Tenstorrent Founder and Engineers Say Taalas AI Chip Outperforms a Small GPU Data Center

TORONTO, March 5, 2024 — AI chip startup Taalas Inc., has announced it has exited stealth mode and raised $50 million over two rounds of funding led by Pierre Lamond and Quiet Capital. Taalas was founded by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic, along with early Tenstorrent engineering leaders Drago Ignjatovic, and Lejla Bajic. The three have worked on AI processors, […]

Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip

An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient  AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership with Princeton University supported….

Exascale’s New Software Frontier: ExaSGD

“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 As more renewable sources of energy are added to the national power grid, it becomes more complex to manage. That’s because renewables such as wind […]

Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Industry Acceptance of Accelerators

Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project’s Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They highlighted how E4S at Pratt & Whitney, ExxonMobil, TAE Technologies, and GE Aerospace….

Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2024 — AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, “a new developer playground with fully integrated documentation, code samples, and self-serve access.” Definitive Intelligence Co-founder and CEO Sunny Madra will lead the new GroqCloud business unit with the goal of expanding access to the Groq LPU Inference […]

HPC News Bytes 20240304: GPU Scarcity, Global Fab Capacity Boost, AI Hurdles and Singapore’s AI Training Strategy (Including Mid-Careerists)

A good March morning to you! Forthwith is a fast (5:51) run-though of recent HPC-AI news, including: The GPU shortage; HPE, Dell financial results, GPU allocations, new Intel fabs….

Exascale’s New Software Frontier: Combustion-PELE

“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 […]

NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline

NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverage NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer to push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning for science and produce novel science outcomes.  We are specifically seeking teams with expertise using deep learning for science, a deep understanding of the scientific domain, and demonstrated proofs-of-concept. NERSC staff […]

IT Survey: AI Implementation Has Many Hurdles but Funding Isn’t One of Them

Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. According to data presented by NoKyc.com, 42 percent of IT professionals think this is the leading challenge in AI implementation. A recent Coleman Parkes survey asked 1420 IT professionals […]

Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway

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.