Department of Energy Announces Request for Proposal for Exascale Computing Platforms to be Delivered Starting in 2021

This inaugural, two-day AI Hardware summit held in Mountain View, California, at the Computer History Museum, brought together researchers, vendors, and users to explore the development of the AI ecosystem from a hardware perspective. Large companies, startups, and analysts joined to hear over 30 speakers and roundtables. Although the overall theme was all AI hardware, many of the presentations focused on AI processors and the work that is being done to design hardware to further the development of the evolving and growing field of AI, machine learning, and deep learning.

Propelled by a vision of HPC-cloud and HPC-enterprise convergence, Cray's Shasta architecture will underpin America's first three exascale supercomputers, including the just announced 1.5-exaflops El Capitan system headed for DOE NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2022.