Tag: supercomputers
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The Register: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/top500_el_capitan/ Source: The Register Title: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance Feedly Summary: Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recides from public view SC24 Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier’s 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new…
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Cloud Blog: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-sixth-generation-tpu-is-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future Feedly Summary: The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing…
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The Register: Chinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/us_china_investment_ban/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist Feedly Summary: Wouldn’t want to inadvertently fund the PLA The US treasury department finalized a rule on Monday that limits domestic entities’ investment in Chinese semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and AI.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…
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The Register: ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/partec_expands_supercomputer_patent_fight/ Source: The Register Title: ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia Feedly Summary: Wants injunction on GPUs that use what it alleges is its own IP German HPC vendor ParTec is taking legal action against Nvidia for alleged patent infringement, seeking an injunction to stop its GPUs being sold in…
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The Register: Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/schneider_850m_stake_motivair/ Source: The Register Title: Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal Feedly Summary: Snags controlling stake in Motivair Corporation, rest to come by 2028 Schneider Electric is taking a controlling interest in Motivair Corporation, a specialist in liquid cooling and thermal management tech for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.……
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The Register: Uncle Sam reportedly considers capping AI chip shipments to Middle East
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/us_export_cap_ai_chip_middle_east/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam reportedly considers capping AI chip shipments to Middle East Feedly Summary: Meanwhile, ASML shares plunge as China export curbs hit forecast Amid fears that Middle Eastern nations are being used to funnel AI accelerators and other sensitive technologies to China, the Biden administration is reportedly considering…
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Cloud Blog: Magic partners with Google Cloud to train frontier-scale LLMs
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/magic-ai-100m-tokens-cloud-supercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Magic partners with Google Cloud to train frontier-scale LLMs Feedly Summary: More than half of the world’s generative AI startups, including more than 90% of generative AI unicorns, are building on Google Cloud — utilizing our trusted infrastructure, a variety of hardware systems, the Vertex AI platform, and…