At ISC 2024, we were given a tour of the Eviden booth, which – being the focal point at the conference of Europe’s leading HPC-AI systems vendor – was a beehive of activity. The tour began with a business and customer update ….
Eviden Reports on New Contract Wins and Technology (HPC, AI, Quantum, As-a-Service) Updates
June 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Q-CTRL Reports Optimization Problem Records
June 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
London, June 5, 2024 – Quantum infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced published results that the company says demonstrate a boost of more than 4X in the size of an optimization problem that can be accurately solved, and show that a utility-scale IBM quantum computer can outperform competitive annealer and trapped ion technologies. “The recent […]
Supercomputer Funding for BC Universities in Canada for Research in Health Care and More
June 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
June 3, 2024 — The Government of British Columbia and the Digital Research Alliance of Canad are investing over $81M into the supercomputers at Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria. SFU will use a combined investment of over $66M to renew the infrastructure of its Cedar system, which is an academic supercomputer that is […]
How Will El Capitan Run? Software and Storage Solutions Powering NNSA’s First Exascale Supercomputer
June 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s first exascale supercomputer, will likely be the world’s most powerful computer when the system is deployed in Fall 2024. But answering some of science’s most challenging questions will go beyond simply having cutting-edge hardware. Discover how the software architecture and storage systems that will drive El Capitan’s performance […]
VAST Data to be Data Platform for Cisco Nexus HyperFabric for GenAI with Nvidia
June 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NEW YORK & LAS VEGAS – June 4, 2024 – AI data platform company VAST Data today at Cisco Live 2024 announced it is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in enterprise networking and security, and NVIDIA on a solution to offer enterprises high performance AI infrastructure coupled with an Ethernet-based AI fabric to […]
Northern Data Group Launches Nvidia-based AI Accelerator Powered by Carbon-Free Energy
June 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Frankfurt/Main – 3 June 2024 – Northern Data Group (German stock market: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), a provider of HPC solutions, today announces the launch of its inaugural AI Accelerator, designed to fast-track AI innovation. Selected startups will be able to establish or scale a proof of concept for their AI concepts. Selected startups will receive complimentary access […]
HPC News Bytes 20240603: New Nvidia, AMD Chips at Computex, Industry Heavies Back UALink, Europe’s 2nd Exascale, Approaching AI Bubble?
June 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ….
Qumulo Announces AI Infrastructure Benchmark Results with Azure Native Qumulo
June 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SEATTLE – June 3rd, 2024 – Today, data storage and management company Qumulo said it achieved the industry’s fastest and most cost-effective cloud-native storage solution, as demonstrated by the latest SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI_IMAGE Benchmark results. Qumulo’s Azure Native Qumulo (ANQ) achieved an Overall Response Time (ORT) of 0.84ms with a total customer cost of […]
‘Microjet Impingement’ Liquid Cooling Advances as AI Heat Rises
May 31, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Single-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling, particularly effective with “microjet impingement,” targets coolant directly at the hottest chip parts, managing high heat loads while boosting silicon performance. This method, which can cool chips over 2,000W ….
CEA-Leti Reports 3-Layer Integration, Progress toward AI-Embedded CMOS Image Sensors
May 31, 2024 by Leave a Comment
DENVER – May 31, 2024 – CEA-Leti scientists have reported three projects at ECTC 2024 that they say are steps to enabling CMOS image sensors (CIS) that can exploit image data to perceive a scene, understand the situation and intervene in it – capabilities that require embedding AI in the sensor. Demand for smart sensors is […]
