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Lambda Raises $320M to Build NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI
SAN JOSE, Feb. 15, 2024 — Lambda, the GPU cloud company powered by NVIDIA GPUs, today announced it has raised a $320 million Series C led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology with participation from new investors B Capital, SK Telecom, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and existing investors Crescent […]
Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand
We’re seeing the chip industry’s version of the scientific aphorism: “nature hates a vacuum.” The vacuum is the short supply of – and vast demand for – AI chips, and it’s roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity….
ALCF: Groq AI Online Workshop, Dec. 6-7
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF’s new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30 to 5 pm Central Time. To register go here. The ALCF said the Groq machine’s AI inference capabilities can assist users in making predictions, discovering patterns in […]
@HPCpodcast: Views and Insights on the New TOP500 List
The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the top 10 of this year’s list has more changes than any list in recent memory….
HPC-AI Chips in the News: NVIDIA, AMD Ensnared in US-China Trade War; Arm Sues Qualcomm
NVIDIA and AMD, makers of advanced GPUs used in HPC-AI workloads, became embroiled this week in the deteriorating relations and ongoing trade war between the US and the People’s Republic of China. Yesterday, Nvidia said it has been prohibited by the US government from selling to the PRC its A100 Tensor Core GPU, on the […]
SiMa.ai Ships ML SoC Platform for Embedded Edge Applications
SAN JOSE — August 30, 2022 — Edge machine learning company SiMa.ai today announced it has begun shipping what the company said is the industry’s first purpose-built software-centric machine learning system-on-chip platform for the embedded edge – the MLSoC. The $1 trillion global embedded edge market is currently reliant on legacy technology that limits the […]
Frontier Exascale Unveiling: ‘Breathtaking…, a Huge Leap Forward for Science, for Our Country”
It was a day of high pride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a day to stop and take stock of the successful completion of a project based on an idea – exascale computing – that was begun more than 20 years ago. We’re talking about the official unveiling of Frontier, the country’s and the world’s […]