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 ….
HPC News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode
April 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Intel Selling 51% of Altera FPGA Business for $4.3B
April 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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 ….
Google Launches ‘Ironwood’ 7th Gen TPU
April 9, 2025 by
Google Cloud today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically for inference. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked via Inter-Chip Interconnect ….
Jason Cong Wins ACM Breakthrough in Computing Award for Contributions to FPGAs
April 8, 2025 by
New York, April 9, 2025 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Jingsheng Jason Cong, the holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2024 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Cong is recognized for fundamental contributions […]
Dell Unveils Xeon 6 Servers, New Storage Appliances and Software for HPC-AI
April 8, 2025 by
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) today made announcements across its data center server, storage and data protection portfolios. Here’s a rundown of the new offerings: Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 ….
University of Edinburgh Installs Cerebras AI Cluster
April 8, 2025 by
The University of Edinburgh has announced the installation of an AI cluster consisting of four CS-3s using Cerebras’s 3rd generation of Wafer Scale Engine processors Operated by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the university’s Edinburgh International Data Facility, the new cluster follows previous Cerebras CS-1 and CS-2 systems. It is part of the […]
ISC 2025: What to Expect at This Year’s Conference in Hamburg, Germany
April 4, 2025 by
The annual ISC High Performance conference, organized by the ISC Group, is just over two months away. It will take place from June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. In this interview, we hear from two of the conference organizers about the highlights we can expect ….
DARPA Taps Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform
April 2, 2025 by
AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining their wafer scale technology with wafer scale co-packaged optics of Ottawa-based Ranovus to deliver ….
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results
April 2, 2025 by
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. The rorganization said the esults highlight that the AI community is focusing on generative AI ….
TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year
March 31, 2025 by
TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together representatives from government as well as construction and supplier ….
