March 26, 2024. Mountain View – Calif. – Database AI company Activeloop has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, Samsung Next, Alumni Ventures, and Dispersion Capital. The round brings Activeloop’s total funding to about $20M. Activeloop’s Deep Lake connects unstructured data — audio, video, images, text and embeddings — to […]
@HPCpodcast: Matt Sieger of OLCF-6 on the Post-Exascale ‘Discovery’ Vision
March 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
What does a supercomputer center do when it’s operating two systems among the TOP-10 most powerful in the world — one of them the first system to cross the exascale milestone? It starts planning its successor. The center is Oak Ridge National Lab, a U.S. Department….
At GTC 2024: Liqid UltraStack Servers with up to 20 NVIDIA GPUs
March 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
At GTC 2024 we caught up with Sumit Puri, co-founder of composable computing company Liqid, to discuss the company’s GPU-power UltraStack, which he said transforms 2U servers into high-density GPU systems powered by NVIDIA L40S GPUs.
Exascale Computing Project: Leveraging HPC and Neural Networks for Cancer Research
March 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
What happens when Department of Energy (DOE) researchers join forces with chemists and biologists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). They use the most advanced high-performance computers to study cancer at the molecular, cellular and population levels.
HPC News Bytes 20240325: Final GTC Thoughts, Intel and CHIPS Act Largesse, Ultra Ethernet Consortium Expands, Samsung’s GPU/HBM Chip
March 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A happy end-of-March morning to you! Here’s a rapid (5:57) run-though of the latest news in HPC-AI, including: final reflections on Nvidia GTC 2024, Intel to receive $8.5 billion via US CHIPS Act, the expanding Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Samsung’s upcoming GPU/HBM blend.
Hitachi Vantara to Collaborate with Nvidia on Industrial AI
March 22, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 18, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes […]
@HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia’s Week at the Center of the Tech World
March 21, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Live from Nvidia’s GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast. We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot….
Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions
March 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NVIDIA GTC 2024 – SAN JOSE – March 18, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including with the new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, organizations can accelerate integration of their data, AI tools and on-premises infrastructure to […]
Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA
March 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
March 18, 2024 – At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud. Stemming from the expanded engineering collaboration announced with NVIDIA during Lenovo Tech World, the innovations help enterprises and cloud providers […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI
March 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 – Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications. The updates include: Availability of two HPE and NVIDIA co-engineered full-stack GenAI solutions. A preview of HPE Machine Learning Inference […]
