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Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center
A good mid-August morn to you! Here’s a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including:
– The UK government cuts more than £1 billion in funding for an exascale-class system in Edinburgh and AI projects.
– Groq scores major investment round for its AI inference technology.
– Meta’s Llama 3.1 model: the debate over open potential dangers of source AI.
– Will SC24 be the largest supercomputing event ever?
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