HPC
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
HPC
HPC
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
HPC
AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed. …
HPC
Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing the missions of the US Department of Energy. …
Compute
HPC Gets A Reconfigurable Dataflow Engine To Take On CPUs And GPUs
No matter how elegant and clever the design is for a compute engine, the difficulty and cost of moving existing – and sometimes very old – code from the device it currently runs on to that new compute engine is a very big barrier to adoption. …
AI
The Great Danes Get A Supercomputer For AI And Maybe HPC
To AI or to not AI, that is not even a question in 2024. …
HPC
How HPC Is Cooler – Literally
SPONSORED POST: This year’s Super Computing conference (SC24) will feature a strong presence from Lenovo as the company showcases its High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio. …
AI
Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Goes To Foxconn
Back in the day, when the AI revolution was young, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer used to make the rounds with each new generation of datacenter GPUs and provide the first DGX systems based on any particular GPU to marquee customers. …
HPC
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
AI
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade
Neither scientific progress nor the budgetary process can wait for compute engine and interconnect roadmaps. …