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The Champagne Bottle Of AI Supercomputers

SPONSORED FEATURE  AI is such a unique workload that it warrants its own specialized clouds. Even within the big clouds, the AI training and inference clusters they rent access to are really separate machines with distinct architectures from the vast fleets of general purpose servers they run. Which means the

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Intel Xeon 6 With P-Cores Makes the Case For The Host CPU

PARTNER CONTENT  Since OpenAI first released ChatGPT into the world two years ago, generative AI has been a playground mostly for GPUs and primarily those from Nvidia, even though graphics chips from others and AI-focused silicon have tried to make their way in. Still, at least for the time being,

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Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress

Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. At the SC24 conference, David Kepczynski, the carmaker’s global chief of digital transformation for product development, outlined how high-performance computing, GPU acceleration, and AI/ML are reshaping the company’s approach to everything from safety,

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Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs

Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon SP processors. But with the “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6, Intel abandoned the use of HBM memory in favor of what it would hope would

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NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint

You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. From the show floor to a sizable portion of sessions, much of the discussion was how, where, and to what extent AI will reshape good old fashioned, 64-bit HPC. In addition to the

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Scaling The AI Frontier And Powering The Future Of Innovation

COMMISSIONED  What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI – processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? The short answer is: Both. But having the right infrastructure is the real game-changer. While AI’s progress relies heavily on advanced algorithms and processing units, it’s the infrastructure supporting them that ultimately