From Double-Wide Racks to “Deep Space RISC-V”
– HPE Juniper Broadcom AMD Helios
– OCP Open Rack Wide
– Sale-up on Ethernet, UALoE
– China signals strength
– China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 photonic quantum computer
– High Availability and “Rad-Hard” chips in space
– NASA’s New Radiation-Hardened AI Processor
– Nvidia, Corning, big optical fiber deal
– Optical computing
– New MRC RDMA on Ethernet fabrics
– MRC vs RoCEv2 and Infiniband
– AMD strengths in GPUs and CPUs
– Ocean wave energy for data centers
– Nvidia’s secret weapon
– Why CPU-only supercomputers
– China’s LineShine Supercomputer
– Japan’s Fugaku.next
Olivier Ezratty, one of the most respected independent voices in quantum technologies, is the special guest of the @HPCpodcast in a lively, candid, and wide-ranging discussion of the state of the quantum industry.
– Cisco Universal Quantum Switch
– Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) enters real world deployments
– CPO: AMD, NVDA, TSMC, Global Foundries
– Vox checks in on Los Alamos use of AI for nuclear simulations
– DARPA HARQ Heterogeneous quantum architectures
– HARQ program, IonQ, memQ
– TSMC and ASML bullish on AI demand
– Stanford AI Index 2026 insights
– Global AI competition
– Intel Tesla Terafab
– Intel Google CPU IPU
– Fujitsu U. Osaka early-FTQC
– Caltech data sample streaming for quantum computing in AI
– UALink 1.0 Specs vs NVLink
– Nvidia invests $2bn in Marvell
– NVLink Fusion
– Why big companies invest in small ones
– Andrew Ng on anti-AI activism
– 32, 16, 8, TurboQuant at 3.5 bits… do I hear 1?
– PrismML’s Bonsai-8B 1-bit LLM
-Arm enters the chip business with Arm AGI CPU
– Is AI inference increasing the CPU:GPU ratio?
– Google’s TurboQuant algorithm
– Data center energy efficiency
– Bringing back a 2,000-year-old cement battery
– India’s chip industry
– TSMC’s 2nm capacity crunch
– $20B for a TeraFab ?
– GTC postview, list of announcements
– GPUs and China
– DoE $293m funding RFA for technology challenges
– Volume on HPC-AI-Quantum co-design, call for contributions
– Turing Award goes to QKD inventors, quantum cryptography pioneers
– GTC, G stands for growth
– Nvidia’s historical and future market segments
– Nvidia Nemotron agentic model, LPU team
– Chipper clouds: Cerebras+AWS, d-Matrix+Gimlet Labs
– AI’s next big thing? AMI’s “world model” JEPA
– AMI’s massive $1B+ *seed* round
– European AI companies
– InsideHPC signs off
– AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade
– CPUs are in short supply too
– What is causing IT shortages
– Foxconn is upbeat about 2026
– Foxconn, its rivals, and its customers
– EuroHPC Summit 2026 postponed
– AI for military use; Anthropic, OpenAI, DoD
– SambaNova: Intel partnership, new SN50 chip
– GTC 2026
– Mobile World Congress 2026
– AI power needs
– Small Modular Reactors (SMR)
– US military, DOE, airlift small reactor
– Quantum “teleportation”
– How does Quantum Communication work?
– Silicon photonics for quantum computing
– “Ride the Wave, Build the Future: Scientific Computing in an AI World”, by Dongarra, Reed, Gannon
– Call for National Moonshot Program for future HPC systems
– DOE Genesis Mission, 26 Challenges for National Science and Technology
– NSF $100M National Quantum and Nanotechnology Infrastructure, NQNI
– State of The Quantum Computing Industry
– Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Quantum Computing
– Sovereign AI: what is it, and does anyone have it?
– Bullish on Eviden: Europe’s top system company restores old name
– Intel to build server GPUs of its own
– MIT Technology Review AI Predictions
– Microsoft Maia 200 for Inference
– Nvidia H200 (not H20) for China
– Corning-Meta Data Center
– Nvidia-CoreWeave AI Deal
– Neoclouds’ role in Chip vs Cloud competition
– Intel earnings, outlook
– Industry-wide supply shortage
– Shrinking windows of vendor price quotes
– Micron fuels upstate New York tech hub
– Chip investments in US regions
Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President & Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.
AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important. We discuss a broad range: technical optimizations for AI storage, DPUs and future directions, alignment with streaming, HPC, and accelerated computing, pilot to production and training to inference technical and operational challenges, sovereign AI and data sovereignty, and more. Join us!
– OpenAI and Cerebras
– Taiwan Pledges $250B US investment
– TSMC in Arizona
– Intel 18A fab and Apple
– Inside an AI lab online movie is a 300-million-view hit
– CES 2026
– Nvidia Vera Rubin, in-house co-Design
– AMD Helios, MI400 MI500
– TSMC GigaFab Arizona
– Intel Panther Lake, 18A Fab
– Sandia National Lab Neuromorphic Computing for PDE Math
– China’s access to H200 GPUs
– Meta acquires Manus
– Sandia’s new photonics chip
– Nvidia Groq $20B deal
– Quantum-HPC hybrid systems and applications
– Quantum control, scale, error correction
– NCAR Closure
– High Frequency Trading race to save nanoseconds
– AI federated learning at DOE labs
– Perspective from “AI nobility” who are also “AI doomers”
– Nvidia H200 exports to China
– H20, H200, Chinese chips: how do they stack up?
