high‑performance computing

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jun 13, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 Challenges Nvidia’s AI Supercomputers

Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384, built from 384 Ascend 910C chips and a multi‑to‑multi topology, delivers up to 300 PFLOP BF16 performance—nearly twice that of Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72—while exposing supply‑chain dependencies on foreign fabs, higher power consumption, and a rapid push to scale China’s domestic semiconductor capabilities.

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How Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 Challenges Nvidia’s AI Supercomputers

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jun 10, 2025 · Fundamentals

Why RDMA Is Revolutionizing High‑Performance Computing and AI

This article explores how Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology transforms high‑performance computing, artificial intelligence, and cloud storage by eliminating data copies, bypassing the kernel, and offloading protocols to hardware, while reviewing key metrics, product ecosystems, real‑world use cases, challenges, and future trends.

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Why RDMA Is Revolutionizing High‑Performance Computing and AI

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jun 9, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

What Makes Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs a Game-Changer for AI Performance?

In March 2024 Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell GPU family and the GB200 NVL72 architecture, featuring 3‑4 nm processes, redesigned CUDA cores, next‑gen ray‑tracing, upgraded DLSS, massive FP16/FP8 compute gains, 8 TB/s memory bandwidth, and NVLink Gen5, while also presenting complex power, cooling, and packaging challenges for large‑scale AI deployments.

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What Makes Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs a Game-Changer for AI Performance?

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jun 3, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Comprehensive Analysis of RDMA Technology: Principles, Features, Products, and Applications in HPC, AI, and Cloud Storage

The article provides an in‑depth technical overview of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), covering its zero‑copy, kernel‑bypass, and protocol‑offload features, hardware and software ecosystems, and its impact on high‑performance computing, artificial intelligence, cloud storage, finance, and edge computing.

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Comprehensive Analysis of RDMA Technology: Principles, Features, Products, and Applications in HPC, AI, and Cloud Storage

Architects' Tech Alliance

May 26, 2025 · Fundamentals

Understanding RDMA, InfiniBand, and RoCEv2 for High‑Performance Distributed Training

The article explains how distributed AI training performance depends on reducing inter‑card communication latency, introduces RDMA technology and its implementations (InfiniBand, RoCEv2, iWARP), compares their latency and scalability against traditional TCP/IP, and outlines the hardware components and trade‑offs of InfiniBand and RoCEv2 networks.

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Understanding RDMA, InfiniBand, and RoCEv2 for High‑Performance Distributed Training

Architects' Tech Alliance

May 25, 2025 · Fundamentals

Comprehensive Overview of Shenwei (申威) Chip Development, Technology, Roadmap, and Applications

This article provides an in‑depth overview of Shenwei chips, covering their development history, core technical advantages such as a self‑designed instruction set and high‑performance computing capabilities, the current product line‑up, and their applications in supercomputing, cloud data centers, security, and embedded systems.

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Comprehensive Overview of Shenwei (申威) Chip Development, Technology, Roadmap, and Applications

Architects' Tech Alliance

May 12, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Comparison of Fat-Tree, Dragonfly, and Torus Network Topologies for AI and High‑Performance Computing

The article reviews Fat‑Tree, Dragonfly, and Torus network topologies, analyzing their bandwidth, scalability, latency, routing algorithms, and cost trade‑offs for AI‑driven high‑performance computing clusters, and highlights each design's strengths and limitations in large‑scale deployments.

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Comparison of Fat-Tree, Dragonfly, and Torus Network Topologies for AI and High‑Performance Computing

Architects' Tech Alliance

May 6, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Evolution of NVIDIA GPU Architectures for AI from Volta to Blackwell

The article reviews NVIDIA's GPU architecture progression—from Volta's pioneering Tensor Cores through Turing, Ampere, Hopper, and the latest Blackwell and Rubin designs—highlighting key innovations, performance gains for deep learning, and related resource updates for AI practitioners.

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Evolution of NVIDIA GPU Architectures for AI from Volta to Blackwell

Architects' Tech Alliance

Apr 28, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

NVLink High‑Speed Interconnect: Architecture, Evolution, and Performance

NVLink, NVIDIA's high‑bandwidth interconnect introduced with the P100 GPU, replaces PCIe by offering significantly higher data rates and lower latency for GPU‑GPU and GPU‑CPU communication, and has evolved through multiple generations to support modern AI and high‑performance computing workloads.

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NVLink High‑Speed Interconnect: Architecture, Evolution, and Performance

Architects' Tech Alliance

Apr 21, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

UALink 1.0: An Open High‑Speed Interconnect Challenging Nvidia’s AI Dominance

The UALink 1.0 specification, driven by AMD, Intel, Broadcom and other industry leaders, introduces an open, low‑latency, high‑bandwidth interconnect that can link up to 1,024 AI accelerators, offering a cost‑effective alternative to Nvidia’s NVLink and reshaping the AI‑HPC market.

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UALink 1.0: An Open High‑Speed Interconnect Challenging Nvidia’s AI Dominance

AntTech

Apr 17, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Data+AI Forum at the 18th China Electronics Information Conference (2025) – Speaker Bios and Session Summaries

The 18th China Electronics Information Conference will be held in Chengdu from April 17‑21, 2025, featuring the DATA+AI forum that gathers leading academicians and industry experts to discuss data‑AI integration, with detailed speaker biographies, presentation titles, and abstracts covering topics such as large‑model inference, cloud‑edge ultrasound diagnostics, and the future of databases in the AI era.

