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Join Shahin Khan and Doug Black in their weekly discussion of key technology trends that drive high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Podcasts
HPC News Bytes – 20241223
– Long-Thinking AI
– UALink + optical
– Arm-Qualcomm lawsuit
SC24, Supercomputing, CryptoSuper500, Quantum, RISC-V Summit – OXD25
We have a full house with Adrian Cockcroft, Stephen Perrenod, Chris Kruell, and Shahin Khan with a “postview” of the SC24 conference, the latest CryptoSuper500 list, a snapshot of quantum computing, and the RISC-V Summit. They also discuss Bitcoin, AI vs. HPC, HPC in the cloud, liquid cooling, InfraTech, Interconnects, Optical Computing, OpenMP, PCIe, CXL, GPUs, CPUs, and energy efficiency and ESG.
HPC News Bytes – 20241216
– 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
@HPCpodcast-94: Penguin Solutions on HPC-AI Managed Services – Industry View
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. A 25 year veteran of the technology industry, Ryan is Director of Managed Services at Penguin Solutions. He was previously a Director of Solution Services at Stratus, the continuous availability (fault-tolerant) systems company.
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.
HPC News Bytes – 20241209
– Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires
– Marvell-AWS supplier alliance
– Chinese quantum computer Tianyan-504
HPC News Bytes – 20241202
– 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
Mktg_Podcast-49: Sam Brealey on Small Business Marketing
When special guest Sam Brealey joined us in episode 38, as we discuss marketing strategy and execution, specially for small businesses, but we didn’t have enough time to go deeper into marketing for the small business. And there were several requests to do so. So we are delighted to have Sam again to have a hearty discussion of what it takes to market for small and medium sized businesses/enterprises (SMB/SME). We end with a discussion of the article Can I have your attention please?, by Sam Brealey and Max Stricker, originally published in WARC in February 2024. And yes, we also have the Cartoons of “the week”. Join us!
HPC News Bytes – 20241125
– Supercomputing show SC24 moves closer to mainstream
– Hyperion’s HPC Market Sizing
– Huawei AI chips, trade restrictions
@HPCpodcast-93: TOP500 at SC24 Conference
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. It has 11,039,616 combined CPU and GPU cores and is based on AMD 4th generation EPYC processors with 24 cores at 1.8GHz and AMD Instinct MI300A accelerators. El Capitan relies on a Cray Slingshot 11 network for data transfer and achieves an energy efficiency of 58.89 Gigaflops/watt. This power efficiency rating helped El Capitan achieve No. 18 on the GREEN500 list as well.”
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.
HPC News Bytes – 20241230
– China, Advanced GPUs, Advanced AI
– High Tech companies pursue government contracts
– Neuromorphic chips, artificial fast neurons
– Farewell 2024, thank you @HPCpodcast listeners