– Few fast GPUs vs many slow GPUs
– China’s electricity production
– Datacenter electricity use in the US
– Cell-phone sized AI supercomputer
– HPC at the edge
– Regulating AI
– Marvell in AI, Celestial AI
– Co-Packaged Optics, Photonics Interconnects
– Lasers for EUV, xLight FEL Lasers, ASML Cymer’s LPP Lasers
– ASML, Canon, Nikon
– Chinese efforts in chip manufacturing: SMEE, SiCarrier
– Canon’s Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL)
– China’s Xizhi Electron Beam Lithography
– Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)’s simplified optics in EUV
– SDCS Research on Parkinson’s Disease
– CRN’s Top 10 Semiconductor Companies of 2025
– Google TPU vs. Nvidia
– Neoclouds, New Customer Class
– DOE Genesis Mission National Initiative
– SC25 quick takes
– Thank you St. Louis
– Hyperion Research annual SC briefing
– Hyperion quantum computing update
– New public-private partnership model for DOE’s new supercomputers
Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list. They go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations.
– Chip Restrictions in China
– Quantum Computing: IBM, Quantinuum, D-Wave, US DOE, UK NMI-Q, Julich
– SDSC 40th Anniversary, the original 5 NSF centers
– SC25 glance ahead
Dan Nystedt, vice president of research at Tri-Orient Investments, joins us to discuss the Asian tech scene: geopolitical tensions and Taiwan’s role, rivalries in chip manufacturing and AI, complexities of the global tech supply chain, and China’s rare earth dominance and geopolitical impact.
– Quantum-accelerated supercomputing
– NVQLink, QCS, QEC
– Tesla Intel collaboration?
– Is the chip era ending?
– SC25 offers new options for those impacted by US Government shutdown
– New Exa-Class Supercomputers at DOE labs, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA, Oracle,
– AI-RAN, Telecoms+AI, Nvidia+Nokia+partners
– Intel+SambaNova ?
– Google Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage
– Quantum Computing Applications and Current Status
– US Govt’s Rumored Interest in Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms
– NextSilicon’s New Chip
– A Bit of History on Reconfigurable Computing, Data Flow Architecture, Systolic Arrays
– How about an AI system that needs 2x the energy NYC uses?
– A GPU for every person
– HPC-Quantum hybrid systems
– Exascale Day 10/18, ExaFlops or ExaWatts?
– Seymour Cray 100th birthday
– Cray-1 50th anniversary
– US Mint’s new dollar coin featuring the Cray-1
– Cray-1 masterclass in… branding!
– AMD OpenAI
– AMD Oracle
– Intel Clearwater Forest (Xeon 6+)
– Intel Fab52 18A looks like is catching up with TSMC
– SC25 conference looks like another big one
We had the opportunity to catch up again with Professors Keren Bergman to discuss the latest developments in all things optical: co-packaged photonics/opto-eletcronics/silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and optical computing.
– Provably unconditional quantum (information) supremacy
– Big clouds balance own vs merchant GPUs
– Big unexpected players in HPC/AI infratech
– “World Models” aim for the next big thing in AI
– Microsoft’s $3.3B datacenter, with a $4B one to Follow
– OpenAI talks central-park-sized datacenter, times 13
– In-Chip ‘Microfluidics’ cooling
– Caltech tames 6,100 neutral atom qubits with 12,000 optical tweezers
– Nvidia, Intel, and $5B
– Is APU the way to go?
– Nvidia, Enfabrica, and $0.9B
– Interconnects and Networking key to AI Data Center
– PsiQuantum and $1 Billion
– Investment continues to grow for Quantum Tech
– Nvidia Rubin CPX
– AI Inference, Prefill, Decode, Context
– Oracle and OpenAI
– Nvidia and OpenAI in the UK
– UK MOD Google Cloud
– Digital Sovereignty
– Cooler AI: Cutting energy costs with Adiabatic Reversible Computing
– More Heat in Chip Wars: OpenAI joins the race to design custom AI silicon
– Ironwood Rising: Google’s next-gen chip may debut in Neoclouds
– Made in India: Nation unveils its latest fully homegrown chip
– HPC User Forum 2025
– Europe’s Exascale: Jülich unveils its 64-bit powerhouse
– Quantum Cash Flow: Industry kicks off September with billion-dollar momentum
– MIT Quantum Index report 2025
– AMD+IBM for supers+quantum
– Here comes tent-as-a-datacenter
– Nvidia Earnings
– Hot Chips conference recap
– FugakuNEXT, Japan’s next leadership supercomputer led by RIKEN
– Fujitsu MONAKA CPU
– Fujitsu’s 1000-qubit Superconducting Quantum Computer
– CPU-GPU-QPU hybrid systems coming
– US Government’s equity stake in Intel: “Arsenal of Democracy” or “intervention”?
– Softbank bets on Intel
– New geopolitical football: H20 GPUs
We are delighted to again welcome Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University to discuss the latest edition of the the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool. Nestor has degrees from Harvard and Oxford in addition to being a fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. We touch on several of the 12 key findings of the report as we highlight important issues in AI such as its impact on jobs, geopolitics, and social trust.
– Will US Government invest in Intel?
– How are Chinese AI chips performing for new LLMs?
