Announcements And Takeaways From Black Hat
Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
Black Hat was last week and Hacker Summer Camp never fails to disappoint. There were some big takeaways from the show, such as Moxie Marlinspike telling DevOps they're the problem with security as well as a whole host of exploits, like the ones we've covered above.
However, AI is king in 2024 and we knew everyone was going to be talking about it. This and more on The Rundown
1:13 - IBM Storage Scale using Blue Vela AI supercomputer
IBM needed a bigger, faster, and stronger supercomputer for AI so they turned to the Nvidia SuperPod architecture. The new Blue Vela AI supercomputer significantly expands GPU capacity, using Nvidia H100 GPUs interconnected with InfiniBand and Ethernet. The system leverages IBM Storage Scale appliances to achieve somewhat higher performance than similar setups, with nearly 3 PB of raw storage capacity.