As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...
A credit card-sized supercomputer from Nvidia, the Jetson Xavier NX targets robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge. It has the performance of the company’s Xavier in the size of the Nano (70mm x 45mm), explained Rob Csongor, vice president of autonomous machines at Nvidia. “Understanding language is more complex than recognising images,” he said, explaining the choice of ...
An Arm-based supercomputer chip is revealed by Fujitsu and the Riken Center for Computational Science
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has given Fujitsu an order to build a 37 petaflops supercomputer costing $44.3 million, reports the Nikkei It will be Japan’s fastest supercomputer 3x faster than the K computer at Riken which is Japan’s current fastest machine. The 37 petaflops computer will be installed at the AI research centre being built ...
The man behind the Megaprocessor is building his own computer, transistor by transistor, system component by system component.
China is still number 1 in world supercomputing, breaking its own record with an entirely new machine. Built using Chinese designed and built processors with a Chinese archetecture, Sunway TaihuLight achieves 93Pflop/s on the LINPACK benchmark. Developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) and installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, the computer ...
Sheffield-based firm Iceotope, which specialises in the liquid cooling of electronic systems, says it has developed a fan-less Mellanox-based InfiniBand and Ethernet network and interconnect switch for supercomputer (HPC) systems. Mellanox’s low latency switches can be cooled with hot water (of up to 45 deg C), effectively removing the need for forced airflow cooling systems. Supercomputers which make up high ...
Three US companies are proposing to meet the growing data processing demands of cloud-based computing and online gaming by connecting up thousands of graphics processors in ‘supercomputers’. Graphics processor firm Nvidia is working with IDT and Orange Silicon Valley to develop a scalable, low-latency cluster of up to 2,000 Tegra K1 mobile processors. For connecting the processors, the system uses ...
Altera and IBM have designed an FPGA-based reconfigurable processor to improve the performance of supercomputers. The firms have created the first FPGA-based accelerator for a POWER8 CPU which features shared virtual memory between the FPGA and processor and so improves system performance in high-performance computing (HPC) and data centre applications for data compression, encryption, image processing and search. Altera and IBM ...
Intel's aim is to develop exascale-level (100 million core) computing technology by 2018
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