– No slowdown in funding for new AI chip startups
– NSF and NVIDIA chip in for Science
– TSMC employees caught in 2nm espionage charges
– Trump calls for Intel CEO to resign
– Curtain fall for Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer
– Paper review: Generative AI as a Geopolitical Factor in Industry 5.0
– David Patterson on federal cuts for research
– Jack Dongarra on supercomputing, AI, quantum computing, and geopolitics
– Comparing AI strategies: US, EU, China
– AI emerges as one of top 5 reasons for job losses
– AI startup funding continues to boom
– VCs find it more challenging to raise their own funds
– US AI Action Plan
– STMicro NXP MEMS sensors
– Nvidia H20, TSMC packaging capacity
– Top-20 AI Supercomputers
– 1-million-GPU systems
– Rapidus of Japan’s 2nm fab
– IBM Power11, Sypre accelerator
– HotChips conference
– CUDA for RISC-V
– SemiAnalysis on the business of AI: GPUs, Neoclouds, Inference Providers, Applications
– 2nm fab race: TSMC, Intel, Samsung aim to ship this year
– IFS external customers
– Nvidia valuation: a trillion here a trillion there!
– IDC projects a $366B global server market in 2025, 45% y/y growth annually over 2024, 134% y/y growth in Q1
– The European Quantum Act announced its Quantum Strategy aiming to leverage deep science for global quantum leadership by 2030
– TSMC’s 3nm fab in Arizona ahead of schedule, first batch of wafers expected in 2027
– US lifts EDA software export restrictions to China
– GPU-ASIC War
– Hyperscalers’ CPUs, “GPUs”, DPUs, QPUs
– Google TPU-7 and Open AI?
– Meta’s AI chip tape out
– Microsoft’s AI chip delays
– Why do engineering projects get delayed?
– Chip co-designers break into chip supply chain
– Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer in 2029?
– Quantum computing roadmaps, performance benchmarks, industry metrics, M&A
– RIKEN and Fujitsu team up again for Fugaku.next, Japan’s next-gen flagship supercomputer
– AMD MI350X and MI355X new GPUs
– AMD ROCm 7.0 software
– AMD Helios rackscale system
– Fujitsu Monaka chip,
– SIGHPC Travel Grants for SC25
– HPCGuru signs off
The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released today at the ISC conference, with a new addition to the top 10. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis as they go over the details, key takeawats, how continents, companies, and architectures fair, and cover the full suite of benchmarks: HPL, Green500, HPCG, HPL-MxP (AI), IO500, and MLPerf.
– French gov’t to acquire Eviden
– Made-in-China 5nm chips
– WSTS semiconductor market forecast
– Can AI end the world? Stephen Hawking’s warning
– Nvidia Earnings
– US Senators react to Nvidia’s plans for facility in China
– New compliant chips for China by Nvidia and AMD
– Trade restrictions reach EDA software
– Vertical integration reaches China: Sugon-Hygon merger
– AMD-Sanmina split ZT Systems
– DOE NERSC’s “Doudna” supercomputer
– UK-EU dial up supercomputer re-collaboration
– Big AI in hot pursuit of AGI and SI
– Stargate plans for US center with 400K GPUs, other sites in Mid-East and Asia
– Would Nvidia invest in PsiQuantum?
– Photonic and silicon-based Quantum Computing line up
– D-Wave rolls out new Advantage 2
– RISC-V turns 15, positions itself “as a pillar of digital sovereignty on the world stage”
– ISC25 June 10th in Hamburg with 195 exhibitors from 31 countries
– Computex 2025
– NVLink Fusion, DGX Cloud Lepton
– Intel 18A Fab Panther Lake, Gaudi 3 PCIe, Intel Arc Pro
– Jack Dongarra, US Leadership in HPC
– Matrix Algebra, 64 bit precision
– Chiplet Alliance, UCIe consortium
– “Motherchip” vs. Motherboard
– SMIC, China’s Semiconductor Industry
– Cisco in quantum networking, quantum scale-out
– HPSF.io open source HPC stack
– The journal Nature sees US science brain drain as EU allocates €500m to attract international scientists
– Japan’s Rapidus 2nm chips
– McKinsey’s $7T datacenter forecast
– Nvidia, trade restrictions, national competitiveness
– Geoffrey Hinton’s AI warning
– Salishan Conferenc
– HPC-AI Divergenece
– FugakuNext Zettascale?
– TSMC A14 Fab, Intel 18A Fab
– AmKor CoWoS Packaging Arizona
– Intel Earnings, AI strategy
– This week in GPU geopolitics
– Intel and Silverlake in Altera FPGA deal
– Storage is what’s next as investment soars
– 2nm chips are coming to Taiwan and Arizona
– Argonne’s nuclear reactor digital twin helps monitor, manage, train
– An AI factory in the sky? Building data centers in space or on the moon using Space Based Solar Power (SSP)
– TSMC may face US$1B penalty
– Chinese AI players order $16B of Nvidia H20s
– Hyperion Research says HPC-AI market grew a whopping 23.5% in 2024, poised to exceed $100B by 2028
– US Tariffs and Technology Sector
– Intel-TSMC Joint Venture?
– DARPA fuels Waferscale co-packaged optics via Cerebras and Ranovus
– Sandia National Lab to test laser-based photonic cooling via Maxwell Labs
– 8 Tbps optical UCIe chiplet for scale-up by Ayar Labs
– Lightmatter 3D co-packaged optics
– AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000 GPU cluster at Oracle cloud
– ASML to open repair hub in China
– EuroHPC-JU’s CINECA selects 140-Qubit Pasqal system
– ORNL sees a path for quantum performance advantage for Fluid Dynamics
– Classiq, Deloitte Tohmatsu, and Mitsubishi Chemical compress quantum circuits by 97% and 54%
– Prof Torsten Hoefler of ETH wins ACM Prize in Computing
– GTC25 Quantum Day
– Post-Quantum Cryptography guidelines
– Quantum Blockchain?
