SAN JOSE, Dec. 9, 2024 — AI developer cloud Lambda today announced a research grant to power AI researchers’ most GPU-dependent workloads. Applications for the grant are now open and will be accepted on a rolling basis. AI researchers can apply here. Lambda said it expects to sponsor hundreds of researchers in the coming year, […]
Lambda Launches Grant for AI Researchers, Expands Research Program
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
HPC News Bytes 20241209: Gelsinger’s Intel Exit, Marvell’s Rising Star, Quantum in China
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A happy December 9 to you! Following is a quick (7:23) overview of significant news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Potential whys and wherefores of Pat Gelsinger exit from Intel, Marvell-AWS custom AI chip alliance, China comes out of the shadows with information on Tianyan-504 quantum computer ….
Dell Shipping Blackwell-Powered Server Racks as Part of Relationship with CoreWeave for AI at Scale
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced the expansion of its relationship with AI hyperscaler CoreWeave and reported that it is shipping Dell PowerEdge XE9712 server racks with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, which Dell said is an industry first, to support CoreWeave’s Cloud Services Platform. CoreWeave will receive1 liquid-cooled Dell IR7000 racks with Dell PowerEdge XE9712 servers, supported by Dell’s AI professional […]
HPC Helps Researchers Boost Tree Growth and Photosynthesis
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the field and by as much as 200 percent in the greenhouse.
At SC24: Intel, oneAPI and the UXL Foundation — Enabling Open Source Software for HPC-AI
December 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
HPC-AI chip companies have built out and manage major major software development operations, and at SC24, we caught up with two software managers associated with Intel’s open source software projects. Here is our ….
AVK and Rolls-Royce Report Green-Powered Data Center Generator Sales
December 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
London, 5th December 2024 — AVK, a UK supplier of power solutions for data centers in Europe, and the business division Power Systems of Rolls-Royce have announced a record-breaking year of sales for hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO)-powered generators for data centers. HVO is a carbon-neutral biofuel made by the hydrocracking or hydrogenation of vegetable oil. […]
Schneider Electric Releases Research on AI’s Energy Consumption Impact
December 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Rueil-Malmaison (France), December 05, 2024 – Energy management and automation company Schneider Electric today released two reports from its Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) regarding AI’s impact on sustainability, particularly energy use. The first research, Artificial Intelligence and Electricity: A System Dynamics Approach, examines four possible scenarios for AI’s electricity consumption over the next decade. Considering the […]
Quantum: CDP Venture Capital Invests in Multiverse Series A
December 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain,December 5, 2024 —Multiverse Computing, a quantum and quantum-inspired AI software company, announced an investment from the largest Italian investor in venture capital CDP Venture Capital Sgr, as part of the company’s Series A round. The investment was carried out through two compartments of the Corporate Partners I fund, ServiceTech and Energytech, a corporate […]
QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses
December 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
When we last took a close look at QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), the data center, hyperscale and cloud server maker based in Taiwan, we pointed out that the company is a bigger player in the server industry than ….
QCT Releases New Platform Powered by NVIDIA GPUs for GenAI at Scale
December 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
QCT, the global data center solution provider with an expanding presence in the world of HPC-AI servers, is releasing a new hardware platform powered by NVIDIA GPUs and enhanced by the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