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Data+AI Forum at the 18th China Electronics Information Conference (2025) – Speaker Bios and Session Summaries

AntTech

Mar 19, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Award-Winning HPCA 2025 Papers on Near‑DRAM Processing (UniNDP) and GPU‑Accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption (WarpDrive)

At HPCA 2025, two standout papers—UniNDP, a unified compilation and simulation tool for near‑DRAM processing architectures, and WarpDrive, a GPU‑based fully homomorphic encryption accelerator leveraging Tensor and CUDA cores—demonstrate significant performance gains for AI workloads and privacy‑preserving computation.

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Award-Winning HPCA 2025 Papers on Near‑DRAM Processing (UniNDP) and GPU‑Accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption (WarpDrive)

DeWu Technology

Feb 26, 2025 · Backend Development

Migrating to Rust: A Case Study in High-Performance Computing

Migrating a Java computing layer to Rust yielded dramatic performance gains—30% lower CPU usage, 70% less memory—and greater stability, as the authors explain how Rust’s ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and concurrency, combined with optimized data handling, FFI integration, Tokio async, Docker deployment, and monitoring, outweigh the steep learning curve and ecosystem gaps.

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Migrating to Rust: A Case Study in High-Performance Computing

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Jan 20, 2025 · Cloud Computing

2024 Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure Network Team: AI‑Scale Network Innovations, Academic Achievements, Open‑Source Contributions and Industry Outreach

The 2024 report of Alibaba Cloud's Infrastructure Network team details AI‑driven network breakthroughs, high‑performance protocol stacks, large‑scale monitoring systems, numerous top‑conference paper acceptances, open‑source ecosystem initiatives, and extensive industry outreach, highlighting the evolving AI infra landscape.

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2024 Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure Network Team: AI‑Scale Network Innovations, Academic Achievements, Open‑Source Contributions and Industry Outreach

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jan 5, 2025 · Fundamentals

HadaFS: A New Burst Buffer File System for Scalable High‑Performance Computing

The article presents HadaFS, a novel burst‑buffer‑based distributed file system that combines the scalability of local burst buffers with the data‑sharing advantages of shared buffers, details its LTA architecture, metadata handling, the Hadash management tool, and extensive performance evaluations on the SNS supercomputer.

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HadaFS: A New Burst Buffer File System for Scalable High‑Performance Computing

Deepin Linux

Dec 25, 2024 · Fundamentals

An Introduction to RDMA: Principles, Programming, and Applications

This article explains RDMA technology, covering its core principles, programming model with Verbs API, various communication modes, and its impact on data‑center networking, high‑performance computing, and distributed storage, highlighting its low‑latency, zero‑copy advantages over traditional TCP/IP.

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An Introduction to RDMA: Principles, Programming, and Applications

AntTech

Nov 16, 2024 · Information Security

WarpDrive: GPU-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption Acceleration Leveraging Tensor and CUDA Cores Accepted at HPCA 2025

Ant Group’s Computing Systems Lab announced that its GPU‑accelerated fully homomorphic encryption framework WarpDrive, which exploits Tensor and CUDA cores for high‑throughput NTT operations and parallel kernel designs, has been accepted as a paper at the IEEE HPCA 2025 conference.

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WarpDrive: GPU-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption Acceleration Leveraging Tensor and CUDA Cores Accepted at HPCA 2025

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Oct 25, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Highlights of Chinese Enterprises at the 2024 OCP Global Summit: AI Network Architecture, High‑Performance Cooling, and WAN Innovations

The 2024 OCP Global Summit in San Jose showcased Chinese tech leaders like Alibaba Cloud and ByteDance presenting cutting‑edge AI network architectures, liquid‑cooling solutions, SRv6 deployments, high‑performance data‑center designs, and future WAN routing innovations, underscoring China's growing influence in AI infrastructure worldwide.

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Highlights of Chinese Enterprises at the 2024 OCP Global Summit: AI Network Architecture, High‑Performance Cooling, and WAN Innovations

Architects' Tech Alliance

Oct 21, 2024 · Fundamentals

Why, What, and How of RDMA in AI Networks: Architecture, Protocols, and Future Directions

This article explains the motivations behind RDMA, describes its architecture, key components, and protocols such as RoCEv2, and discusses future technical challenges for scaling RDMA in large AI and HPC data‑center networks.

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Why, What, and How of RDMA in AI Networks: Architecture, Protocols, and Future Directions

Tencent Advertising Technology

Oct 14, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Generative Retrieval Based on Yuan Large Model: Implementation and Practice in Tencent Advertising

This paper presents the implementation and practice of generative retrieval based on Yuan large model in Tencent Advertising, addressing three key challenges: user intent capture, model alignment in advertising domain, and high-performance platform design under ROI constraints.

Advertising TechnologySemantic Indexinggenerative retrieval

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Generative Retrieval Based on Yuan Large Model: Implementation and Practice in Tencent Advertising