Search Results For: petaflops
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Bruno Ferreira - Wed, Jul 30, 2025
The news are just in, and El Capitan reigns supreme. Named after the massive rock structure at Yosemite National Park, the subject of the day is the El Capitan supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The machine just...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jul 22, 2025
ASUS has officially unleashed into the realm of high-performance computing with its ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3. What makes the ET900N G3 special isn't just that it sports an NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra, but also that it's the first...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Mar 18, 2025
NVIDIA's Blackwell GB200 is an absolutely monstrous processor with up to 10 petaflops of dense FP4 tensor compute and 192GB of lightning-fast HBM3e memory delivering 8 TB/second of bandwidth per GPU. That number, though, that 192GB...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Mar 18, 2025
Building out the datacentersor as NVIDIA calls them, "AI factories"required for training and operating state-of-the-art AI models is extremely expensive. So much so that even hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft are going to have to plan...
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Ben Funk - Tue, Mar 18, 2025
The NVIDIA GTC AI Development conference started yesterday, but the big announcements are coming in fast and furious today. This one is all about some powerful AI development hardware, known as DGX Spark and DGX Station. These names come...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, May 01, 2024
In the market for a PC upgrade and looking for the most powerful rig to mine cryptocurrency, simulate black holes, or something you can run an incredible AI model off of? If you just so happen to have $75,000, if not more, and the space...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Mar 18, 2024
Some people have claimed that AI is a fad, or a flash in the pan. It's easy to understand the perspective; the hype around the explosion of generative AI feels similar to the hype around previous fads, like 3D TVs or the metaverse. AI...
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- Tue, Nov 14, 2023
Although Intel and Argonne National Laboratory declared the Aurora supercomputer to be finally complete earlier this year, apparently it's not fully up and running just yet. It's only running with half of its 21,248 Xeon Max Sapphire...
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Chris Goetting - Tue, Jul 25, 2023
Modern scientific breakthroughs aren't solely relegated to a lab these days, but also come by way of the massive compute resources that modern data centers full of servers can muster. For researchers, maintaining open access to these...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jun 22, 2023
Intel's Data Center Max products are very impressive, but you may have had a hard time getting your hands on one even though they officially launched way back in November of last year. How come? Because they've all been going to Argonne...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Mar 22, 2022
Back in the 1990s, NVIDIA got its start selling graphics adapters for desktop PCs. After a rocky start with the NV1, NVIDIA established itself as a performance leader soon thereafter with the release of the TwiN-Texel (TNT) chip, and with...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Mar 15, 2022
Intel has announced a launch date for its mobile family of Arc A-series GPUs, and answered three of the top questions concerning its upcoming Arc GPUs. In an online event at the end of the month, the tech company will showcase Intel...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 24, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg and the gang over at Meta, the parent company to Facebook, have a new and powerful toy to play with courtesy of a collaboration with NVIDIA. Meta designed and NVIDIA built what is called the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC)...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 21, 2021
NVIDIA is quite literally taking its cloud game streaming service, GeForce NOW, to the next level by adding vastly upgraded game servers to the mixor as NVIDIA calls them, GeForce NOW SuperPODs. These SuperPODs purportedly deliver "GeForce...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 25, 2021
Most people would be happy just to get their mitts on a single GPU, in the current landscape. The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is much more fortunate, having procured a whopping 2,240 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jul 07, 2021
Though it has been more than a few weeks, and we have long since passed the end of 2020, the U.Ks most powerful supercomputer is now operational. Powered by NVIDIA hardware, the Cambridge-1 is a $100 million, 400 petaflop beast of a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 22, 2021
Have you ever had a friend or family member casually drop big news on you, as if the subject they are talking about is an everyday occurrence? For example, "Yeah, the weather was great this weekend, I got a lot of yard work done. Next...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 16, 2020
NVIDIA's A100 based on Ampere was already considered the go-to GPU for high performance computing (HPC), but lest any challengers seek to knock the part off its perch, they will now have to contend with a version that has twice as much...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Oct 05, 2020
A few weeks ago, Azure received an NVIDIA A100 upgrade to its virtual machines. Announced at GTC, NVIDIA is now building its supercomputer with the A100 platform across the pond. This behemoth, dubbed Cambridge-1, will be the most powerful...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 22, 2020
NVIDIA has partnered with the University of Florida (UF) to build an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer that will be the fastest in all of academia. Or more specifically, it will be capable of a whopping 700 petaflops of AI...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Jun 23, 2020
The 55th edition of the Top500 supercomputers list was published, and a supercomputer from Japan has taken the top spot on the list. The supercomputer is called Fugaku, and it turned in a High Performance Linpack (HPL) result of 415.5...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 21, 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic has been depressing on multiple levels (not the least of which is the loss of life), and who knows if we will still be collectively cooped up this summer. Even if so, there is something look forward tothe potential...
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