The electronics industry operates in a highly competitive landscape, where companies are constantly striving to launch products faster while meeting evolving consumer demands. However, this quest for speed and innovation comes with challenges. Electronics engineers often encounter complex designs, tight schedules….
Generative AI: Databricks to Acquire MosaicML for $1.3B
June 26, 2023 by
San Francisco-based data and AI startup Databricks today announced a $1.3 billion deal to acquire generative AI platform MosaicML, whose large language models (MPT-7B and MPT-30B) have more than 3.3 million downloads. The goal of the acquisition: reduce the time and cost of large language model training for generative AI, the companies said. Databricks, which […]
Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option
June 23, 2023 by
By Jeff Whitaker, VP Product Strategy and Marketing, Panasas The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT. This growth is not surprising given how […]
MemVerge Introduces Memory Machine Cloud
June 22, 2023 by
MILPITAS, Calif. – June 22, 2023 – MemVerge, a cloud automation company, today unveiled Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company’s Cloud Automation 2.0 technology. The platform is aimed at analytic application users and intended to empower those who are non-cloud experts to take advantage of cloud computing. Memory Machine Cloud is designed to deliver […]
AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI
June 13, 2023 by
At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company’s first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.
Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage Tops IO500 Rankings
June 9, 2023 by
The release of the latest IO500 ranking, the world’s most authoritative storage performance metric, revealed that the Cheeloo-1 system led the way in the 10-node rankings, thanks to the system’s use of Huawei OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage capabilities. The IO500 ranking evaluates….
HSBC and Quantinuum Explore Quantum Computing in Financial Services
May 30, 2023 by
CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO, May 30, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and London-headquartered bank and financial services group HSBC have announced exploratory projects looking at potential benefits of quantum computing for banking with specific projects in cybersecurity, fraud detection and natural language processing. Philip Intallura, Global Head of Quantum Technologies at HSBC said […]
Dell and NVIDIA in Generative AI Initiative
May 24, 2023 by
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have announced a joint generative AI initiative designed to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models on premises. Project Helix will offer various solutions with technical support and pre-built tools based on Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure and software. It includes a blueprint to help […]
AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer: In the Vanguard of HPC Performance and Energy Efficiency
May 22, 2023 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] LUMI is a model for both world-class supercomputing and sustainability. It also embodies Europe’s rise on the global HPC scene in recent years. The AMD-powered, HPE-built system, ranked no. 3 on the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, also ranks no. 7 on the GREEN500 list of the most […]
@HPCpodcast: A Breakdown of the ‘Treasure Trove’ TOP500 List
May 22, 2023 by
We release this special edition of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, from the ISC conference in Hamburg with a detailed discussion of the new TOP500 list, issued this morning. Shahin, a list advocate, notes that it contains 30-plus years of system data showing the convolutions and evolution of the highest performing HPC architectures – “a treasure trove,” as he puts it. We offer top-line insights from the new list, not just the TOP500 but also the GREEN500, the High-Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) benchmark, and the AI-inspired, mixed-precision HPL-MxP benchmark.
