At SC24: Alex Bouzari on HPC-AI Trends Driving DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform

We sat down with DDN co-founder and CEO Alex Bouzari at SC24 to discuss new trends in high performance storage – or, as Bouzari refers to DDN’s core offering, its data intelligence platform. Bouzari is a stalwart of modern HPC, having co-founded DDN in 1998 with Paul Bloch and maintained the company’s focus on ….

HPC News Bytes 20241125: SC24 Hit Show in Atlanta, Hyperion’s Booming Market Update, Report: TSMC Tech in Huawei AI Chips

A happy Thanksgiving week to you Americans and a happy last week of November to the rest of the world. Here’s a rapid (6:43) run-through of recent news and trends from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC24 in Atlanta ….

At SC24: Lenovo Update on Meeting New HPC-AI Demands — ‘From Exascale to Every Scale’

At SC24 this week in Atlanta, we caught up with Lenovo’s Moritz Manthey, Senior Manager of HPC Products and Solutions, for an update on Lenovo HPC-AI class servers built to address the emerging requirements for compute, data access ….

TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers

Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports  that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence ….

@HPCpodcast: Torsten Hoefler on the Present and Future of HPC-AI – ‘The Age of Computation’

Special guest and a leading light of the HPC community, Prof. Torsten Hoefler of ETH-Zurich, joins Shahin and Doug for a lively discussion on his vision of HPC-AI’s present and future, which he calls “The Age of Computation.” For Torsten this is an umbrella term covering all ….

Biden Administration ‘Races’ to Allocate CHIPS Act Funds

With the election over and potential threats to the CHIPS Act coming from victorious Republicans, the White Houe is reportedly racing “to get CHIPS Act money out the door” before the Biden presidency ends in January ….

BullSequana eXascale Interconnect V3: Intelligent Network Management Accelerates GPU Performance in AI-HPC

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] While the compute power of GPUs has grown significantly…, networking infrastructure has not kept up at the same rate.

Move Over Von Neumann? Sandia to Deploy NextSilicon’s ‘Intelligent Compute Accelerator’

NextSilicon, the Israel-based startup whose intriguing software-defined hardware has been talked about in concept for years by the company, today unveiled what it said is the first Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA).

Infineon Unveils Thin Silicon Wafer for AI Data Centers

Infineon Technologies AG announced it has unveiled an advance in handling and processing “the thinnest silicon power wafers ever manufactured,” with a thickness of 20 micrometers and a diameter of 300 millimeters, in a high-scale semiconductor fab.

Pain of Porting: The Limitations and Costs of GPU-Driven HPC-AI

[OPINION/INSIGHT ARTICLE] At the heart of the porting challenge lies the need to harmonize diverse and rapidly evolving software ecosystems and hardware architectures. Current strategies to address the challenges of porting applications to diverse processor architectures often fall short….