Just before GTC (and for the 100th episode of the @HPCpodcast, and this one sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT) ….
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Ian Cutress on the State of Advanced Chips, the GPU Landscape and AI Compute, Global Chip Manufacturing and GTC Expectations
March 12, 2025 by
CoreWeave in $11.9B AI Infrastructure Deal with OpenAI
March 12, 2025 by
March 10, 2025 — GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced a deal to deliver AI infrastructure to OpenAI, expanding OpenAI’s compute capacity for training and delivering its latest models at scale to its hundreds of millions of users. The contract value for this strategic deal is up to $11.9 billion. As part of this deal, […]
VAST Data Adds Capabilities for Agentic Applications
March 12, 2025 by
March 12, 2025 – VAST Data today announced enhancements to its data platform, making it the first system to unify structured and unstructured data into a single data space that scales linearly, according to the company. VAST said the new capabilities redefine enterprise AI and analytics by combining real-time vector search, fine-grained security, and event-driven […]
Photonic Fabric: Celestial AI Secures $250M Series C Funding
March 11, 2025 by
SANTA CLARA, CA – March 11, 2025 – Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect, today announced that it has raised $250 million in its Series C1 funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, bringing the total capital raised to date to more than $515 million. New investors include funds and […]
Vertiv Introduces Heat Rejection System for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling for AI and HPC
March 11, 2025 by
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today made an addition to its thermal management portfolio, with the introduction of the Vertiv CoolLoop Trim Cooler, in support of air and liquid cooling applications for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. This solution supports diverse climate conditions for hybrid-cooled or […]
CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux
March 11, 2025 by
RENO, Nev—March 11, 2025— Software infrastructure company CIQ announced the availability of a preview of Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened, a version of Enterprise Linux that is optimized for environments with stringent security requirements, such as stronger password policies, memory corruption detection, kernel integrity checking and SSH restrictions. The product delivers Rocky Linux via […]
HPC News Bytes 20250310: TSMC’s $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC’s Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google’s
March 10, 2025 by
Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in the world of HPC-AI last week….
Data Center Report: Record-low Vacancy Pushing Hyperscalers into Untapped Markets
March 10, 2025 by
In a year when data centers faced their most difficult power challenges, the industry thrived nevertheless. According to the North America Data Center Year-End 2024 Report ….
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Handel Jones on the US-China AI Race and the Shifting Technopolitical Balance
March 7, 2025 by
Dr. Handel Jones, an expert on the economic, cultural and technology scene in China as well as a noted technopolitical analyst, joins Doug and Shahin for a second appearance on the @HPCpodcast.
Report: 64,000 Nvidia GB200s for Stargate AI Data Center in Texas
March 7, 2025 by
A report from Bloomberg states that some 64,000 of Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell GB200 chips will be purchased by OpenAI and Oracle as part of the Stargate AI data center project announced in January at a ceremony ….
