Nvidia's new Spectrum-X and Quantum-X photonic switches. (Source: Nvidia)
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Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches
Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the ...Full Article
DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World
The AI world has been taken by storm. China's new open-source reasoning model, the DeepSeek R1, has sparked concerns that advances in AI by Chinese firms could threaten the ...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 ...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 ...Full Article
DataPelago Unveils Universal Engine to Unite Big Data, Advanced Analytics, HPC, and AI Workloads
DataPelago last week emerged from stealth with a new virtualization layer that it says will allow users to move AI, data analytics, and ETL workloads to whatever physical processor ...Full Article
Ansys Fluent® Adds AMD Instinct™ MI200 and MI300 Acceleration to Power CFD Simulations Sponsored Content by AMD
Ansys Fluent® is well-known in the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) space and is praised for its versatility as a general-purpose solver. Its impressive breadth of physics capabilities makes ...Full Article
Hyperion Research Announces a 36.7% Increase in the HPC/AI Market Size
AI has changed everything, including HPC. A recent HPCwire article discussed how AI-augmented HPC is creating a large paradigm shift in many aspects of the market and community. Supporting this shift, Hyperion ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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
