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 […]

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[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI-related technologies, such as GPUs that drive AI workloads. Members of a virtual reality research project were in need of greater GPU-driven compute ....

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Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel's Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta's new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing....

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A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU's European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI....

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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is collaborating with Meta in a partnership designed to make it easy to deploy Meta’s Llama 2 large language models on premises with Dell’s generative AI portfolio of IT infrastructure and client devices. Dell said the collaboration simplifies the on-prem AI environment by combining Dell’s infrastructure portfolio and Llama 2 AI models....

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A bill before the Oregon state legislature would penalize data centers for not meeting emissions standards starting in 2027 and could — if approved in Oregon and similar measures are adopted by other states — have significant implications for hyperscalers and HPC organizations with heavy electrical requirements. A story in yesterday’s The Oregonian reported that […]

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By Liu Jun, Vice President, Inspur Information and General Manager of AI and HPC Truly understanding the metaverse requires some imagination. The digital world makes so many things possible – from exact digital copies and simulations of real-world environments to digital worlds based on far ranging and inventive creativity. Tech titans like NVIDIA and Meta […]

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Meta has joined the Energy Storage Solutions Consortium, whose mission is to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions via adoption of electricity storage technologies — i.e., batteries. The goal is to create an open-source, third-party-verified methodology to quantify grid-connected energy storage projects and “to help add a tool for organizations to create credible progress toward their […]

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