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Manufacturing Repatriation: How HPC-Class Technologies from Microsoft Azure and AMD Support Manufacturers’ Reshoring Strategies

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  Geopolitical change is having tectonic impact on the global manufacturing industry. In the U.S., western Europe and other industrialized countries, there is growing emphasis on “manufacturing repatriation,” or reshoring of factory production. With this comes the need for new strategies leveraging data analytics, machine learning, robotics and advanced design simulation enabled by HPC-class compute power to help contain costs, improve quality and accelerate time-to-market. At the heart of these strategies for many companies: a cloud computing platform that offers – and continually refreshes – its technology and support service ecosystem for manufacturers.

CSC (Home of LUMI) to Host 30PB Data Lake for Destination Earth Initiative

The CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland, will host a 30-petabyte data lake for the European Meteorological Satellite Agency EUMETSAT and the Destination Earth initiative. The DestinE data lake will be supplied by cloud solutions company CloudFerro. CSC said the data lake has about 30 rack cabinets, each rack the size of a tall refrigerator. […]

TSMC February 2023 Revenue Up 11% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Mar. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for February 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for February 2023 was approximately NT$163.17 billion, a decrease of 18.4 percent from January 2023 and an increase of 11.1 percent from February 2022. Revenue for January through February […]

Mythic Raises $13M for Edge AI Inference

Austin – March 9, 2023 – AI processing company Mythic has raised $13 million in a new round of funding. Mythic’s existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC, and Lux Capital contributed to the round, along with new investors Catapult Ventures and Hermann Hauser Investment (which is led by Hermann Hauser, one of the founders of Acorn Computers and […]

ClearML Certified to Run NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Suite

Tel Aviv — March 7, 2023 –  ClearML, an open-source MLOps platform, today announced it has been certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end platform for building accelerated production AI. ClearML said the certification makes its MLOps platform more efficient across workflows, enabling optimization of NVIDIA GPUs. It also ensures that ClearML is compatible with and optimized for NVIDIA DGX […]

Green Revolution Cooling Onboards Castrol to ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program for Immersion Cooling

AUSTIN and LEWISTON, NY – March 6, 2023 –  Immersion cooling company GRC (Green Revolution Cooling) announced today that lubricant company Castrol will join GRC’s ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program, a platform designed to advance the performance of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. GRC’s ElectroSafe range of liquid coolants are deployed in 22 countries. The range is intended […]

Intel Alters HPC-AI Roadmap: ‘Rialto Bridge’ GPU Discontinued

After business hours on Friday, Intel released information on a “streamlined and simplified” data center GPU roadmap with direct impact on HPC and AI. The new plan calls for the discontinuation of the “Rialto Bridge” GPU, which was to have succeeded the Ponte Vecchio chip that itself was delayed several years before shipments began last […]

Quantum Motion Raises £42 Million

London, UK. 21 February 2023 – Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up founded by Professor John Morton, UCL, and Professor Simon Benjamin, Oxford University, has raised over £42 million in equity funding. The oversubscribed round is led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC) and joined by Porsche Automobil Holding SE (Porsche SE) and British Patient Capital. All existing investors from earlier […]

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of cyberinfrastructure, research computing, advanced networking, data science and information technology. Von Oehsen joins PSC from New Jersey […]

Rolos Selects Virtuozzo for Scientific Research Cloud Platform

Seattle and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, February 14, 2023 — Cloud platform Virtuozzo has announced a partnership with Rolos by Constructor group (formerly known as Schaffhausen Institute of Technology or SIT), to develop a research platform for scientists in industry and academia.  The team has developed a platform within Virtuozzo Cloud, the public cloud powered by Virtuozzo Hybrid […]