– NVMe-enabled HDD storage with SSD cache
In what is becoming an annual tradition, we are “Live from Nvidia GTC25” AI-everywhere show. We cover everything from industry landscape to Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Feynman, plus silicon photonics for cluster interconnect fabric (star of the show, really), the complexity of inference for customers, low-end systems, power and cooling (did we hear 600 KW per rack?), software including cluster-level AI-workload-focused open-sourced Dynamo “OS”, and storage (the semantic kind).
– What to expect from Intel’s new CEO
– Did D-Wave achieve quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem?
– “AI Woodstock” GTC25 is in San Jose, CA this week
Just before the GTC25 conference, and in the 100th episode of the full format @HPCpodcast, we welcome a very special guest, the great Dr. Ian Cutress, Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular video channel TechTechPotato to discuss the state of AI and advanced chips, new technologies and architectures, the startup scene, and top trends in semiconductor design & manufacturing. Join us!
– TSMC $100B investment in Arizona Factories
– EuroHPC Project DARE using RISC-V
– Julich Hybrid Supercomputer with D-Wave
– Quantum Computing Stock Price Volatility
– Chinese Quantum Computer Betters Google’s Willow
– Supercomputing Asia 2025 (SCA25) held this week in Singapore
Dr. Handel Jones, author of the book When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S., and the Race to Control a Smart Planet, and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc. joins us again to discuss the geopolitics of technology. Dr. Jones was a specia; guest of this podcast in episode 48 in January 2023. Fast moving technologies matched with big changes in global politics and policy creates a potent mix. So we were delighted to have the opportunity to revisit many of the topics we covered last time and explore new topics.
– Government layoffs funding disruptions cause uncertainty and concern for scientific leadership
– Cat Qubits: AWS Ocelot, Alice and Bob
– ASIC vs GPUs vs Accelerators
We are delighted to have as special guests today three of the top analysts in the HPC, AI, Cloud, and Quantum fields, representing the industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Earl Joseph is Hyperion CEO, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director, and Bob Sorensen, Senior VP of Research.
Join us for an In Depth discussion of the current state and future trends in HPC, AI, Quantum, Cloud Computing, Exascale, Storage, Interconnects and Optical I/O, and Liquid Cooling.
– New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU: Majorana 1
– DARPA US2QC program
– (Funding) and harnessing idle GPUs anywhere on the internet
– France’s CEA advances in fusion energy research
– Arm to sell its own CPU? Meta as first customer?
– Big AI, Big Power, Big Chill… Big Pollution?
– Intel’s fate puts national security and market forces into focus
– Europe falls in-line to avid falling behind in AI
– GE Aerospace gains access to exascale power via DOE INCITE program
– Big AI land grab
– Nuclear power for data centers
– New European-origin quantum system in Spain
– Softbank eyes Ampere
In this In-Depth feature of the @HPDpodcast, Addison Snell, co-founder and CEO of Intersect360 joins Shahin and Doug as they discuss a wide range of topics in HPC, AI, and Quantum Computing.
– DeepSeek, 1+5 lessons
– Rack Scale Arch redux, Intel GPU roadmap change
– LLNL and OpenAI, national security apps, fully on-prem?
– Google and Kairos Power, Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors
– Massive AI datacenter investments: $500B Stargate, $600B Saudi
– When datacenters can’t get bigger
– India enters the chip manufacturing market
– CHIPS Act in Trump Administration
– Quantum Computing stocks
– Intel’s mystery acquirer
– HPE’s $1B win
Datacenter power and cooling has rapidly emerged as a critical topic in HPC and AI. System roadmaps only point to additional requirements. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast’s Industry View, we are joined by Chris Orlando, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of DDC Solutions to discuss high density cooling, dynamic control, safety and compliance, and the enduring role of air cooling in the datacenter.
– China’s TOP100
– AI PCs, workstations, workgroup servers
– DataCenter Capacity Growth
– MPI ABI
Review of SC24, RISC-V Summit, and AWS Reinvent. Topics include: HPC and AI Clouds, CXL, Liquid Cooling, Optical Interconnects, Optical Computing, Novel CPUs and GPUs, the state of RISC-V in servers and supercomputers, TOP500, Chiplets, AWS CPU and GPU strategies.
– Beyond EUV lithography, LLNL, DOE
– ASML, GPUs, China, trade sanctions
– AI infrastructure build-out
– TSMC 2nm Chips in 2025
– China, Advanced GPUs, Advanced AI
– High Tech companies pursue government contracts
– Neuromorphic chips, artificial fast neurons
– Farewell 2024, thank you @HPCpodcast listeners
– Long-Thinking AI
– UALink + optical
– Arm-Qualcomm lawsuit
– Google “Willow” quantum chip: hype or reality?
– European supercomputing site chooses US vendor: LRZ’s Blue Lion
– China-US technology clash and mutual retaliation
– ORNL supercomputers accelerate research on this fast-growing tree
Special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC class AI systems in a managed services model, the landmines organizations need to avoid, and the opportunities for seizing success. This episode is part of the @HPCpodcasts Industry View feature, which takes on major issues in the world of HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders.
– Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires
– Marvell-AWS supplier alliance
– Chinese quantum computer Tianyan-504
– Do LLMs understand?
