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Anders Dam Jensen on HPC Sovereignty, Sustainability, and JU Progress

As published in HPCWir The recent 2024 EuroHPC Summit meeting took place in Antwerp, with attendance substantially up since 2023 to 750 participants. HPCwire asked Intersect360 Research senior analyst Steve Conway, who closely tracks HPC, AI, and related developments in Europe and attended the event, to interview Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC…
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Kathy Yelick on Post-Exascale Challenges

As published in HPCWire. With the exascale era underway, the HPC community is already turning its attention to zettascale computing, the next of the 1,000-fold performance leaps that have occurred about once a decade. With this in mind, the ISC 2024 organizers asked Kathy Yelick, Vice Chancellor for Research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished…
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2024 Winter Classic: Razor Thin Margins in HPL/HPCG

As published in HPCWire. The fourth edition of the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is up and running. This year, we have 11 teams of eager students representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). They are vying to turn in the best performance numbers on a suite of six…
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2024 Winter Classic: We’re Back!

As published in HPCWire. The fourth edition of the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is up and running. This year, we have 11 teams of eager students representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). They are vying to turn in the best performance numbers on a suite of six…
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Finding Opportunity in the High-Growth ‘AI Market’

as published in HPCwire. “What’s the size of the AI market?” It’s a totally normal question for anyone to ask me. After all, I’m an analyst, and my company, Intersect360 Research, specializes in scalable, high-performance datacenter segments, such as AI, HPC, and Hyperscale. And yet, a simple answer eludes me, and I wind up answering…
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What’s Next for EuroHPC? Deep Dive with EuroHPC Exec. Dir. Anders Dam Jensen

As published in HPCWire. In this HPCwire exclusive, Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, interviews Anders Dam Jensen, the Executive Director of the EuroHPC JU, on Europe’s fast moving supercomputer plans and efforts to gain “supply chain sovereignty.” Jensen digs into Europe’s forthcoming first exascale system, describes the broad scope of Europe’s quantum computing…
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DIY Forbidden Planet: An Interview with Paul Muzio on AI Evolution

as published in HPCwire.   Editors Note: In the wake of rising concerns about AI’s potential impact after the introduction of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications, HPCwire asked Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, to interview Paul Muzio, former vice president for HPC at Network Computing Systems, Inc., and current chair of the…
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Faster and Faster: AMD Event Announces Innovations Across the Datacenter and Cloud

as published in HPCwire. It was established right out of the starting gate: AMD’s Data Center and AI Technology Premiere would be all about speed. Held on June 13 atop Nob Hill at the iconic Fairmont San Francisco, the event pelted a roomful of press and analysts with a rapid-fire barrage of impactful announcements. After…
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EuroHPC Executive Director Talks Europe’s Supercomputing Future

As published in HPCWire. Following the EuroHPC Summit conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, last month, HPCwire asked Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, to interview Anders Jensen, executive director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking since September 2020. This appointment continues Anders’ lifelong interest in supercomputers, starting with his time at the Technical University of Denmark,…
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Rice Energy HPC Conference Expands Horizons of ‘Energy,’ ‘HPC’

as published in HPCwire. If you ever want to push your knowledge of supercomputing and science, go to the Energy High Performance Computing Conference, hosted annually by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University in Houston. Any gathering focused on a specific vertical market hones the discussion to a specific set of workloads and innovations,…
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