Author Archives: Tiffany Trader

Tiffany Trader

With over a decade’s experience covering the HPC space, Tiffany Trader is one of the preeminent voices reporting on advanced scale computing today.

AI-fueled Geospatial Analysis Might Change the World. And Save It.

September 1st, 2022 Comments Off

The collection and analysis of geospatial data historically have been time-consuming, prone to human error, unwieldy and even risky. The hours spent surveying land or researching records. The sheer amount of data coupled with unconscious bias creep as people ...

Video: Sneak Preview of the AI Hardware Summit

August 18th, 2022 Comments Off

Next month, the AI Hardware Summit returns to the Bay Area, bringing AI technologists and end users together to share ideas and get up to speed on all the latest AI hardware developments. The event – which takes place ...

Tesla Expands Its GPU-Powered AI Supercomputer – Is Dojo Next?

August 17th, 2022 Comments Off

Tesla has revealed that its biggest in-house AI supercomputer – which we wrote about last year – now has a total of 7,360 A100 GPUs, a nearly 28 percent uplift from its previous total of 5,760 GPUs. That’s enough GPU ...

How HPC+AI Can Play in the Renewable Revolution

July 7th, 2022 Comments Off

Wind and solar are now the least expensive means to produce electricity. As a result, tens of gigawatts of new renewable energy have come online in the last decade, and tens of gigawatts will come online in the next ...

HPE’s GreenLake Cloud Service Goes Private

June 28th, 2022 Comments Off

The last few years have seen a mass exodus to the public cloud, but many companies are bringing back computing resources internally for reasons that include data security and government regulations. HPE at the Discover trade show announced a version ...

Cerebras Systems Thinks Forward on AI Chips as it Claims Performance Win

June 22nd, 2022 Comments Off

Cerebras Systems makes the largest chip in the world, but is already thinking about its upcoming AI chips as learning models continue to grow at breakneck speed. The company’s latest Wafer Scale Engine chip is indeed the size of ...

Tech Giants Unite to Save Metaverse from Being the Wild West

June 21st, 2022 Comments Off

The metaverse is seen as a borderless 3D world, and an alternate universe in which our digital avatars can live, work and play. Now major tech companies are joining hands in shaping that universe to ensure it doesn't turn ...

Nvidia Introduces Arm-based Grace Server Designs for AI, HPC, Cloud

May 25th, 2022 Comments Off

Nvidia is lining up Arm-based server platforms for a range of HPC, AI and cloud applications. The new systems employ Nvidia’s custom Grace Arm CPUs in four different configurations, including a Grace Hopper HGX baseboard powered by Nvidia's forthcoming ...

Nvidia Adds Liquid-cooled PCIe Cards to Server GPU Lineup

May 24th, 2022 Comments Off

Nvidia is bringing liquid cooling, which it typically puts alongside GPUs on the high-performance computing systems, to its mainstream server GPU portfolio. The company will start shipping its A100 PCIe Liquid Cooled GPU, which is based on the Ampere ...

AI Is Garnering a Bigger Role in Intel’s Future

May 19th, 2022 Comments Off

Intel is moving the focus from its server CPUs to a growing roster of adjacent chips that are driving a fundamental shift in computing to AI in which answers are derived from associations and patterns found in data. Accelerators ...