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  • @HPCpodcast-110: John Gustafson on AI, HPC, Making Every Bit Count – In Depth

    Can AI and high-performance computing get better answers with fewer bits? HPC pioneer John Gustafson, author of Every Bit Counts, joins Doug Black and Shahin Khan to challenge the default reliance on 64-bit floating point, and explain why numerical precision belongs at the center of the debate over computing performance, memory bandwidth and energy use.

    Gustafson makes the case for posit arithmetic, a number format designed to get more useful information from every bit. The conversation explores how matching precision to the task could reduce data movement and energy consumption while preserving the accuracy applications need. His prescription: let the computer handle more of those decisions.

    The discussion also takes on the Ozaki Scheme, the limits of LINPACK, the promise of dataflow architectures, and the enduring relevance of Gustafson’s Law. We also touch on his “SC Perennial” status—he has attended every SC conference since 1988—and his work at Vq Research, using 3D printing to rethink how capacitors, inductors and resistors are built and integrated.

    A candid conversation with a computing pioneer who keeps challenging assumptions.

    For more, revisit episode 37 of the @HPCpodcast, John’s previous appearance, which laid the foundation for today’s discussion.

     

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    1 hr
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260914

    – The Rise and Rise of AI Doomerism

    – AI’s Global Power Constrain
    – AI to Help Control Fusion Energy Process
    – AI Solves Yet Another Hard Math Problem
    – Taiwan’s AI-Server Boom

     

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    11 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260907

    – IBM Nighthawk r2

    – Diraq at Equinix
    – From Better QPUs to Better Infrastructure
    – Agentic AI for Physical Science Experiments
    – AI and Jobs: Watch Hiring, Not Only Layoffs
    – Technopolitics: Restrictions and Dependencies

     

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    12 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260831

    – Brazil Plays Both Sides of the AI Stack

    – Nvidia’s AI Economics Expand Up the Stack
    – Nvidia + HuggingFace?
    – IBM Puts Arm Inside the Mainframe
    – Hot Chips roundup
    – Quantum Computing roundup

     

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    14 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260824

    – Hot Chips, Hot Interconnects, SC26

    – The Fall HPC Conference Season
    – Google Diversifies Custom Silicon
    – Industrialization of Custom Silicon
    – Cerebras CS-4 System
    – White House National Security Science and Technology Strategy

     

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    11 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260817

    – Riemann Hypothesis advances via AI

    – AI agents need inference budget for computational research
    – AMD Reasserts FP64
    – Algorithmic vs Numerical Emulation
    – zHBM, HBF expand memory-storage hierarchy
    – China’s answer to IBM-AMD QEC and NVQLink
    – THQLink built on TH-Express

     

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    13 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260810

    – AI Optics and Export Controls

    – China and the Memory Shortage
    – AI’s Debt-Funded Buildout
    – AMD Bets on Hard-Wired AI

     

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    12 min
  • Mktg_Podcast-057: Strategic Reduction and Agility

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    – Gym membership research!

    – System paradox
    – Strategic magnification, reduction, agility
    – Unbiased data
    – Creating crises

     

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    44 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260803

    – Open Secure AI Alliance

    – Open vs. closed AI
    – European AI gigafactories
    – Sovereign AI policy to architecture
    – Trusting results from Quantum Computers

     

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    11 min
  • HPC News Bytes – 20260727

    – Genesis Mission launches

    – National discovery infrastructure
    – AMD Helios rackscale platform
    – Optical fiber as memory
    – Rethinking model-weight storage
    – AI agents escaping containment
    – Ken Thompson’s 1983 Turing Award lecture

     

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    13 min

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