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1 week ago

NextSilicon eyes HPC market with Maverick-2 accelerators

Researchers and engineers working in particle physics, materials analysis, or drug discovery haven't exactly been spoiled for choice when it comes to chips capable of the highly precise double-precision calculations that these workloads depend. NextSilicon aims to change that with Maverick-2, a chip aimed not at AI but the high-performance computing (HPC) community. This week, the chip startup offered the best look yet at how its dataflow accelerators - now deployed by several customers, including Sandia National labs - hold up in the wild,
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fromTechzine Global
3 months ago

Broadcom launches Tomahawk Ultra with 250ns network latency

Broadcom's Tomahawk Ultra switch achieves 250ns latency and 51.2 Tbps throughput, eliminating packet loss and optimizing Ethernet for HPC and AI.
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3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Swiss boffins tease 'fully open' LLM trained on Alps super

Supercomputers, like the Alps, are now utilized for AI model training, leveraging lower precision datatypes to enhance computational efficiency.
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4 months ago
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Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers

Lenovo secures European supercomputer contracts with Imperial College and the European Institute of Oncology, marking a shift from HPE's Cray EX systems.
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