On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..
@HPCpodcast: Former AWS VP Adrian Cockcroft Talks HPC-AI Trends Coming out of 2024’s End-of-Year Conferences
January 8, 2025 by
With the new year upon us, this is a good time to review what we learned at conferences held toward the end of last year. In this episode, sponsored by Lenovo, Adrian Cockcroft joins Shahin and Doug to discuss SC24, the RISC-V Summit and AWS Reinvent. Adrian, who ….
HPC News Bytes 20250106: ‘Beyond’ EUV Lithography, China Chip Sanction Workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI Build-Out, TSMC 2nm in 2025
January 6, 2025 by
Here’s a rapid (5:54) rundown of recent news from the HPC-AI sector, including: DOE and LLNL lead effort to go ‘beyond’ EUV lithography, report: ByteDance pursues chip trade sanction workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI ….
@HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Big HPC-AI Deployment Challenges and How to Overcome Them
December 11, 2024 by
In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC-class AI systems in a managed services model. We examine ….
Hammerspace and Supermicro in Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Storage Collaboration
December 10, 2024 by
SAN MATEO, Calif. – Dec. 10, 2024 – Data management and storage company Hammerspace today announced a collaboration with Supermicro to deliver a unified data platform for enterprise data centers and hybrid cloud storage. This collaboration allows Supermicro to resell Hammerspace’s software platform on Supermicro servers to serve both file and object storage workloads while […]
HPC News Bytes 20241209: Gelsinger’s Intel Exit, Marvell’s Rising Star, Quantum in China
December 9, 2024 by
A happy December 9 to you! Here’s a quick (7:23) review of news from the world of HPC-AI: Potential whys and wherefores of Pat Gelsinger exit from Intel, Marvell-AWS custom AI chip alliance, China comes out of the shadows ….
Dell Shipping Blackwell-Powered Server Racks as Part of Relationship with CoreWeave for AI at Scale
December 9, 2024 by
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 […]
QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses
December 5, 2024 by
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
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.
AWS Announces EC2 UltraCluster and GA of Trainium2 Instances
December 3, 2024 by
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train ….
