Lenovo called the 6th generation ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune a “vertical liquid cooling breakthrough” that supports accelerated computing while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent… Lenovo, of course, has long been active in liquid cooling ….
HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?
A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism
HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI
HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators. The new HPE system is optimized to quickly deploy high-performing, secure and energy-efficient AI clusters for use in large […]
Dell Technologies Adds AMD-Powered PowerEdge Servers
San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expanded it generative AI (GenAI) solutions portfolio with Dell AI Factory additions tailored for AMD environments. Dell said the solutions offer enterprises enhanced AI capabilities, including greater scalability and flexibility, to stay competitive in the evolving technology landscape. “By integrating AMD technology into the latest […]
AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI
Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology for organizations implementing Big AI. The company also said it is speeding up its product release cadence, a move clearly aimed at ….
HPC News Bytes 20240930: New Intel and AMD Chips, Advanced Chip Subsidies and a Quantum Update
A happy final day of September to you! Chips news dominated most of the developments coming out of the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX; Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies; AMD Turin ….
Oracle Cloud Supercluster Supports 16,000 AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs
AMD today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has chosen AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs with ROCm open software to power its newest OCI Compute Supercluster instance … For AI models comprised of hundreds of billions of parameters ….
Vultr Offers AMD Instinct MI300X for AI Cloud Platform
West Palm Beach, FL – Sept. 25, 2024 – Cloud computing platform Vultr today announced that the new AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator and ROCm open software are set to be made available within Vultr’s composable cloud infrastructure. The collaboration between Vultr’s composable cloud infrastructure and AMD next-generation silicon architecture is designed to unlock “new frontiers […]
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 Aimed at AI
Amid swirling reports of a multi-billion capital infusion offer from an investment firm along with a reported acquisition attempt, Intel proceeded today with launches of the Xeon 6 CPU and the Gaudi 3 AI GPU, both chips aimed at exploding demand for AI compute — and at competitors Nvidia and AMD. Intel said the Xeon 6 (“Granite Rapids”) with Performance-cores (P-cores) delivers twice the performance of its predecessor and features increased core count, double the memory bandwidth ….
HPC News Bytes 20240923 Podcast: Intel-Qualcomm, Responses to AI Energy Crisis, HPC-AI Beyond GPUs
A belated happy autumnal equinox to you! The white-water HPC-AI world produced major news over the past week, including: previously unthinkable Intel M&A reports, chips and software ….