From Challenges to Opportunities: The AI-Data Revolution

Today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, especially with the explosive growth of AI, has rapidly added to the complexity of data management. This growing dependence on AI has not only added to complexity, but also transformed strategic data management from a competitive advantage into a business imperative.

Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric

Ethernet wasn’t built with AI in mind. While cost-effective and ubiquitous, its best-effort, packet-based nature creates challenges in AI clusters… But fabric-scheduled Ethernet transforms Ethernet into a predictable, lossless, scalable fabric – ideal for AI. It uses cell spraying and virtual output queuing ….

Greater Complexity Brings Greater Risk: 4 Tips to Manage Your AI Database

AI advancements will fundamentally change how enterprises use and manage data, making it essential to embrace and understand this transformation. For organizations looking to adopt AI at scale, the state of their databases is a critical success factor. Poor data quality, weak governance ….

HPC News Bytes 20250609: It’s ISC Week!, French Government to Buy Eviden, Huawei’s 5nm Chips, WSTS Semiconductor Forecast, AI Defies Human Control

A rare day in June to you! As much of the HPC community gathers this week in Hamburg for the ISC 2025 supercomputing conference, we reflect on interesting recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including:  French government to acquire Eviden, Made-in-China 5nm chips from Huawei, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics market forecast, AI eerily defies human control

Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS

Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed ….

HPC News Bytes 20250317: Intel’s New CEO, Is D-Wave Quantum Superior?, ‘AI Woodstock’ at GTC

A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone! As the accelerated computing world congregates in San Jose, here’s a rapid (6:36) rundown of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: What’s coming from Intel’s new CEO, did D-Wave achieve quantum supremacy?, “AI Woodstock” GTC25 in San Jose this week.

TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D

TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its intention to expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach US$165 billion. The expansion […]

IBM Adds Granite 3.2 LLMs for Multi-Modal AI and Reasoning

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced additions to its Granite portfolio of large language models intended to deliver small, efficient enterprise AI. The new Granite 3.2 models include: A new vision language model (VLM) for document understanding tasks that IBM said demonstrates performance ….

Survey Finds 25% of Data Managers Greenlight Any Projects Powered by AI

For enterprise data teams, GenAI expectations are sky-high, and a new survey finds that management often leads the charge. A quarter of executives (25 percent) say their leaders will greenlight any project “with AI as a core component,” while the largest group (44 percent) are a bit more ….

SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum in Quantum AI Partnership

SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum today announced a partnership in quantum computing intended to “unlock innovative quantum computing solutions that will overcome the limitations of classical artificial intelligence and realize next-generation technologies.” SoftBank made major news last week at the White House, when President Trump said the Japan-based ….