The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) to build an Nvidia-powered €250 million high-performance computer, “Blue Lion.” The system will utilize the HPE Slingshot ….
Lambda Launches Inference API
December 13, 2024 by
Dec. 13, 2024 — AI company Lambda today announced its Inference API, which the company said enables access to LLMs through a serverless AI for “a fraction of a cent.” The company said Lambda Inference API offers low-cost, scalable AI inference with such models as Meta’s recently released Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (FP8) at $0.20 […]
insideHPC Vanguard: LLNL’s Kathryn Mohror — A Passion for Managing Scientific Data
December 12, 2024 by
Kathryn Mohror was introduced to HPC in 2002 as a graduate student at Portland State University, where she studied new remote memory access features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). She got hooked on achieving the best performance possible ….
IBM and State of Illinois Announce Quantum Initiative
December 12, 2024 by
Yorktown Heights, NY and Chicago — December 12, 2024 — Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced a collaboration to establish the National Quantum Algorithm Center in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) in Chicago. Anchored by IBM and other quantum computing pioneers including the University of Chicago and the University […]
Iris.ai Services Announces Suite for AI and LLM Accuracy
December 12, 2024 by
Vancouver, December 12th – AI vendor Iris.ai has announced a suite of services designed to enhance AI accuracy for companies building LLM solutions for internal and external commercial use. The RSpace Infrastructure solutions include Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-as-a-Service, advanced LLM evaluation frameworks, prompt optimization of user queries and high-precision data extraction capabilities to meet the growing […]
@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 ….
Rapidus Collaborates with Cadence on 2nm Semiconductor Solutions for HPC-AI
December 11, 2024 by
TOKYO, SEMICON Japan, Dec. 10, 2024—Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, today announced a collaboration with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. to provide co-optimized AI-driven reference design flows and a broad IP portfolio. The new collaboration will support the Rapidus 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) process and leverage the design and manufacturing benefits from its backside power delivery […]
Optical Interconnect: Ayar Labs Secures Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA in $155 Round
December 11, 2024 by
SAN JOSE – Dec. 11, 2024 – Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect company for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $370 million and raises the company’s valuation to above $1 billion. The strength of the […]
Memory: CEA-Leti Demonstrates Embedded FeRAM Platform Compatible with 22nm FD-SOI Node
December 10, 2024 by
SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 10, 2024 – CEA-Leti research engineers in France have demonstrated for the first time a scalable hafnia-zirconia-based ferroelectric capacitor platform integrated into the back-end-of-line (BEOL) at the 22nm FD-SOI technology node. Reported today at the IEDM 2024 conference, this represents an advance in ferroelectric memory technology, significantly advancing scalability for embedded […]
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 […]
