HPC_Guru

HPC_Guru, 13 days ago to hpc

Robert Dennard, the inventor of DRAM, and famous for Dennard scaling, died on April 23 at the age of 91

#HPC

https://lohud.com/obituaries/pnys0809210

HPC_Guru, 2 months ago to hpc

Which much-hyped programming language had the least adoption?

Not a #HPC question. Any programming language.

HPC_Guru, 2 months ago to generativeAI

SambaNova said today its Samba-1 is the first 1-trillion parameter #GenerativeAI model for the enterprise that is private, secure, and 10X more efficient than any other model of its size

https://sambanova.ai/press/secure-one-trillion-parameter-generative-ai-model-for-the-enterprise

#AI

HPC_Guru, 2 months ago to hpc

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For #HPC Refreshed

This round includes NVIDIA's GH200, along with the AMD & Intel CPUs

Linux 6.8 kernel performance with a 64K page size improved on average by about 15%

https://www.phoronix.com/review/aarch64-64k-kernel-perf

HPC_Guru, 2 months ago to hpc

#ISC24 Registration Now Open

Take advantage of early-bird pricing by registering before March 27

https://isc-hpc.com/registration-2024.html

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 2 months ago to hpc

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: I hope to build chips for Lisa Su and AMD

Goal is to be the foundry for the world and that includes competitors

https://tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-i-hope-to-build-chips-for-lisa-su-and-amd

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 3 months ago to intel

The World's Semiconductor Industry by Market Share

Total current market cap is ~6 Trillion USD

Pie chart created by @_fabknowledge_

The unreadable dark blue slice between #Intel and #AMD is #ARM

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 3 months ago to ai

The #AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla

The Caribbean island is reaping millions from .ai website registrations

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-domains

HPC_Guru, 3 months ago to hpc

Today, Intel celebrated the opening of Fab 9 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico

The milestone is part of Intel's $3.5B investment to equip its New Mexico operations for the manufacturing of advanced semiconductor packaging technologies including Foveros

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-opens-fab-9-new-mexico.html

#HPC

HPC_Guru, 3 months ago to Futurology

“It is much more cost efficient to double the capacity of the existing #supercomputers, by adding #AI capabilities now, rather than wait for another two or three years"

EU wants to upgrade its #supercomputers to support #GenerativeAI startups

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/24/eu-supercomputers-for-ai-2/

#HPC

HPC_Guru, 4 months ago to random

Chip packaging trumps EDA: Why Synopsys is paying 35 billion for ANSYS

https://nextplatform.com/2024/01/16/chip-packaging-trumps-eda-why-synopsys-is-paying-35-billion-for-ansys/

HPC_Guru, 5 months ago to hpc

Intel will place $14 billion worth of orders with TSMC in 2024 to fab #3nm CPU tiles, per a report from analyst Andrew Lu

Lu claims that there's no going back for Intel and that the company will rely heavily on TSMC's foundries in the future

https://tomshardware.com/news/intel-will-spend-14-billion-on-manufacturing-chips-at-tsmc-report

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 6 months ago to random

#Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ethernet-ieee-milestone

HPC_Guru, 6 months ago to ai

Nvidia is prepping three new #GPUs for #AI and #HPC applications tailored for China and to comply with U.S. export requirements

o HGX H20

o L20 PCle

o L2 PCle

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-readies-new-ai-and-hpc-gpus-for-china-market-report

#GPU

HPC_Guru, 6 months ago to hpc

Intel ‘AI Everywhere’ event on Dec. 14 will include launch of Emerald Rapids (5th Gen Intel Xeon) CPU

Intel increased L3 cache up to 5MB per core on Emerald Rapids, a 2.66x improvement over Sapphire Rapids

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/join-ai-everywhere-december-launch-event.html

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 6 months ago to ai

The shortages of #AI skills and #GPU compute engines is the best thing that could have happened for companies like Amazon and its #AWS #cloud

@awscloud gears up to profit mightily from the #GenAI boom

https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/31/amazon-gears-up-to-profit-mightily-from-the-generative-ai-boom/

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 6 months ago to random

Apple #M3 Family of CPUs Launched with Some Shaky Performance Claims

Does Apple think it can just say up to x% faster without giving any details?

Patrick Kennedy says FTC needs to get involved in Apple’s performance claims

https://servethehome.com/apple-m3-family-of-arm-cpus-launched-with-some-shaky-performance-claims/

#ARM

HPC_Guru, 7 months ago to hpc

TACC's Dan Stanzione on #HPC data center sustainability

o Could squeeze out 10-15% more from DC efficiency measures

o Real change means tackling software

o Users want the fastest answer – no incentive to get a slower answer that uses less power

https://www.hpcuserforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Dan-Stanzione-SustainabilityTucson-Hyperion-September-2023.pdf

HPC_Guru, 7 months ago to opensource

Researchers at ORNL developed a new #opensource cross-platform benchmarking software package just in time for #Frontier's launch in May 2022: OpenMxP

OpenMxP is the software that implements the HPL-MxP benchmark

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-open-source-mixed-precision-benchmark-tool-supercomputers.html

#HPC #AI

HPC_Guru, 7 months ago to hpc

Need to move from 1% efficient to 30% efficient in 5-7 years

Gary Grider at
LosAlamosNatLab updates the #HPC User Forum on the challenges of procuring LANL #supercomputers for complex workflows and not just for peak ops or HPL

https://hpcuserforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gary-Grider-LANL-Platform-Planning-and-Update.pdf

HPC_Guru, 8 months ago to ai

Selling GPUs by the tons!

Forget unit shipments and $$, @OmdiaHQ says that @Nvidia literally sold 900 tons of #H100 #GPUs for #AI and #HPC applications in Q2 2023

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-sold-900-tons-of-h100-gpus-last-quarter

#GenerativeAI #GPU