In this Arm-flavored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan of OrionX.net and Doug Black of insideHPC discuss the latest hurdles thrown in front of Nvidia’s attempted acquisition of Arm Ltd., this time from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, along with comments on Amazon Web Services’ new Arm-based Graviton CPU, targeting compute-intensive workloads. We also open […]
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@HPCpodcast: FTC Takes on Nvidia-Arm Deal; Composable HPC –Why, Why Not and How To
December 8, 2021 by
FTC to Sue Nvidia for ‘Illegal’ Arm Deal
December 2, 2021 by
Already facing worldwide regulatory challenges and delays, the planned acquisition by Nvidia of Arm Ltd. may have finally run into a roadblock too high. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today it is suing to block the planned $40 billion acquisition, charging that the “vertical deal between chip supplier Nvidia and chip design provider Arm […]
Serverfarm Launches ‘Future of Data Centers’ Podcast
September 30, 2021 by
LOS ANGELES – Sept. 30, 2021 – Serverfarm, the data center developer and operator, announces the launch of its second Future of Data Centers podcast series on International Podcast Day. Held annually on September 30, International Podcast Day is a worldwide celebration of audio storytelling and an excellent opportunity for podcast and tech enthusiasts to […]
UK Regulator Announces Additional Concern with Nvidia-Arm Deal
August 20, 2021 by
Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of UK microprocessor designer Arm has run into more regulatory roadblocks with today’s announcement by a British regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, that it has “significant competition concerns” with the deal. The CMA sent a review of its findings to the UK’s Secretary of State for Digita, Oliver Dowden, […]
Add UK to Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Snags
August 4, 2021 by
On the heels of potential regulatory problems in China and Europe for Nvidia’s planned Arm acquisition, another press report, from Bloomberg, states that UK regulators are considering blocking the $40 billion takeover on the grounds of national security risks. It’s not known what those risks may be, but the Bloomberg story said a report by the UK government’s Competition and Markets Authority “contains worrying implications for national security, with the country now leaning towards blocking the deal,” according to an article in Data Centre Dynamics.
Subzero Engineering and Armstrong World Industries Partner to Serve U.S. Data Center Market
June 15, 2021 by
San Antonio, TX, June 15 , 2021 – Subzero Engineering, a maker of data center containment solutions, and Armstrong World Industries (AWI), a designer and manufacture of commercial and residential ceiling, wall, and suspension solutions, have announced a partnership for the Americas markets. Subzero Engineering and AWI will create a containment and structural ceiling solution […]
Arm-based Oracle Ampere with HPC-class Instances Now on Oracle Cloud
May 25, 2021 by
Oracle today said its first Arm-based compute offering, OCI Ampere A1 Compute, is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while also announcing tools and support for Arm-based application development. “We’re seeing interest from early customers that are using our new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ampere A1 Compute instances for computationally intensive workloads like machine learning inferencing, encoding […]
Arm Releases Details on 2 Neoverse Platforms and Mesh Interconnect for HPC, ML
April 27, 2021 by
Arm Holdings this morning released information on two new compute platforms and an interconnect for HPC, machine learning and other workloads introduced last September: The Arm Neoverse V1 platform is a new computing tier for Arm and the first Arm-designed core to support Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), delivering 50 percent more performance for HPC and […]
UK Intervenes in Nvidia Acquisition of Arm Ltd.
April 19, 2021 by
Even as Nvidia announced its new “Grace” Arm CPU for AI and HPC last week, the UK government this morning issued a “public interest intervention” notice that targets Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of UK-based Arm Limited, announced last September, on national security grounds. While those grounds were not specified, the notice stated that “the […]
CSCS to Stand Up ‘Grace’ Arm-based AI Supercomputer from Nvidia, HPE
April 13, 2021 by
LUGANO, Switzerland, April 12, 2021 — The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA have announced what they says is expected to be the world’s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer. Planned to come online in 2023, the “Alps” system infrastructure will replace CSCS’s existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a general-purpose […]
