SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 26, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pensando Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion. AMD said Pensando’s distributed services platform will expand AMD’s data center product portfolio with a high-performance data processing unit (DPU) and software stack that are deployed […]
Intel Puts $700M into Hillsboro Liquid Cooling, Sustainability R&D ‘Mega Lab’
Intel announced a $700 million “mega lab” at its Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, OR, to be used for R&D in liquid cooling and other sustainability technologies with implications for power-insatiable HPC data centers. The company said it plans to build a 200,000-square-foot, facility “focused on innovative data center technologies and addressing areas such as […]
Composable Memory within CXL 2.0 Protocol Shown by Liqid, Samsung, Tanzanite
The Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium is chasing the utopian tech dream, now being realized in an increasing number of high performance servers, of a high-speed, open-interface interconnect that enables the heterogenous Babel of CPUs and accelerators to talk to each other, to all get along. It’s a critically important capability for AI, machine learning […]
Sustainable Data Center Technology Company Asperitas in CEO Transition
Amsterdam – May 3, 2022 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas announced Ronald Monster is stepping into the position of CEO following a milestone with a new investor and prepares the award-winning company for a prosperous year ahead. Combining a career in large corporations like KPMG Management and Shell with a career as MD of small […]
Kao Data Partners with Virgin Media O2 Business to Increase High-Performance Connectivity Options
London, 28th April 2022 – Kao Data, a developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced it has signed a formal carrier agreement with Virgin Media Business Wholesale – the wholesale fixed connectivity arm of Virgin Media O2 Business – to increase the low-latency connectivity solutions at its […]
It’s Time to Resolve the Root Cause of Congestion
[SPONSORED POST] In this paper, Matthew Williams, CTO at Rockport Networks, explains how recent innovations in networking technologies have led to a new network architecture that targets the root causes of HPC network congestion. Congestion can delay workload completion times for crucial scientific and enterprise workloads, making HPC systems unpredictable and leaving high-cost cluster resources waiting for delayed data to arrive. Despite various brute-force attempts to resolve the congestion issue, the problem has persisted. Until now.