIDIA: AMD Announces Availability of MI300 GPU Accelerators
After years of NVIDIA having its dominant way in the GPU AI chip market — a market that has exploded over the last 12 months with the emergence of generative AI — AMD today announced the availability of the long-awaited and much previewed MI300X accelerator chip (pictured here) that AMD intends to be a worthy competitor with NVIDIA’s H100….
HPC News Bytes 20231204: The New Yorker on NVIDIA, the Open Benchmark Council, Intel and TSMC, Digital Twins for Hydropower
Here’s a sprint (5:16) through the latest HPC -AI news, including: NVIDIA’s big feature story in The New Yorker, the Open Benchmark Council’s TOP100 lists, Intel and TSMC’s high-end 3 nanometer fab, digital twins for hydropower at ORNL and PNNL.
HPE Announces GenAI Collaboration with NVIDIA, AI-native Architecture and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced at HPE Discover Barcelona 2023 the next series of AI-native and hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data analytics, AI-optimized file storage, AI tuning and inferencing and professional services. HPE announced these AI-….
NVIDIA Announces Ethernet Platform for AI from Dell, HPE, Lenovo
Nov. 20, 2024 — NVIDIA today announced that Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo will be the first to integrate NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking technologies for AI into their server lineups to help enterprise customers speed up generative AI workloads. Purpose-built for generative AI, Spectrum-X offers enterprises a new class of Ethernet networking that can achieve 1.6x […]