A country with deep nuclear power resources, France plans to dedicate a gigawatt of it (the power generated by 294 utility-scale wind turbines)  for an artificial intelligence computing project that rivals the Stargate project announced last month ....

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As our thoughts go out to the victims of the southern California wildfires, here’s a quick (7:29) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China's opaque TOP100 ....

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In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC-class AI systems in a managed services model. We examine ....

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A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD's products rollout, Foxconn's big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru's AGI skepticism

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Nvidia and  Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn are building what the companies said is Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. The system, to be housed at the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, will be powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture and feature the GB200 NVL72 ....

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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ....

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Reuters and other news outlets have reported that Dell Technologies and Supermicro will provide racks of servers for Elon Musks’s mammoth AI supercomputer for his xAI startup. Dell CEO Michael Dell disclosed ....

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Venado’s computing capacity will house 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips in the exascale-class HPE Cray EX supercomputer. The system will also use 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, making it the first large-scale system with Nvidia Grace CPU superchips deployed....

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Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and....

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The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, an Intel-Dell system called Dawn (Phase 1, pictured here), is up and running at a University of Cambridge data center. The system is powered by more than 1,000 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series chips and more....

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