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Nvidia Shows Renewed Interest in Top500 List, but Not for GPUs
November 18th, 2024 Comments Off on 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 ...
SC2024: A Guide to Get the Most from the Show
November 18th, 2024 Comments Off on 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 ...
Lottery to Determine Major AI Conference Attendees Amid Registration Boom
November 1st, 2024 Comments Off on 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 ...
Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry
November 1st, 2024 Comments Off on 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 ...
Nvidia’s Superlove: First Superchip, Now Supermode
July 25th, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Superlove: First Superchip, Now Supermode
Nvidia is tempting fate with its generous use of the term “super” to describe new products—the latest is a “supermodel” that uses innovative techniques to create fine-looking AI models. The company this week announced support for Meta’s Llama 3.1 ...
Nvidia, Intel Not Welcomed in New Apple AI and HPC Development Tools
July 12th, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia, Intel Not Welcomed in New Apple AI and HPC Development Tools
New Mac developer tools will leverage Apple’s homegrown chips, limiting HPC users’ ability to use parallel programming frameworks from Intel or Nvidia. Apple’s latest programming framework, Xcode 16, was introduced at the recent WWDC conference and has a host ...
Generative AI to Account for 1.5% of World’s Power Consumption by 2029
July 8th, 2024 Comments Off on Generative AI to Account for 1.5% of World’s Power Consumption by 2029
Generative AI will take on a larger chunk of the world’s power consumption to keep up with the hefty hardware requirements to run applications. “AI chips represent 1.5% of electricity use over the next five years, a substantial part of the world’s ...
Google TPU v5e AI Chip Debuts after Controversial Origins
August 31st, 2023 Comments Off on Google TPU v5e AI Chip Debuts after Controversial Origins
The dominance of Nvidia GPUs has companies scrambling to find non-GPU alternatives, and another mainstream option has emerged with Google’s TPU v5e AI chip. The TPU v5e is also Google’s first AI chip being mainstreamed with a suite of ...
Nvidia Breaks Gaming Tradition With RTX, Turning GPUs Into AI Powerhouses
August 8th, 2023 Comments Off on Nvidia Breaks Gaming Tradition With RTX, Turning GPUs Into AI Powerhouses
Nvidia's RTX GPUs were largely known for gaming and graphics, but are being configured and repackaged for enthusiasts interested in trying out AI on desktops. The new GPUs are a part of Nvidia’s approach to make GPUs available wherever ...
3D Internet Building Block Championed by Nvidia and Apple Faces Challenges
August 3rd, 2023 Comments Off on 3D Internet Building Block Championed by Nvidia and Apple Faces Challenges
Apple and Nvidia want to dominate the 3D universe, and the world of scientific simulation, with a building block championed by both companies. The closed-source proponents are going the open standards route to drive the development and adoption of ...