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Cristin Merritt joins Shahin and Doug to discuss Women in HPC, its goals and mission, six lessons learned about "moving the needle" on the organizational transformation that is needed to address lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the activities planned by International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and Women in HPC (WHPC) for the ISC24 conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany next week from May 12–16. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/082@HPCpodcast_Cristin-Merritt_Women-in-HPC_20240504.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-82: Cristin Merritt on Women in HPC appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Infra-Tech, Datacenter Shortage of Parts, Property, and Power - AI winter, AI bubble, dot-AI bust - Trade bans, Chain of Custody - Sandia National Lab's Hala Point Neuromorphic Supercomputer [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240429.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240429 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- New supercomputers at Los Alamos and France-CEA - Stanford AI Index Report - Bitcoin Halving - Argonne-UIC Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240422.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240422 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Vision 2024 Event, Intel Gaudi 3, Xeon 6 - Meta MTIA accelerator chip - Nvidia GPU shortage easing - Category Theory, Categorical Deep Learning, Geometric Deep Learning - China economic growth plans, high end manufacturing industrial policy [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240415.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240415 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- TSMC Arizona Back on Schedule - Dutch Government Support for ASML - Intel Foundry profitability - TSMC expands CoWoS capacity - SK hynix $3.9B for Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue - Quantinuum and Microsoft show major improvement for qubit fidelity [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPCNB_20240408.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240408 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Microsoft OpenAI $100B Stargate supercomputer - Eviden winning deals, growing and hiring - Alibaba RISC-V datacenter chip - Linear Pluggable Optics Multi-Source Agreement, LPO-MSA - Nvidia banning CUDA translation software like ZLUDA [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240401.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240401 appeared first on OrionX.net.

We caught up with Matt Sieger, Project Director for the 6th iteration of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF-6) to get a glimpse of the project, its objectives, status, and timelines. Meet Discovery, the supercomputer that plans to succeed Frontier, the current #1 (at 1.19 exaflops in 64 bits) while Summit, the current #7 (at 148.8 64-bit petaflops) continues to work alongside it. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/081@HPCpodcast_Matt-Sieger_ORNL_Discovery_20240326.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-81: Matt Sieger of ORNL on “Discovery” after “Frontier” appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Nvidia GTC24 - Intel fab and US CHIPS Act - Who isn't in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium? - Samsung HBM-or-GPU blend [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240325.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240325 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Live from Nvidia GTC24 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee-shop-chat style of the @HPCpodcast. They cover the wide range of announcements made by Nvidia, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and some other players, and share some color on the event itself. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/080@HPCpodcast_GTC24_Nvidia-Blackwell_20240320.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-80: Live from Nvidia GTC24 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- European AI Act - 5nm Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine 3 - A faster matrix-multiply algorithm? - Meta's GenAI Infrastructure [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240318.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240318 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- IndiaAI Mission, including a 10,000-GPU supercomputer - Countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs - AI value-chain consolidation from fabs to apps to clouds - Atos spinout of Eviden caught in financial complexity [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240311.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240311 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- GPU Shortage, HPE, Dell Financial Results - GPU allocation: CSP, On-prem, AI PCs, Embedded AI - Chip Capacity, Intel Fabs in Germany, Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing - Singapore AI program, Mid-career Training - AI business justification, AI talent shortage [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HPCNB_20240304.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240304 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Foundry Event, “Systems Foundry” Era - Nvidia Earnings, Valuation, AI Learning vs AI Inference, In-Memory Computing for AI - HPC in Space, Data Centers on the Moon - ISC-24 Conference [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPCNB_20240226.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240226 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI Security, Safety, Containment, Governance - U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) - Running CUDA Apps On ROCm - Exascale software linear algebra software libary - Chinese chipmaker Loongson tapes out 16-core DragonChain-powered CPU - Photonic computing chip at University of Pennsylvania [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPCNB_20240219.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240219 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Honda taps Cadence Design System digital twin supercomputer for CFD, air taxi R&D - Chip news: Nvidia, TSMC, SKHynix, IBM AIU, OpenAI - Kathy Yelick to Deliver ISC 2024 Keynote on Post-Exascale Computing - Google settles with Singular Computing over claims of stolen AI chip tech [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPCNB_20240212.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240212 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Argonne National Lab's Nexus Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) - Delays in Intel's Fab in Ohio, CHIPS Act - Mitchel Institute report on Quantum Information Science and Technologies - Controlling Emergent AI, High Calory Data [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPCNB_20240205.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240205 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Italy's Eni Acquiring 600 PFLOPS System - Intel's Advanced Fab in New Mexico, UMC partnership - NSF's Advanced Computing National AI Research Resource Pilot - D-Wave's 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2 Prototype - IonQ's 35 algorithmic qubit system [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HPCNB_20240129.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240129 appeared first on OrionX.net.