– Collaborative Agentic AI
– Frontier simulates the universe
– France builds more nuclear reactors
– TSMC’s 2nm chips in the US slated for 2028
– Supercomputing show SC24 moves closer to mainstream
– Hyperion’s HPC Market Sizing
– Huawei AI chips, trade restrictions
SC24 is off to a great start with over 17,000 attendees, 480 exhibitors from 29 countries, and new TOP500 list that features a new champion! “The new El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, U.S.A., has debuted as the most powerful system on the list with an HPL score of 1.742 EFlop/s.” Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new list. As usual, they go over notable additions, performance efficiency, power efficiency in the Green500 list, the difficult HPCG benchmark that usually sets the lower bound of system performance.
– Supercocmputing-24 conference starts today
– TSMC, CHIPS Act, semiconductor demand
– Sandia National Lab and Cerebras
A lively discussion about the Age of Computation, Ultra Ethernet, datacenter power and cooling, the creative process for AI, model certainty for AI, AI and emergent behavior, and other HPC topics.
– TSMC revenue jump
– TSMC barred from making leading-edge chips abroad
– AMD-Fujitsu team up for a new superchip?
– AMD, Intel, Nvidia datacenter revenue
– Green energy momentum in the US
Special guest David Kanter of ML Commons joins Shahin Khan and Doug Black to discuss AI performance metrics. In addition to the well-known MLPerf benchmark for AI training, ML Commons provides a growing suite of benchmarks and data sets for AI inference, AI storage, and AI safety. David is a founder, board member of ML Commons and the head of MLPerf benchmarks.
– India rising
– High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in short supply
– Novel accelerator architectures
– CHIPS Act funds Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography technology in the US
– TSMC delivers good news for chip manufacturing in the US
– Denmark builds AI supercomputer with Eviden and Nvidia
– White House tasks NNSA/DOE with assessing AI risk for National Security
– 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
– 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
– 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
– Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX
– Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies
– AMD Turin, AMD UDNA
– Quantum update
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.
– AI-fueled M&A rumors: Intel, Qualcomm, Ampere
– Three Mile Island resurrected to feed GPUs for Microsoft
– Beyond GPUs lie specialized chiplets
We discuss the Aurora supercomputer, Exascale, AI, reliability at scale, technology adoption agility, datacenter power and cooling, cloud computing, quantum computing.
– Oracle Cloud 130K Blackwell plan
– AI inference battleground
– Storage for AI
– Rhea takes Jupiter to Jülich
– 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
– Nvidia Blackwell delays
– Inference champions
– AI regulations
– Supercomputing in Russia
– 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
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.
– 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
– 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?
– Intel Financial Results
– Nvidia Blackwell Delays
– Which programming language is most energy efficient?
– Discoveries led by exascale software
– 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
– 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?
– AI survey by S&P Global Market Intelligence commissioned by Vultr
– OpenAI proposes 5 levels of AI based on capability
– SoftBank acquires Graphcore
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.
– SMIC Wafer Yields for Huawei Ascend 910B AI Chip
– Goldman Sachs Report on Gen AI ROI, Readiness
– New Startup Fuels Special-Purpose Chip Trend
– 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
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.
– GPU price wars?
– Rectangular wafers for more/bigger chips
– AI assistant for science
– AI Supercomputer in Japan, New exascale in the EU
– 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?
– 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
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.
– 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?
– 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
– Who will join the Exascale club next?
– Nvidia “paints it green”
– Other AI chips impress
– Student Cluster Competition winners
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.
– 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
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).
– 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
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.
– 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
– New supercomputers at Los Alamos and France-CEA
– Stanford AI Index Report
– Bitcoin Halving
– Argonne-UIC Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability
– 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
– 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
– 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
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.
– Nvidia GTC24
– Intel fab and US CHIPS Act
– Who isn’t in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium?
– Samsung HBM-or-GPU blend
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.
– European AI Act
– 5nm Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine 3
– A faster matrix-multiply algorithm?
– Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
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.
– 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
– 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
– Intel-4 fab, IDM 2.0, Ericsson
– CXL, Samsung, Red Hat
– AI startup funding
– Quantum Key Distribution landscape
– 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
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.
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
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.
– 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
– SC23 stats
– Exascale update and future
– Raft of new chips
– Quantum Village at SC23
– UCIe, PCIe, Ultra Ethernet
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.
– SC23 Starts, TOP500 later today
– Storage at Scale, DAOS, Aurora, Linux Foundation
– Sandia National Lab and DDN
– TSMC 1.4nm, SMIC financials
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.
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.
– 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
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.
– 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
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.
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.
– 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
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.
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
– Intel Innovation Event, FPGA, Open Source
– AI-Oriented Papers in Science
– Arm IPO and Strategic Shift
– AMD EPYC 8004
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.
– NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM
– Honeywell Leverages Quantum Computing Encryption Keys
– TSMC Silicon Photonics
– Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification
– HPC Forum Tuscon
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.
– 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
Greg Kurtzer, founder and chief executive officer of CIQ joins us to discuss the recent Linux controversy and the subsequent formation of the Open Enterprise Linux Association, a new industry alliance led by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE. Stay tuned for an in-depth discussion with Mike McGrath of Red Hat.
