Nov 18, 2024 · Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, has taken the top spot and is the third system to exceed the exascale …

Jan 8, 2025 · With the new year upon us, this is a good time to review what we learned at conferences held toward the end of last year. In this episode, sponsored by Lenovo, Adrian Cockcroft joins Shahin and Doug to discuss SC24, the …

Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference. Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second – …

Oct 14, 2024 · 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

ST PAUL, Minn., Nov. 21, 2024 — Hyperion Research today announced the recipients of the 20th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. Since 2011, these semi-annual innovation excellence awards have been recognized globally as the touchstone for outstanding achievements that were supported by the use of high performance computing. Winners have …

Dec 12, 2024 · Nov. 19, 2024 — With this profile of Argonne’s Bethany Lusch, insideHPC begins a new series called The Vanguards, intended to spotlight up-and-coming thought leaders, creative thinkers and innovators in HPC-AI, in scientific and technical computing.

Jan 2, 2025 · Italian energy company Eni has officially announced one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers that will be used to to scale up its oil and gas discovery technology and support its decarbonisation and clean energy strategies. The system appeared in the latest TOP500 listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, ranking no. 5 on the […]

Oct. 9, 2024 — HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business annoiunced a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. INNOVATE is a series of dielectric thermal management fluids formulated with proprietary, ultra-pure, Highly Refined Alkanes (HRA) technology. The company said HRA enables exceptional heat transfer capabilities while offering broad compatibility with …

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 27, 2025 — Bodo.ai, an open source start-up focused on transformative Python, has released its high performance computing engine for Python under the Apache License.

If you’re new to all of this, you probably have a really basic question: “Just what is high performance computing (HPC) anyway?” First, a definition to get things started: