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Doug Eadline

When AI Sneezes, Do We All Catch a Cold?

September 15th, 2025 Comments Off on When AI Sneezes, Do We All Catch a Cold?
At one point in the past, the phrase “When GM sneezes, the US catches a cold” was bantered around to signify how much of the economy was dominated by car manufacturers. The phrase was a modification of an older ...

The Unlikely Reasonableness of AI-Augmented HPC

July 11th, 2025 Comments Off on The Unlikely Reasonableness of AI-Augmented HPC
Editor’s note: This article from my colleague Doug Eadline at HPCwire explains how HPC researchers are pairing established simulation codes with large AI models to slash runtimes and widen scientific reach in protein folding, weather prediction, and molecular design. ...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Trillion Parameter Consortium and TPC25 But Were Afraid to Ask

June 25th, 2025 Comments Off on Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Trillion Parameter Consortium and TPC25 But Were Afraid to Ask
Since its inception, many questions about the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) have been asked. Rapid changes in AI technology and the emergence of large language models (LLM) have created many opportunities for intelligent processes to aid all sectors of ...

Protecting the Bountiful Forest of Science, Technology, and HPC

May 14th, 2025 Comments Off on Protecting the Bountiful Forest of Science, Technology, and HPC
Anyone who has worked at the leading edge will tell you they did not get there alone. Indeed, the breakthroughs that fit in our pocket or speed us down the highway are culminations of large scientific and engineering ecosystems. Progress is not ...

IBM Think 2025: Download a Sneak Peek of the Next Gen Granite Models

May 8th, 2025 Comments Off on IBM Think 2025: Download a Sneak Peek of the Next Gen Granite Models
At IBM Think 2025, IBM announced Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview, a preliminary version of the smallest model in the upcoming Granite 4.0 family of language models, to the open source community. IBM Granite models are a series of AI foundation ...

The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower

March 28th, 2025 Comments Off on The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower
Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The goal, ...

Intel Announces Lip-Bu Tan as New Chief Executive Officer

March 14th, 2025 Comments Off on Intel Announces Lip-Bu Tan as New Chief Executive Officer
Intel announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a technology veteran with deep semiconductor industry experience, as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle (MJ) Johnston Holthaus. Tan was previously ...

Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup

February 27th, 2025 Comments Off on Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup
In September of last year, Intel launched its Xeon 6900P Granite Ridge processors and got themselves back in the game against AMD. This week, Intel continued to expand its processor line with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server ...

DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed

January 31st, 2025 Comments Off on DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed
Earlier this week, news of DeepSeek GPT swept through the media. The market reacted, and many hardware companies (e.g., Nvidia, ASML, Broadcom, Marvell) saw a drop in their market value. Presumably, the demand for truckloads of GPUs will be reduced because ...

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

January 10th, 2025 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory
At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not ...
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