ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Oct. 3, 2024 – Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) today announced the acquisition of Mikros Technologies LLC, an engineering and manufacturing company focused on of liquid cooling solutions for thermal management, completed October 1. As the continued adoption of artificial intelligence, energy storage, and electric vehicles drives higher-power density systems across consumer […]
Eaton Announces AI-Ready Rack Enclosures for Data Centers
Oct. 3, 2024 — Power management company Eaton today announced the North American launch of its Eaton Heavy-Duty SmartRack enclosures, designed to help data center operators and IT managers accommodate the increasing physical needs of generative AI computing infrastructure in enterprise, colocation and hyperscale data centers. Available in various specifications, Eaton’s Heavy-Duty SmartRack enclosures support […]
@HPCpodcast Industry View: HPC-AI Memory-Centric Trends with Lenovo Distinguished Engineer Patrick Caporale
The @HPCpodcast “Industry View” feature delves into major issues ….
LiquidStack Secures $20M Series B Funding from Tiger Global
CARROLLTON, Texas, September 19, 2024 — LiquidStack today announced it has secured a $20 million Series B extension investment from leading investment firm Tiger Global, bringing LiquidStack’s total Series B funding round to $35 million. The full service liquid cooling provider will use the funds to expand its manufacturing footprint, scale its direct-to-chip and immersion cooling […]
The Next Big Interconnect Technology Could Be Plastic
[CONTRIBUTED THOUGHT PIECE] …. large language models and generative AI applications are driving hyperscalers to adopt a new data center-scale switch fabric… And there is a new interconnect technology ….
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Install
A good mid-September morn to you! In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the ….
Gates Launches Data Master Hose for Data Center Cooling
DENVER, Sept. 10, 2024 — Power transmission and fluid power product maker Gates (NYSE: GTES) announced the launch of the Data Master Data Center Cooling Hose. This fluid conveyance solution, a result of Gates Eco-Innovation process, is intended for data center liquid cooling applications driven by compute-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence. This addition to Gates’ fluid conveyance […]
DDC Expands Engineering Leadership Team
Sept. 10, 2024 – San Diego – DDC Solutions, formerly DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of hybrid liquid-air cooling cabinet technology and dynamic monitoring and management DCIM software, announced the expansion of its engineering leadership team. DDC has hired Paul Bartlett as Chief Operating Officer and Tom Demitras as VP of Engineering to scale design and manufacturing […]
Nvidia and Others Invest $160M in HPC Data Center Company Applied Digital
DALLAS, Sept. 05, 2024 — Applied Digital Corporation, a builder of digital infrastructure designed for high performance computing applications, today announced it has entered into definitive agreements for a $160 million private placement financing priced at market, from a group of institutional and accredited investors, NVIDIA and related companies, the most prominent privately-owned real estate […]
TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System
Aug. 26, 2024 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers (SDC Austin) as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Horizon is part of the nation’s newly announced National Science Foundation-funded Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), which will revolutionize America’s computational research for the next […]