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Join Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief, in their weekly discussion of key technology trends that drive high performance computing and artificial intelligence.
Podcasts
HPC News Bytes – 20240826
– 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
@HPCpodcast-88: Mike Heroux of Sandia on ECP, HPC Software
We are delighted to have Dr. Mike Heroux as special guest 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.
Dr. Heroux is a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories and scientist-in-residence at St. John’s University in Minnesota. He’s been with both of those organizations for more than 25 years. Mike was also the ECP’s Director of Software Technologies. While that project has been completed, Mike’s software work has continued to receive funding. Earlier in his career, Mike was with SGI, and Cray. His focus is on all aspects of scalable scientific and engineering software for parallel computing architectures.
SimOps with Peter Ungaro and Burak Yenier of Simr
The “big idea” in this episode is SimOps, an important shift in the industry. Three of the so-called “magnificent seven” (most valuable companies in the world) are already practitioners of SimOps and have helped shape the products that support it.
Peter Ungaro, one of the most celebrated captains of the supercomputing and AI industry, formerly the CEO of Cray, SVP and General Manager of HPC, AI, Mission Critical Systems, Edge, and HP Labs at HPE, and a board member of Simr, and Burak Yenier, CEO & Co-Founder of Simr, join Shahin Khan to discuss this emerging trend.
Just as DevOps helps traditional software development/deployment become more automated, productive, scalable, and much else, SimOps does the same for the digital workflow and dataflow associated with product engineering and scientific discovery. Whether you are designing golf clubs or smart goggles, a bridge, cars, planes, medical devices, or medicines simulation is the norm and defines the whole process. It will become even more important with the advent of Digital twins, which need to be realistic, which means they need to be built with more math, physics, chemistry, etc.
HPC News Bytes – 20240819
– 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
HPC News Bytes – 20240812
– UK Govt. cuts funding to exascale and AI projects
– Investment in AI inference rises
– AI models: open source vs. guardrails
– Will SC24 be the largest supercomputing event ever?
HPC News Bytes – 20240805
– Intel financial results
– Nvidia Blackwell delays
– Which programming language is most energy efficient?
– Discoveries led by exascale software
HPC News Bytes – 20240729
– 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
HPC News Bytes – 20240722
– 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?
HPC News Bytes – 20240715
– AI survey by S&P Global Market Intelligence commissioned by Vultr
– OpenAI proposes 5 levels of AI based on capability
– SoftBank acquires Graphcore
HPC News Bytes – 20240902
– Nvidia Blackwell delays
– Inference champions
– AI regulations
– Supercomputing in Russia