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Not a HPC Guru, but I play one on social media
All things, with one exception, have to end

After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off

It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted

Stay curious, stay kind!

@hpcguru.bsky.social signing off

#HPC #Farewell
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Nvidia now generates roughly $4 million in revenue for each employee they have

That's the highest among all of big tech

#HPC #AI #GPU
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Half of the #Top10 systems on the latest #Top500 are from Europe

Strategic investments by @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social, aided with China's reluctance to submit to this list

#ISC25 #HPC #AI
June 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
HPL-MxP:

1. El Capitan with 16.7 Exaflop/s

2. Aurora with 11.6 Exaflop/s

3. Frontier with 11.4 Exaflop/s

Congratulations to LLNL's #ElCapitan for taking the top position in all 3: Top500, HPCG, and HPL-MxP

#ISC25 #HPC #AI via @profamandarandles.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#HPCG: There's a new #1, after a long reign by Fugaku

1. El Capitan

2. Fugaku

3. Frontier

4. Aurora

top500.org/lists/hpcg/2...

#ISC25 #HPC #AI
June 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#Green500: No changes from Nov 2024!

1. JEDI

2. ROMEO-2025

3. Adastra2

top500.org/lists/green5...

#ISC25 #HPC #AI
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#Top500: Vendors

o Lenovo edges HPE in # of systems 135 to 132

o HPE has the biggest performance share by a huge margin

o Atos/Eviden is #3 in both

#ISC25 #HPC #AI
June 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#Top500: China declines to participate and slowly drops in the list as no new Chinese #supercomputers are added

1. USA 173
2. China 46
3. Germany 43

#ISC25 #HPC #AI
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
See the full #Top500 list at:

top500.org

Press Release: top500.org/news/el-capi...

#HPC #AI #ISC25
June 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
65th #Top500 is out!

o The Top 3 #Exascale systems remain unchanged:

#1 El Capitan
#2 Frontier
#3 Aurora

o JUPITER Booster (EuroHPC planned #Exascale system currently being commissioned – hence partial system) at FZH in Germany at #4 is the only new system in the #Top10

#HPC #AI #ISC25
June 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
AMD's Mark Papermaster delivers the opening keynote for #ISC25: “ #HPC and #AI: A Path Towards Sustainable Innovation”

via @addisonsnell.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
via App Economy Insights:

NVIDIA Q1 FY26 (April quarter).

• Revenue +12% Q/Q to $44.1B ($0.8B beat)
• Gross margin 61% (-13pp Q/Q)
• Operating margin 49% (-12pp Q/Q)
• Non-GAAP EPS $0.81 ($0.06 beat)

Q2 FY26 guidance:
• Revenue $45.0B ($0.7B miss)

#AI #HPC #GPU
May 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
AMD vs NVIDIA #Inference Benchmark: Who Wins? – Performance & Cost Per Million Tokens

Report by @SemiAnalysis_

tldr: It's not a simple answer

semianalysis.com/2025/05/23/a...

#AI #GPU #HPC via @ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
ICYMI: #ASC25 Student Supercomputer Challenge - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Crowned Champion

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

#HPC #AI
May 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
LLNL’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) has developed a new JIT approach that leverages LLVM intermediate representation (IR) to optimize #GPU kernels at runtime

computing.llnl.gov/about/newsro...

#HPC #AI
May 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nvidia Blog: Exploring the Revenue-Generating Potential of #AI Factories

Time to first value is one of the most important metrics in #AI development

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/revenue...

#HPC
May 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Jean Zay #supercomputer: France has increased its #AI dedicated resources fourfold

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

#HPC
May 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
AMD and HUMAIN Form Strategic, $10B Collaboration to Advance Global #AI

As part of the agreement, the parties will invest up to $10B to deploy 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity over the next five years

www.amd.com/en/newsroom/...

#HPC #GPU
May 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Dr. Lin Gan of Tsinghua University has been selected as the recipient of the #ISC25 Jack Dongarra Early Career Award

Recognized for his contributions to developing scalable algorithms, optimizing performance, and pioneering #FPGA-based frameworks for acceleration

isc-hpc.com/jack-dongarr...

#HPC
May 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#Exascale vs the Exascale Report: Why so long?
and Are We Really There Yet?

by Peter Kogge at Salishan

Update to a talk given at #SC22 by Kogge & Dally

salishan.ahsc-nm.org/uploads/4/9/...

#HPC via @ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I am taking an extended break from all social media, including Bluesky

See you sometime in April, provided both I and this platform are still alive :-)

#HPC
February 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Intel's prolonged decline led to a $19B loss in 2024

#HPC #AI
February 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Intel's moonshot system targets proposed by
@rajaxg.bsky.social

o 1 ExaFlop of raw FP8/INT8 compute performance

o 5 PB/s of "HBM" bandwidth at 138 TB Capacity

o 2.5 PB/s of GPU-GPU bandwidth

o All while maintaining a 132 KW power envelope

o At $3M price

x.com/RajaXg/statu...

#HPC #AI
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Axel Huebl has received the NERSC Early Career Award for Innovative Use of #HPC

Congratulations, @axccl.bsky.social!

atap.lbl.gov/news/huebl-r...

via @nersc.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: #HPC, #BigData, and #AI Acceleration

Tabor Communications editors say they offers publications to cover all these topics

www.hpcwire.com/2025/02/06/f...

via @thedeadline.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM