The European Commission this week announced an AI Continent Action plan that calls for investments in AI and HPC accompanied by multiple AI factories across Europe. The EC said 13 of these factories ….
EuroHPC JU Issues Call for AI Factories Antennas
April 9, 2025 by
April 9, 2025 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has issued a call for proposals for the selection of entities or consortia of entities to establish AI Factory Antennas linked to selected AI Factories across Europe. The AI Factory Antennas will work in coordination with the EuroHPC AI Factories and will be included in all […]
DDN Collaborating with Google Cloud on AI
April 9, 2025 by
LAS VEGAS, May 9, 2025 — Today at Google Cloud Next 2025, AI and data intelligence solutions vendor DDN announced it is working with Google Cloud on AI-powered infrastructure with Google Cloud Managed Lustre based on DDN’s EXASCaler. Accessible on Google Cloud, this solution features a persistent parallel file system, delivering speed, scalability, and efficiency […]
Google Launches ‘Ironwood’ 7th Gen TPU
April 9, 2025 by
Google Cloud today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically for inference. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked via Inter-Chip Interconnect ….
Qumulo Launches NeuralCache for AI
April 8, 2025 by
Seattle, April 8 2025 — Enterprise data management and hybrid cloud file storage compan y Qumulo today announced Qumulo NeuralCache, a predictive caching solution designed to enhance data performance for AI-driven enterprise applications and critical line-of-business workloads. Integrated into Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric, this technology leverages an ensemble of AI and machine learning models to […]
Dell Unveils Xeon 6 Servers, New Storage Appliances and Software for HPC-AI
April 8, 2025 by
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) today made announcements across its data center server, storage and data protection portfolios. Here’s a rundown of the new offerings: Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 ….
University of Edinburgh Installs Cerebras AI Cluster
April 8, 2025 by
The University of Edinburgh has announced the installation of an AI cluster consisting of four CS-3s using Cerebras’s 3rd generation of Wafer Scale Engine processors Operated by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the university’s Edinburgh International Data Facility, the new cluster follows previous Cerebras CS-1 and CS-2 systems. It is part of the […]
UALink Consortium Releases Ultra Accelerator Link 200G 1.0 Spec
April 8, 2025 by
Beaverton, OR – April 8, 2025 – The UALink Consortium today announced the ratification of the UALink 200G 1.0 Specification, which defines a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect for communication between accelerators and switches in AI computing pods. The UALink 1.0 Specification enables 200G per lane scale-up connection for up to 1,024 accelerators within an AI computing pod, delivering the […]
Multiverse Says It Compresses Llama Models by 80%
April 8, 2025 by
Multiverse Computing today released two new AI models compressed by CompactifAI, Multiverse’s AI compressor: 80 percent compressed versions of Llama 3.1-8B and Llama 3.3-70B. Both models have 60 percent fewer parameters than the original ….
Pure Storage Partners with CERN openlabs on Flash for Science
April 7, 2025 by
April 7, 2025 — Pure Storage has announced a partnership with CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), which aims, through the CERN openlab collaboration, to accelerate development of ICT solutions for the Large Hadron Collider. The partnership will explore how Pure Storage DirectFlash technology can support future scientific research. CERN generates a massive amount […]
