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HPC

LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027

December 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 million at current exchange rates – to build a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster based on Nvidia compute engines to tackle both kinds of high performance computing. …

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Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster

November 14, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

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. …