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- 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 datacenters fin energy? Fusion, Geothermal, Hydrogen Fuel Cells - Apple Silicon in Datacenter? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240617.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Byt...

- Obsession - Competition - What Market Share? - Hedgehog and Fox [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mktg_Podcast_044_Obsession_What-Mkt-Share_Hedgehog-Fox_20240615.mp3"][/audio] The post Mktg_Podcast-44: Obsession, Hedgehog and Fox appeared first on OrionX.net .

- 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 "Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling" promises low memory low power AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240610.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240610 appea...

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 Manager and Editor in Chief of the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool.  Nestor has degrees from Harvard and Oxford and is also a fellow at the Center for International Govern...

- 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? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240603.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240603 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- 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 regulations in EU go into effect next month - Nvidia GPUs continue strong in earnings season [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240527.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes...

- Hitting the target - Starbucks, Mobile Orders - It's Not the Data - Private Internal Communications? - Faking AI Projects [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Mktg_Podcast_043_Its-Not-the-Data_AI_Internal-Comms_20240524.mp3"][/audio] The post Mktg_Podcast-43: SBUX, It’s Not the Data, Org Privacy, Fake AI Projects appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Who will join the Exascale club next? - Nvidia "paints it green" - Other AI chips impress - Student Cluster Competition winners [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240520.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240520 appeared first on OrionX.net .

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 usually sets the lower bound of system performance. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/084@HPCpodcas...

- 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 datacenters [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240513.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240513 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Special guest and last year's ISC-2023 program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the rise of specialized architectures in the Post Moore'a Law era. This is a topic John will discuss at Wednesday night's keynote at the ISC conference in Hamburg, Germany next week. John is department head for computer science research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He formerly was C...

- 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 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240506.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240506 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Cristin Merritt joins Shahin and Doug to discuss Women in HPC , its goals and mission, six lessons learned about "moving the needle" on the organizational transformation that is needed to address lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the activities planned by International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and Women in HPC (WHPC) for the ISC24 conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany...

- 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 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240429.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240429 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Eclipse-like markets - Featuring your competition in your ad? - Chevy Nova's naming myth - Math and Marketing - The Seinfeld-Bergman Spectrum! [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mktg_Podcast_042_Math-and-Marketing_Seinfeld-Bergman-Spectrum_20240422.mp3"][/audio] The post Mktg_Podcast-42: Math and Marketing, Seinfeld-Bergman Spectrum appeared first on OrionX.net .

- New supercomputers at Los Alamos and France-CEA - Stanford AI Index Report - Bitcoin Halving - Argonne-UIC Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240422.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240422 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- 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 growth plans, high end manufacturing industrial policy [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240415.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240415 appeared first on Orion...

- 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 and Microsoft show major improvement for qubit fidelity [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240408.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240408 appeared first...

Special guest JP Castlin joins us as we discuss a broad set of topics: - Did you say "Praxis"? - Strategy and Marketing - Apple and DOJ - Amazon's Frequency of Sale Events - Marketing and Math - Efficiency and Resilience - Strategy and Change [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mktg_Podcast_041_JP-Castlin_Strategy-in-Praxis_20240405.mp3"][/audio] The post Mktg_Podcast-41: JP...

- 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 CUDA translation software like ZLUDA [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240401.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240401 appeared first on OrionX.net .

We caught up with Matt Sieger, Project Director for the 6th iteration of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF-6) to get a glimpse of the project, its objectives, status, and timelines. Meet Discovery , the supercomputer that plans to succeed Frontier , the current #1 (at 1.19 exaflops in 64 bits) while Summit , the current #7 (at 148.8 64-bit petaflops) continues to work alongside it....

- Nvidia GTC24 - Intel fab and US CHIPS Act - Who isn't in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium? - Samsung HBM-or-GPU blend [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240325.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240325 appeared first on OrionX.net .

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 contrast between the Nvidia model and some other players, and share some color on the event itself. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/080@HPCpodcast_GTC24_Nvidia-Blackwell_2024...

- European AI Act - 5nm Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine 3 - A faster matrix-multiply algorithm? - Meta's GenAI Infrastructure [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240318.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240318 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- IndiaAI Mission, including a 10,000-GPU supercomputer - Countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs - AI value-chain consolidation from fabs to apps to clouds - Atos spinout of Eviden caught in financial complexity [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240311.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240311 appeared first on OrionX.net .