HPC News Bytes 20241118: On the Scene at SC24, TSMC and the CHIPS Act, Cerebras at Sandia

Good morning to you from SC24 in Atlanta. Here’s a quick (5:33) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: The SC24 conference starts today; TSMC, the CHIPS Act and semiconductor demand; Sandia National Labs teams with Cerebras.

@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 ….

HPC News Bytes 20241104: India Rising with AI, HBM an HPC-AI Bottleneck, Novel Accelerator Architectures, CHIPS Act for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

A happy first Monday of November to you! The world of HPC-AI was notably active last week, here’s a rapid (7:36) run through: India seen as a rising tech power….

Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….

Aramco and Cerebras Sign AI MoU

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Cerebras Systems today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Aramco under which they aim to bring high performance AI inference to industries, universities, and enterprises in Saudi Arabia. Aramco plans to build, train and deploy large language models using Cerebras’ CS-3 systems. Aramco’s new high-performance […]

ISC 2025 Is Open for Submissions

The ISC 2025 Contributed Program is now open for submissions. Scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government are invited to submit proposals. The contributed program comprises research papers, posters, birds of a feather, tutorials and workshop sessions.

TACC’s ‘Vista’ AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community

The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ….

2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box

English professors at Clemson University and Portland State University have been awarded a six-figure research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct fieldwork and interviews at Argonne ….

GPU Boost: $5M NSF Enhancement for PSC’s Bridges-2 HPC

A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add Nvidia H100 ….

NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC

Aug. 5, 2024 — The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). A $3.15-million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will fund the system’s operations, making it available without cost for non-commercial […]