Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families — AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 — that the company said delivers  advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for such workloads as machine learning (ML) training and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has announced the recipients of the 19th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. The 2023 winners are: FedData Technology Solutions, Boston University, McMaster University and HPE, and HLRS and WIKKI GmbH.

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This edition of our weekly HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin and Doug offer a quick (5:18) fly-over of recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: NVIDIA's Ethernet offering, AWS's Research & Engineering Studio, an update on exascale in China, Riken's HPC+Quantum integration

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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF’s new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30 to 5 pm Central Time. To register go here. The ALCF said the Groq machine’s AI inference capabilities can assist users in making predictions, discovering patterns in […]

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In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week’s conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands to 14,000; exascale update and future; raft of new chips, many focused on AI; Quantum Village at SC23; UCIe, PCIe and Ultra Ethernet

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[SPONSORED GUEST INTERIVEW] We spoke at the Lenovo booth with Andreas Thomasch, Director of HPC and AI, European Markets, in this sponsored interview about recent developments across critical HPC-AI challenge areas: Water Cooling: Lenovo was an....

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Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the high performance computing systems integrator’s LogVisor AI during the SC23 conference in Denver. LogVisor AI analyzes log files and re-organizes the data, bringing forward items deemed critical to the health and proper functions of the system.   Since log files can be littered with thousands of messages, LogVisor AI, […]

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New York & Phoenix, November 16, 2023 — Internet exchange operator DE-CIX and CR8DL, a cloud-based high-performance computing company, today announce a research computing partnership. Aimed at supporting discovery across scientific fields, this partnership seeks to remove bottlenecks in data transfer speeds while offering large-scale data handling capabilities that are secure and efficient. This alliance […]

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Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYC and Ryzen CPUs with AI engines. Microsoft’s new Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series....

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TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 — Quantum software pioneer Classiq today unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, formed in collaboration with NVIDIA and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. The initiative will champion the development and implementation of quantum algorithms and applications, targeting their transformative potential on life sciences and healthcare. Quantum […]

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TROY, Mich., Nov. 14, 2023 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced significant upgrades to Altair HPCWorks, its high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platform. New tools and integrations include an AI-enhanced user portal, next-generation technology for distributed workflows, advanced HPC monitoring and reporting, and easier-than-ever cloud scaling. “Altair […]

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When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it’s an immersive VR....

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Denver -- Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list. Not only are there four new systems among top 10, the most new entrants at the top of the ranking in years, but one of them, the no. 2 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab, fell short....

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The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the  top 10 of this year's list has more changes than any list in recent memory....

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DENVER—SC23—Nov. 13, 2023—NVIDIA today announced the HGX H200 that is based on the Hopper architecture and features the H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance computing workloads. NVIDIA said the H200....

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As the SC23 conference heats up, we hurry ( 5:20) through the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC23 and TOP500 kickoff today; storage at scale, DAOS and the Aurora supercomputer; Sandia National Lab and DDN's new ....

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[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE BY HPE AND NVIDIA] With the transformation of medicine from analog to digital, plus the rise of new data-generating devices for health tracking and genomic information, we can look forward to a new world in which virtually every aspect of a patient's....

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[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] At SC23 in Denver this week, Lenovo will be in the center of the action – at booth 601 – embodying the conference theme: “I Am HPC.” A leading vendor of HPC-class servers and ancillary technologies that make HPC go, Lenovo will address the challenges for which this technology sector, situated at the intersection of HPC and AI ...

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As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Laboratory for a wide ranging discussion of all things supercomputing-related.  Along with an update on the exascale-class Aurora system and the TOP500, we also discuss the ....

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