This week’s topics include:
- Cray wins ORNL contract to build first US petascale GPU super
- IBM swallows up Platform Computing
- C and UNIX developer Dennis Ritchie passes away
October 14, 2011
This week’s topics include:
May 13, 2024
With quantum computing surging in Europe, Nvidia took advantage of ISC24 to showcase its efforts working with quantum development centers. Currently, Nvidia GPUs are dominant inside classical systems used for quantum sim Read more…
May 13, 2024
First, the top line: the overall HPC market was flat in 2023 at roughly $37 billion, bogged down by supply chain issues and slowed acceptance of some larger systems (e.g. exascale), according to Hyperion Research’s ann Read more…
May 13, 2024
The 63rd installment of the TOP500 list is available today in coordination with the kickoff of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, Germany. Once again, the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, retains its Read more…
May 10, 2024
Although LLMs are getting all the notice lately, AI techniques of many varieties are being infused throughout science. For example, Harvard researchers, Google, and colleagues published a 3D map in Science this week that Read more…
May 9, 2024
Last year's Supercomputing 2023 in November had record attendance, but the direction of high-performance computing was a hot topic on the floor. Expect more of that at the upcoming ISC High Performance 2024, which is hap Read more…
May 9, 2024
More research at UC San Diego revealed yet another side-channel attack on x86_64 processors. The research identified a new vulnerability that allows precise control of conditional branch prediction in modern processors.� Read more…
May 13, 2024
First, the top line: the overall HPC market was flat in 2023 at roughly $37 billion, bogged down by supply chain issues and slowed acceptance of some larger sys Read more…
May 13, 2024
The 63rd installment of the TOP500 list is available today in coordination with the kickoff of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, Germany. Once again, the Frontier system at Read more…
May 9, 2024
Last year's Supercomputing 2023 in November had record attendance, but the direction of high-performance computing was a hot topic on the floor. Expect more of Read more…
May 7, 2024
There are multiple reports that Illinois governor Jay Robert Pritzker is considering a $20 billion Quantum Manhattan-like project for the Chicago area. Accordin Read more…
May 7, 2024
We have all thought about it. No one has done it, but now, thanks to HPC, we see what it looks like. Hold on to your feet because NASA has released videos of wh Read more…
May 6, 2024
Nvidia is touching $2 trillion in market cap purely on the brute force of its GPU sales, and there's room for the company to grow with software. The company hop Read more…
May 3, 2024
Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market anal Read more…
May 1, 2024
Intel has long argued that leveraging its semiconductor manufacturing prowess and use of quantum dot qubits will help Intel emerge as a leader in the race to de Read more…
August 17, 2023
The GPU Squeeze continues to place a premium on Nvidia H100 GPUs. In a recent Financial Times article, Nvidia reports that it expects to ship 550,000 of its lat Read more…
February 8, 2024
Recently, it was announced that Synopsys is buying HPC tool developer Ansys. Started in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1970 as Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc. (SASI) by John Swanson (and eventually renamed), Ansys serves the CAE (Computer Aided Engineering)/multiphysics engineering simulation market. Read more…
January 15, 2024
Intel's dealing with much more than chip rivals breathing down its neck; it is simultaneously integrating a bevy of new technologies such as chiplets, artificia Read more…
October 30, 2023
With long lead times for the NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs, many organizations are looking at the new NVIDIA L40S GPU, which it’s a new GPU optimized for AI and g Read more…
December 11, 2023
Accelerating the training and inference processes of deep learning models is crucial for unleashing their true potential and NVIDIA GPUs have emerged as a game- Read more…
January 25, 2024
In under two minutes, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out the company's AI plans, which included a plan to build an artificial intelligence system with the eq Read more…
October 5, 2023
When discussing GenAI, the term "GPU" almost always enters the conversation and the topic often moves toward performance and access. Interestingly, the word "GPU" is assumed to mean "Nvidia" products. (As an aside, the popular Nvidia hardware used in GenAI are not technically... Read more…
March 18, 2024
Nvidia's latest and fastest GPU, codenamed Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company's AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from Read more…
December 7, 2023
AMD and Nvidia are locked in an AI performance battle – much like the gaming GPU performance clash the companies have waged for decades. AMD has claimed it Read more…
January 30, 2024
Early quantum computing pioneer D-Wave again asserted – that at least for D-Wave – the commercial quantum era has begun. Speaking at its first in-person Ana Read more…
February 1, 2024
The immediate effect of the GenAI GPU Squeeze was to reduce availability, either direct purchase or cloud access, increase cost, and push demand through the roof. A secondary issue has been developing over the last several years. Even though your organization secured several racks... Read more…
May 7, 2024
We have all thought about it. No one has done it, but now, thanks to HPC, we see what it looks like. Hold on to your feet because NASA has released videos of wh Read more…
August 8, 2023
Intel is planning to onboard a new version of the Falcon Shores chip in 2026, which is code-named Falcon Shores 2. The new product was announced by CEO Pat Gel Read more…
February 21, 2024
While 2023 was the year of GenAI, the adoption rates for GenAI did not match expectations. Most organizations are continuing to invest in GenAI but are yet to Read more…
March 27, 2024
Pictures of Nvidia's new flagship mega-server, the DGX GB200, on the GTC show floor got favorable reactions on social media for the sheer amount of computing po Read more…
May 8, 2024
Chip companies, once seen as engineering pure plays, are now at the center of geopolitical intrigue. Chip manufacturing firms, especially TSMC and Intel, have b Read more…
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