HPC
CFD Could Be the Engine That Drives Waferscale Mainstream
A decade ago, waferscale architectures were dismissed as impractical. Five years ago, they were touted as a fringe possibility for AI/ML. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
HPC
Myths and Legends in HPC…With Some Legends
It’s rare in supercomputing to discover a paper that’s both insightful and amusing, but a distributed team led by Dr. …
Enterprise
SPEC Gets Serious About Datacenter Energy Metrics
Performance per watt is garnering increasing attention these days with efficiency and sustainability less of a PR point of pride and far more of a TCO concern. …
HPC
KAUST Goes For Nvidia CPU-GPU, AMD CPU Combo In Shaheen-III Supercomputer
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has introduced the latest in its long-standing lineup of successive supercomputers with Shaheen III. …
AI
China’s ByteDance Intros Different Approach to Recommendation at Scale
Beijing-based hyperscale giant, ByteDance, owners of TikTok among other popular applications, have found that general purpose, open source recommendation engines fall far short of what is required for on-point real-time suggestions. …
Enterprise
Futurist Keynote: Professor Sue Black, June 14
SPONSORED POST Technology has changed the lives of countless people over the years, many of them women from underserved communities who have been helped through education and onto the career ladder by the improved methods of communication, collaboration, and information dissemination which IT innovation has consistently enabled. …
HPC
Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. …
AI
Poor Hardware Utilization Puts Squeeze on AI Compression
One of the most pressing challenges in deploying deep learning at scale, especially for social media giant, Meta, is making full use of hardware for inference as well as training. …
Cloud
Fujitsu Cloud Service to Put Fugaku Supercomputer in Reach
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
Enterprise
Lenovo Pushes Record Revenue into New R&D
Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the company’s Chairman and CEO, Yuanqing Yang. …