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

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Nvidia and  Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn are building what the companies said is Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. The system, to be housed at the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, will be powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture and feature the GB200 NVL72 ....

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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ....

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Reuters and other news outlets have reported that Dell Technologies and Supermicro will provide racks of servers for Elon Musks’s mammoth AI supercomputer for his xAI startup. Dell CEO Michael Dell disclosed ....

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Venado’s computing capacity will house 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips in the exascale-class HPE Cray EX supercomputer. The system will also use 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, making it the first large-scale system with Nvidia Grace CPU superchips deployed....

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Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and....

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The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, an Intel-Dell system called Dawn (Phase 1, pictured here), is up and running at a University of Cambridge data center. The system is powered by more than 1,000 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series chips and more....

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NVIDIA Thursday released a video that offers the first public look at Eos (pictured here), a monster 18.4 exaflops FP8 AI supercomputer powered by 576 DGX H100 systems... NVIDIA said Eos would be ranked no. 9 on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, according....

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UK AI supercomputers are breaking out all over. Today, Dell, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the deployment of the co-designed "Dawn" Phase 1 supercomputer. Claiming the system to be the U.K.’s fastest AI system, it will be comprised of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers combining two 4th Gen Xeon....

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HPE will build an NVIDIA-powered £225 million supercomputer at the University of Bristol in the UK that is expected to deliver "well over" 200 petaFLOP/s using the Top500's LINPACK benchmark, and more than 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI performance, according to the university. The system, called Isambard-AI, will be built on HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecte and will consist of 5,448 NVIDIA....

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