The Exascale Era began in spring 2022 when the Top500 list certified that the HPE-AMD Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had broken through the exascale computing barrier. And with the Intel-HPE Aurora system at Argonne National Laboratory confirmed by Top500 last spring, the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems – with a third, the HPE-AMD El Capitan system at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, on the way.
Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
October 17, 2024 by
Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling Ecosystem Expands: New Compact ThinkSystem V4 Solutions Deliver Massive Efficiency for HPC and AI Workloads
September 24, 2024 by
Today, Lenovo expanded its industry-leading Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooling technology to more servers with new ThinkSystem V4 designs that help businesses boost intelligence, consolidate IT and lower power consumption in the new era of AI. Powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with P-cores, the new Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SC750 V4 supercomputing infrastructure combines peak performance with advanced efficiency to deliver faster insights in a space-optimized design for intensive HPC workloads.
Transforming AI’s Memory Constraints: The Evolution with CXL Technology
August 2, 2024 by
In this contributed article, Jianping (JP) Jiang, VP of Business, Operation and Product at Xconn Technologies, discusses how the integration of CXL technology is a pivotal moment in overcoming the memory barriers faced by AI and HPC applications. By significantly enhancing memory bandwidth, capacity, and interoperability, CXL not only optimizes current workloads but also sets the stage for future advancements.
HPC/AI User Forum Event September 4-5 at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois Features Real-World Uses of AI in Industry, Science & Energy
July 21, 2024 by
The HPC User Forum, established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users, has opened registration for its upcoming meeting, September 4-5, 2024, at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.
HPC News Bytes 20240715: AI Maturity ROI, OpenAI’s 5 Levels of AI, SoftBank Acquires Graphcore
July 17, 2024 by
Much has happened of late in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (5:55) run through of the news, including: survey commissioned by Vultr points to AI maturity ROI, OpenAI proposes five levels of AI based on capability, SoftBank ….
Women in Networking at SC24: SCinet Chair Angie Asmus
July 16, 2024 by
The Women in Networking at SC, or WINS, program was created to celebrate and expand the opportunities for early- to mid-career women to participate in advancing technology through SCinet, the world’s fastest, most powerful temporary computer network. SCinet is constructed and deconstructed on location annually for the SC conference.
SC24: Technical Program Leaders Discuss Their Role and Scientific Vision
July 8, 2024 by
Science lies at the heart of the annual Supercomputing conference, and the Technical Program is one of the most important and challenging aspects of the conference. To learn more about what this program does, as well as the scientific vision that drives every decision within the program, here’s an interview with SC24 Technical Program Chair Guillaume Pallez (Inria) and Vice Chair Judith Hill (LLNL).
Aurora Supercomputer Ranks Fastest for AI
May 15, 2024 by
At ISC High Performance 2024, Intel announced in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier at 1.012 exaflops and is the fastest AI system in the world dedicated to AI for open science, achieving 10.6 AI exaflops. Intel will also detail the crucial role of open ecosystems in driving AI-accelerated high performance computing (HPC).
The Infrastructure behind the Outputs: Cloud and HPC Unlock the Power of AI
February 19, 2024 by
In this contributed article, Philip Pokorny, Chief Technology Officer for Intelligent Platform Solutions/Penguin Solutions at SGH, provides insights regarding the relationship between high-performance computing (HPC) and generative AI and his expert point-of-view of the growing market. The increasing momentum behind generative AI in recent months has raised the prospective capabilities of enterprise businesses. At the forefront of this technology will be those that leverage HPC to create their solutions.
Life is Fleeting, But Data is Forever – Meet your Digital Twin
November 13, 2023 by
[SPONSORED POST] 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 medical history can be communicated, stored, and manipulated. For each patient, this huge body of data represents a sort of digital twin, a treasure trove of useful medical information and insights that could become invaluable in developing patient treatments in the future.
