Enlarge / A photo of the Cheyenne supercomputer, which is now up for auction. reader comments 72 On Tuesday, the US General Services Administration began an auction for the decommissioned Cheyenne supercomputer, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 5.34-petaflop supercomputer ranked as the 20th most powerful in the world at the time of its installation in… Read More »
OpenAI / Benj Edwards reader comments 44 with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own AI accelerator chips, according to Reuters. Citing anonymous sources, the Reuters report indicates that OpenAI is considering the option due to a shortage of specialized AI GPU chips… Read More »
Enlarge / NVIDIA’s GH200 “Grace Hopper” AI superchip. reader comments 28 with Early last week at COMPUTEX, Nvidia announced that its new GH200 Grace Hopper “Superchip”—a combination CPU and GPU specifically created for large-scale AI applications—has entered full production. It’s a beast. It has 528 GPU tensor cores, supports up to 480GB of CPU RAM… Read More »
Enlarge / Nvidia and Microsoft are teaming up on an AI cloud supercomputer. reader comments 14 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build a “massive” cloud computer focused on AI. It will reportedly use tens of thousands of high-end Nvidia GPUs for applications like deep… Read More »
Enlarge / The Cerebras Andromeda, a 13.5 million core AI supercomputer. reader comments 36 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, Cerebras Systems unveiled its 13.5 million core Andromeda AI supercomputer for deep learning, reports Reuters. According Cerebras, Andromeda delivers over one 1 exaflop (1 quintillion operations per second) of AI computational power… Read More »
Enlarge / Systems engineer Matt Ezell, the system lead for the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. reader comments 88 with 57 posters participating Share this story The US has retaken the top spot in the world supercomputer rankings with the exascale Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. The Frontier… Read More »