A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. ....

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Designing an AI specialty chip that gains traction is a sure way to riches. That’s why so much money – $1.67 billion – is at stake in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against Google. Reuters reported this week on a federal trial in Boston in which computer scientist Joseph Bates, founder of Singular Computing....

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As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this month at the ISC conference in Hamburg, will include systems that break the vaunted exaflops barrier. That said, Google Cloud yesterday unveiled what it called the […]

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Today Google announced that its Google Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta. Designed to help Machine Learning researchers iterate faster and train more capable machine learning models, TPU Pods can include more than 1,000 individual TPU chips connected by an ultra-fast, two-dimensional toroidal mesh network.

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In this podcast, Peter Braam looks at how TensorFlow framework could be used to accelerate high performance computing. "Google has developed TensorFlow, a truly complete platform for ML. The performance of the platform is amazing, and it begs the question if it will be useful for HPC in a similar manner that GPU’s heralded a revolution."

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