Aug. 3, 2022 — New Delhi – Nokia today announced that it has secured a deal with telecom operator Bharti Airtel, for 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment. This multi-year deal follows the recently concluded 5G spectrum auctions and allocation of pan-India spectrum to Bharti Airtel, supporting their ambition to take India into the 5G era. […]
Avery Design Systems Announces 800G Ethernet VIP Virtual Network Co-simulation Platform
SANTA CLARA, CA — Aug. 2, 2022 — At the Flash Memory Summit today, Avery Design Systems announced its Verification IP (VIP) for 800Gbps Ethernet can now be used to perform virtual network co-simulation for the full layer Ethernet 2-7 network stack. The combination of the VIP and a virtual co-simulation/co-emulation system enables the running […]
Rockport Networks Taps Phil Harris as CEO
OTTAWA — June 22, 2022 — High performance networking company Rockport Networks today announced the appointment of data center industry executive Phil Harris as CEO of the switchless network innovator. With more than two decades in corporate leadership, he will focus on the way next-generation networks are changing how high-performance data centers are designed, deployed, and operated […]
insideHPC’s Exclusive ISC 2022 Video Interviews
Check out our exclusive video interviews from the ISC 2022 conference! You can find them on the right side of our home page. They include: AMD – An update on the EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs powering the new no. 1 supercomputer, Frontier, which is also the first HPC system to exascale-certified, along with the […]
UK’s Durham University Using Rockport Switchless Network for COSMA7 Workload Modeling
Rockport Networks today announced that Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) has selected the Rockport Switchless Network as part of the ExCALIBUR program around new networking technologies for its COSMA7 supercomputer at the DiRAC HPC facility. The 232 Rockport nodes are intended to reduce congestion in the COSMA7 cluster and as they model exascale workloads and use codes to run […]
Post-Exascale Fabric: NNSA Awards Cornelis Networks $18M for High Performance Network R&D
Those who gave up for dead Intel’s Omni-Path fabric, which Intel began working on 2012 and stopped supporting seven years later, may want to re-think that. Cornelis Networks, the company breathing life into Omni-Path since 2020, has won an $18 million R&D contract from the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The award is part of DOE’s Next-Generation High Performance Computing Network (NG-HPCN) project….
Composable Memory within CXL 2.0 Protocol Shown by Liqid, Samsung, Tanzanite
The Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium is chasing the utopian tech dream, now being realized in an increasing number of high performance servers, of a high-speed, open-interface interconnect that enables the heterogenous Babel of CPUs and accelerators to talk to each other, to all get along. It’s a critically important capability for AI, machine learning […]
Optical I/O Company Ayar Labs Raises $130M in Series C Funding
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 26, 2022 – Ayar Labs, a chip-to-chip optical connectivity company, today announced that the company has secured $130 million in additional financing led by Boardman Bay Capital Management to drive the commercialization of its breakthrough optical I/O solution. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA entered this investment round, joining existing […]