SEATTLE– March 5th, 2024 – High performance data management and storage company Qumulo has announced the availability of Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), part of Qumulo’s Scale Anywhere platform for the hybrid enterprise. ANQ Cold is the world’s first cloud-native service to cost-effectively store and retrieve infrequently accessed “cold” file data at any scale. At […]
Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10
March 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the 12th year for ATPESC, which provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems […]
Tenstorrent Founder and Engineers Say Taalas AI Chip Outperforms a Small GPU Data Center
March 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
TORONTO, March 5, 2024 — AI chip startup Taalas Inc., has announced it has exited stealth mode and raised $50 million over two rounds of funding led by Pierre Lamond and Quiet Capital. Taalas was founded by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic, along with early Tenstorrent engineering leaders Drago Ignjatovic, and Lejla Bajic. The three have worked on AI processors, […]
Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip
March 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership with Princeton University supported….
Eviden Caught up in Atos’ Financial, Acquisition Struggles
March 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European supercomputing, a commitment to build Europe’s first exascale-class system and with major techno- geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC unit….
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: ExaSGD
March 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Scientific Challenge As more renewable sources of energy are added to the national power grid, it becomes more complex to manage. That’s because renewables such as wind […]
Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Industry Acceptance of Accelerators
March 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project’s Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They highlighted how E4S at Pratt & Whitney, ExxonMobil, TAE Technologies, and GE Aerospace….
LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas
March 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
CARROLLTON, TX–March 5, 2024– Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The new facility supports LiquidStack’s mission to deliver liquid cooling solutions for high performance data center and edge computing applications. With an uptick in liquid cooling demand associated with Generative AI scaling, the […]
Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud
March 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2024 — AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, “a new developer playground with fully integrated documentation, code samples, and self-serve access.” Definitive Intelligence Co-founder and CEO Sunny Madra will lead the new GroqCloud business unit with the goal of expanding access to the Groq LPU Inference […]
HPC News Bytes 20240304: GPU Scarcity, Global Fab Capacity Boost, AI Hurdles and Singapore’s AI Training Strategy (Including Mid-Careerists)
March 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A good March morning to you! Forthwith is a fast (5:51) run-though of recent HPC-AI news, including: The GPU shortage; HPE, Dell financial results, GPU allocations, new Intel fabs….
