ZutaCore and Munters Team on Waterless Data Center Architecture for AI Factories

SAN JOSE, Sept. 17, 2024 — ZutaCore, a provider of direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solutions, and Munters, an air treatment and climate solutions company, today announced the integration of their two platforms to provide a two-phase, waterless liquid cooling to cool AI factories faced with massive power densities driven by AI accelerators. The solution is designed […]

Q-CTRL Delivering New Services to IBM Quantum Network

Montréal, Sept. 16, 2024 – Quantum sofware company Q-CTRL today announced that it offers two services via IBM’s new Qiskit Functions Catalog to simplify application development and performance management services. Q-CTRL’s performance-management software, Fire Opal, improves the usability and capability of quantum computing by reducing errors and abstracting the details of how to operate hardware […]

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Install

A good mid-September morn to you!  In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: Oracle Cloud’s 130K Blackwell-powered supercluster, AMD and Intel poised to gain in the GPU market?, AI’s impact on data storage in the changing IT landscape, installation begins for Europe’s first exascale HPC ….

Sept. 29 Registration Deadline for ALCF Virtual Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers

Sept. 13, 2024: The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a seven-week virtual training series for  undergraduates and graduates on the fundamentals of applying world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research. Please share this opportunity with university students that you think will be interested.  The series will be held on Tuesdays from […]

Samsung Announces Production of QLC 9th-Gen V-NAND Flash Memory

Sept. 12, 2024 — Memory technology company Samsung Electronics today announced it has begun mass production of its  1Tb quad-level cell (QLC) 9th-generation vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory. “With the industry’s first mass production of QLC 9th-generation V-NAND, following the industry’s first triple-level cell (TLC) 9th-generation V-NAND production in April this year, Samsung is solidifying […]

Pete Ungaro Joins VDURA Board

SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2024 —  AI and HPC data infrastructure software company VDURA, formerly Panasas, announced the appointment of Peter Ungaro to its company board of directors. In addition, VDURA has established a Technical Advisory Board, bringing on-board industry pioneers Dr. Garth Gibson, founder of Panasas, and Hugo Patterson, co-Founder of Datrium and known […]

BQP Reports on Aircraft CFD Simulations with Quantum Computing

New York, September 12, 2024 – BQP, a startup developing quantum-based engineering simulations, today announced what it said is a research milestone for simulating computational fluid dynamics. The milestone was achieved using a hybrid quantum-classical solver which is part of BQP’s next-gen simulation platform, BQPhy, according to BQP. After conducting ~100000 experiments, BQP researchers published […]

Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercluster with 131,000 Blackwells

Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available ….

Aramco and Cerebras Sign AI MoU

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Cerebras Systems today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Aramco under which they aim to bring high performance AI inference to industries, universities, and enterprises in Saudi Arabia. Aramco plans to build, train and deploy large language models using Cerebras’ CS-3 systems. Aramco’s new high-performance […]

EPB Quantum Network to Host Oak Ridge Lab’s Run on a Quantum Network

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 11, 2024 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory will run equipment developed at its research facilities on a commercially available quantum network at EPB Quantum Network powered by Qubitekk. Starting this month, ORNL is testing its Automatic Polarization Compensation (APC), a technology needed to convey quantum data across a network while maintaining all its […]