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. …
HPC
AI
Pushing The Limits Of HPC And AI Is Becoming A Sustainability Headache
As Moore’s law continues to slow, delivering more powerful HPC and AI clusters means building larger, more power hungry facilities. …
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. …
Compute
TSMC Makes The Best Of A Tough Chip Situation
If you had to sum up the second half of 2022 and the first half of 2023 from the perspective of the semiconductor industry, it would be that we made too many CPUs for PCs, smartphones, and servers and we didn’t make enough GPUs for the datacenter. …
Compute
The Edge Propels HPE While Datacenter Taps The Brakes
Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …
Connect
Cornelis Unveils Ambitious Omni-Path Interconnect Roadmap
As we are fond of pointing out, when it comes to high performance, low latency InfiniBand-style networks, Nvidia is not the only choice in town and has not been since the advent of InfiniBand interconnects back in the late 1990s. …
Compute
AI Is A Modest – But Important – Slice Of TSMC’s Business
Given the exorbitant demand for compute and networking for running Ai workloads and the dominance of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in making the compute engine chips and providing the complex packaging for them, you would think that the world’s largest foundry would be making money hands over fist in the second quarter. …
Compute
The Balancing Act Of HPE’s Systems Business
There is perhaps no better logo for Hewlett Packard Enterprise than the box. …
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. …
AI
The Roads To Zettascale And Quantum Computing Are Long And Winding
In the United States, the first step on the road to exascale HPC systems began with a series of workshops in 2007. …