Sigma2 Collaborates with Iris.ai on Research through Access to HPC in Europe

Trondheim, Norway June 10 – Sigma2 AS, Norway’s official provider of national e-infrastructure resources for research, has announced its collaboration with Iris.ai, providing substantial levels of High-Performance Computing capacity on Norwegian Saga and EU Large Unified Modern Infrastructure (LUMI) supercomputers. Iris.ai is a provider of an AI engine for scientific text understanding, and the collaboration […]

NSF Awards Additional $9.8M to NCSA for Delta, DeltaAI HPC

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois was recently awarded $4.9 million of supplemental funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for Delta and an additional $4.9 million for DeltaAI to expand the potential capabilities of the soon-to-launch system by nearly 50 percent. NCSA originally received nearly $25 million from NSF in 2023 to deploy and operate DeltaAI, an advanced […]

 Montana State Selects ORCA Computing for Distributed Quantum Computing and Communications

LONDON and AUSTIN, June 5, 2024 — ORCA Computing, a quantum computing company, has been selected by Montana State University (MSU) to supply two PT-1 quantum photonics systems, advancing distributed quantum computing and critical quantum capabilities. Funded by the U.S Air Force as part of a new Applied Quantum CORE grant, the ORCA systems will […]

Pinecone Names Lauren Nemeth COO and Bob Muglia as Board Member 

NEW YORK, June 3, 2024 – Vector database AI company Pinecone today announced that Lauren Nemeth and Bob Muglia have joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) and board member, respectively. This comes as Pinecone celebrates its five-year anniversary and the GA of its flagship offering, Pinecone serverless, a vector database designed to make […]

Lenovo and Cisco Announce AI Partnership

May 30, 2024 – Lenovo and Cisco today unveiled a partnership intended to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate digital transformation for businesses of all sizes. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to jointly establish design, engineering, and execution plans for accelerating digital transformation with turnkey […]

Quantum: Photonic Demonstrates Distributed Entanglement between Modules

VANCOUVER, BC, May 30, 2024—Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing in silicon company, today announced what the company said is a milestone on the path to commercial quantum systems. While many existing quantum architectures achieve entanglement within modules, Photonic has demonstrated entanglement between modules. In this way, Photonic’s architecture provides a unique solution to one […]

Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft

BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed and low latency communication for scale-up AI systems linking in data centers. Called the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), this initial group will define and establish an […]

Report: TSMC’s ASML Chip Machines Can Be Remotely Shut Down if China Invades Taiwan

An invasion of Taiwan by China is unthinkable in multiple ways: it could lead to a regional war between China, U.S. allies in southeastern Asia and possibly the U.S. itself. It would be tragic for the people of Taiwan. It would be ….

ClearML Announces AI Infrastructure Orchestration and Compute Management

May 17, 2024 — Open source AI platform company ClearML today announced the release of an AI orchestration and compute management capabilities, making it the first AI platform to support Kubernetes, Slurm, PBS and bare metal for seamless orchestration of AI and machine learning workloads. ClearML now offers the broadest support for AI and HPC workloads […]

JetCool Expands into European and Asian Markets

LITTLETON, Mass. – May 16, 2024 — JetCool, a liquid cooling company for AI-driven and high-density data centers, today announced its expansion into the European and Asian markets. This significant development is due in part to a collaboration with Dell Technologies and Unicom, combining Dell PowerEdge server technology with Unicom’s extensive service and support network, to facilitate […]