
Nicole Hemsoth
Co-Founder at The Next Platform
Deputy Editor-in-Chief at The Register
Deputy Editor in Chief, @TheRegister. Co-founder @TheNextPlatform. Bluesky at nicolehp .bsky.social. Sometimes I beat the GPS.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
nextplatform.com | Nicole Hemsoth Prickett |Nicole Hemsoth
Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. At the SC24 conference, David Kepczynski, the carmaker’s global chief of digital transformation for product development, outlined how high-performance computing, GPU acceleration, and AI/ML are reshaping the company’s approach to everything from safety, performance, and connected vehicles.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
nextplatform.com | Nicole Hemsoth Prickett |Nicole Hemsoth
You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. From the show floor to a sizable portion of sessions, much of the discussion was how, where, and to what extent AI will reshape good old fashioned, 64-bit HPC. In addition to the technical program, some of the leadership-focused talks also emphasized AI with only the merest nod to traditional HPC.
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Feb 13, 2024 |
nextplatform.com | Nicole Hemsoth Prickett |Nicole Hemsoth
PARTNER CONTENT: Trillion-dollar industries are exploring new ways of increasing high performance computing (HPC) performance, while saving resources and reducing costs. Scientists and engineers are looking to build robust HPC infrastructure to run complex workloads in the most energy-efficient approach. As a result, organizations are re-evaluating how they architect compute infrastructure to run HPC workloads, identify new ways to improve application performance, and reduce energy consumption.
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Dec 6, 2023 |
nextplatform.com | Nicole Hemsoth Prickett |Nicole Hemsoth
Note: We will be updating this story with more information once our contacts in China are awake:China is using a domestic processor as the backbone for double the performance of the Tianhe-2 system, which topped the Top 500 starting in 2013 and running through late 2015 before being overshadowed by the Sunway system in recent years. Today at the Supercomputing Innovation Application Conference in Guangzhou, researchers announced a new generation of the “Tianhe” machine called “Tianhe Xingyi”.
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Dec 5, 2023 |
nextplatform.com | Nicole Hemsoth Prickett |Nicole Hemsoth
This week Nvidia shared details about upcoming updates to its platform for building, tuning, and deploying generative AI models.
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A factor of 3,600X increase in performance and a factor of 29.3X improvement in performance per watt seems impressive, and all that performance in the big bad Ironwood pod burning 10 megawatts seems reasonable. https://t.co/GCWl00I4OF

Definitely worth a read: https://t.co/tqip0Dlwpa

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