@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

- Exascale Day, Zettascale, Avogadro's Number - Did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption? - The great Rear admiral Dr. Grace Hopper - The First Computer Bug - Hyperion Research innovation award - Q2B Conference [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/HPCNB_20241021.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241021 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AMD's new CPU, GPU, DPU, NIC - Foxconn's big supercomputer at Hon Hai Kaohsiung Center in Taiwan - AI drives Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry - Yann LeCun's take on AGI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/HPCNB_20241014.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241014 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- IDC report on datacenter energy use and growth - NTT Research on the state of optical computing - AI experts weigh in on the future impact of AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/HPCNB_20241007.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241007 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX - Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies - AMD Turin, AMD UDNA - Quantum update [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HPCNB_20240930.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240930 appeared first on OrionX.net.

In this episode of the @HPCpodcasts Industry View we are joined by Patrick Caporale of Lenovo to discuss memory-centric architectures, Non Von-Neumann architectures, advances in I/O, CPU-Memory-I/O gap, computational storage, NUMA, disk, tape, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Ultra Accelerator Link, CXL, tiered storage, power and cooling, heat capture, and more. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/090@HPCpodcast_IV_Lenovo_Patrick-Caporale_Memory-Centeric-Infrastructure_20240924.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-90: Lenovo on Memory-Centric Architectures – Industry View appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI-fueled M&A rumors: Intel, Qualcomm, Ampere - Three Mile Island resurrected to feed GPUs for Microsoft - Beyond GPUs lie specialized chiplets [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HPCNB_20240923.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240923 appeared first on OrionX.net.

We discuss the Aurora supercomputer, Exascale, AI, reliability at scale, technology adoption agility, datacenter power and cooling, cloud computing, quantum computing. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/089@HPCpodcast_Rick-Stevens_Mike-Papka_ANL-update_20240919.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-89: Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Lab appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Oracle Cloud 130K Blackwell plan - AI inference battleground - Storage for AI - Rhea takes Jupiter to Jülich [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HPCNB_20240916.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240916 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Copyright law, Fair Use doctrine, and AI's appetite for data - TSMC's CoWoS capacity - Intel's 18A fab - DOE's $23 million RFP re future of HPC [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HPCNB_20240909.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240909 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Nvidia Blackwell delays - Inference champions - AI regulations - Supercomputing in Russia [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HPCNB_20240902.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240902 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Hot Chips 2024 conference - LANL electricity needs enter the senate race - A small modular nuclear reactor in a 30-inch borehole a mile under? - AMD in $4.9B deal to buy ZT Systems [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HPCNB_20240826.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240826 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Dr. Mike Heroux joins us to discuss HPC software in general and the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) software efforts in particular. Topics include performance vs. portability and maintainability, heterogeneous hardware, the impact of AI on workloads and tools, the emergence of Research Software Engineer as a needed role and a career path, the convergence of commercial and HPC software stacks, and what's on the horizon. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/088@HPCpodcast_MIke-Heroux_ECP_HPC-Software_20240819.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-88: Mike Heroux of Sandia on ECP, HPC Software appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI-centric servers form new market segment - NIST announcement heralds Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) milestone - English Professors win NSF grant to study supercomputing's impact on society, geopolitics [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HPCNB_20240819.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240819 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- UK Govt. cuts to exascale and AI projects - Investment in AI inference rises - AI models: open source vs. guardrails in - Will SC24 be the largest supercomputing event ever? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HPCNB_20240812.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240812 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel Financial Results - Nvidia Blackwell Delays - Which programming language is most energy efficient? - Discoveries led by exascale software [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HPCNB_20240805.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240805 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Nvidia to build GPUs specially for the Chinese market to comply with export control - Morgan Stanley report projects 60,000 to 70,000 Nvidia AI racks in 2025 - China and TOP500, no new news - NTT and U. Tokyo use Graphene Plasmon in pursuit of faster opto-electronics [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPCNB_20240729.mp3"][/audio]   The post HPC News Bytes – 20240729 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- ORNL’s RFP for post-exascale "Discovery" system - Forced mate in 12 moves? New chess puzzle challenges engines - Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to power GPU Datacenter - Keep your data for 5,000 years, anyone? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPCNB_20240722.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240722 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI survey by S&P Global Market Intelligence commissioned by Vultr - OpenAI proposes 5 levels of AI based on capability - SoftBank acquires Graphcore [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPCNB_20240715.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240715 appeared first on OrionX.net.

