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 ...Full Article
What We Know about Alice Recoque, Europe’s Second Exascale System
Europe officially announced its second exascale system, Alice Recoque, and you can expect to see that name on the Top500 supercomputer list in a few years. Alice Recoque is the ...Full Article
Argonne’s Rick Stevens on Energy, AI, and a New Kind of Science
The world is currently experiencing two of the largest societal upheavals since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. One is the rapid improvement and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) ...Full Article
Core42 Is Building Its 172 Million-core AI Supercomputer in Texas
UAE-based Core42 is building an AI supercomputer with 172 million cores which will become operational later this year. The system, Condor Galaxy 3, was announced earlier this year and will ...Full Article
ISC 2024 Keynote: High-precision Computing Will Be a Foundation for AI Models
Some scientific computing applications cannot sacrifice accuracy and will always require high-precision computing. Therefore, conventional high-performance computing (HPC) will remain essential, even as many applications transition to AI and ...Full Article
Aurora Proves AI Supremacy, Snags Top AI Spot from Frontier
As of the 63rd edition of the TOP500, the Aurora supercomputer out of Argonne National Laboratory has officially broken the exascale barrier with an HPL score of 1.012 exaflops. ...Full Article
Top 500: Aurora Breaks into Exascale, but Can’t Get to the Frontier of HPC
The 63rd installment of the TOP500 list is available today in coordination with the kickoff of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, Germany. Once again, the Frontier system at Oak Ridge ...Full Article
AI Saves the Planet this Earth Day
Earth Day was originally conceived as a day of reflection. Our planet’s life-sustaining properties are unlike any other celestial body that we’ve observed, and this day of contemplation is ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
VMware Unveils New Generative AI Tools, Expands Nvidia Partnership
VMware kicked off its Explore event in Las Vegas with a series of announcements geared toward enabling enterprise generative AI development. VMware and Nvidia extended their partnership to unveil ...Full Article
