Uncle Sam Eyes Exotic Chips for Next Supercomputing Push

US national labs are testing new brain-inspired computer chips, moving away from standard GPUs for supercomputers. This could change how they do research.

#Supercomputing, #AIChips, #SandiaLabs, #Neuromorphic, #USResearch

https://newsletter.tf/us-labs-test-brain-like-chips-for-supercomputers/

US national labs are exploring new computer chips inspired by the human brain. This is a big change from the computer chips they usually use.

#Supercomputing, #AIChips, #SandiaLabs, #Neuromorphic, #USResearch
https://newsletter.tf/us-labs-test-brain-like-chips-for-supercomputers/

Bull has delivered a new supercomputing infrastructure designed to strengthen high-performance computing and industrial AI capabilities in Europe.
The system aims to accelerate complex simulations.

https://fr.finance.yahoo.com/actualites/bull-livre-nouvelle-infrastructure-supercalcul-093000578.html

#AI #Supercomputing #Technology

The "AI" phenomenon and craze has been discussed endlessly, including the vast computational and energy requirements of dedicated #datacenters

There is an important split betwen model building and inference of statistical models (and hence also #llm ) which means there is not one but two problems to solve.

The first one is *highly* non-trivial. It bumps against #mooreslaw and requires #supercomputing networking tricks. The datacenter must operate as one giant machine

https://openai.com/index/mrc-supercomputer-networking/

Wall Street Journal: The quest to use AI to help find new drugs. “Lilly first announced a partnership with chip-maker Nvidia in October to build what it called the industry’s most powerful supercomputer, and expanded that in January with a $1 billion, five-year collaboration mixing their scientists and engineers in a new Bay Area lab aimed at discovering new medicines with AI tools. They […]