– Gartner predicts accelerated growth for CDI
– MPI ABI to simplify parallel apps
– AMD buys AI software Mipsology, pointing to where chip companies will seek use cases and growth
– HPC in the Cloud gets “recycled”
– Intel calls off Tower Deal
– HotChips Conference Preview
– GPU Shortage as AI Leadership Grows in Importance Globally
– Samsung 4nm Chip Factory in Texas with Groq as 1st customer Projected for 2nd Half of 2024
– Linux Wars continue as Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux Association
– China’s tech companies place $5 billion of orders on US chips
– Intel improves on-chip vector instructions
– 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists also point to TOP500
– Domain Specific Architecture (DSA) – McKinsey Report
– Intel Expands in Oregon, its biggest site
– Photons are coming: PCIe over optical
– Oak Ridge QC Hat Trick: Singlet Fusion simulation of linear H4 molecule w Quantinuum
The Cambrian explosion of AI chips has made it hard to tell what chip is good for what. Venkat Vishwanath, Data Science Team Lead at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), and a Gordon Bell finalist, joins us to discuss the ALCF AI Testbed. Currently working with systems such as Cerebras, Graphcore, SambaNova, Habana, Groq, Untether, Tenstorrent, Esperanto, and others, the Testbed evaluates accelerators from a usability and performance standpoint.
– AWS p5 instance with Nvidia H100 and AMD Milan
– TACC Stampede-3 mini Aurora plus Omni-Path
– Micron 8-high 24GB HBM3
– Cineca’s “White Space” building infrastructure
Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Meta Microsoft Llama 2 Open Source AI, NTT Tokyo Tech 300GHz 6G, Cerebras-G42 AI, NREL Quantum w Atom Computing
– SC23 registrations open
– Export control
– Linux wars continue
– Chiplet scale-out, or is it cloud?
– Quantum Computing calculates tackles the hydrogen molecule (H2), it’s a start
Dr. Joe Landman joins us to discuss the recent firestorm in the Linux world when Red Hat changed the access mechanism and distribution rights of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We unpack what happened, who it affects, and how the landscape might change.
New in the @HPCpodcast, a weekly news show, 3-5 min, on important industry news. LLNL El Capitan, LLNL Director Kim Budil named as one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2023 by Fast Company, Inflection AI’s 22k GPU system, NYS DFS AI, Intel & Nvidia collaborate on Confidential Computing, Photonics News, Linux Wars
Mark Himelstein, CTO of RISC-V joins us to discuss RISC-V: HPC type use cases from sensor to supercomputer, achieving customization without loss of compatibility, AI and its impact on chips and systems, and the question on everyone’s mind: when do we see RISC-V in servers and supercomputers!
What’s the latest in quantum computing? Special guest Bob Sornesen of Hyperion Research joins us again to discuss market growth, customer sentiment, recent advances in noise management, applications, and the geopolitics of quantum computing.
University of Delaware Professor Sunita Chandrasekaran joins us to discuss exascale software, directive based parallel programming, the emergence of research software engineering as a career, what AI will mean for the industry, and the importance of communication and community among teams.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
A look back at ISC23 including quantum computing, EuroHPC, the future of Supercomputing with a backdrop of Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI), AI, and Cloud, and whether we are living in times when “everybody” is a systems vendor.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
Doug is in Hamburg, Germany for the ISC23 conference where the 61st edition of the TOP500 list has just been published. 30+ years of systematic data on the highest performing computer architecture and configurations is a treasure trove and we look at the top line insights from this installment, including the GREEN500, HPCG, and the AI-inspired mixed precision benchmark HPL-MxP.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
This episode starts to look at HPC software and its convergence with traditional enterprise IT software. We cover the evolution of software through phases of IT, the roster of relevant HPC software from development environment to system administration, and end-user requirements, and traditional and emerging applications. Future episodes and guests will focus on various aspects of HPC software.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
Liquid cooling in supercomputing came up in our last episode on decarbonization and environment, sustainability, and governance (ESG). We cover liquid cooling in this episode: everything from chilled doors to direct-to-chip, immersion cooling, vapor chambers, and even under-water data centers.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
We caught up with Adrian Cockcroft again, this time to discuss the growing importance of, and the HPC market’s efforts towards, decarbonization, the use of renewable energy, and meeting environment, sustainability, and governance (ESG) objectives.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor and founder of research and advisory firm AVOA, joins us in a discussion of generative AI, data sources, emerging uses of AI in the enterprises, and the complexities of managing and regulating AI.
Post-Exascale Computing for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) is the subject of a new report by a distinguished working and review committes comprised of notable supercomputing experts. We bring you a summary of the report’s key findings and recommendations. @HPCpodcast is delighted that two of the panelists were guests of this show in recent months.
We discuss Silicon Photonics with Keren Bergman of Columbia University. The wide range of topics includes: Silicon Photonics vs. Fiber Optics used in telecommunications, the use of photonics c0mmunication vs. computation, what aspects of light are used to achieve efficiencies, packet switching vs circuit switching, current advances and speeds, economic considerations and likely first uses, supply chain, fabrication, assembly, and packaging technologies for photonics.
When soldiers are software engineers a new warfare emerges. House Committee on Science Space and Technology hearing on “US, China, and the Fight for Global Leadership: Building a U.S. National Science and Technology Strategy”. New funding (£800m) for the UK Exascale program. Recent changes to the Intel high-end GPU roadmap.
In what might become a regular segment, we cover important advances in tech that signal changes in markets and policies. This time, we discuss the iPhone moment in AI and the ensuing AI gold rush, virtual quantum computers, and how silicon photonics can change the chip industry.
Bob Coecke, co-author of the recently-released book Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World joins us to discuss why quantum mechanics is so hard, the inspirations behind the book, and how he’s working to make quantum computing more accessible through his work.
The latest news in Quantum Computing, as well as Google’s response to ChatGPT, Bard, IBM cloud’s new AI supercomputer, which also leads to a discussion of IBM.
