Alex Woodie

As the AI focus shifts from training models to running them, CPUs with large addressable memories have become the hot commodity. To that end, HPE today announced from its annual Discover conference that it’s adding its Nvidia Vera CPU-based its ProLiant Compute DL394 server to its Private Cloud AI offering. The company made a slew […]

Satoshi Matsuoka’s new paper, “FP8 is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail,” raised some eyebrows during the TPC26 event in Baltimore two weeks ago. When the RIKEN CSS director mentioned his new paper on the Ozaki scheme during his TPC plenary, it spurred numerous conversations among the TPC26 […]

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) may have changed its name a few months back, but the real change appears to be in the future, as the company embarks upon an aggressive pivot with its business plan. Instead of just building storage arrays (which it will continue to do), the company is moving up the stack and […]

For most organizations, AI security has meant one thing: keeping sensitive data out of the prompt. That instinct makes sense. Prompt-level protections are visible, understandable, and relatively easy to implement, […]

Reproducibility is absolutely critical in science, but it’s a troublesome characteristic when it comes to AI. Frontier models developed by Big AI may deliver superior accuracy and reasoning capabilities, but […]

Thanks to the success of its GPUs in powering the first stage of the AI boom, Nvidia became not only the world’s most successful chip company, but the world’s most […]

Discovery isn’t slated to go online until 2028. But the Department of Energy is already lining up applications to run on the exascale machine, which will be the successor to Frontier at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a key asset of the Genesis Mission and its goal to accelerate science and engineering through AI. […]

When Intel ceased development of the Omni-Path interconnect spun the tech off to Cornelis Networks six years ago, some assumed that Omni-Path was done. InfiniBand, which Nvidia obtained with its acquisition of Mellanox in 2020, seemed poised to dominate the space. But the announcement this week that Lawrence Livermore National Lab chose Omni-Path for the […]

Over the years, there have been an untold number of books written about IBM and its computing legacy. (Our founding editor, TPM, has most of them in his library.) But very few, if any, of them focus much time on the line of midrange servers that came out of Rochester, Minnesota, including the AS/400, which turned 38 years young yesterday. That void is what drove former IBMer Bill Shaffer, who spent his entire career in the midrange, to write the book IBM & Computing.

As previously noted, the Seventh National Research Platform (7NRP) workshop was held in La Jolla, California, May 5–7, 2026, with an agenda focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in education and agriculture. You can read part one of our coverage here. In our continuing coverage of 7NRP, we focus on Chin Guok (Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)/Lawrence […]