In this special instance of our Industry View feature we are joined by Jonathan Ha who is Senior Director of Product Management for AI at Penguin Solutions. We discuss the design and deployment of large scale AI infrastructure: why AI at scale is such a critical need, where the challenges lie, and what it takes to do it right. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/087@HPCpodcast_IV_Penguin-Solutions_Jonathan-Ha_AI-Infrastructure_20240709.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-87: Penguin Solutions on AI Infrastructure – Industry View appeared first on OrionX.net.

- SMIC Wafer Yields for Huawei Ascend 910B AI Chip - Goldman Sachs Report on Gen AI ROI, Readiness - New Startup Fuels Special-Purpose Chip Trend [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPCNB_20240708.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240708 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel's Silicon Photonics Milestone - Intel's 144-core-now, 288-core-next-year Xeon Sierra Forrest CPU - Quantum Advantage: Time vs. Space - Microsoft Concludes Undersea Datacenter Project [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPCNB_20240701.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240701 appeared first on OrionX.net.

We are delighted to be joined by Christine Chalk, physical scientist at U.S. Department of Energy and federal program manager for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Christine is also responsible for budget formulation for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) and management of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee and the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Topics include the ECP project and what made it so successful, how policy turns into a budget, and the growing importance of the role of women in HPC. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/086@HPCpodcast_ECP_Christine-Chalk_20240625.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-86: DOE Exascale Project w Christine Chalk appeared first on OrionX.net.

- GPU price wars? - Rectangular wafers for more/bigger chips - AI assistant for science - AI Supercomputer in Japan, New exascale in the EU [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240624.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240624 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- New paper on "Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress" with an all-star author list - Investments in Taiwan, Chip War - AI Chip Landscape, Specialty AI Chips gain traction - Where would AI datacenters fin energy? Fusion, Geothermal, Hydrogen Fuel Cells - Apple Silicon in Datacenter? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240617.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240617 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Clinical trials for cancer fighting drug discovered by LLNL and BridgeBio - Sandia and Submer say immersing the whole rack can get big power savings - In defense of the CHIPS Act - New paper "Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling" promises low memory low power AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240610.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240610 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Shahin and Doug are joined by Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University. He tracks the advancement of AI in his role as Research Manager and Editor in Chief of the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool. Nestor has degrees from Harvard and Oxford and is also a fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/085@HPCpodcast_Stanford-AI-Index_Nestor-Maslej_20240607.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-85: Stanford AI Index w Nestor Maslej appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Computex-24, Nvidia Rubin, Nvidia Vera, AMD MI325X, AMD Turin - Ultra Accelerator Link (UAlink) - EU's 2nd Exascale System at CEA France - Is AI getting ahead of itself? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPCNB_20240603.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240603 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Techno-politics, China, TSMC, and ASML remote disablement - CryptoSuper500 report on Bitcoin as Specialized Supercomputing - X-ai says it will build AI supercomputer with 100,000 H100 GPUs - AI regulations in EU go into effect next month - Nvidia GPUs continue strong in earnings season [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240527.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240527 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Who will join the Exascale club next? - Nvidia "paints it green" - Other AI chips impress - Student Cluster Competition winners [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240520.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240520 appeared first on OrionX.net.

The new TOP500 at ISC24 conference is here with a new addition to the Exaflop Club, a new HPL-MxP (AI) champion, new top three in Green500, and also a look at HPCG, the difficult benchmark that usually sets the lower bound of system performance. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/084@HPCpodcast_TOP500-ISC24_20240513.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-84: TOP500 at ISC24 Conference appeared first on OrionX.net.

- ISC24 conference begins today - Substantial investments in Quantum Tech continue - Geopolitics of chips and scenario planning around TSMC, again - Electricity shortage and grid capacity for AI datacenters [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240513.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240513 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Special guest and last year's ISC-2023 program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the rise of specialized architectures in the Post Moore'a Law era. This is a topic John will discuss at Wednesday night's keynote at the ISC conference in Hamburg, Germany next week. John is department head for computer science research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He formerly was CTO at the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center (NERSC). [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/083@HPCpodcast_John-Shalf_Attack-of-Killer-Chiplets_20240510.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-83: Attack of Killer Chiplets, w John Shalf appeared first on OrionX.net.

- ASML and US-China Trade Wars - Tik Tok Ban Bill in the US - Intersect360 HPC-AI Market Size in 2023 - Women in HPC at ISC24 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HPCNB_20240506.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240506 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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.