Good April morning to you! It’s been an active week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:43) rundown of recent industry news: Nvidia, AMD and China export rules, Intel sells part of FPGA business, storage investments soar, 2nm coming to Taiwan and Arizona
HPC News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
April 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Cadence Announces DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 Memory IP System for Cloud AI
April 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 memory IP system solution on the TSMC N3 process. The new solution addresses the need for greater memory bandwidth to accommodate AI processing demands in enterprise and data center applications, including AI in the cloud. The […]
Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the HPC-AI Data Center Energy Gap
April 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers, a voice is whispering in the industry’s ear: “Where’s the electricity for all this?” Good point! It’s generally assumed the data center energy gap will be filled by some combination of […]
Hammerspace Raises $100M
April 16, 2025 by
AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which inveted in Meta, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Snowflake and Uber, led the Series B round.
NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs on CoreWeave
April 16, 2025 by
NVIDIA announced that GPU cloud platform CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale, with Cohere, IBM and Mistral AI using them for model training and deployment.
Compu Dynamics Launches HPC and AI Data Center Infrastructure Solutions
April 15, 2025 by
CHANTILLY, Va.– Compu Dynamics, a provider of data center construction and operations services, announced the launch of its AI and High-Performance Computing Services unit. The portfolio encompasses the spectrum of data center needs, from initial design and procurement to construction, operation, and ongoing maintenance, with a particular emphasis on cutting-edge liquid cooling technologies for AI and HPC environment. Compu Dynamics’ new […]
Liquid Cooling: CoolIT Systems Announces Row-Based Coolant Distribution Unit
April 15, 2025 by
Calgary, AB, April 15, 2025 — AI ad HPC liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems today introduced the CHx2000, which the company said is the highest-performance row-based coolant distribution unit (CDU). This follows CoolIT’s announcement of the CHx1500 CDU in early March 2025. In production and shipping from CoolIT’s multi-gigawatt capacity manufacturing facilities, CHx2000 offers a […]
Altair Partners with DATAsolution in South Korean for AI and HPC
April 15, 2025 by
TROY, Mich., April 14, 2025 — Altair announced a reseller partnership with DATAsolution, a company specializing in data analytics and infrastructure solutions. This collaboration combines Altair’s artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) technology with DATAsolution‘s expertise in data infrastructure to deliver customized solutions and enhance customer support. DATAsolution will distribute Altair’s data analytics and AI platform, Altair RapidMiner, as […]
HPC News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode
April 14, 2025 by
A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It’s been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here’s a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news ….
NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.
April 14, 2025 by
NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers — i.e., “AI factories” — entirely in the United States… NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion ….
