“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The scientific challenge Diesel and gas-turbine engines drive the world’s trains, planes, and ships, but the fossil fuels that power these engines produce much of the carbon emissions […]
AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos
March 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, OpenAI and Nvidia, along with a slew….
Synopsys Says it Has First 1.6T Ethernet IP Solution for AI and Hyperscale Chips
February 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2023 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today delivered what it said is a dramatic increase in bandwidth and throughput for data-intensive AI workloads with the industry’s first complete 1.6T Ethernet IP solution. Hyperscale data centers, a backbone in the era of pervasive intelligence, require high-bandwidth, low-latency chips and interfaces to process […]
Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway
February 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers across two of Green Mountain’s Norwegian locations.
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer with a large-scale, supercomputing centre. Quantum computers will play an important role in the future of computing as they promise to solve problems […]
SambaNova Says It’s First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Feb. 28, 2024 — AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. “This past fall, we announced the SN40L, the smartest AI chip (rivaling Nvidia), and today we’ve integrated that chip with the first 1T parameter model for the enterprise,” said Rodrigo Liang, co-founder […]
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI….
DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs
February 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include the Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper architectures. E4S is a community effort to provide open-source….
Dawn Rising: UK’s Top AI Supercomputer Begins Operations at Univ. of Cambridge
February 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, an Intel-Dell system called Dawn (Phase 1, pictured here), is up and running at a University of Cambridge data center. The system is powered by more than 1,000 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series chips and more….
TSMC Opens JASM Chip Fab Subsidiary in Japan
February 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
KUMAMOTO, Japan, Feb. 24, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held an opening ceremony for its majority-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (JASM) in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, bringing together suppliers, customers, business partners, academia and the Japanese government to show appreciation for their continued support and the joint effort that led to the […]
