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Showing 5 articlesInside xAI Colossus: 100,000 H100 GPUs and the Race to Scale Frontier Clusters
An infrastructure teardown of xAI's Colossus supercluster in Memphis: analyzing how 100,000 liquid-cooled NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, Spectrum-X RoCEv2 Ethernet, and rapid modular deployment enabled training Grok 3 in record time....
HBM3e and HBM4 Memory: Why 3D Die Stacking Dictates AI Training
A semiconductor engineering deep-dive into High Bandwidth Memory: examining why 3D die stacking, Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs), and 2048-bit wide memory interfaces in HBM3e and next-generation HBM4 dictate modern AI training and inference throughput....
Embodied AI in Humanoid Robotics: Figure 02, Optimus, and Atlas
A comparative engineering teardown of frontier humanoid robotics platforms: analyzing Figure 02, Tesla Optimus Gen 2, and Boston Dynamics' all-electric Atlas across actuator torque density, onboard neural inference computers, power thermodynamics, and commercial automotive factory deployments....
FlashAttention-3 on NVIDIA Hopper: Asynchronous TMA, FP8 Tensor Cores, and Ping-Pong GEMM
An architectural deep dive into FlashAttention-3: how Tri Dao and researchers unlocked 1.5x to 2x speedups on NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPUs using asynchronous Tensor Memory Accelerators (TMA), FP8 precision, and ping-pong GEMM scheduling....