Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin and Doug take a fast (8:55) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: High-stakes high frequency trading measured in nanoseconds, AI federated learning at three US national labs, perspectives from “AI doomers.”
HPC News Bytes 20251222: Sub-Nanosecond High Frequency Trading, Federated AI Learning at 3 National Labs, AI “Doomers” Speak Out
December 22, 2025 by
AlphaTON Capital in Agreement with atNorth for Data Center in Sweden
December 19, 2025 by
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) announced it has entered into an enterprise colocation service agreement with atNorth AB, a European data center operator. This agreement represents AlphaTON’s first major data center colocation contract. Under the terms of the 60-month agreement commencing February 1, 2026, AlphaTON will secure: 2,230 kW […]
Element Critical Launches AI Data Center Platform with Mercuria, 26North, Arctos and Safanad
December 18, 2025 by
New York — December 18, 2025 — Element Critical today announced the launch of a new U.S. data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria and Safanad, anchored by the acquisition of two enterprise data center facilities in Houston and Austin. The platform is designed to meet growing demand driven by AI inference, digital […]
Report: AI Back-End Networks Continue Shift to Ethernet
December 5, 2025 by
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Dec. 5, 2025 – According to a recently published report from industry analyst firm Dell’Oro Group, Ethernet accounted for more than two-thirds of data center switch sales in AI back-end networks both during the quarter and across the first three quarters of the year — up from less than half in […]
Ecolab Announces Integrated CaaS Cooling Program for Data Centers
November 24, 2025 by
ST. PAUL, Minn.– Ecolab Inc., a sustainability company offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, announced the launch of an integrated cooling program for data centers. Ecolab’s Cooling as a Service (CaaS) program brings together a suite of cooling management solutions that unlock peak cooling performance all the way from the data center […]
HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration
October 20, 2025 by
A good autumnal morning to you! The future and the past of HPC-AI is much on our minds today as we observe great deeds done and ….
AMD Showcases ‘Helios’ Rack-Scale Platform on the OCP Open Rack Wide Spec
October 15, 2025 by
Today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased a static display of its “Helios” rack scale platform for the first time. Developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification, introduced by Meta, AMD said Helios extends the AMD open hardware philosophy from silicon to system […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
October 14, 2025 by
When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs ….
Flex Announces Platform for AI Infrastructure Deployment
October 14, 2025 by
SAN JOSE — Oct. 13, 2025 — Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced what is said is the first integrated platform designed for gigawatt data centers supporting AI and HPC. By uniting power, cooling, compute, and Flex’s global services into pre-engineered, modular reference designs for data centers, the new infrastructure platform enables operators to deploy infrastructure […]
@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips
October 13, 2025 by
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest ….
