AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which inveted in Meta, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Snowflake and Uber, led the Series B round.
NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs on CoreWeave
NVIDIA announced that GPU cloud platform CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale, with Cohere, IBM and Mistral AI using them for model training and deployment. The CoreWeave-NVIDIA relationship is well-known – NVIDIA has invested heavily in CoreWeave when CoreWeave was a private company and now, […]
AMD Announces ‘Venice,’ First HPC Chip on TSMC 2nm Process from Arizona Fab
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced its next-generation AMD EPYC processor, “Venice,” and said it is the first HPC product to be taped out and brought up on the TSMC 2nm (N2) process technology.
Liquid Cooling: CoolIT Systems Announces Row-Based Coolant Distribution Unit
Calgary, AB, April 15, 2025 — AI ad HPC liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems today introduced the CHx2000, which the company said is the highest-performance row-based coolant distribution unit (CDU). This follows CoolIT’s announcement of the CHx1500 CDU in early March 2025. In production and shipping from CoolIT’s multi-gigawatt capacity manufacturing facilities, CHx2000 offers a […]
HPC News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode
A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It’s been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here’s a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news ….
Intel Selling 51% of Altera FPGA Business for $4.3B
Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a technology investing firm. The transaction, which values Altera at $8.75 billion, establishes Altera’s operational independence ….
NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.
NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers — i.e., “AI factories” — entirely in the United States… NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion ….
Survey: 83% Say Quantum Utility to Be Achieved within a Decade
Quantum industry professionals are optimistic that quantum utility will be achieved within the next decade, research from Economist Impact today reveals. According to the study, which surveyed quantum professionals across the UK, Europe, North America ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Erlangen HPC Center’s Ayesha Afzal and the Acceleration of Science
She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, received the Best Short Paper Award 2023 in the PMBS (Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, Simulation) workshop at the Supercomputing Conference, and scored first ….
EuroHPC JU Issues Call for AI Factories Antennas
April 9, 2025 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has issued a call for proposals for the selection of entities or consortia of entities to establish AI Factory Antennas linked to selected AI Factories across Europe. The AI Factory Antennas will work in coordination with the EuroHPC AI Factories and will be included in all […]