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A Look Back: Lenovo @ ISC24
June 3, 2024

Hamburg, Germany was the perfect backdrop for this year’s International Supercomputing Conference (ISC24) with beautiful weather and a bustling event at Congress Center Hamburg. Near the middle of the showroom floor stood Lenovo’s eye-catching booth featuring the recently announced Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 taking center stage along with demos outlining the booth showcasing how Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All.


Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All
May 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way we navigate and interact with the world around us. With all eyes laser-focused on AI and the impacts of it, IT decision makers are tasked with responsibly determining how AI can help their organizations and businesses. Organizational benefits include enhancing efficiency and productivity, automating repetitive tasks, and solving complex problems faster. On the business side, AI can improve customer service capabilities and create personalized customer experiences.


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Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design

A groundbreaking multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows and GPU-acceleration with the intent to advance scientific innovation and revolutionize digital design. The project, called ICECap (Inertial Confinement on El Capitan), is a transformative approach to inertial confinement fusion (ICF) design optimization targeted […]

The post Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In This Club, You Must “Earn the Exa”

There have been some recent press releases and headlines with the phrase “AI Exascale” in them. Other than flaunting the word exascale or even zettascale, these stories do not provide […]

The post In This Club, You Must “Earn the Exa” appeared first on HPCwire.

No Slowdown At TSMC, Thanks To The AI Gold Rush

With a near monopoly on advanced chip manufacturing and packaging, it is no wonder that during the AI boom that the world’s largest foundry is not only making money.

No Slowdown At TSMC, Thanks To The AI Gold Rush was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

UC San Diego Doctoral Graduate Recognized for Achievement in Astronomy

Oct. 17, 2024 — UC San Diego Alumnus Roman Gerasimov, who recently earned his doctorate from the university, has received the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Stars and Stellar Physics Division Award […]

The post UC San Diego Doctoral Graduate Recognized for Achievement in Astronomy appeared first on HPCwire.

One Laser To Pump Up AI Interconnect Bandwidth By 10X

According to rumors, Nvidia is not expected to deliver optical interconnects for its GPU memory-lashing NVLink protocol until the “Rubin Ultra” GPU compute engine in 2027.

One Laser To Pump Up AI Interconnect Bandwidth By 10X was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World

The Exascale Era began in spring 2022 when the Top500 list certified that the HPE-AMD Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had broken through the exascale computing barrier. And with the Intel-HPE Aurora system at Argonne National Laboratory confirmed by Top500 last spring, the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems – with a third, […]

The post Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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A Look Back: Lenovo @ ISC24
June 3, 2024

Hamburg, Germany was the perfect backdrop for this year’s International Supercomputing Conference (ISC24) with beautiful weather and a bustling event at Congress Center Hamburg. Near the middle of the showroom floor stood Lenovo’s eye-catching booth featuring the recently announced Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 taking center stage along with demos outlining the booth showcasing how Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All.



Lenovo is Transforming HPC & AI for All
May 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way we navigate and interact with the world around us. With all eyes laser-focused on AI and the impacts of it, IT decision makers are tasked with responsibly determining how AI can help their organizations and businesses. Organizational benefits include enhancing efficiency and productivity, automating repetitive tasks, and solving complex problems faster. On the business side, AI can improve customer service capabilities and create personalized customer experiences.


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06/2024 Highlights

The 63rd edition of the TOP500 reveals that Frontier has once again claimed the top spot, despite no longer being the only exascale machine on the list. Additionally, a new system has found its way into the Top 10.

The Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA remains the most powerful system on the list with an HPL score of 1.206 EFlop/s. The system has a total of 8,699,904 combined CPU and GPU cores, an HPE Cray EX architecture that combines 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC and AI with AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators, and it relies on Cray’s Slingshot 11 network for data transfer. On top of that, this machine has an impressive power efficiency rating of 52.59 GFlops/Watt – putting Frontier at the No. 11 spot on the GREEN500.

Also like the last list, the Aurora system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility in Illinois, USA, has claimed the No. 2 spot on the TOP500. Despite currently being commissioned and not fully complete, Aurora is now the second machine to officially break the exascale barrier with an HPL score of 1.012 EFlop/s – an improvement over the 585.34 PFlop/s score from the last list. This system is based on HPE Cray EX- Intel Exascale Computer Blade and uses Intel Xeon CPU Max series processors, Intel Data Center GPU Max Series accelerators, and a Slingshot-11 interconnect.

The Eagle system installed on the Microsoft Azure Cloud in the USA reclaimed the No. 3 spot that it achieved after its debut appearance on the previous list, and it remains the highest-ranking cloud system on the TOP500. This Microsoft NDv5 system has an HPL score of 561.2 PFlop/s and is based on Intel Xeon Platinum 8480C processors and NVIDIA H100 accelerators.

Fugaku also retained its No. 4 spot from the previous list, despite holding the No.1 spot from June 2020 until November 2021. Based in Kobe, Japan, Fugaku has an HPL score of 442 PFlop/s and it remains the highest-ranked system outside the USA. The LUMI system at EuroHPC/CSC in Finland also remained in its spot at No. 5 with an HPL score of 380 PFlop/s. This machine is the largest system in Europe.

The only new system to find its way onto the Top 10 is the Alps machine at No. 6 from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Switzerland. This system achieved an HPL score of 270 PFlop/s.

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