For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
Over the past decade, much of the focus with machine learning has been on CPUs and accelerators, primarily GPUs but also custom ASICs, with advances in the chip architecture aimed at boosting parallel math performance. …
So many of Google’s technology developments have had major impacts in the commercial world but the company’s impact on scientific computing has been far less pronounced. …
When AI/ML came onto the scene in the supercomputing community, common wisdom was that it could do much to augment HPC applications but it would be not be able to replace many of the computationally-intensive physics and simulation workloads. …
Almost three years ago, we wrote about Dell Technologies’ efforts to reassert itself into the HPC and supercomputing arena in a big way. …
Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers desperate for a storage architecture that only could scale to meet the demands of their rapidly growing datacenters, the massive amounts of data that was being generated and the need to be able to more easily move it between core on-premises datacenters and multiple cloud environments – and in the coming years the edge. …
If this is the middle of November, even during a global pandemic, this must be the SC20 supercomputing conference and there either must be a speed bump that is being previewed for the InfiniBand interconnect commonly used for HPC and AI or it is actually shipping in systems. …
For more than a decade, as they have watched the amount of data they are generating stack up and technologies like artificial intelligence and analytics come to the forefront, enterprises have turned an eye toward high performance computing equipment and tools to help them get a handle on all of it. …
…Is the inclusion of specialized matrix engines in general-purpose processors truly motivated and merited, or is the silicon better invested in other parts?
When it comes to traditional HPC, it has taken a bit longer for cloud and AI to catch on. …
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