Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress

Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. …

Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint

You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. …

NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

Cloud-Based HPC To Improve Performance And Save Resources was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

What’s Inside China’s New Homegrown “Tianhe Xingyi” Supercomputer?

Note: We will be updating this story with more information once our contacts in China are awake:

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. …

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What’s Inside China’s New Homegrown “Tianhe Xingyi” Supercomputer? was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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Finding NeMo Features for Fresh LLM Building Boost was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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The Bespoke Supercomputing Architecture That Stood the Test of Time was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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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. …

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Arrow Hits the Mark for Petabyte-Class Analytics Problems was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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Billion-Dollar AI Promise a Bright Spot in Gloomy Quarter for Cisco was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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. …

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What Happens When LLMs Design AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

Beyond the Traveling Salesman: Escape Routes Get a Quantum Overhaul

When it comes to natural disasters, every second counts—and the clock may just be ticking a little slower following a collaboration between Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU). …

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Beyond the Traveling Salesman: Escape Routes Get a Quantum Overhaul was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

The Race for the First Gordon Bell Climate Supercomputing Prize

At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. …

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Hub and Spoke: DoD Splits $238 Million Across Eight Semiconductor Centers

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a slew of states are set to split $238 million in funding from the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act.” …

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Hub and Spoke: DoD Splits $238 Million Across Eight Semiconductor Centers was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

Seismic Data Processing on Waferscale Has Gordon Bell Prize Potential

Scientists from KAUST and engineers from Cerebras Systems have fine-tuned an existing algorithm, Tile Low-Rank Matrix-Vector Multiplications (TLR-MVM), to improve the speed and accuracy of seismic data processing. …

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Does the Semiconductor Industry Really Have a Path to Net Zero?

The Semiconductor Climate Consortium (SCC) is a collaborative effort aimed at significantly curbing the carbon emissions of the semiconductor industry. …

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Does the Semiconductor Industry Really Have a Path to Net Zero? was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

It’s Been a Noteworthy Week for Practical Quantum Computing

Here at The Next Platform we are still casting a wary eye on how quantum computing will fit into the post-Moore landscape, especially in large-scale research and enterprise contexts. …

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It’s Been a Noteworthy Week for Practical Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

The New UXL Foundation’s Has a Bold Blueprint for Open Acceleration

Heterogeneous computing is clearly here to stay but now’s the time to get down to brass tacks and start addressing standards, portability, and other elements common to maturing technologies. …

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