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What We’re Getting Wrong About Efficient AI Training at Scale
Famed computer architecture author, professor, and Google distinguished engineer Google, David Patterson, wants to set the record straight on common misconceptions about carbon emissions and datacenter efficiency for large-scale AI training. …
What We’re Getting Wrong About Efficient AI Training at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Inside Look Inside Japan’s ABCI AI Supercomputer Upgrade
Japan is home to one of only a few designated AI supercomputers open to public and private research partnerships via its ABCI (AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure) system, which is set to reach nearly an exaflop of single-precision performance for ML workloads following a recent upgrade. …
Inside Look Inside Japan’s ABCI AI Supercomputer Upgrade was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Argonne Cuts Through the Noise with SambaNova System
rn offArgonne National Laboratory has become a must-watch lab for those following the convergence of supercomputing and AI/ML. …
Argonne Cuts Through the Noise with SambaNova System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Graphcore Right on the Money in First MLPerf Appearance
When it comes to a silicon startup bringing a product to market in a tough competitive landscape, nothing is easy. …
Graphcore Right on the Money in First MLPerf Appearance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
On-Prem No Longer Center Stage for Broader HPC Storage
AI/ML, more sophisticated analytics, and larger-scale HPC problems all bode well for the on-prem storage market in high performance computing (HPC) and are an even bigger boon for cloud storage vendors. …
On-Prem No Longer Center Stage for Broader HPC Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Exascale Machines Skew HPC Growth Projections
If we could take the Fugaku supercomputer out of the HPC market equation and while we were at it, pretend the pandemic never happened, the supercomputing market would be much easier to pin down. …
Exascale Machines Skew HPC Growth Projections was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture
Like its U.S. counterpart, Google, Baidu has made significant investments to build robust, large-scale systems to support global advertising programs. …
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators?
Current custom AI hardware devices are built around super-efficient, high performance matrix multiplication. …
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes
The era of vector supercomputing might sound like ancient history to some but it’s still deeply rooted in major commercial and government institutions. …
U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces
The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. …
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
EPCC Kicking Tires on New CS-1 AI System
The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPPC) is up and running with its Cerebras CS-1 waferscale system and is already working with European companies in biomedical and cybersecurity arenas in addition to its own research into different programming and AI models and projects in natural language processing and genome-wide association studies. …
EPCC Kicking Tires on New CS-1 AI System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Preferred Networks Becoming Japan’s Industrial AI Powerhouse
There’s an AI unicorn startup you might not have even heard of. …
Preferred Networks Becoming Japan’s Industrial AI Powerhouse was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Cortus Hopes to Stake Early RISC-V HPC Claim
There are some unique developments afoot at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which stands to reason for the only HPC site to be housed in a former church. …
Cortus Hopes to Stake Early RISC-V HPC Claim was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
AMD on Why Chiplets—And Why Now
Moore’s Law is not just a simple rule of thumb about transistor counts, it’s an economic, technical, and developmental force—and one strong enough to push some of the largest chipmakers to future-proof architectural approaches. …
AMD on Why Chiplets—And Why Now was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
AI Is RISC-V’s Trojan Horse into the Datacenter
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. …
AI Is RISC-V’s Trojan Horse into the Datacenter was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A 35 Petabyte All-Flash Balancing Act
Last week, we introduced the Perlmutter supercomputer, the next-gen system at NERSC that will likely secure the #5 spot on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful machines. …
A 35 Petabyte All-Flash Balancing Act was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
NVMe 2.0 Firms Foundation for Future Storage Shifts
Amber Huffman and Peter Onufryk never could have imagined the little 100-page specification they worked on a decade ago would become a wide standard from phones and tables up to the largest datacenters in the world. …
NVMe 2.0 Firms Foundation for Future Storage Shifts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hypersonics Could Fuel Next Wave of HPC Investment
While the pandemic provided a funding boost to research supercomputing and life sciences HPC, the next wave of investments in HPC systems and simulation software might come from the rapidly evolving hypersonics space. …
Hypersonics Could Fuel Next Wave of HPC Investment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
MPI on Neuromorphic Hardware Shows Greater Promise
While there are not many neuromorphic hardware makers, those on the market (or in the research device sphere) are still looking for ways to run more mainstream workloads. …
MPI on Neuromorphic Hardware Shows Greater Promise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Testing the Limits of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC
Data movement is the king of all challenges for supercomputing sites to hyperscale datacenters. …
Testing the Limits of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.