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A Look Back: Lenovo @ ISC24
June 3, 2024

Hamburg, Germany was the perfect backdrop for this year’s International Supercomputing Conference (ISC24) with beautiful weather and a bustling event at Congress Center Hamburg. Near the middle of the showroom floor stood Lenovo’s eye-catching booth featuring the recently announced Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 taking center stage along with demos outlining the booth showcasing how Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All.


Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All
May 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way we navigate and interact with the world around us. With all eyes laser-focused on AI and the impacts of it, IT decision makers are tasked with responsibly determining how AI can help their organizations and businesses. Organizational benefits include enhancing efficiency and productivity, automating repetitive tasks, and solving complex problems faster. On the business side, AI can improve customer service capabilities and create personalized customer experiences.


News Feed

Foxconn Orders Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer

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 platform, which includes 64 racks and 4,608 Tensor Core GPUs. The system is expected […]

The post Foxconn Orders Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ZLUDA Takes Third Wack as a CUDA Emulator

The ZLUDA CUDA emulator is back in its third invocation. At one point, the project was quietly funded by AMD and demonstrated the ability to run unmodified CUDA applications with […]

The post ZLUDA Takes Third Wack as a CUDA Emulator appeared first on HPCwire.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Deliver CES 2025 Keynote

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 7, 2024 — The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the owner and producer of CES, is announcing NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote at […]

The post NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Deliver CES 2025 Keynote appeared first on HPCwire.

Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher

The AI boom is going sonic, and it looks like we had all better cover our ears if we want to be able to hear by the end of the holiday season if the prognostications of the box counters at IDC are correct.

Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

HPC News Bytes 20241007: Staggering Data Center Energy Costs, Optical Computing Update, AI at Decade’s End

Good October morning to you! We kick off HPC News Bytes for the month with a raft of developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: A new report on staggering data center energy costs, NTT on positive developments in optical computing and networking, experts envision the state of AI at decade’s end.

The post HPC News Bytes 20241007: Staggering Data Center Energy Costs, Optical Computing Update, AI at Decade’s End appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance

Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis.

How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.

TOP500 News

A Look Back: Lenovo @ ISC24
June 3, 2024

Hamburg, Germany was the perfect backdrop for this year’s International Supercomputing Conference (ISC24) with beautiful weather and a bustling event at Congress Center Hamburg. Near the middle of the showroom floor stood Lenovo’s eye-catching booth featuring the recently announced Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 taking center stage along with demos outlining the booth showcasing how Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All.



Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All
May 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way we navigate and interact with the world around us. With all eyes laser-focused on AI and the impacts of it, IT decision makers are tasked with responsibly determining how AI can help their organizations and businesses. Organizational benefits include enhancing efficiency and productivity, automating repetitive tasks, and solving complex problems faster. On the business side, AI can improve customer service capabilities and create personalized customer experiences.


The List

06/2024 Highlights

The 63rd edition of the TOP500 reveals that Frontier has once again claimed the top spot, despite no longer being the only exascale machine on the list. Additionally, a new system has found its way into the Top 10.

The Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA remains the most powerful system on the list with an HPL score of 1.206 EFlop/s. The system has a total of 8,699,904 combined CPU and GPU cores, an HPE Cray EX architecture that combines 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC and AI with AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators, and it relies on Cray’s Slingshot 11 network for data transfer. On top of that, this machine has an impressive power efficiency rating of 52.59 GFlops/Watt – putting Frontier at the No. 11 spot on the GREEN500.

Also like the last list, the Aurora system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility in Illinois, USA, has claimed the No. 2 spot on the TOP500. Despite currently being commissioned and not fully complete, Aurora is now the second machine to officially break the exascale barrier with an HPL score of 1.012 EFlop/s – an improvement over the 585.34 PFlop/s score from the last list. This system is based on HPE Cray EX- Intel Exascale Computer Blade and uses Intel Xeon CPU Max series processors, Intel Data Center GPU Max Series accelerators, and a Slingshot-11 interconnect.

The Eagle system installed on the Microsoft Azure Cloud in the USA reclaimed the No. 3 spot that it achieved after its debut appearance on the previous list, and it remains the highest-ranking cloud system on the TOP500. This Microsoft NDv5 system has an HPL score of 561.2 PFlop/s and is based on Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C processors and NVIDIA H100 accelerators.

Fugaku also retained its No. 4 spot from the previous list, despite holding the No.1 spot from June 2020 until November 2021. Based in Kobe, Japan, Fugaku has an HPL score of 442 PFlop/s and it remains the highest-ranked system outside the USA. The LUMI system at EuroHPC/CSC in Finland also remained in its spot at No. 5 with an HPL score of 380 PFlop/s. This machine is the largest system in Europe.

The only new system to find its way onto the Top 10 is the Alps machine at No. 6 from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Switzerland. This system achieved an HPL score of 270 PFlop/s.

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