@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

– GPU price wars?
– Rectangular wafers for more/bigger chips
– AI assistant for science
– AI Supercomputer in Japan, New exascale in the EU

– New paper on “Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress” with an all-star author list
– Investments in Taiwan, Chip War
– AI Chip Landscape, Specialty AI Chips gain traction
– Where would AI da…

– Clinical trials for cancer fighting drug discovered by LLNL and BridgeBio
– Sandia and Submer say immersing the whole rack can get big power savings
– In defense of the CHIPS Act
– New paper “Scala…

Shahin and Doug are joined by Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University. He tracks the advancement of AI in his role as Research …

– Computex-24, Nvidia Rubin, Nvidia Vera, AMD MI325X, AMD Turin
– Ultra Accelerator Link (UAlink)
– EU’s 2nd Exascale System at CEA France
– Is AI getting ahead of itself?

– Techno-politics, China, TSMC, and ASML remote disablement
– CryptoSuper500 report on Bitcoin as Specialized Supercomputing
– X-ai says it will build AI supercomputer with 100,000 H100 GPUs
– AI reg…

– Who will join the Exascale club next?
– Nvidia “paints it green”
– Other AI chips impress
– Student Cluster Competition winners

The new TOP500 at ISC24 conference is here with a new addition to the Exaflop Club, a new HPL-MxP (AI) champion, new top three in Green500, and also a look at HPCG, the difficult benchmark that usual…

– ISC24 conference begins today
– Substantial investments in Quantum Tech continue
– Geopolitics of chips and scenario planning around TSMC, again
– Electricity shortage and grid capacity for AI data…

Reminiscent of the so-called “Attack of Killer Micros” which heralded the arrival of microprocessors in the early 1990s, the “Attack of Killer Chiplets” and similar technologies like Coarse-Grain Rec…

– ASML and US-China Trade Wars
– Tik Tok Ban Bill in the US
– Intersect360 HPC-AI Market Size in 2023
– Women in HPC at ISC24

Cristin Merritt joins Shahin and Doug to discuss Women in HPC (WHPC), its goals and mission, six lessons learned about “moving the needle” on the organizational transformation that is needed to addre…

– Infra-Tech, Datacenter Shortage of Parts, Property, and Power
– AI winter, AI bubble, dot-AI bust
– Trade bans, Chain of Custody
– Sandia National Lab’s Hala Point Neuromorphic Supercomputer

– New supercomputers at Los Alamos and France-CEA
– Stanford AI Index Report
– Bitcoin Halving
– Argonne-UIC Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability

– Intel Vision 2024 Event, Intel Gaudi 3, Xeon 6
– Meta MTIA accelerator chip
– Nvidia GPU shortage easing
– Category Theory, Categorical Deep Learning, Geometric Deep Learning
– China economic growt…

– TSMC Arizona back on schedule
– Dutch government support for ASML
– Intel Foundry profitability
– TSMC expands CoWoS capacity
– SK Hynix $3.9B for Indiana HBM fab and R&D with Purdue
– Quantinuum a…

– Microsoft OpenAI $100B Stargate supercomputer
– Eviden winning deals, growing and hiring
– Alibaba RISC-V datacenter chip
– Linear Pluggable Optics Multi-Source Agreement, LPO-MSA
– Nvidia banning …

What does a supercomputer center do when it’s operating two systems on the TOP-10 most powerful computers? Well, it starts planning for what’s next.  The center is Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), and …

– Nvidia GTC24
– Intel fab and US CHIPS Act
– Who isn’t in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium?
– Samsung HBM-or-GPU blend

Live from Nvidia GTC24 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee-shop-chat style of the @HPCpodcast.  They cover the wide range of announcements made by Nvidia, discuss the…