AI Supercomputing Hits New Level with NVIDIA Grace Hopper | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 15, 2024

AI Supercomputing Hits New Level with NVIDIA Grace Hopper | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 15, 2024

Author: Tech Field Day May 15, 2024 Duration: 35:48

The June 2024 Top500 supercomputer list was released at ISC 2024, and there is a lot to unpack. The latest Top 500 Supercomputers list highlights significant trends in the supercomputing landscape, as NVIDIA takes 7 spots with Grace-based systems, including 3 of the top 20. Although the balance between Intel and AMD remains static, there is a shift towards co-packaged CPUs and accelerators just as Intel announces they will sunset Ponte Vecchio, their entry in this space, and skip the next generation. Interestingly, HPE was a big winner here, leading in new systems and enabling 8 of the 10 Grace and MI300A entrants. And we see Arm well-represented here, with 8 new servers on the list.

Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 3:03 - Zscaler Reportedly Breached by Profit-Minded Criminals 5:06 - Adam Selipsky Steps Down from AWS 7:45 - F5 BIG-IP Suffers a Big Breach 9:53 - VMware Makes Workstation Pro and Fusion Free for Personal Use 12:41 - GPT-4o Launched by OpenAI 15:05 - NetApp Announces New All-Flash Storage and StorageGRID for the AI Era 18:18 - Top500 Supercomputing 31:55 - The Weeks Ahead 33:40 - Thanks for Watching

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