HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview – Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet

In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week’s conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands to 14,000; exascale update and future; raft of new chips, many focused on AI; Quantum Village at SC23; UCIe, PCIe and Ultra Ethernet

A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1

Denver — Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list….

@HPCpodcast: Views and Insights on the New TOP500 List

The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the  top 10 of this year’s list has more changes than any list in recent memory….

HPC News Bytes 20231113: SC23 and TOP500 Kickoff, DAOS Storage, Sandia and DDN, TSMC and SMIC Financials

As the SC23 conference heats up, we hurry ( 5:20) through the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC23 and TOP500 kickoff today; storage at scale, DAOS and the Aurora supercomputer; Sandia National Lab and DDN’s new ….

Lenovo at Center of Action at SC23: ‘Smarter Revolutionizes HPC’

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] At SC23 in Denver this week, Lenovo will be in the center of the action – at booth 601 – embodying the conference theme: “I Am HPC.” A leading vendor of HPC-class servers and ancillary technologies that make HPC go, Lenovo will address the challenges for which this technology sector, situated at the intersection of HPC and AI …

SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch in Denver

Getting the most out of SC23 calls for good preparation, so as an assist we spoke with four industry experts – Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware and the Exascale Computing Project, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research, Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research….

Ayar Labs to Show 4 Tbps Optically-enabled Intel FPGA at SC23

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 8, 2023 – Ayar Labs, a company developing silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, will showcase its in-package optical I/O solution integrated with Intel’s Agilex Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. In demonstrating 5x current industry bandwidth at 5x lower power and 20x lower latency, the optical FPGA – packaged in a common […]

Women in HPC Announces Lineup for SC23 Workshop, Diversity Day and Networking Reception

Oct. 19, 2023 — Women in HPC (WHPC) has unveiled highlights of its upcoming events at SC23 in Denver. “Prepare for an inspiring and engaging experience, featuring our 16th Annual WHPC Workshop, a vibrant Diversity Day, and a lively Networking Reception,” the organization said. Katherine Yelick: Our Keynote Speaker Extraordinaire! We are delighted to kick […]

Women in HPC Announces SC23 Travel Fellowship Award Winners

The WHPC Executive Committee, the WHPC SC23 Volunteer Committee and the staff of DoITNow! have announced two Travel Fellows for this year’s Supercomptuing Conference being held in Denver.  Application to these fellowships was offered to those who successfully submitted to speak during WHPC’s Early Career session during the organization’s workshop on November 13th. “The resulting […]

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….