At ISC 2024: Intel’s Open Software Strategy for HPC and AI

At ISC 2024, we spoke with Andrew Richards, CEO of Codeplay Software, an Intel company based in Edinburgh. Richards tells us about Codeplay’s role in supporting the ecosystem for oneAPI, Intel’s unified programming model ….

At ISC 2024: Chief Architect Kirk Bresniker on HPE’s Quantum – and Overall Heterogenous – Vision

At ISC 2024, we spoke with Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs. Bresniker is closely involved in directing HPE’s supercomputing vision, and he provides a glimpse ….

Meta VR Project Developers Turn to Liqid UltraStack for NVIDIA GPU-Packed Dell Servers

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI-related technologies, such as GPUs that drive AI workloads. Members of a virtual reality research project were in need of greater GPU-driven compute ….

Consortium for Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) to Hold 11 Virtual Sessions June 11-13

WASHINGTON, DC. — The recently established Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) has announced 11 virtual sessions on scientific software, scheduled for June 11 – 13, 2024. The virtual sessions, labeled the 2024 CASS Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days, are sponsored by CASS and hosted by the Partnering for Scientific Software Ecosystem Stewardship (PESO) project, a member team of […]

HPC News Bytes 20240520: Expanding Exascale Club; Nvidia ‘Paints It Green’ at ISC; Specialty AI Chip News; Student Cluster Competition

A happy May morning to you! In the aftermath of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, we offer this quick (6:21) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including ….

At ISC 2024: Hyperion’s Bob Sorensen on HPC-AI Complexities in a Time of Rapid Transition

We caught up with industry analyst firm Hyperion Research’s Bob Sorensen (SVP of Research) about HPC-AI trends and developments that were highlighted at the recently completed ISC 2024 conference. Hyperion studies ….

JetCool Expands into European and Asian Markets

LITTLETON, Mass. – May 16, 2024 — JetCool, a liquid cooling company for AI-driven and high-density data centers, today announced its expansion into the European and Asian markets. This significant development is due in part to a collaboration with Dell Technologies and Unicom, combining Dell PowerEdge server technology with Unicom’s extensive service and support network, to facilitate […]

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 […]

GigaIO and SourceCode Launch Suitcase-sized Edge AI System

Kissimmee, Florida, May 6, 2024 – GigaIO and SourceCode today announced the launch of the Gryf mobile AI platform for tactical edge environments. The system is designed to engineer complex customer solutions, combining GigaIO’s open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing with SourceCode’s co-designed, compliant IT systems for intelligent infrastructure. Gryf sets a new […]

NVIDIA and Google DeepMind Collaborate on LLMs

Intended to make it easier for developers to create AI-powered applications with world-class performance, NVIDIA and Google today announced three new collaborations at Google I/O ’24. Using TensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA is working with Google to optimize two new models it introduced at the event: Gemma 2 and PaliGemma. These models are built from the same research and […]