Amazon announced it has made its biggest-ever investment, $2.75 billion, in OpenAI/Chat-GPT competitor Anthropic, another indication that the generative AI phenomenon continues to heat up. Today’s news follows Amazon and Anthropic announcing an earlier $1.25 billion investment last September – the announcement today brings the total investment to $4 billion. “We have a notable history with […]
Energy efficiency drives HPC to the cloud
The high-performance computing (HPC) market is witnessing a notable shift towards the cloud, partially driven by the benefits of enhanced energy efficiency. According to Hyperion Research nearly every organization running HPC workloads is either already using or investigating the cloud to accelerate application performance, with the cloud market for HPC workloads forecast to reach $11.5 […]
HPC in the cloud is growing, ensure your organization benefits
Projected to reach $11.5 billion by 2026, the cloud market for HPC workloads has seen a significant shift in buying behavior. This is driven partly by the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads, with cloud computing becoming a critical environment. Hyperion Research highlights how nearly every organization adopting high performance computing […]
AWS Unveils Graviton4, Trainium2 Chips
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families — AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 — that the company said delivers advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for such workloads as machine learning (ML) training and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
At SC23: AWS’s Research and Engineering Studio Suite for HPC-Class, Cloud-Based Environments
At SC23 in Denver, Amazon Web Services announced the Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, an open source, web-based portal for administrators to manage cloud-based research and engineering environments. Here we interview AWS’s Debra Goldfarb, Director, AWS HPC Products and Strategy, and Brendan Bouffler, AWS Head of Developer Relations, HPC Engineering. They explain how scientists […]
Ansys Gateway powered by AWS: Charging Up Innovation for Consumer Electronic Device Manufacturers
Electronics design engineering teams are under incredible pressure to deliver innovative new product designs quickly so they can meet skyrocketing market demand. That means modeling and solving large problems at scale with speed, verifiably high accuracy, and confidence. Ansys Gateway powered by AWS is designed to meet their needs for flexible, secure cloud computing capacity […]
HPC News Bytes Podcast for 20230731: AWS’s GPU-Laden P5 Instance; TACC’s Stampede-3; Micron’s 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s ‘White Space’ Infrastructure
As August beckons let’s take a quick (4:14) look at the highlights of the latest news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced technologies. This week, Shahin and Doug discuss: AWS EC2 P5 cloud instance with Nvidia H100 and AMD Milan; TACC’s Stampede-3 mini Intel Aurora with Cornelis Network’s Omni-Path Express fabric; Micron 8-high 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s “white space” supercomputing infrastructure strategy.
Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2
BOSTON, MASS. – Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and deliver resources to users of virtual machines. Amazon EC2 offers resources for HPC compute and graphics rendering, primarily highly available, flexible cloud resources with scalability and redundancy. […]