We caught up with Prof. Matsuoka and Hoefler to discuss Myths and Legends in High-Performance Computing” which tackles 12 important topics, helps formulate the right questions, and instigate the important discussions.
Join us for an insightful discussion with Dr. Handel Jones, author of the recent book When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S., and the Race to Control a Smart Planet, and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc. Subjects covered include where the United States stands compared to China in advanced technologies, trade wars, chip fabrication economics and capacity, battery technologies, demographics, Taiwan, rare earths, Covid, and what the future might hold.
In the first episode of 2023, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent chip announcements and their implications for HPC. Also covered are industry predictions for the year to come that were featured in the InsideHPC article, An AI-Flavored Set of HPC Predictions for 2023, AI for public use, and a promise to invite Prof. Matsuoka to discuss his recent paper on common myths in HPC.
Year-in-review double-issue episode covering some of the notable topics of the past year including: HPC market growth, China, exascale and future of supercomputing, quantum tech, SC22, AI, ACM Turing Award, interconnects, Nvidia-Arm deal, Chips and Science Act, HPC software, and fusion energy.
Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Gabriella Carini, and Meifing Lin of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) join Shahin and Doug to discuss all things Quantum, covering Quantum Sensing, Quantum Networking, and Quantum Computing. We also get a glimpse of BNL and its global leadership across a wide range of research that it conducts.
Join us as we review what happened at SC22 in Dallas last week. Topics include: the energy and attendance at the show, liquid cooling, PCIe, CXL, AI Chips, Open Standards, Storage, Future of Supercomputing, global players, and yes, where SC23 will be held and what its tagline is!
The 60th edition of the TOP500 list is here, reresenting 30 years of systematic data on the highest performing computer architecture and configurations. We look at the highlights of what changed and what can be expected to change in systems, technologies, and geographies.
Chris Miller, author of the important and riveting book Chip War, joins us to discuss the crucial nature of the semiconductor industry and and the global competition that has been a part of its history since early days. Chip War has been shortlisted for Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.
SC taglines since SC14. Trade wars and the impact they could have on scientific collaboration. We’ll have an entire show on ship wars next week with a special guest. Also covered is new shared memory capabilities in the cloud.
We are delighted to havet Kathy Yelick as our special guest to celebrate the Exascale Day (10/18). Dr. Yelick is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley, and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Blades are shipping for the storied Aurora exascale supercomputer. The well-crafted and executed Intel Innovation Day. Linux wars. And the Tesla AI day.
We caught up with Steve Conway, well-known HPC executive and analyst formerly with IDC and Hyperion Research, in an engaging and wide ranging discussion of HPC technology and policy trends.
How did Richard Feynman end up playing the bongo drums? How did a new take on Amdahl’s Law helped propel massively parallel computing and become Gustafson’s Law? And what’s wrong with IEEE 754 number format that the new Posit format fixes? We go to the source as we welcome special guest John Gustafson in another very lively conversation.
Netflix’s move to the cloud, ESG and HPC data, Formula-1 racing, and cloud configurations and interconnects for HPC and AI workloads. Cool stories and valuable insights in this episode as we get together with tech luminary and OrionX partnerAdrian Cockcroft.
Hot Chips conference: UCIe, 3D packaging, Silicon Photonics, inference in the device or in the data center, edge, CXL, code generation. Update on Quantum Computing. And dedication ceremonies for the Frontier exascale system.
After several years of experimentation and various consortia, CXL is emerging as the standard for advanced functionality for fabric technologies. We also discuss some of the details of the CHIPS and Science Act that was recently passed in the US.
We caught up with Melyssa Fratkin, Industrial Programs Director at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and co-chair of Texas Women in HPC to discuss the state of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in HPC and her recommendations on how to accelerate progress in this important area.
A lot has changed in HPC and a lot has changed in marketing. What should smart organizations do to improve their market presence? We discuss this with special guest and “SC Perennial” Mike Bernhardt.
Following reports that ASML is under diplomatic pressure to regulate the export of its fabrication equipment to China, we discuss market data, other suppliers, and some of ASML’s own suppliers. We also set up for future drill-down on HPC software, and welcome suggestions for guests who can shed light on various parts of it.
Following the Request for Information (RFI) issued last week by the DOE, we caught up with Dr. Horst Simon to take us through how the DOE is gearing up to go beyond Exascale. A very insightful conversation touching on many aspects of what’s next!
The HPC User Forum held a special event at ORNL last week, included a viewing of the facilities and discussed the future of supercomputing hardware and software and staffing challenges of HPC sites. Doug Black was there.
Sentience, consciousness, and personhood, and the urgency of thoughtful social policies based on ethical and legal frameworks. Also the state of Crypto and NFT: technologies that might find valid use cases often manifested as investment vehicles that require close scrutiny.
Dr. Sterling is Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Indiana University (IU) School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and President and Co-founder of Simultac. His many achievements include the creation in 1994 of the “Beowulf cluster” with Donald Becker at NASA, a system that helped drive the scale-out computing architecture.
ISC22, the annual International Supercomputing Conference was held last week in Hamburg, Germany, meeting in person after two years. This is a “postview” of the notable developments at this news-rich event.
Winner of the Purple Ribbon Medal, one of Japan’s highest honors, Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka oversaw the development and launch of the Fugaku supercomputer, currently number 1 on the TOP500 list. He joins us in a super fun conversation covering a wide range of topics.
Fastest AI supercomputer according to Google, price hikes by TSMC and Samsung, visualization of a black hole in our own galaxy, and IBM’s ambitious and well-executed quantum computing roadmap.
