Oriole Networks Raises £10m for Faster LLM Training

London, 27 March 2024: Oriole Networks – a startup using light to train LLMs faster with less power – has raised £10 million in seed funding to improve AI performance and adoption, and solve AI’s energy problem. The round, which the company said is one of the UK’s largest seed raises in recent years, was co-led […]

Alice & Bob and Partners Granted €16.5M to Cut Quantum Costs

PARIS — March 27, 2024 — Alice & Bob, a fault tolerant quantum computing hardware developer, and academic partners ENS de Lyon and Mines Paris – PSL, announced the receipt of a €16.5 million ($17.8 million USD) grant, a France 2030 initiative operated on behalf of the French state by Bpifrance, France’s public investment bank. […]

XConn Releases Silicon Samples of Apollo CXL 2.0 Switch

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 26, 2024 – HPC and AI interconnect company XConn Technologies today announced the release of early production samples for its “Apollo” CXL 2.0 switch, which the company will demonstrate with Samsung during MemCon 2024, March 26-27, in Mountain View, Calif. The XConn Apollo switch is the industry’s first and only hybrid […]

ACM and IMS Release First Issues of Journal of Data Science

New York, March 27, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IMS, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, have announced the publication of the first issues of the ACM/IMS Journal of Data Science (JDS), a peer-reviewed publication. The scope of the journal is multi-disciplinary and broad, spanning statistics, machine learning, computer systems, and the societal implications […]

NTT Research PHI Lab Scientists Achieve Quantum Control of Excitons in 2D Semiconductors 

Sunnyvale, Calif. – March 26, 2024 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab have achieved quantum control of exciton wavefunctions in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. In an article published in Science Advances, a team lead by PHI Lab Research Scientist Thibault Chervy and ETH Zurich Professor Puneet Murthy documented […]

Activeloop AI Database Raises $11M Series A

March 26, 2024. Mountain View – Calif. – Database AI company Activeloop has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, Samsung Next, Alumni Ventures, and Dispersion Capital. The round brings Activeloop’s total funding to about $20M. Activeloop’s Deep Lake connects unstructured data — audio, video, images, text and embeddings — to […]

EuroHPC JU Energy Efficiency Project REGALE Comes to End

Munich, 26 March 2024 – This March marks the end of REGALE, a European project, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which has carried out research into the development of new software for high performance computing (HPC) centres with a focus on energy efficiency. After three years of research, the project now provides a toolchain that […]

Dr. Martin Roetteler to Lead IonQ’s Quantum Applications Team

COLLEGE PARK, MD – March 26, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the addition of industry veteran Dr. Martin Roetteler as its new head of quantum applications. Roetteler will lead IonQ’s Quantum Applications development team, which identifies commercial applications of IonQ’s world-leading trapped ion quantum computing technologies and delivers business value […]

@HPCpodcast: Matt Sieger of OLCF-6 on the Post-Exascale ‘Discovery’ Vision

What does a supercomputer center do when it’s operating two systems among the TOP-10 most powerful in the world — one of them the first system to cross the exascale milestone? It starts planning its successor.  The center is Oak Ridge National Lab, a U.S. Department of Energy national lab at the tip of the computing spear. Meet Discovery, the supercomputer to succeed Frontier….

Achronix FPGAs Add Support for Bluespec’s RISC-V Chips

March 26, 2024, SANTA CLARA, Calif. & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.– FPGA technology company Achronix Semiconductor Corporation and Bluespec, Inc., a RISC-V tools and silicon IP company, today announced a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors that are available for the Achronix Speedster7t FPGA family. Marking an industry first, Bluespec’s RISC-V processors now integrate into the Achronix 2D […]