Emerging Technologies and Silicon for HPC: Not all Cores are Equal
Channel: EasyBuild
Date: 01/05/2023

by Ian Cutress (TechTechPotato - More Than Moore) at the 8th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'23, https://easybuild.io/eum23).

Slides available at https://easybuild.io/eum23/eum23_001_keynote_ian_cutress.pdf

Abstract:

The HPC community is very well versed in CPU technology, or what happens when you connect a lot of GPUs in world class supercomputers. What if I told you there is another way? In this presentation we're going to cover a new breed of hardware that both fights traditional HPC but also looks to help accelerate it, mostly from the world of machine learning. Not only are the big players getting involved, but dozens of smaller startups are taping out hardware designed to accelerate anything from matrix-multiplications to standard stencil compute. There's also the realm of Quantum and Analog/Optical compute to discuss, and whether reduced precision is a practical way to approach HPC.