An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed—which aims to help evaluate the usability and performance of machine learning-based high-performance computing (HPC) applications on next-generation accelerators—has been upgraded to include Groq’s inference-driven AI systems, designed to accelerate the time-to-solution for complex science problems. […]
Argonne Deploys New Groq System to ALCF AI Testbed, Providing AI Accelerator Access to Researchers Globally
October 17, 2023 by
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LEMONT, IL, October 17, 2023 — Groq, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory announced today that Groq hardware is now available to researchers through the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed. The ALCF is a DOE Office of Science user […]
The Graphcore Second Generation IPU
January 13, 2021 by
Our friends over at Graphcore, the U.K.-based startup that launched the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018, has released a new whitepaper introducing the IPU-Machine. This second-generation platform has greater processing power, more memory and built-in scalability for handling extremely large parallel processing workloads. This paper explores the new platform and assesses its strengths and weaknesses compared to the growing cadre of potential competitors.
The Graphcore Second Generation IPU
January 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Our friends over at Graphcore, the U.K.-based startup that launched the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018, has released a new whitepaper introducing the IPU-Machine. This second-generation platform has greater processing power, more memory and built-in scalability for handling extremely large parallel processing workloads. This paper will explores the new platform and assess its strengths and weaknesses compared to the growing cadre of potential competitors.
