Douglas Eadline

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Managing Editor at HPCwire

After escaping the Russian ballet, I decided to take up HPC and amateur art restoration. Truth is a slippery fish. BLM Currently managing editor for HPCwire

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Articles

AI Today and Tomorrow Series: Artificial General Intelligence

1 month ago | hpcwire.com | Steve Conway |Douglas Eadline

In response to readers’ questions about AI, HPCwire sister site BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community and beyond. The introductory column appeared in January. As I said in the intro column, the series doesn’t aim to be definitive. The goal is to lay out a range of current information and opinions on AI for the HPC-AI community to consider.
Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup

1 month ago | aiwire.net | Douglas Eadline

In September of last year, Intel launched its Xeon 6900P Granite Ridge processors and got themselves back in the game against AMD. This week, Intel continued to expand its processor line with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors. The new processors are available in up to 86 cores per socket and can scale to four and eight-socket platforms.
Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup

1 month ago | hpcwire.com | Douglas Eadline

In September of last year, Intel launched its Xeon 6900P Granite Ridge processors and got themselves back in the game against AMD. This week, Intel continued to expand its processor line with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors. The new processors are available in up to 86 cores per socket and can scale to four and eight-socket platforms.
A Short Sit on the HPC Benchpark

2 months ago | hpcwire.com | Douglas Eadline

Most HPC users have a set of benchmarks for testing new hardware or comparing existing hardware. To work on a new platform, this often requires hand-tweaking benchmark files and Makefile, which can become tedious and take a lot of time. A project from Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) called Benchpark seeks to change this situation and make HPC benchmarking easier. Benchpark was created by Olga Pearce, Alec Scott, Greg Becker, Riyaz Haque, and Nathan Hanford.
Tipping Points in HPC: A Hyperion Research Perspective

2 months ago | hpcwire.com | Douglas Eadline

No one will argue that we are experiencing a big change in HPC. The advent of GenAI has skewed the entire IT market toward an AI future, affecting everything from hardware to data centers. Prior to the emergence of LLMs (publicly available in 2022), HPC was progressing year after year using the latest and greatest CPU and GPUs. As HPCwire has proposed, we are entering a tipping point in HPC that brings together HPC, AI, and Big Data into a virtuous cycle of acceleration.
The Timeline to Useful QC May Be Reduced with Breakthrough in Error Correction

2 months ago | hpcwire.com | Douglas Eadline

A recent paper (Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes) by Photonic Inc. has demonstrated a new, low-overhead family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that can efficiently perform both quantum computation and error correction, using materially fewer quantum bits (qubits) than traditional surface code approaches. This work may accelerate the timeline for useful quantum computing.
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Questions the Longevity of Current GenAI and LLMs

2 months ago | hpcwire.com | Ali Azhar |Douglas Eadline

The current paradigm of generative AI (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) may soon be obsolete, according to Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, Yann LeCun. He argues that new breakthroughs are needed for the systems to understand and interact with the physical world.
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

2 months ago | hpcwire.com | Douglas Eadline

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still under rapid development. One of the challenges in HPC and technical computing is finding where GenAI “fits in” and, more importantly, “what it all means” in terms of future discoveries.
Intel Falcon Shores; Another Swing, and a Miss

2 months ago | hpcwire.com | Douglas Eadline

Intel Corporation recently reported fourth-quarter financial results. Fourth-quarter revenue was $14.3 billion, down 7% year-over-year. Earnings per share: 13 cents adjusted vs. 12 cents expectedIntel’s revenue declined for a third straight quarter, decreasing 7% from a year earlier, according to their recent report the net loss for the quarter totaled $126 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with net income of $2.67 billion, or 63 cents per share, in the same quarter a year ago.
DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed

2 months ago | aiwire.net | Douglas Eadline

Earlier this week, news of DeepSeek GPT swept through the media. The market reacted, and many hardware companies (e.g., Nvidia, ASML, Broadcom, Marvell) saw a drop in their market value. Presumably, the demand for truckloads of GPUs will be reduced because DeepSeek has delivered a foundation model that rivals the “big kids” at 1/50 the cost. This analysis missed the point, except for old hands like Pat Gelsinger.