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HPCwire 35 Legends Luncheon Held During SC24

On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, HPCwire hosted a special luncheon to honor the inaugural HPCwire 35 Legends, an annual list recognizing 35 individuals who have profoundly shaped the high-performance computing (HPC) community. The luncheon celebrated the remarkable achievements of researchers, inventors, and executives who have driven advancements in technology, science, and innovation over the past 35 years. ... Full article

Nvidia Shows Renewed Interest in Top500 List, but Not for GPUs

Nvidia is showing keen interest in the Top500 list and says it will put more systems with its GPUs and technologies on the list. However, Nvidia’s interest is to give credibility to its networking technologies, not to prove the performance of its GPUs. Two supercomputing systems with Nvidia’s Spectrum-X networking are debuting in the Top ... Full article

SC2024: A Guide to Get the Most from the Show

The supercomputing world — or shall we call it the HPC and AI world — will convene in Atlanta this week to attend the Supercomputing 24 show. SC24 is a celebration of scientific computing and high-performance hardware. The cream of hardware and cloud companies — Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle – are all there. The ... Full article

MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStore

MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. But with the rapid emergence of generative AI, the MinIO company recognized there exists an opportunity to deliver an AI-centered ... Full article

The Impact of Trump’s Return on AI and Climate

US President-elect Donald Trump made plenty of ambitious promises during his presidential campaign, but it will be tough for him to fulfill all his pledges. His stance on artificial intelligence (AI) and climate largely aligns with his commitment to "America First" policies, focusing on economic growth, energy independence, and minimizing regulations on domestic industries. However, ... Full article

Red Hat Acquisition Charts Path to Open Accelerated AI

Red Hat has announced a signed agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Red Hat mentions Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to customer-specific use cases and data across the ... Full article

Inside Perplexity’s $9B Valuation and Its Legal Struggles

Perplexity, the AI search engine platform, is reportedly finalizing the details of a new funding round that will boost its valuation to a staggering $9 billion. This would triple its valuation from just a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the new funding round. The reported $500 million ... Full article

Microsoft-Backed Fastino Launches with $7M to Power GPU-Less AI Models

Fastino, a new foundation model provider, emerged from stealth today with a $7 million pre-seed funding round. The company says it offers a family of task-optimized language models that are more accurate, faster, and safer than traditional LLMs. Fastino claims to have a differentiated approach to generative AI. Fastino CEO and co-founder Ash Lewis explained ... Full article

Claude AI Creator Anthropic Might Gain Amazon’s Backing Again—If It Embraces AWS Hardware

Amazon is rumored to be negotiating a second multibillion-dollar investment deal with AI startup Anthropic, the maker of the Claude family of LLMs and a rival to OpenAI. Amazon previously invested $2.75 billion in the startup in March, adding on to an initial $1.25 billion backing in September 2023. According to the latest report, Amazon ... Full article

WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances

GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to 18 million IOPS and serve 720 GB of data per second. The latest GPUs ... Full article

The Growing E-Waste Footprint of GenAI

The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to the proliferation of electronic devices and systems, resulting in an alarming increase in electronic waste (e-waste). GenAI, in particular, requires substantial computational resources for model training and inference, but the impact of this on e-waste is not fully understood. The latest Global E-Waste Monitor by the ... Full article

NCSA Director Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’

Editor's Note: In this insightful commentary, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), explores the unique trajectories of AI research within academic and commercial realms. Gropp delves into the differing motivations and methodologies of these sectors, highlighting how academia prioritizes innovation and understanding, while the commercial sector drives rapid, scalable applications. ... Full article

GenAI in the 2024 Elections: Expectations vs. Reality

With this being an election year, concerns have long been raised about the potential threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the integrity of the electoral process. According to a recent poll by Pew, more than half of US adults are "extremely or very concerned" about the negative influence of AI on the elections. The 2024 ... Full article

OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data

The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data leaves a gap that eventually will need to be filled. The OSAID was unveiled this week after two years of development ... Full article

Lottery to Determine Major AI Conference Attendees Amid Registration Boom

A boom in AI has created a problem for the organizers of the NeurIPS conference, which is considered an essential machine-learning research conference. The sheer number of registrations has overwhelmed organizers, who are moving to a lottery system to determine attendees. “Due to high demand for registrations, NeurIPS will be moving towards a randomized lottery system, ... Full article

Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry

Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service. At the same time, Google gave customers a teaser on Nvidia’s Blackwell coming to Google Cloud, which should arrive early next year. “We’re… eagerly anticipating the advancements enabled by Nvidia’s Blackwell GB200 NVL72 GPUs, ... Full article

Leveraging AI for Precision in Hurricane Forecasting

Kempner Institute’s AI Cluster Named One of the World’s Fastest ‘Green’ Supercomputers

Cerebras Sets New Record in Molecular Dynamics at 1.1M Simulations per Second

Scientists Warn GenAI Models Lack True Understanding of the World

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