August 22, 2023 — VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced the expansion of their partnership with a focus on generative AI. The companies said VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications, including intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization. The platform will feature generative AI…
HPC News Bytes 20230821: Intel Ends Tower Bid; Hot Chips Conference; GPU Demand; Samsung’s Texas 4nm Fab
August 21, 2023 by
Good Monday morning! Here’s a quick summation of recent HPC news: Intel kills Tower Semi deal; Hot Chips preview; GPU shortage as generative AI heats up; Samsung’s Texas 4nm chip fab….
Groq Selects Samsung’s Texas Foundry for 4nm
August 15, 2023 by
AI systems company Groq has contracted with Samsung’s US-based foundry business to be its silicon partner for Groq’s product roadmap. Groq said its next-gen silicon, to be designed…on its SF4X process (4nm)….
HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
August 14, 2023 by
A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux Wars continue: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux Association (watch for upcoming episodes on @HPCpodcast on this); China’s tech companies place $5 billion of orders on US chips; Intel improves hardware for on-chip AVX (or APX) vector instructions; 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists also point to TOP500
TSMC: July Revenue Down 4.9% YoY, Up 13.6% MoM
August 10, 2023 by
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2023 was approximately NT$177.62 billion, an increase of 13.6 percent from June 2023 and a decrease of 4.9 percent from July 2022. Revenue for January through July […]
D-Wave Reports Second Quarter Results
August 10, 2023 by
BURNABY, B.C. & PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 10, 2023 – Commercial quantum computing systems, software and services company D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) today announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2023. “Our second quarter results reflect, we believe, growing enterprise commitment to and investment in practical quantum computing solutions […]
Exxact Corporation Systems to Feature NVIDIA Ada Generation GPUs
August 8, 2023 by
Fremont, CA, August 8, 2023 — Exxact Corporation today announced it will feature new NVIDIA RTX professional GPUs in its configurable workstations, servers, and clusters to offer computational performance edge in real-time rendering, graphics, and AI, as well as accelerated simulation in engineering, scientific, and molecular research. These integrations include four new additions to the […]
NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: DGX Integration with Hugging Face for LLM Training; Announcement of AI Workbench
August 8, 2023 by
At the the SIGGRAPH conference this morning in Los Angeles, NVIDIA made several generative AI-related announcements, including a partnership with Hugging Face intended to broaden access to generative AI supercomputing (NVIDIA’s DGX cloud hardware) for developers building large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications on the Hugging Face platform. The companies said the combination […]
IT Services Company phoenixNAP Expands AI and Cloud Services with HPE Ampere-based Servers
August 4, 2023 by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that phoenixNAP, a global IT services provider, is expanding its Bare Metal Cloud platform with cloud-native HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 servers, using processors from Ampere Computing. The expanded services support AI inferencing, cloud gaming and other cloud-native workloads with improved performance and energy efficiency. Enterprise IT today demands mobile-ready, video-intensive, and AI-enabled workloads, which require exceptional performance and consume more power.
McKinsey on the Future of Compute: The Rise of Domain-Specific Architectures
August 2, 2023 by
There’s more to the rise in HPC and AI of domain-specific architectures (DSAs), starting with GPUs, than just the superior throughput they can deliver. Yes, the deceleration of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling are the primary reasons for the CPU’s decline in dominance. But other factors are playing a strong, enabling role for DSAs. Consulting […]
