DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - HPC & Quantum, AMD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center awarded $10m by NSF for Bridges-3 supercomputer
New flagship system expected to be operational by summer 2027
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AFRL unveils 14 petaflops Flyer supercomputer
System will support the US Department of Defense
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UK Gov't to deploy new supercomputer by 2030, with British chips (hopefully)
All part of Blighty's cunning new AI Hardware Plan
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Bull delivers Finland’s national supercomputer Roihu to CSC’s Kajaani data center
System is powered by AMD Turin CPUs and Nvidia GH200 superchips
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UK gov’t to invest £45m in Sunrise supercomputer to accelerate advancements in fusion energy
AMD-powered system will deliver 6.76 exaflops of AI compute power when deployed
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NASA’s Athena supercomputer comes online
20.13 petaflop system is based on AMD Epyc Turin CPUs
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UK gov’t announces £36m investment to boost supercomputing capacity
Dawn supercomputer at University of Cambridge will be upgraded with AMD MI355X GPUs
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HPE expands collaboration with AMD for delivery of Helios AI racks
Company also announces HPE GX5000-based supercomputer Herder will be AMD-powered
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HPE details compute, storage, and networking specifications for Cray GX5000 platform
Announces HLRS and LRZ will deploy the platform for Herder and Blue Lion systems
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HPE unveils GX5000 supercomputing platform, will build two new AMD-based supercomputers for ORNL
Expects to start delivering GX5000-based systems from early 2027
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IBM and AMD partner for development of quantum-centric supercomputing architecture
Project will see IBM integrate its quantum technology with AMD’s AI hardware offerings
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HLRS director reveals existence of previously unannounced AMD MI600 AI chip
Comments were made as part of a discussion regarding the center’s forthcoming supercomputers
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Norway inaugurates Olivia supercomputer at Lefdal Mine Datacenter
HPE Cray system is country’s most powerful supercomputer
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NEC to supply supercomputer for fusion science research in Japan
System is set to go live in July 2025
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Purdue University unveils new Gautschi supercomputing cluster
Built in partnership with Dell, AMD and Nvidia
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DoD launches new biological defense supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab
Specs not shared, but same architecture as upcoming El Capitan system
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Tokyo Tech launches new supercomputer
AMD & Nvidia-powered HPE Cray system offers 66.8 petaflops
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Frontier supercomputer trains one trillion parameter LLM on just over 3,000 GPUs
New research paper discusses how this was achieved
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University of Stuttgart picks HPE for €115 million exascale supercomputer
Hunter and Herder will round the HLRS up to exascale level
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GENCI upgrades Adastra supercomputer with AMD APUs
CINES-operated HPC gets AMD's latest APU
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HPE delivers Austral supercomputer to CRIANN in France
Company gets 2 petaflops system
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UK government plans to spend up to £100m on AI chips
Government officials in talks with Nvidia, AMD and Intel
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NCAR launches 20 petaflops supercomputer in Wyoming
HPE system launches more than a year later than originally planned
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Swinburne University of Technology launches new supercomputer
Ngarrgu Tindebeek translates to “Knowledge of the Void” in Woiwurrung
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University of Queensland to expand Bunya supercomputer
Upgrade will be completed by September 2023
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Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center to install 17.7 petaflops 'Blueback' supercomputer
Replaces three older systems
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Marvin supercomputer arrives at University of Bonn
HPC cluster delivered according to schedule
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Installation of El Capitan supercomputer begins at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The two exaflops supercomputer is underway