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Dell, Nvidia, and Department of Energy join forces on "Doudna" supercomputer for science and AI
Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform anchors the ambitious project
Nvidia shifts AI supercomputer production to the US for the first time
Nvidia to produce $500 billion worth of AI infrastructure in Arizona and Texas
Frontier sets fluid dynamics speed record, cutting simulation time from 38.5 to 1.5 hours on AMD GPUs
Using GPU cores instead of CPUs provides a massive boost to computational speed
Gigabyte is offering access to a $300K supercomputer for free, but there's a catch
In a nutshell: Gigabyte has an intriguing offer for those who need access to a supercomputer. Through its Giga Computing subsidiary, the company offers qualified users the opportunity to test drive one of the world's most advanced supercomputers for free. Of course, as with all "free" offers, there is a catch.
World's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons
Featuring AMD EPYC Genoa CPUs and CDNA3 GPUs
An Nvidia supercomputer has been improving DLSS non-stop for the past six years
Powered by thousands of Nvidia GPUs
Tesla is eyeing HBM4 chips from Samsung and SK Hynix to power its Dojo supercomputer
SK Hynix leads but Samsung chases with 4nm node
In a nutshell: Tesla finds itself at the forefront of a heated competition between South Korean semiconductor giants Samsung and SK Hynix. The electric vehicle manufacturer has reportedly reached out to both companies, seeking samples of their upcoming HBM4 memory chips.
AMD-powered supercomputer El Capitan takes the global performance crown
Do It Super: AMD's resurgence in the chip industry is influencing the specialized high-performance computing market as well. A few years after unveiling the world's fastest supercomputer, the US chipmaker is once again making headlines by bringing another HPC powerhouse online.
NEC's 40.4-petaflop supercomputer unites Intel Xeon CPUs and AMD Instinct accelerators
Combining blue, red, and even a little green
Elon Musk's supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia GPUs uses proprietary Spectrum-X networking platform
All these GPUs need a proper switching technology for lag-free AI hallucinations
Jensen Huang and the King of Denmark power up 'Gefion' – the country's first AI supercomputer
The goal is to drive research in drug discovery, quantum computing, and green energy
Elon Musk's xAI built a 100,000-GPU supercluster in just 19 days - normally takes years
A "superhuman" achievement, according to Jensen Huang
Japan to build the world's first zeta-class supercomputer, promising 1,000-fold speed increase
Why it matters: In the global race for high-performance-computing dominance, Japan has positioned itself as a leader with its plans to build a zeta-class supercomputer. If it manages to achieve this feat, the advanced computational capabilities will significantly boost its economic competitiveness. First, though, Japan has to figure out how to meet the monumental energy requirements.
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku is now a software stack for virtual HPC instances on AWS
Super Cloud: The Fugaku supercomputer was at the forefront of high-performance computing development just a few years ago. Now, the Japanese technology has been turned into a software stack that could "democratize" supercomputing applications around the world.
The U.S. Air Force used over 1,000 game consoles in 2010 to build a supercomputer. Which one did they choose?
Was it an Xbox, PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii?
US military can now remotely access powerful supercomputer resources in the cloud
Scientific research and analysis today, HPC electronic warfare tomorrow?
AMD approached to make world's fastest AI supercomputer powered by 1.2 million GPU
Forward-looking: It's no secret that Nvidia has been the dominant GPU supplier to data centers, but now there is a very real possibility that AMD might become a serious contender in this market as demand grows. AMD was recently approached by a client asking to create an AI training cluster consisting of a staggering 1.2 million GPUs. That would potentially make it 30x more powerful than Frontier, the current fastest supercomputer. AMD supplied less than 2% of data center GPUs in 2023.
Elon Musk's xAI emerges as serious OpenAI rival with $6 billion funding round, supercomputer plans
The supercomputer will be powered by 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
European supercomputer Jupiter's CPU Rhea1 gets a spec bump – and a delay
Tick tick tick: SiPearl is the French company selected by the European supercomputer consortium (EuroHPC JU) to develop a chip for the first exascale-class supercomputer in the region. The organization recently released updated specifications for the Rhea1 microchip, indicating that the first samples will be available later than initially expected.
Intel-powered Aurora is now the fastest AI supercomputer in the world
But it still ranks second overall behind the AMD-powered Frontier
Homemade mini supercluster combines 256 RISC-V microcontrollers
Ballin' on a budget
Cheyenne supercomputer sold to the highest bidder for $480,000
The super-system has been sold "as is," with water leaks, packaged cable bits, and everything else
The US government is auctioning the Cheyenne supercomputer: 145,152 CPU cores and 313 TB of RAM
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