HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
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Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …
Compute
Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core?
We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …
AI
Chiplet Cloud Can Bring The Cost Of LLMs Way Down
If Nvidia and AMD are licking their lips thinking about all of the GPUs they can sell to the hyperscalers and cloud builders to support their huge aspirations in generative AI – particularly when it comes to the OpenAI GPT large language model that is the centerpiece of all of the company’s future software and services – they had better think again. …
AI
Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts
The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …
AI
The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game
If you want to get the attention of server makers and compute engine providers and especially if you are going to be building GPU-laden clusters with shiny new gear to drive AI training and possibly AI inference for large language models and recommendation engines, the first thing you need is $1 billion. …
Compute
Move Over X86, Amazon’s Arm HPC instances Are Live
When it comes to deploying Arm in the cloud, a lot of the talk of late has centered on things like efficiency, core density, or predictability of performance. …
HPC
How AI Is Going To Change Supercomputer Rankings Even More
The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …
Compute
India Declares CPU Independence With Aum HPC Processor
At the moment, the most powerful Arm processor on the planet is the 48-core A64FX processor from Fujitsu, which was created as the heavily vectored compute engine for the “Fugaku” supercomputer at RIKEN Lab in Japan. …
Compute
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …