Pasqal and Welinq Partner to Develop Quantum Interconnects

Paris – April 23, 2024 – Neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal and Welinq, a quantum networking company, today announced a partnership intended to to address challenging problems in neutral atom quantum computing. The companies said the next-generation Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are expected to execute quantum algorithms relying on a large number of qubits, while […]

atNorth Names New Chief Development Officer

Reykjavík, Iceland – April 23,  2024 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the appointment of Anna Kristín Pálsdóttir as Chief Development Officer. An engineer with extensive experience in leading innovation and operations in large corporations, Pálsdóttir will be tasked with guiding atNorth’s development initiatives, driving the expansion of atNorth’s existing sites, and […]

Xinnor and Versatus Partner on HPC and AI Storage Solutions

Haifa, Israel and San Paulo, Brazil – April 23, 2024: Xinnor, a provider of high-performance software RAID solutions, and Versatus HPC, an advisor and integrator of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in Brazil, today announced a partnership to deliver storage solutions in HPC and AI environments. This offering is intended to: Unlock […]

Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’

We spoke with Eviden’s Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos’ financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring.

Nvidia Launches Flagship ‘Blackwell’ GPU at GTC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for a two-hour GTC keynote event and victory lap, which was held before a sold-out crowd at the 17,500-seat SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Today’s news begins with Blackwell, which Nvidia said delivers six….

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….

Eviden Caught up in Atos’ Financial, Acquisition Struggles

With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European supercomputing, a commitment to build Europe’s first exascale-class system and with major techno- geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC unit….

LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas

CARROLLTON, TX–March 5, 2024– Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The new facility supports LiquidStack’s mission to deliver liquid cooling solutions for high performance data center and edge computing applications. With an uptick in liquid cooling demand associated with Generative AI scaling, the […]

Pawsey Adds NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform for R&D Simulations

SYDNEY—SCA2024—Feb. 19, 2024—NVIDIA today announced that Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub, in support of its quantum R&D work. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA Quantum — an open-source hybrid quantum computing […]

AI Governance Proposal: Control AI by Controlling Compute

To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding, or punishing, bad ones. That’s the argument forwarded in a white paper from 15 research centers and universities in the U.S., Canada and the UK – and OpenAI….