TOP500
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 ...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 ...Full Article
Top500: El Capitan Achieves Top Spot, Frontier and Aurora Follow Behind
ATLANTA, Nov. 18, 2024 — The 64th edition of the TOP500 reveals that El Capitan has achieved the top spot and is officially the third system to reach exascale ...Full Article
AI Exascale: In This Club, You Must ‘Earn the Exa’
There have been some recent press releases and headlines with the phrase “AI Exascale” in them. Other than flaunting the word exascale or even zettascale, these stories do not ...Full Article
The Path to Insight Is Changing: The AI-HPC Paradigm Shift
In a recent paper, the authors suggest that AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data points from previous LLM models. Basically, the snake is eating its tail. Generative-AI has ...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 ...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
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
Nvidia Announces New AI Supercomputer ‘Eos’
At GTC22 today, Nvidia unveiled its new H100 GPU, the first of its new ‘Hopper’ architecture, along with a slew of accompanying configurations, systems and accompanying technology and software. ...Full Article
