IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
Oct 24, 2024 · When the Red Hat acquisition was completed, the Red Hat systems software stack represented around 9.2 percent of 2019 overall “real” systems revenue at IBM, which is our estimate of sales of hardware, systems software, tech support, and financing relating to its System z and Power Systems lines.
Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum …
Dec 19, 2024 · However, scientists in Australia – with the help of the exascale-class “Frontier” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory – spent four years creating software that can run a quantum molecular dynamics simulation that is 1,000 times faster and larger than what’s been done with previous models. The work was first announced in July and, last month, earned the scientists – along ...
The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia - The Next …
Sep 3, 2024 · Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. We finally have the first benchmarks from MLCommons, the vendor-led testing organization that has put together the suite of MLPerf AI training and inference benchmarks, that pit the AMD Instinct “Antares” MI300X GPU against Nvidia’s “Hopper ...
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU …
Nov 18, 2024 · Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. And thankfully the HPC center usually chooses a machine that not only fulfills its mission of managing the nuclear weapons stockpile of the United States military, but also picks a mix of technologies that advances the state of the art in supercomputing.
Lots Of Questions On Google’s “Trillium” TPU v6, A Few Answers
Jun 10, 2024 · Our guess is that with the TPU v6, Google is going to actually raise the price of renting one of these devices by a little more than a factor of 2X and that the resulting Trillium instances will still offer more than 2.3X better bang for the buck than the TPU v5e instances on Google cloud and 3.4X better price/performance than the TPU v5p, which is a much heavier device more suitable for AI ...
Micron Is Fashionably Late To The HBM Party, But Not Too Late
Dec 20, 2024 · This is precisely the plan at Micron Technology, which is a late comer to the HBM memory racket alongside pioneers SK Hynix and Samsung but which is bringing its substantial engineering talents to bear to take a run at the Nvidia money as well as every other AI chip maker that wants to have HBM to boost the performance of their accelerators.
Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster
Nov 14, 2024 · The cost of the Kingfisher system was not announced, but we know that at list price – whatever that is in the HPC space – a CS-2 system with a single WSE-2 cost about $1.6 million last year when G42 started working with Cerebras to build out a fleet of “Condor Galaxy” clusters based on the CS-2 machines.
This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing
Aug 23, 2024 · The resulting rail-only network architecture that CSAIL and Meta Platforms have come up with was described in a recent paper and presented at the Hot Interconnects 2024 conference this week, and it definitely wins the “well that’s pretty obvious once you think about it” award from The Next Platform.We love such “obvious” insights because they often turn technologies on their head ...
LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” …
Dec 16, 2024 · The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 million at current exchange rates – to build a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster based on Nvidia ...
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter
Sep 24, 2024 · As we have pointed out many times, there are design wins and supply wins, and while prior generations of Xeons were clearly only supply wins, it is fair to say that both Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids are starting to get some design wins even if what Intel is selling is still due mostly to supply wins.