Japan is home to one of only a few designated AI supercomputers open to public and private research partnerships via its ABCI (AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure) system, which is set to reach nearly an exaflop of single-precision performance for ML workloads following a recent upgrade. …
Governments like to spread the money around their indigenous IT companies when they can, and so it is with the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, or ABCI, supercomputer that is being commissioned by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. …
If we could sum up the near-term future of high performance computing in a single phrase, it would be more of the same and then some. …
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
According to Hyperion Research’s latest market update, the high performance computing business boomed last year. …
The government of the United Kingdom is plunking down £79 million to purchase and operate ARCHER2, the country’s soon-to-be national supercomputer on track to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
When it comes to supercomputing, Singapore is certainly not the first country that comes to mind. …
In a wide-ranging keynote address that ran nearly three hours at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang talked up the company’s successes and new products across its graphics, robotics, and AI and HPC lineups. …
As part of France’s national strategy to advance to the forefront of artificial intelligent research in Europe, the government will install a 14 petaflops supercomputer for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). …
The rise in interest in deep learning chips for training and inference has reignited interest in how reduced precision compute can cut down on energy, bandwidth, and other constraints inherent to double-precision. …
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