HPC News Bytes 20240603: New Nvidia, AMD Chips at Computex, Industry Heavies Back UALink, Europe’s 2nd Exascale, Approaching AI Bubble?

A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ….

Eviden’s Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP) – Accelerate Workloads, Add Value to Simulation!

[SPONSORED GUEST WHITE PAPER]   This white paper spotlights Eviden’s Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP), which empowers organizations to ….

Report: New ASML Machines Could Produce Denser, Cheaper Advanced Chips

ASML, whose chip manufacturing machines produce advanced microprocessors used for HPC and AI, says it has set a new chipmaking density record with its new High-NA machine, breaking the previous record set ….

Cerebras: Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms Frontier Supercomputer on Molecular Dynamics Simulations

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 15, 2024 – Accelerated generative AI chip company Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, said it has acheved a breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the second generation Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2). Researchers performed atomic scale simulations at the millisecond […]

AMD Showcases HPC at ISC High Performance 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities at ISC High Performance 2024. For the third year in a row, the Frontier supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Lab – powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs – remains the fastest supercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) […]

ISC 2024’s Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC

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 ….

HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta’s MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China’s Growth Strategy

Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta’s new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing….

Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale

[Sponsored Guest Article] The technology alliance between Lenovo and NVIDIA is one whose total is greater than the sum of its parts. NVIDIA processors are changing the world and Lenovo servers are the platforms in which world-changing compute is happening….

Vast Data Annouces AI Cloud Architecture Built on Nvidia DPUs

AI data platform company VAST Data today announced a AI cloud architecture designed to deliver space/cost/power efficiency that buildson Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) technology. The architecture makes it possible to disaggregate VAST’s operating system into AI computing….

Eviden Innovating HPC: JUPITER’s Modular Data Center Revealed

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] As scientific and industrial computations become increasingly complex, the demand for immense computing power has skyrocketed. In the pursuit of the very first European Exascale supercomputing ambition, JUPITER (Joint Undertaking….