On Tuesday the University of Texas at Texas launched the fastest supercomputer at any academic facility in the world. The computer — named “Frontera” — is also the fifth most-powerful supercomputer on earth. Slashdot reader aarondubrow quotes their announcement:
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas is also home to Stampede2, the second fastest supercomputer at any American…
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Ask Slashdot: What Would Computing Look Like Today If the Amiga Had Survived?
dryriver writes: The Amiga was a remarkable machine at the time it was released — 1985. It had a multitasking capable GUI-driven OS and a mouse. It had a number of cleverly designed custom chips that gave the Amiga amazing graphics and sound capabilities far beyond the typical IBM/DOS PCs of its time. The Amiga was the multimedia beast of its…
New Stats Suggest Strong Sales For AMD
Windows Central reports: AMD surpassed NVIDIA when it comes to total GPU shipments according to new data from Jon Peddie Research (via Tom’s Hardware). This is the first time that AMD ranked above NVIDIA in total GPU shipments since Q3 of 2014. AMD now has a 17.2 percent market share compared to NVIDIA’s 16 percent according to the most recent data….
Cerebras Systems Unveils a Record 1.2 Trillion Transistor Chip For AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: New artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built. The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine has 1.2 trillion transistors, the basic on-off electronic switches that are the building blocks of silicon chips. Intel’s first 4004 processor in 1971 had 2,300 transistors, and a recent Advanced Micro Devices processor has…
Nvidia CEO Says Google Is the Company’s Only Customer Building Its Own Silicon At Scale
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, has reason to be concerned about other chipmakers, like AMD. But he’s not worried about Nvidia’s own big customers turning into competitors. Amazon, Facebook, Google and Tesla are among the companies that buy Nvidia’s graphics cards and have kicked off chip-development projects. “There’s really one I know of that…
Researchers Find More Than 40 Vulnerable Windows Device Drivers
Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Researchers from security company Eclypsium have discovered that more than forty drivers from at least twenty different vendors — including every major BIOS vendor, as well as hardware vendors like ASUS, Toshiba, NVIDIA, and Huawei — include critical vulnerabilities allowing an escalation of privileges to full system level access. Considering how widespread these drivers are, and the…
Red Hat Joins the RISC-V Foundation
Red Hat has joined the RISC-V Foundation to help foster this open-source processor ISA. Phoronix reports: While we’re still likely years away from seeing any serious RISC-V powered servers at least that can deliver meaningful performance, Red Hat has been active in promoting RISC-V as an open-source processor instruction set architecture and one of the most promising libre architectures we have…
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI To Develop AI Technologies on Azure
Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. From a report: In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will support the development…
Linode Democratizes Cloud GPUs: Brings Powerful Nvidia GPUs To Its Linux Cloud
sfcrazy writes: Linode today launched new GPU-optimized cloud computing instances tailored specifically for developers and businesses requiring massive parallel computational power. The new instances are built on NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU cards with all three major types of processing cores (CUDA, Tensor, and Real-Time Ray Tracing) available to users. Linode is one of the first cloud providers to deploy NVIDIA’s…
In New Benchmark Tests, AMD Challenges Both Intel And Nvidia
“AMD is unleashing an arsenal of products today,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid. Hot Hardware writes:
The Zen 2-based AMD Ryzen 3000 series is easily one of the most anticipated product launches in the PC space in recent memory. AMD has essentially promised to address virtually all of the perceived shortcomings of the original Zen-based Ryzen processors, with the Ryzen 3000 series, while…