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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

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 the next five years, a substantial part of the world’s energy,” said semiconductor research firm TechInsights in a research note last month. TechInsights took a baseline ... 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 new name for a supercomputer with the operating name Jules Verne. The supercomputer is named after a celebrated French scientist and AI pioneer. The supercomputer will ... Full article

Argonne’s Rick Stevens on Energy, AI, and a New Kind of Science

The world is currently experiencing two of the largest societal upheavals since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. One is the rapid improvement and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, while the other is the sprint toward clean energy deployment in the face of the global climate crisis. Both of these technological changes will completely ... 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 have 192 nodes with Cerebras WSE-3 chips. The WSE-3 megachip is over 50 times larger than Nvidia’s GPUs and packs significantly more horsepower. Cerebras WSE2 vs ... Full article

ISC 2024 Keynote: High-precision Computing Will Be a Foundation for AI Models

Some scientific computing applications cannot sacrifice accuracy and will always require high-precision computing. Therefore, conventional high-performance computing (HPC) will remain essential, even as many applications transition to AI and low-precision computing, which may sacrifice some accuracy. “We need to ensure that we don’t lose that high-precision arithmetic as we focus on some commercial applications,” said ... 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. This is an enormous improvement over the machine’s score of 585.34 petaflops from the previous list and a major achievement for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility ... 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 National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, retains its spot as the most powerful machine on the list with an HPL score of 1.206 exaflops. However, this new ... Full article

AI Saves the Planet this Earth Day

Earth Day was originally conceived as a day of reflection. Our planet’s life-sustaining properties are unlike any other celestial body that we’ve observed, and this day of contemplation is meant to provide all of us with a reminder that it is our solemn duty to protect all that Earth has provided for us. While there ... Full article

Google TPU v5e AI Chip Debuts after Controversial Origins

The dominance of Nvidia GPUs has companies scrambling to find non-GPU alternatives, and another mainstream option has emerged with Google’s TPU v5e AI chip. The TPU v5e is also Google’s first AI chip being mainstreamed with a suite of software and tools for large-scale orchestration of AI workloads in virtual environments. The AI chip is ... Full article

VMware Unveils New Generative AI Tools, Expands Nvidia Partnership

VMware kicked off its Explore event in Las Vegas with a series of announcements geared toward enabling enterprise generative AI development. VMware and Nvidia extended their partnership to unveil VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, an offering that promises to provide enterprises with the software and compute to fine-tune large language models and run AI-enabled ... Full article

Maximizing GPU Performance Amidst Today’s Increasing Shortages

The default method for accelerating Deep Learning projects is increasing the size of a GPU cluster. However, the cost is increasingly prohibitive. According to Andreessen Horowitz, many companies investing in AI ‘spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources,’ and rightly so. GPUs are the cornerstone of AI infrastructure and as much ... Full article

GigaIO’s New SuperNode Takes-off with Record Breaking AMD GPU Performance

The HPC user's dream is to keep stuffing GPUs into a rack mount box and make everything go faster. There are some servers that offer up to eight GPUs, but the standard server usually offers four GPU slots. Fair enough, using four modern GPUs offers a significant amount of HPC heft, but can we go ... Full article

Nvidia Breaks Gaming Tradition With RTX, Turning GPUs Into AI Powerhouses

Nvidia's RTX GPUs were largely known for gaming and graphics, but are being configured and repackaged for enthusiasts interested in trying out AI on desktops. The new GPUs are a part of Nvidia’s approach to make GPUs available wherever and whenever customers need them. The company announced RTX GPUs, which can be used for AI ... Full article

Nvidia Launches AI Factories in DGX Cloud Amid the GPU Squeeze

Nvidia is now renting out its homegrown AI supercomputers with its newest GPUs in the cloud for those keen to access its hardware and software packages. The DGX Cloud service will include its high-performance AI hardware, including the H100 and A100 GPUs, which are currently in short supply. Users will be able to rent the ... Full article

Mining Companies Consider Repurposing Idle GPUs to HPC and AI Markets

Crypto companies that loaded up on GPUs in data centers for coin mining are now investigating whether to sell or repurpose the idle hardware to the exploding artificial intelligence market. Hive Blockchain, which has 38,000 Nvidia GPUs, is repurposing the hardware for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. The company started rethinking about what to ... Full article

AMD Has a GPU to Rival Nvidia’s H100

If you have not been lucky enough to find Nvidia’s prized H100 GPU in the cloud or off the shelf, AMD has a challenger waiting in the wings that could be worth considering. AMD announced the new MI300X GPU, which is targeted at AI and scientific computing. The GPU is being positioned as an alternative ... Full article

Hyperion Research Predicts HPC-enabled AI Growth

Hyperion Research presented its annual ISC breakfast HPC market update in Hamburg where it shared a forecast that worldwide HPC-enabled AI server revenue will grow by 22.7% (CAGR) over the next 5 years. Hyperion CEO Earl Joseph predicts that 2023 will be the year of AI regulation: “We expect to see serious AI regulations primarily ... Full article

Google TPU v5e AI Chip Debuts after Controversial Origins

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