ClearML Announces AI Infrastructure Orchestration and Compute Management

May 17, 2024 — Open source AI platform company ClearML today announced the release of an AI orchestration and compute management capabilities, making it the first AI platform to support Kubernetes, Slurm, PBS and bare metal for seamless orchestration of AI and machine learning workloads. ClearML now offers the broadest support for AI and HPC workloads […]

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 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.

HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI

Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro’s appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings in Intersect360 Research’s HPC-AI new market update.

Lenovo Maximizes HPC Resources via Partnership with SchedMD and Slurm Workload Manager

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] In HPC, leveraging compute resources to the maximum is a constant goal and a constant source of pressure. The higher the usage rate, the more jobs get done, the less resources sit idle, the greater the return on the HPC investment. At Lenovo, with its….

AMD MI300 Accelerators Expected to Bring Choice to GPU Market

[Sponsored Guest Article]  If you agree that generative AI signifies a new chapter in IT, then you may also agree there’s a major storm gathering among GPU accelerator chip vendors vying for position in the GenAI market. It’s a competition with the potential to roil not only the microprocessor sector….

UK AI Supercomputer, ‘One of the Most Powerful in Europe,’ to Be Installed at Univ. of Bristol

The University of Bristol will host the new AI Research Resource, dubbed Isambard-AI, the UK announced, part of a £900 million supercomputing initiative made public last March. The UK said the system will be one the most powerful in Europe. “The world-class AIRR cluster will vastly increase the UK’s compute….

SiMa.ai Debuts Palette Edgematic for Edge ML Applications

SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2023 — SiMa.ai, an embedded edge machine learning company, today launched Palette Edgematic, a free visual development environment designed for organizations to get started with ML at the edge. With Palette Edgematic, SiMa is delivering an onramp to AI and ML at the edge via a no-code approach to creating, evaluating […]

HPC News Bytes 20230911: NVIDIA LLM Inferencing; Honeywell and Quantinuum; TSMC in Silicon Photonics; Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification

As we reflect on the events of 9/11/2001 (it’s still living hell no matter how long ago it happened), let’s quickly (4:52) review last week’s HPC news highlights, including: NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM for faster AI inferencing; Honeywell integrates quantum-hardened encryption keys from Quantinuum; TSMC enters the silicon photonics arena; Microsoft to defend Copilot AI customers; Hyperion Research hosts HPC User Forum

NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: DGX Integration with Hugging Face for LLM Training; Announcement of AI Workbench

At the the SIGGRAPH conference this morning in Los Angeles, NVIDIA made several generative AI-related announcements, including a partnership with Hugging Face intended to broaden access to generative AI supercomputing (NVIDIA’s DGX cloud hardware) for developers building large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications on the Hugging Face platform. The companies said the combination […]