Episode 225: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's top HPC stories, including Intels AI push and a new player in the chip arena.

A three-petaflop Cray XC50 supercomputer has been installed at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and is now up and running.

Intel has unveiled its much-anticipated non-volatile memory (NVM) modules based on its 3D XPoint technology.

Episode 224: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman examine Intels latest offering and the evolution of natural-language AI at Google.

At Taiwans GPU Technology Conference this week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced the HGX-2, a 16-GPU reference design aimed at some of the most computationally demanding HPC and AI workloads. As a reflection of its tightly integrated design, Jensen characterized the platform as the the worlds largest GPU.

On Monday, a joint Slovenian-Chinese virtual laboratory for high performance computing was launched, kicking off a multi-year collaboration between the two countries.

Earlier this month Fujitsu launched a quantum computing cloud service based on its very own quantum computing processor, known as the Digital Annealing Unit (DAU).

At Intels inaugural AI DevCon conference this week, AI Products Group chief Naveen Rao updated their roadmap for its artificial intelligence chips. The changes will impact the much-anticipated Neural Network Processor, and to a lesser degree, its general-purpose products like Xeons and FPGAs.

Episode 223: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's product announcements from Cavium and Google.

Intel and Micron together announced the industrys first commercial quad-level cell (QLC) memory products, providing the highest density NAND components on the market.