We discuss the state of Quantum Information Science with our special guest Dr. Travis Humble, a global authority on the subject, director of the Quantum Science Center, a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and director of the lab’s Quantum Computing Institute. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/079@HPCpodcast_Travis-Humble_ORNL_Quantum-Tech_20240123.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-79: Travis Humble of ORNL on Quantum Tech appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Synopsys to Acquire Ansys - Meta is spending billions on Nvidia chips - OpenAI CEO raising billions to build new chips and new chip factories - Pawesey selects QuEra, US Geological Survey selects Q-CTRL, Quantinuum Raises $300M [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HPCNB_20240122.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240122 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- RIKEN Hybrid Quantum-HPC Platform with Quantinuum - Google in $1.67B AI Chip Patent Infringement Trial - Crack in Cloud Egress Fees - ORNL Post-Exascale RFP for next generation OLCF-6 to be delivered in the 2027 time frame - HPE Acquires Juniper Networks [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HPCNB_20240115.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240115 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel-4 fab, IDM 2.0, Ericsson - CXL, Samsung, Red Hat - AI startup funding - Quantum Key Distribution landscape [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HPCNB_20240108.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240108 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Moore's Law slows down, Intel, TSMC - TSMC 1nm Chips, Arizona plant - Huawei results, Mate 60 Pro smartphone, Kirin 9000S chip - DARPA US2QC, PsiQuantum, Microsoft [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPCNB_20240101.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240101 appeared first on OrionX.net.

2023 Year in Review is our annual special edition as we look back at one of the more eventful years in recent history for HPC, AI, Quantum Computing, and other advanced technologies. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/078@HPCpodcast_2023-Year-in-Review_20231228.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-78: 2023 Year in Review appeared first on OrionX.net.

- EU Exascale, HLRS, MareNostrum Inauguration - Neuromorphic AI gets active - ASML's 1st High-NA EUV system goes to Intel - Argonne's Bimetallic All-optical Switch [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPCNB_20231225.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231225 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Gen-5 Emerald Rapids launch - New York State's own "Chips Act": $10B for NanoTech Complex with IBM, Micron, others - Quantum Computing market size from Hyperion Research - AI "Benchmarketing": Nvidia takes AMD's bait [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPCNB_20231218.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231218 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AMD MI300 availability as AI Chip Party heats up - Q2B Silicon Valley quantum conference update - Linux foundation's High-Performance Software Foundation and DAOS Foundation - Int'l consortium for trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science - EU agrees landmark deal on regulation of AI - ISC Submission Deadlines extended [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPCNB_20231211.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231211 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Why would The New Yorker cover HPC technologies? - Open Benchmark Council's TOP100 lists - Intel as one of the largest customers of TSMC's high-end fab? - Digital Twins for hyropower at ORNL and PNNL [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPCNB_20231204.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231204 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Adrian Cockcroft joins us again after SC23 to discuss TOP500 trends, the AI-HPC crossover, chiplets, and the emergence of UCIe and CXL advancements. Be sure to listen to previous episodes with Adrian; Episode 36 on HPC in cloud and sustainability data and Episode 55 on decarbonization and ESG. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/077@HPCpodcast_Adrian-Cockcrofy_Future-Architectures_20231130.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-77: Adrian Cockcroft on Future Architectures appeared first on OrionX.net.

- NVIDIA Ethernet push with Dell, HPE, Lenovo - Research and Engineering Studio on AWS - Latest on Chinese exascale - HPC-Quantum integration: Riken's Fugaku + NTT Ei and Simulated systems [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HPCNB_20231127.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231127 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- SC23 stats - Exascale update and future - Raft of new chips - Quantum Village at SC23 - UCIe, PCIe, Ultra Ethernet [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HPCNB_20231120.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231120 appeared first on OrionX.net.

We provide details and our analysis of the latest TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. This round sees quite a shake-up in the top 10 and reveals interesting changes in the market. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/076@HPCpodcast_TOP500-SC23_20231113.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-76: TOP500 at SC23 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- SC23 Starts, TOP500 later today - Storage at Scale, DAOS, Aurora, Linux Foundation - Sandia National Lab and DDN - TSMC 1.4nm, SMIC financials [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HPCNB_20231113.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231113 appeared first on OrionX.net.

As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Lab for a wide ranging discussion. In addition to an update on the Aurora supercomputer and TOP500, we also discuss the need and challenged of building a national exascale capability, developing teams and bench strength, the risks and opportunities of AI for science and society, the trend towards integrated research infrastructure (IRI), and what's next for the exascale initiative. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/075@HPCpodcast_Rick-Stevens_Mike-Papka_ANL_20231110.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-75: Rick Stevens, Mike Papka – Argonne National Lab (ANL) appeared first on OrionX.net.

Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research joins us to discuss the, well, "Cambrian explosion" that we are witnessing in AI chips, the general state of the AI semiconductor market, and the competitive landscape in deep learning, inference, and software infrastructure in support of AI. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/074@HPCpodcast_Karl-Freund_AI-Chips_20231107.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-74: Karl Freund, AI Chips appeared first on OrionX.net.

- UK Summit on AI, AI Supercomputers in the UK - US Presidential Executive Order on AI - Peter Ungaro on full episode of @HPCpodcast - Intersect360 Market Update [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HPCNB_20231106.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231106 appeared first on OrionX.net.

