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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
@HPCpodcast-66: Argonne AI Testbed w Venkat Vishwanath
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.
Technopolitics, a Technology Lens to Guide Policy – OrionX Download Podcast
Why is technopolitics a good lens? Technology has always had a big impact on geopolitics and global competitiveness. What’s special now?
A major topic that we’ve wanted to cover for a few years is technopolitics. The impact of technology on national competitiveness, and therefore on policy and supply chain, is growing. We see that in the global gold-rush frenzy towards advanced technologies: exascale supercomputers, quantum computing, AI, space tech, biotech, robotics, and so on. The first question is: what’s different now? Over the course of history, technology has always had a big impact on geopolitics, on human condition, on global competitiveness. So what’s special now? Join us!
HPC News Bytes – 20230731
– 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
HPC News Bytes – 20230724
– Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC)
– Meta Microsoft Llama 2 Open Source AI
– NTT Tokyo Tech 300 GHz 6G
– 64-way Cerebras CG-1 system with G42 Group
– NREL grid optimization with quantum tech and Atom Computing
HPC News Bytes – 20230717
– 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
@HPCpodcast-65: Linux Wars w Joe Landman
Dr. Joe Landman joins us to discuss how the open source OS community has found itself in the middle of the kind of Linux wars that can change the industry. The recent firestorm in the Linux world erupted 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. Joe has been a business and technology leader, a hands-on engineer and architect, and a data analyst and researcher. A computational physicist by training he has was one of the early pioneers of custom and accelerated systems. Read his blog on this and other HPC software here.
HPC News Bytes – 20230710
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
@HPCpodcast-64: RISC-V CTO Mark Himelstein
Mark Himelstein, CTO of RISC-V joins us to discuss the latest developments with the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) and its growing community and footprint. Topics include 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!
You may also be interested in Shahin’s conversation with Mark in August 2020 and see how things have evolved.
@HPCpodcast-63: Quantum Computing with Bob Sorensen
What’s the latest in quantum computing? Special guest Bob Sorensen of Hyperion Research joins us again to discuss market growth, customer sentiment, recent advances in noise management, applications, and the geopolitics of quantum computing.
HPC News Bytes – 20230807
– 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