Datacenter

Intersect360 Research 2024 HPC-AI Software Survey; HPC Is All In

It’s nearly impossible to have a conversation in the high-performance computing (HPC) space (or any space for that matter) without artificial intelligence (AI) creeping into the discussion. The technology’s versatility has skyrocketed its overall deployment, and as such, AI can seem like a miracle cure that’s come to solve all computing problems. Of course, this ... Full article

AI Tools Help Scientists Predict the Evolution of Viruses

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a critical gap in our ability to effectively predict and respond to emerging infectious diseases. The devastating impact of the pandemic serves as a lasting reminder. However, as we move past COVID-19, other viruses or new mutations could still pose a threat. With virus outbreaks capable of emerging and evolving with ... Full article

AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Scientific Research

Scientific researchers are responsible for conducting experiments and making discoveries that improve our lives or, sometimes, even save them. However, the process of scientific research — from forming and testing a hypothesis to making groundbreaking discoveries available for public or commercial use — is complex, costly, and time-consuming. Without the right tools at their disposal, ... Full article

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not to be confused with Nvidia's Deep Learning GPU Training System: DIGITS). The platform offers a series ... Full article

NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC24, Focus in 2025

Editor's Note: In this note of reflection, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), takes us through a year of achievements at NCSA. From the launch of the DeltaAI supercomputer to groundbreaking partnerships in AI, healthcare, and quantum research, Gropp highlights NCSA's critical role in advancing innovation and collaboration, underscoring the center's ... Full article

Nvidia Touts Lower ‘Time-to-First-Train’ with DGX Cloud on AWS

Customers have a lot of options when it comes to building their generative AI stacks to train, fine-tune, and run AI models. In some cases, the number of options may be overwhelming. To help simplify the decision-making and reduce that all-important time it takes to train your first model, Nvidia offers DGX Cloud, which arrived ... Full article

DeltaAI Unveiled: How NCSA Is Meeting the Demand for Next-Gen AI Research

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has just launched its highly anticipated DeltaAI system. DeltaAI is an advanced AI computing and data resource that will be a companion system to NCSA’s Delta, a 338-node, HPE Cray-based supercomputer installed in 2021. The new DeltaAI has been funded by the ... Full article

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

Researchers at Harvard now have access to one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world. Built to support cutting-edge research at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, and Harvard University more broadly, the Kempner’s AI cluster has just been named the 32nd fastest “green” supercomputer in the world in the Green500, the ... 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

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

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

Report from HALO Details Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry

Intersect360 Research has released a comprehensive new report concerning the challenges facing the combined fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Titled “Issues Facing the HPC-AI Industry: Insights from the Advisory Committees of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO),” this report – which was based on extensive interviews conducted with members of the HALO Advisory ... Full article

Nvidia’s Blackwell Platform Powers AI Progress in Open Compute Project

Nvidia announced it has contributed foundational elements of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Shared at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose today, Nvidia said that key portions of the design of its full rack Blackwell system, called the GB200 NVL72, will be contributed to the OCP community. ... Full article

VP of Engineering at Colder Products Company Discusses Liquid Cooling for AI

In this insightful interview, I spoke with Rick Kirchner, Vice President of Engineering at Colder Products Company (CPC), to explore the critical role of liquid cooling systems in modern computing architectures, particularly for AI applications. As part of our Executive Debrief series, we delve into the necessity of liquid cooling for high-performance computing and AI, ... Full article

AI Helps Researchers Discover Catalyst for Green Hydrogen Production

Researchers from the University of Toronto have used AI to generate a “recipe” for an exciting new catalyst needed to produce green hydrogen fuel. As the effects of climate change begin to become more apparent in our everyday lives, research like this could open the door to green hydrogen fuel that could be used for ... Full article

Using AI to Heat the Olympic Pool

At the moment, we’re seeing the AI hype cycle play out. Standing atop the peak of inflated expectations, we are inundated with a variety of buzzwords and jargon that make it seem like AI could do anything. While the hype around AI will eventually die off, there is a unique application around this technology that ... Full article

Virga: Australia’s AI Powerhouse

Australia has officially added another supercomputer to the TOP500 list with the implementation of Virga. Officially coming online in June 2024, Virga is the newest HPC system to come out of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO.) As of the June 2024 TOP500 rankings, Virga has achieved the 72nd position on the ... Full article

Google TPU v5e AI Chip Debuts after Controversial Origins

AMD Has a GPU to Rival Nvidia’s H100

Nvidia Announces ‘1 Exaflops’ AI Supercomputer with 256 Grace-Hopper Superchips

MLPerf Inference 3.0 Highlights – Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm and…ChatGPT

Recent News

Contributors