We are delighted to have a rare opportunity to catch up with none other than Pete Ungaro, long time luminary and admired leader in HPC/AI. In this episode of Industry View, we cover many topics including the Cray journey, the HPE acquisition, the opportunities and challenges of AI, the geopolitics of high tech. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/073@HPCpodcast_Pete-Ungaro_Cray-HPE20231102.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-73: Peter Ungaro – Industry View appeared first on OrionX.net.

- SC23 Conference "all in" with Streaming - Intel Financials, On-track with Fab, Progress in AI - Quantum Computing Round-up, Still Early Days - Oxide Computer All-Custom Cloud Computer [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HPCNB_20231030.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231030 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Vanessa Sochat and Alan Sill ,the creators of the HPC.social project join us as we discuss the broad HPC/AI community and their efforts to enable it digitally through a broad multi-channel platform that includs Slack, Discord, Mastodon, GitHub, a jobs board, a community map, and the effort's main site HPC.social. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/072@HPCpodcast_HPC-Social_Vanessa-Sochat_Alan-Sill_20231026.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-72: Vanessa Sochat and Alan Sill – HPC.social Community appeared first on OrionX.net.

We are starting a new feature, looking at HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. In this episode, we have the pleasure of a very lively conversation with Alain Andreoli, a longtime luminary of HPC and IT. Mr. Andreoli was with HPE for more than 7 year where he served as group president and EVP of the Hybrid IT Group, helping shape HPE's strategy for HPC including the acquisition of SGI in 2017. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/071@HPCpodcast_Alain-Andreoli_20231024.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-71: Alain Andreoli – Industry View appeared first on OrionX.net.

- HPE Cray at Crusoe Flared Gas Data Centers - IBM NorthPole AI Chip - TSMC financials: AI, 3nm, Inventory - AI Frenzy, AGI, Brain Waves as Input - Exascale, Aurora, TOP500 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HPCNB_20231023.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231023 appeared first on OrionX.net.

With the annual observance of Exascale Day on October 18th, we were delighted to get a chance to discuss the journey to Exascale with Dr. Paul Messina who led the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) program from 1998 to 2000, and was the first director of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) from 2015 until late 2017. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/070@HPCpodcast_Paul-Messina_Journey-to-Exascale_20231017.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-70: Paul Messina – Journey to Exascale appeared first on OrionX.net.

- China Exascale Investment - Samsung 3nm, Intel, TSMC - Exascale Day - Women in HPC, Why Women Stopped Coding - GPU Shortage and Competition, Nvidia H100, AMD MI300, Intel Gaudi-2 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HPCNB_20231016.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231016 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- 1st Exascale Supercomputer in Europe - Hyperion Rseaech Survey on the use of LLMs in HPC - AD Little report on Quantum Computing myths and opportunities - Human Immortality in 2030 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HPCNB_20231009.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231009 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AMD's Lisa Su at the Code Conference Discusses Generative AI, MI300, Open Strategy - EUV armed Intel-4 Fab in Ireland Starts Volume Production - AI Impact on Jobs, Case in the Legal Field - Supercomputing Conference coming: SC23, Denver, Nov 12-17 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HPCNB_20231002.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20231002 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Gaudi2, Collaboration with Dell, Satability AI - Samba Nova SN40L, LLMs - Air Force Research Lab 12 PFlop System - Small Modular nuclear Reactors (SMRs) - CHIPS Act: DOD $238m award for Microelectronics Commons Regional Innovation Hubs [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HPCNB_20230925.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20230925 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Innovation Event, FPGA, Open Source - AI-Oriented Papers in Science - Arm IPO and Strategic Shift - AMD EPYC 8004 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HPCNB_20230918.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20230918 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Special guest David Barkai discusses his new book, Unmatched: 50 Years of Supercomputing. The book is broken up into five decade-long epochs defined by the system architectural themes of "big iron" vector processors, multiprocessors, microprocessor, clusters, and accelerators and cloud computing. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/069@HPCpodcast_David-Barkai_Unmatched-History-Book_20230913mp3.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-69: David Barkai author of Unmatched: 50 Years of Supercomputing appeared first on OrionX.net.

- NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM - Honeywell Leverages Quantum Computing Encryption Keys - TSMC Silicon Photonics - Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification - HPC Forum Tuscon [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HPCNB_20230911.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20230911 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Mike McGrath of Red Hat in our ongoing coverage of the biggest controversy in Open Source in years. Our coverage started with special guest Joe Landman, and then with Greg Kurtzer of CIQ. Be sure to listen to all three episodes to get a full perspective on the various issues and nuances. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/068@HPCpodcast_Linux_Mike-McGrath_20230907.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-68: Mike McGrath of Red Hat on Linux Controversy appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Google Cloud with TPU v5e and Nvidia H100 - Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystem - ETH's Torsten Hoefler now also CSCS Chief Architect for Machine Learning - @HPCpodcast: Greg Kurtzer on Red Hat and the RHEL Source Code Controversy [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HPCNB_20230904.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20230904 appeared first on OrionX.net.