HPC
Trying To Do More Real HPC In An Increasingly AI World
If you are in the traditional HPC community, it is not hard to be of two minds about the rise of AI and the mainstreaming of generative AI. …
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Compute
Nvidia Pushes Hopper HBM Memory, And That Lifts GPU Performance
For very sound technical and economic reasons, processors of all kinds have been overprovisioned on compute and underprovisioned on memory bandwidth – and sometimes memory capacity depending on the device and depending on the workload – for decades. …
AI
AMD’s Instinct GPU Business Is Coiled To Spring
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
Compute
Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else
In a world where Nvidia is allocating proportional shares of its GPU hotcakes to all of the OEMs and ODMs, companies like Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Supermicro get their shares and then they turn around and try to sell systems using them at the highest possible price. …
AI
Nvidia Gooses Grace-Hopper GPU Memory, Gangs Them Up For LLM
If large language models are the foundation of a new programming model, as Nvidia and many others believe it is, then the hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine is the new general purpose computing platform. …
Connect
Crafting A DGX-Alike AI Server Out Of AMD GPUs And PCI Switches
Not everybody can afford an Nvidia DGX AI server loaded up with the latest “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators or even one of its many clones available from the OEMs and ODMs of the world. …
AI
H100 GPU Instance Pricing On AWS: Grin And Bear It
UPDATED: It is funny what courses were the most fun and most useful when we look back at college. …
HPC
Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done
All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. …
Compute
Intel Downplays Hybrid CPU-GPU Engines, Merges NNP Into GPU
When Intel announced its “Falcon Shores” project to build a hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine back in February 2022 that allowed the independent scaling of CPU and GPU capacity within a single socket, it looked like the chip maker was preparing to take on rivals Nvidia and AMD head on with hybrid compute motors, which Intel calls XPUs, AMD calls APUs, and Nvidia doesn’t really have if you want to be strict about what its “superchips” are and what they are not. …
HPC
Isambard 3 To Put Nvidia’s “Grace” CPU Through The HPC Paces
Not all important supercomputers are on the twice-a-year Top500 rankings of machines. …