A hearty and happy September to you. This week’s HPC News Bytes hops across the (5:00) key developments in HPC-AI. We look at: Google Cloud Platform’s “AI-optimized infrastructure” with TPU v5e and Nvidia H100’s; Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystem; ETH’s Torsten Hoefler now also CSCS Chief Architect for ML; @HPCpodcast: Greg Kurtzer on the RHEL source code controversy.
HPC News Bytes 20230905: Google Cloud Teams with NVIDIA; Arm Neoverse; ETH’s Hoefler Also at CSCS; RHEL
September 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
@HPCpodcast: Linux Open Source Guru Greg Kurtzer on Red Hat and the RHEL Source Code Controversy
August 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment
The Linux open source controversy was kicked off in late June when Red Hat announced changes in access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code. We discussed this in an earlier episode of this podcast, Sorting through the Linux Source Uproar — Red Hat Sets off a Firestorm… In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, we talk with Greg Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and creator of Rocky Linux….
HPC News Bytes 20230828: Gartner on Composable; An ABI for MPI; AMD Acquires Mipsology; Google Cloud HPC Clone
August 28, 2023 by Leave a Comment
A happy Monday morn to you. This week’s HPC News Bytes offers a quick (4:53) run-through of the major news in our sector over the past week. This morning we look at: Gartner predicts accelerated growth for composable computing; Proposed ABI (application binary interface) for MPI to simplify parallel apps; AMD buys AI software company Mipsology – a sign of more AI M&A activity to come?; HPC clone on Google Cloud Platform
@HPCpodcast: Evaluating Specialty AI Chips at Argonne’s AI Testbed
August 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Our latest episode of @HPCpodcast delves into the Cambrian explosion of AI specialty chips – of which there so many have been released on the HPC-AI market that it’s hard to discern which chip is right for what workload. Hence the AI Testbed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Shahin and Doug spoke with Venkat Vishwanath….
HPC News Bytes 20230821: Intel Ends Tower Bid; Hot Chips Conference; GPU Demand; Samsung’s Texas 4nm Fab
August 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Good Monday morning! Here’s a quick summation of recent HPC news: Intel kills Tower Semi deal; Hot Chips preview; GPU shortage as generative AI heats up; Samsung’s Texas 4nm chip fab….
HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
August 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux Wars continue: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux Association (watch for upcoming episodes on @HPCpodcast on this); China’s tech companies place $5 billion of orders on US chips; Intel improves hardware for on-chip AVX (or APX) vector instructions; 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists also point to TOP500
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20230807: PCIe over Optical, Quantum at Oak Ridge, Domain-Specific Architectures, Intel Expands Oregon Fabs
August 7, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Kicking off the week with a fast (4:17) review of the latest HPC news: McKinsey reported on the rise of domain-specific architectures that quantifies the slowdown of Moore’s Law and lists five DSA-boosting trends; Intel’s plans for a massive, billions-dollars-plus expansion of chip fabs in Oregon; PCI-SIG’s new workgroup to deliver PCIe technology over optical connections; Oak Ridge National Lab scientists used a Quantinuum quantum computer to produce “an intriguing scientific result” in solar cell research.
ISC 2024 Announces Contributed Program Categories and Committee Leaders
August 2, 2023 by
HAMBURG, August 2, 2023 – The ISC 2024 HPC conference has announced the contributed program categories for next year’s event (May 12-16) in Hamburg along with committee leaders: Research Paper – Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA Finland Research Poster – Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Project Poster – Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA […]
HPC News Bytes Podcast for 20230731: AWS’s GPU-Laden P5 Instance; TACC’s Stampede-3; Micron’s 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s ‘White Space’ Infrastructure
July 31, 2023 by
As August beckons let’s take a quick (4:14) look at the highlights of the latest news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced technologies. This week, Shahin and Doug discuss: AWS EC2 P5 cloud instance with Nvidia H100 and AMD Milan; TACC’s Stampede-3 mini Intel Aurora with Cornelis Network’s Omni-Path Express fabric; Micron 8-high 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s “white space” supercomputing infrastructure strategy.
PASQAL Announces €50,000 Hackathon for Quantum Sustainability Solutions
July 24, 2023 by
Paris, July 24, 2023 – Quantum computing company PASQAL today announced a hackathon dedicated to generating ideas for quantum-based solutions that can accelerate the sustainable energy transition: The Blaise Pascal [re]Generative Quantum Challenge.This year is the 400th anniversary of the birth of French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. To honor this occasion, the Pre-registration opened July […]
