Compute
Cloud-Based HPC To Improve Performance And Save Resources
PARTNER CONTENT: Trillion-dollar industries are exploring new ways of increasing high performance computing (HPC) performance, while saving resources and reducing costs. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
HPC
What’s Inside China’s New Homegrown “Tianhe Xingyi” Supercomputer?
China is using a domestic processor as the backbone for double the performance of the Tianhe-2 system, which topped the Top 500 starting in 2013 and running through late 2015 before being overshadowed by the Sunway system in recent years. …
AI
Finding NeMo Features for Fresh LLM Building Boost
This week Nvidia shared details about upcoming updates to its platform for building, tuning, and deploying generative AI models. …
HPC
The Bespoke Supercomputing Architecture That Stood the Test of Time
In the history of computing, there has been an endless push and pull between the need for general-purpose versus fine-tuned custom systems and software. …
Compute
Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators
Many have waited years to hear someone like Prahlad Venkatapuram, Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, say what came out this week at the RISC-V Summit:
“We’ve identified that RISC-V is the way to go for us moving forward for all the products we have in the roadmap. …
Control
Arrow Hits the Mark for Petabyte-Class Analytics Problems
When we first talked to Voltron Data following their launch in early 2022, we had to take care to explain why Apache Arrow was worth paying attention to and why it might warrant the level of enterprise support the startup promised. …
Connect
Billion-Dollar AI Promise a Bright Spot in Gloomy Quarter for Cisco
Cisco navigated a rocky road in its first quarter of the year as evidenced by the dips in share price for the networking giant this morning. …
HPC
Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale
Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. …
Code
Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train
We’ve been watching Julia, an HPC-oriented programming language designed for technical and scientific computing for a number of years to see it can make inroads into supercomputing. …
AI
What Happens When LLMs Design AI Accelerators?
Although our appetite for a vast range of AI accelerators appears to be waning, or at least condensing down to a few options, there might be methods on the horizon to let accelerator designers explore new concepts in an interesting way. …