HPC
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
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“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
HPC
Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster
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. …
AI
The Great Danes Get A Supercomputer For AI And Maybe HPC
To AI or to not AI, that is not even a question in 2024. …
AI
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade
Neither scientific progress nor the budgetary process can wait for compute engine and interconnect roadmaps. …
HPC
Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation
PARTNER CONTENT Scientists say the global climate crisis is continuing to intensify, and managing the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions. …
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Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4
Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. …
HPC
Why The UK Should Have Its Own Exascale AI/HPC Machine, And How
We were away on vacation at a lakeside beach in northern Michigan when we caught the news that the UK government was pulling the plug on a plan for an exascale supercomputer to be installed at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. …
AI
Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China
Each time that the United States has figured out that it needed to do export controls on massively parallel compute engines to try to discourage China from buying such gear and building supercomputers with them, it has already been too late to have much of a long term effect on China’s ability to run the advanced HPC simulations and AI training workloads that we were worried would be enabled by such computing oomph. …
AI
AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …