@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

Datacenter power and cooling has rapidly emerged as a critical topic in HPC and AI. System roadmaps only point to additional requirements. Chris Orlando, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of DDC Sol…

– China’s TOP100
– AI PCs, workstations, workgroup servers
– DataCenter Capacity Growth
– MPI ABI

The post HPC N…

This is a great time to review what we learned at some of the key conferences that were held towards the end of last year. Adrian Cockcroft joins Shahin Khan and Doug Black to discuss SC24, RISC-V Su…

– Beyond EUV lithography, LLNL, DOE
– ASML, GPUs, China, trade sanctions
– AI infrastructure build-out
– TSMC 2nm Chips in 2025

– China, Advanced GPUs, Advanced AI
– High Tech companies pursue government contracts
– Neuromorphic chips, artificial fast neurons
– Farewell 2024, thank you @HPCpodcast listeners

– Long-Thinking AI
– UALink + optical
– Arm-Qualcomm lawsuit

The post HPC News Bytes – 20241223 appeared first o…

– Google “Willow” quantum chip: hype or reality?
– European supercomputing site chooses US vendor: LRZ’s Blue Lion
– China-US technology clash and mutual retaliation
– ORNL supercomputers accelerate …

Special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC class AI systems in a managed services model, the landmines organizations need to avoid, and the op…

– Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires
– Marvell-AWS supplier alliance
– Chinese quantum computer Tianyan-504

The pos…

– Do LLMs understand?
– Collaborative Agentic AI
– Frontier simulates the universe
– France builds more nuclear reactors
– TSMC’s 2nm chips in the US slated for 2028

– Supercomputing show SC24 moves closer to mainstream
– Hyperion’s HPC Market Sizing
– Huawei AI chips, trade restrictions

SC24 is off to a great start with over 17,000 attendees, 480 exhibitors from 29 countries, and new TOP500 list that features a new champion! “The new El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore Natio…

– Supercocmputing-24 conference starts today
– TSMC, CHIPS Act, semiconductor demand
– Sandia National Lab and Cerebras

Special guest and a leading light of the HPC industry, Prof. Torsten Hoefler of ETH-Zurich joins Shahin and Doug in a lively discussion about the Age of Computation, Ultra Ethernet, datacenter power …

– TSMC revenue jump
– TSMC barred from making leading-edge chips abroad
– AMD-Fujitsu team up for a new superchip?
– AMD, Intel, Nvidia datacenter revenue
– Green energy momentum in the US

Special guest David Kanter of ML Commons joins Shahin Khan and Doug Black to discuss AI performance metrics. AI is everywhere and destined to run on everything from devices to big systems. So, in add…

– India rising
– High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in short supply
– Novel accelerator architectures
– CHIPS Act funds Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) lithography technology in the US

– TSMC delivers good news for chip manufacturing in the US
– Denmark builds AI supercomputer with Eviden and Nvidia
– White House tasks NNSA/DOE with assessing AI risk for National Security

– Exascale Day, Zettascale, Avogadro’s Number
– Did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption?
– The great Rear admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
– The First Computer Bug
– Hyperion Research …

– AMD’s new CPU, GPU, DPU, NIC
– Foxconn’s big supercomputer at Hon Hai Kaohsiung Center in Taiwan
– AI drives Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
– Yann LeCun’s take on AGI