The High Performance Computing PodcastPosts Tagged ‘AI’
Episode 235: HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years
HPC Market Eyes $44B New report from Hyperion Research has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, with a B, in 5 years. The industry is hitting on all cylinders, benefiting from The ExaScale race, AI coming to the enterprise only to find that it needs, or really is, HPC, depending on your point of view,…
Read MoreEpisode 233: Why did HPE buy Cray?
We exchange some pleasantries, discussing Henry’s upcoming brisket feed and his drink cooler strategy (parallel and semi-virtualized.) Then it’s on to the major topic of the day: HPE buying Cray. Shahin starts off by discussing some of HPE’s recent purchases and noting their participation in upcoming exascale conversation. With the purchase of Cray, HPE is…
Read MoreEpisode 231: TOP500 Jun2019, Facebook Coin
The new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers is out and we do our usual quick analysis. Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list. Here is a quick take: There are 65 new entries in 2019. US science is receiving support via DOE sites and academic sites like TACC.…
Read MoreEpisode 230: Forty+ different AI chips
What are we going to do with 40+ different AI chips? This week, the team looks at AI chips again, this time motivated by an article in EE Times about once such chip, Graphcore, and touts it as “the most complex processor” ever at some 20 billion transistors. The VC-backed company out of Bristol, UK is…
Read MoreEpisode 226: Enterprises go HPC, Chips go Open Source, China goes for the top spot
We continue to want to make these introductions pretty brief here but not this time, apparently! Here’s this week’s synopsis. Nvidia GTC 2019 announcements We discussed the recent GTC conference. Dan has been attending since well before it became the big and important conference that it is today. We get a quick update on what…
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