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SC22's 'HPC Accelerates' Plenary Stresses Need for Collaboration
Every year, SC has a theme. For SC22 – held last week in Dallas – it was “HPC Accelerates”: a theme that conference chair Candace Culhane said reflected “how supercomputing […]
University of Cambridge Pursues Healthcare Innovations and Pioneers Sustainable High Performance Computing
Supercomputers power scientific discovery, sustainable design, and next generation exabyte systems at one of the world’s oldest universities Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge in England is the world’s […]
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2022 Road Trip: NASA Ames Takes Off
November 25, 2022
I left Dallas very early Friday morning after the conclusion of SC22. I had a race with the devil to get from Dallas to Mountain View, Calif., by Sunday. According to Google Maps, this 1,957 mile jaunt would be the longe Read more…
2022 Road Trip: Sandia Brain Trust Sounds Off
November 24, 2022
As the 2022 Great American Supercomputing Road Trip carries on, it’s Sandia’s turn. It was a bright sunny day when I rolled into Albuquerque after a high-speed run from Los Alamos National Laboratory. My interview su Read more…
2022 HPC Road Trip: Los Alamos
November 23, 2022
With SC22 in the rearview mirror, it’s time to get back to the 2022 Great American Supercomputing Road Trip. To refresh everyone’s memory, I jumped in the car on November 3rd and headed towards SC22 in Dallas, stoppi Read more…
Quantum – Are We There (or Close) Yet? No, Says the Panel
November 19, 2022
For all of its politeness, a fascinating panel on the last day of SC22 – Quantum Computing: A Future for HPC Acceleration? – mostly served to illustrate the wariness of quantum computing felt by significant portions Read more…
RISC-V Is Far from Being an Alternative to x86 and Arm in HPC
November 18, 2022
One of the original RISC-V designers this week boldly predicted that the open architecture will surpass rival chip architectures in performance. "The prediction is two or three years we'll be surpassing your architectures and available performance with... Read more…
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Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to LLM-Based Covid Variant Prediction
November 17, 2022
For three years running, ACM has awarded not only its long-standing Gordon Bell Prize (read more about this year’s winner here!) but also its Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based Covid-19 Rese Read more…
Quantum – Are We There (or Close) Yet? No, Says the Panel
November 19, 2022
For all of its politeness, a fascinating panel on the last day of SC22 – Quantum Computing: A Future for HPC Acceleration? – mostly served to illustrate the Read more…
RISC-V Is Far from Being an Alternative to x86 and Arm in HPC
November 18, 2022
One of the original RISC-V designers this week boldly predicted that the open architecture will surpass rival chip architectures in performance. "The prediction is two or three years we'll be surpassing your architectures and available performance with... Read more…
Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to LLM-Based Covid Variant Prediction
November 17, 2022
For three years running, ACM has awarded not only its long-standing Gordon Bell Prize (read more about this year’s winner here!) but also its Gordon Bell Spec Read more…
2022 Gordon Bell Prize Goes to Plasma Accelerator Research
November 17, 2022
At the awards ceremony at SC22 in Dallas today, ACM awarded the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize to a team of researchers who used four major supercomputers – inclu Read more…
Gordon Bell Nominee Used LLMs, HPC, Cerebras CS-2 to Predict Covid Variants
November 17, 2022
Large language models (LLMs) have taken the tech world by storm over the past couple of years, dominating headlines with their ability to generate convincing hu Read more…
Jack Dongarra: A Not So Simple Matter of Software
November 16, 2022
For a few moments, the atmosphere was more Rock Concert than Supercomputing Conference with many members of a packed audience standing, cheering, and waving signs as Jack Dongarra took the stage to deliver the annual ACM Turing Award lecture at SC22. Read more…
Europe’s Chip Sovereignty Altering US Chip Companies’ Exascale Approach
November 16, 2022
Europe’s sovereign approach to exascale computing is complicating plans for U.S. chipmakers to breakthrough in the market, and in the process, empowering local chipmakers. For one, a European chip startup called SiPearl is emerging as an early... Read more…
Nvidia’s H100 Debuts in ‘Henri,’ Topping the Green500 List
November 14, 2022
Nvidia’s H100 GPU, the flagship of its Hopper architecture, has debuted on the Top500 and Green500 lists at SC22. The new GPU appears in the relatively small Read more…
Nvidia Shuts Out RISC-V Software Support for GPUs
September 23, 2022
Nvidia is not interested in bringing software support to its GPUs for the RISC-V architecture despite being an early adopter of the open-source technology in its GPU controllers. Nvidia has no plans to add RISC-V support for CUDA, which is the proprietary GPU software platform, a company representative... Read more…
RISC-V Is Far from Being an Alternative to x86 and Arm in HPC
November 18, 2022
One of the original RISC-V designers this week boldly predicted that the open architecture will surpass rival chip architectures in performance. "The prediction is two or three years we'll be surpassing your architectures and available performance with... Read more…
AWS Takes the Short and Long View of Quantum Computing
August 30, 2022
It is perhaps not surprising that the big cloud providers – a poor term really – have jumped into quantum computing. Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, and th Read more…
Chinese Startup Biren Details BR100 GPU
August 22, 2022
Amid the high-performance GPU turf tussle between AMD and Nvidia (and soon, Intel), a new, China-based player is emerging: Biren Technology, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai. At Hot Chips 34, Biren co-founder and president Lingjie Xu and Biren CTO Mike Hong took the (virtual) stage to detail the company’s inaugural product: the Biren BR100 general-purpose GPU (GPGPU). “It is my honor to present... Read more…
Tesla Bulks Up Its GPU-Powered AI Super – Is Dojo Next?
August 16, 2022
Tesla has revealed that its biggest in-house AI supercomputer – which we wrote about last year – now has a total of 7,360 A100 GPUs, a nearly 28 percent uplift from its previous total of 5,760 GPUs. That’s enough GPU oomph for a top seven spot on the Top500, although the tech company best known for its electric vehicles has not publicly benchmarked the system. If it had, it would... Read more…
AMD Thrives in Servers amid Intel Restructuring, Layoffs
November 12, 2022
Chipmakers regularly indulge in a game of brinkmanship, with an example being Intel and AMD trying to upstage one another with server chip launches this week. But each of those companies are in different positions, with AMD playing its traditional role of a scrappy underdog trying to unseat the behemoth Intel... Read more…
JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on Quantum Computing
October 12, 2022
Most talk about quantum computing today, at least in HPC circles, focuses on advancing technology and the hurdles that remain. There are plenty of the latter. F Read more…
UCIe Consortium Incorporates, Nvidia and Alibaba Round Out Board
August 2, 2022
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium is moving ahead with its effort to standardize a universal interconnect at the package level. The c Read more…
Using Exascale Supercomputers to Make Clean Fusion Energy Possible
September 2, 2022
Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the Sun and the stars, has incredible potential as a source of safe, carbon-free and essentially limitless energy. But Read more…
Nvidia, Qualcomm Shine in MLPerf Inference; Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Makes an Appearance.
September 8, 2022
The steady maturation of MLCommons/MLPerf as an AI benchmarking tool was apparent in today’s release of MLPerf v2.1 Inference results. Twenty-one organization Read more…
Not Just Cash for Chips – The New Chips and Science Act Boosts NSF, DOE, NIST
August 3, 2022
After two-plus years of contentious debate, several different names, and final passage by the House (243-187) and Senate (64-33) last week, the Chips and Science Act will soon become law. Besides the $54.2 billion provided to boost US-based chip manufacturing, the act reshapes US science policy in meaningful ways. NSF’s proposed budget... Read more…
SC22 Unveils ACM Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
August 12, 2022
Courtesy of the schedule for the SC22 conference, we now have our first glimpse at the finalists for this year’s coveted Gordon Bell Prize. The Gordon Bell Pr Read more…
Intel Is Opening up Its Chip Factories to Academia
October 6, 2022
Intel is opening up its fabs for academic institutions so researchers can get their hands on physical versions of its chips, with the end goal of boosting semic Read more…
AMD Previews 400 Gig Adaptive SmartNIC SOC at Hot Chips
August 24, 2022
Fresh from finalizing its acquisitions of FPGA provider Xilinx (Feb. 2022) and DPU provider Pensando (May 2022) ), AMD previewed what it calls a 400 Gig Adaptive smartNIC SOC yesterday at Hot Chips. It is another contender in the increasingly crowded and blurry smartNIC/DPU space where distinguishing between the two isn’t always easy. The motivation for these device types... Read more…
Google Program to Free Chips Boosts University Semiconductor Design
August 11, 2022
A Google-led program to design and manufacture chips for free is becoming popular among researchers and computer enthusiasts. The search giant's open silicon program is providing the tools for anyone to design chips, which then get manufactured. Google foots the entire bill, from a chip's conception to delivery of the final product in a user's hand. Google's... Read more…
AMD’s Genoa CPUs Offer Up to 96 5nm Cores Across 12 Chiplets
November 10, 2022
AMD’s fourth-generation Epyc processor line has arrived, starting with the “general-purpose” architecture, called “Genoa,” the successor to third-gen Eypc Milan, which debuted in March of last year. At a launch event held today in San Francisco, AMD announced the general availability of the latest Epyc CPUs with up to 96 TSMC 5nm Zen 4 cores... Read more…
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