As we enter supercomputing’s exascale era, global HPC leadership is “up for grabs,” according to the ITIF’s Stephen Ezell, and in several ways the U.S. has relinquished leadership in the development of “feeder streams” that will supply the country’s supercomputing industry in future decades. To address this, Ezell outlines several recommended policies and initiatives the U.S. should take in the face of increasing global HPC competition.
insideHPC-Hyperion Research Interview: Argonne’s Rick Stevens on the Future of Everything – U.S. Post-Exascale Strategy, AI for Science, HPC in 2040 and an Aurora Install Update
March 24, 2023 by
In this interview conducted on behalf of HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research, we spoke with Argonne National Laboratory’s Rick Stevens about the present and future of HPC. The starting point for this conversation is a presentation Stevens gave at a Hyperion event in Washington related to implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act and includes his insights on the post-exascale build-out of an integrated network of U.S. supercomputing capacity (the Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI). We then look at AI for science and the use of data-driven modeling and simulation, which shows the potential to deliver major performance gains for researchers….
At SC22: An Update on the Altair-AMD Collaboration
December 14, 2022 by
At SC22 we caught up with Altair and AMD on their long-running partnership utilizing AMD data center server chips in support of Altair engineering software. We spoke with Eric Lequiniou, Vice President of RADIOSS Development and Altair Solver HPC, and with AMD’s Kevin Mayo, Director of HPC Engineering. The two spoke about AMD’s latest generation […]
At SC22 with 2 Senior Execs from Penguin Solutions
December 9, 2022 by
At Penguin Solutions’ SC22 booth, we caught up with two of the company’s senior executives, Kevin Tubbs, Vice President of the Strategic Solutions Group, and Chief Technology Officer Phil Pokorny Penguin’s booth was a busy place at the conference, offering, among things, live demos of: Its new HPC-in-the-Cloud control plane that enables point-and-click provisioning of […]
At SC22: Atos Updates on the BullSequana XH/3000, Nimbix Cloud Supercomputing Suite and Quantum
December 7, 2022 by
At SC22, we caught up with Emmanuel LeRoux, Atos Group SVP and Head of HPC & Quantum for updates on several fronts: LeRoux told us Atos now has its highest number — 43 — of systems in the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, including the new no. 4 system, Leonardo, installed at […]
At SC22: One Stop Systems’ Jim Ison on ‘AI Transportable’ Liquid Cooled HPC at the Edge
December 6, 2022 by
One Stop Systems’ veteran Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Jim Ison talked with us at SC22 about OSS’s unque HPC-class hardware that supports “AI Transportable” applications. These are ruggedized AI workloads at the edge — and by edge, OSS means outside of a data center: in a car or truck, a military vehicle, an aircraft […]
SC22: Jeff McVeigh on Intel’s 3 New Server Chips; oneAPI and Heterogeneity; and an Aurora Update
December 1, 2022 by
We caught up with Jeff McVeigh, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Super Compute Group, to learn more about the three new server chips Intel recently announced, the Max CPU and the Max GPU series, along with the 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processor. We also discussed Intel’s oneAPI and how it supports heterogeneous HPC […]
At SC22: DDN’s Kurt Kuckein Talks Advanced AI Data Management at Scale
December 1, 2022 by
At SC22, we caught up with DDN Senior Vice President of Marketing to discuss major trends driving AI data management at scale – trends that include growing adoption of GPUs for AI workloads, the emergence of other accelerator technology, DDN products and services in support of fast integration of these new technologies, along with growing […]
At SC22: Lenovo Discusses its HPC Water Cooling Technologies and Other News at the Conference
November 29, 2022 by
In this interview at SC22, Lenovo’s Martin Hiegl, Director, HPC Customer Solutions, discusses the company’s extensive experience with liquid cooling of high-performance servers in HPC cluster environments, he reviews what makes Lenovo’s Neptune line of liquid cooling solution different from other companies’, and he discusses other news and developments highlighted by Lenovo at the conference.
At SC22: New Offerings from NetApp-NVIDIA Partnership for Scalable, Flexible AI Deployments
November 14, 2022 by
Managers from two AI powerhouses, NVIDIA and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about the multi-year partnership between the two companies, along with its latest joint solutions, which are considerable. From NetApp we have Firmware Engineer Chris Weber and from NVIDIA we have Shawn Kaiser, Senior Product Manager. They discuss a slew of advancements […]
