A happy Fourth of July week to you! Here we offer a quick (5:56) run through recent HPC-AI news, including: An “important milestone” in silicon photonics, CPU thread count war heats up, quantum vs. classical HPC ….
HPC News Bytes 20240701: Silicon Photonics Advance, CPU Thread Count War, Quantum Memory Advantage, Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center
July 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dell, Supermicro to Build Musks’s Nvidia-Powered xAI Supercomputer
June 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Reuters and other news outlets have reported that Dell Technologies and Supermicro will provide racks of servers for Elon Musks’s mammoth AI supercomputer for his xAI startup. Dell CEO Michael Dell disclosed ….
Nvidia AI Computing by HPE Portfolio Announced for Generative AI
June 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment
On a day that saw Nvidia climb over Microsoft as the most valuable U.S. company measured by stock valuation, Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, a portfolio of ….
@HPCpodcast: John Shalf on the ‘Attack of the Killer Chiplets’ and the Future of HPC
May 10, 2024 by
Special guest and last year’s ISC program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug in this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, to discuss the rise of specialized architectures to boost HPC performance in the post-Moore’s Law era. It’s a topic ….
ISC 2024’s Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC
May 3, 2024 by
Overarching both themes is the slowing of Moore’s Law, the deceleration of improvement in HPC performance combined with increasing costs for new generations of systems. In addition, implementing and realizing the benefits of new systems is slowing ….
Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand
February 9, 2024 by
We’re seeing the chip industry’s version of the scientific aphorism: “nature hates a vacuum.” The vacuum is the short supply of – and vast demand for – AI chips, and it’s roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity….
HPC News Bytes: Eni’s Monster HPE Supercomputer, Intel’s New Mexico Fab, NSF’s AI Research Resource, D-Wave and IonQ Quantum Advancements
January 29, 2024 by
A good January morning to you! It was an interesting week in HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (6:07) rundown of the latest doings, including: Italy energy giant Eni’s 600 PFLOPS HPE supercomputer, Intel opens….
Intel Announces AI-Oriented 5th Gen Xeon, Provides Gaudi3 GPU Accelerator Sneak Peak
December 14, 2023 by
Gearing up for what it intends to be a multi-horse race in the exploding AI chip sector, Intel today announced a next-generation Xeon enterprise and data center CPU built with AI inferencing in mind, along with mobile processors targeting “AI PC,” and an advance look from Intel CEO….
HPC News Bytes 20231211: AMD’s MI300, Quantum in the News, Linux Foundation’s 2 New Projects, EU AI Regulations, ISC Extends Deadlines
December 11, 2023 by
A happy deep and dark December morning to you! Here’s a sprint (5:28) through recent HPC-AI news, including: AMD MI300, the Q2B quantum conference and other quantum news, the Linux Foundation’s new projects….
Taking on NVIDIA: AMD Announces Availability of MI300 GPU Accelerators
December 6, 2023 by
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….