We cover the Turing Award, TOP500, the state of HPC benchmarks, China’s Exascale systems, and future directions in algorithms. We also talk about future of supercomputing and AI systems, and discuss proliferation of new architectures. This is another episode you’d want to listen to more than once!
New research paper puts China’s Exascale systems back in the news. And impending acquisition of Twitter leads to a discussion about the positive impact and policy challenges of our tech society.
Another must-listen episode, this time covering HPC storage with Gary Grider, leader of the high performance computing division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). News: Quantiniuum, investigating war crimes, multi-faceted math, and TSMC’s quarterly revenues.
A new segment, Top of The News, covers Federal funding for PsiQuantum and Global Foundries, the AMD-Pensando deal, and Fujitsu’s cloud offerings. The main topic is storage as we discuss Computational Storage, Erasure Coding, Storage-Class Memory, and Data-Centric AI.
Special guest Dr. Jeff Nichols oversees DOE’s National Center for Computational Sciences, and a key figure in the installation of breakthrough supercomputers such as Titan, Summit, and now Frontier.
We discuss the past and future of supercomputing as we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Frontier, the $600 million 30 MW supercomputer at ORNL, comprised of 50-60 million parts in 100+ cabinets and slated to be the first exascale computer in the US.
Shahin and Doug go over what was unveiled at the NVIDIA GTC22 conference, vendor strategies, groundbreaking advances in the industry, and the geopolitics of semiconductors.
In a recent paper, Daniel Reed, Dennis Gannon, and Jack Dongarra, have started an important discussion about HPC, its future, and its impact on American competitiveness. We welcome Dan Reed as a special guest of the @HPCpodcast to go a level deeper. Dan is Presidential Professor of Computational Science at the University of Utah and a thought leader and luminary of supercomputing.
We continue our discussion of AI in Science with Rick Stevens of Argonne National Lab. In addition to the new ways AI can help advance science, we also discuss ethics, bias, robustness, security,and explainability of AI, and whether AI can replace scientists. We end with a snapshot of Quantum Information Science (QIS).
A special 2-episode discussion of AI in Science with Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director and leader of Exascale Computing Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory and Professor at University of Chicago. Rick also led a series of Town Halls during 2019 focused on the relevance and applications of AI in scientific research. This is part 1 of our conversation.
Special guest Richard Stiennon, research analyst and author of Security Yearbook 2021, joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the state of advanced cyberwarfare involving AI and supercomputing, and its potential role in the war in Ukraine.
On the occasion of Intel’s analyst day and the 1st anniversary of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Shahin and Doug discuss the global recognition of chips as engines of economic growth, supply issues, and the competitive landscape.
Web3, IoT/Edge, AI, HPC, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, GPUs and Quantum, Cyber Risk, 5G, and BioTech represent the top-10 tech trends. Why are there so many big technology trends right now? Doug and Shahin discuss a framework to help make sense of why these trends point to important changes, how these trends are related, and what they mean individually and together.
HPC Cloud continues to grow rapidly as cloud providers pursue HPC workloads and build a variety of hardware configurations to attract them, and as Edge and Cloud help each other grow. We discuss the many dimensions of the decision to use public clouds for HPC.
Doug Black and Shahin Khan are joined by Hyperion Research CEO Earl Joseph to discuss Hyperion’s market findings. Topics include traditional HPC, AI, Cloud, the impact of Covid, industry and global perspective, and what to expect in the future.
In episode 9 of the @HPCPodcast, we cover the recent wave of news about quantum computing: melding of quantum & classical computing, error correction, financial & investment announcements, M&A and partnerships, and the connection between quantum computing and HPC.
After SC21, Patrick Kennedy of Serve the Home online publication got quite the scoop when he met with Intel’s Raja Koduri to discuss Zettascale projections and plans, stipulating a 2027 timeframe. Is that realistic? Tune in and let us know what you think.
We discuss how global competition around advanced technologies has turned geo-politics into “techno-politics” and techno-nationalism, and a recently published academic paper Chip Geopolitics: If China Invades, Make Taiwan ‘Unwantable’ by Destroying TSMC.
From COVID to Climate Change, Edge to Exascale, and AI to Autonomy, 2021 was an impactful year for HPC and Supercomputing, leading some of the most notable global technology advances and some of the most exciting business opportunities of our time. This episode is a lightning “year in review 2021” as we look back and look forward. Join us!
Special guest Bob Sornesen of Hyperion Research joins the crew to share the results of his international study to track down the size of the Quantum Computing market. Bob unveiled these results at the Q2B conference last week.
Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) is emerging as good way to pool, share, and flex resources to increase utilization. We discuss what makes CDI effective as we touch on the status of the Nvidia-Arm deal and the new Graviton-3 CPU from AWS.
Shahin Khan and Doug Black discuss the Metaverse, its consumer and industrial uses, competition for data, avatars and more realistic digital twins, commerce in the metaverse, and why so many parts of it, from immersive graphics to 5G include computationally intensive components.
TOP500 at SC21 was highly anticipated but failed to ignite. Rumored high-end systems opted not to play while entering the conversation anyway. However, the list is about more than the TOP10 or whether there are systems that should be there and those that should not. Looking at the whole list, we saw a few surprises.
Welcome to the @HPCpodcast where Shahin Khan and Doug Black discuss supercomputing technologies and the applications, markets, and policies that shape them. In this inaugural episode we cover HPC and AI chips and accelerators, startups, and unicorns, topics that are sure to reappear frequently.