HPC News Bytes 033125: Oracle’s Big AMD GPU Buy, ASML in China, Quantum in the News, the Award Winning Hoefler

Happy April Fool’s Day Eve to you! Here’s a quick (8:42) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000-GPU Oracle cluster, in the face of U.S. trade policy, ASML to open repair hub in China, EuroHPC-JU’s ….

AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems

On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward integration — or verticalization — of chip makers and the AI factory, defined by at least one company (data center company Vertiv) the AI “unit of compute.” […]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard shapes. 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, CPUs for enterprise, AI and cloud1, enable OCI Compute E6 shapes to deliver up to a 2X increase in cost to performance, compared to […]

Report: Oracle to Deploy AI Cluster with 30,000 AMD MI355X Accelerators

Nvidia, hot off the festivities of its big GTC conference last week in San Jose, dominates the GPU market with a roughly 95 percent share. But the question remains whether and how other chip suppliers will make inroads into the GPU sector. The top potential inroad-making candidate is ….

@HPCpodcast: Live from GTC 2025, Among the Crowds for the New AI Compute Landscape

In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present “Live from Nvidia GTC 2025,” covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme.
We review the conference, discussing everything from ….

SEEQC and Nvidia Report First Digital Quantum QPU-GPU Interface

During quantum day at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, SEEQC and NVIDIA announced they have completed an end-to-end fully digital quantum-classical interface protocol demo ….

Supermicro Expands Enterprise AI Portfolio with Blackwell Servers

San Jose, GTC 2025 – March 18, 2025 – Supermicro announced support for the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on a range of workload-optimized GPU servers and workstations. Specifically optimized for the NVIDIA Blackwell generation of PCIe GPUs, the broad range of Supermicro servers will enable more enterprises to leverage accelerated […]

Vultr Announces Early Availability of NVIDIA HGX B200

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced it offers early access to the NVIDIA HGX B200. Vultr Cloud GPU, accelerated by NVIDIA HGX B200, will provide training and inference support for enterprises looking to scale AI-native applications via Vultr’s 32 cloud data center regions worldwide. “We are pleased to […]

World Wide Technology Debuts oding Assistant, Digital Humans and Agents with NVIDIA AI

ST. LOUIS (March 18, 2025)– World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solutions provider, today announced the launch of new AI solutions developed in collaboration with NVIDIA designed to enable faster, more secure adoption of the game-changing technology. Built in WWT’s AI Proving Ground lab, the WWT solutions revealed at NVIDIA GTC include an AI coding assistant, an […]

NetApp Announce Agentic AI Reasoning Solutions with NVIDIA

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 18, 2025– Data infrastructure company NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today made an agentic AI announcement that taps the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. By collaborating with NVIDIA, NetApp intends to enable businesses to better leverage their data to fuel AI reasoning inference. In the era of intelligence, businesses need to rethink […]