NVIDIA has announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning targeting enterprise AI initiatives. The integration will create a secure, enterprise-ready platform that enables Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools that come fully […]
Dell and NVIDIA in Generative AI Initiative
May 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
D-Wave Reports First Quarter Results
May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
BURNABY, B.C. & PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 19, 2023 – D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”) a commercial quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2023. “Our first quarter results reflect our continued measured progress across key business initiatives including commercial customer […]
ISC 2023: HPC Experts’ Thoughts on Making the Most of the Conference
May 19, 2023 by 1 Comment
ISC 2023, one of the biggest supercomputing confabs of the year, will be held May 21-25 in Hamburg, and for those days the conference will be the place to be in HPC. If last year’s ISC marked a big step in coming out from under the pandemic shadow, let’s hope this year’s event leaves it completely behind us. ISC 2023 will have 147 exhibitors, 15 percent more than last year, along with hundreds of items on the conference’s extensive agenda: keynotes, sessions, off-site events – all that. Getting the most of the conference calls for good time management and good judgment. As an assist to attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders – Katie Antypas of NERSC, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research – about conference events, keynotes and potential news developments they think will be worthy of your attention.
Intersect360 Research: HPC Market Up 8% in 2022 in Return to Pre-Pandemic Growth
May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SUNNYVALE, CA — May 18, 2022— HPC and hyperscale industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research today said the traditional worldwide high performance computing market totaled $38.1 billion at the end of 2022, a year-over-year increase of 8.1 percent from 2021. The expanded HPC-AI market grew 11.3 percent, reaching $44.4 billion last year. In its newly-released report, Worldwide […]
RIKEN and Intel Aim for Zettascale in Joint R&D for HPC, AI and Quantum
May 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
May 18, 2023 — RIKEN and Intel Corporation have announced joint R&D in the field of advanced computing technologies, such as AI, HPC and quantum computing. As part of the agreement, RIKEN will also engage with Intel Foundry Services to create prototypes of these new solutions. Collaboration areas include technologies in the fields of supercomputers and […]
Helmholtz Munich Selects DDN for AI-Driven Workloads
May 10, 2023 by Leave a Comment
German scientific research center Helmholtz Munich has selected DDN AI data management solutions to accelerate the organization’s AI-driven workloads. The research integrates AI methodologies and spans multiple data-intensive computational applications, such as decoding plant genomes, tissue sample testing or creature and epidemiology cohort studies. Helmholtz Munich, one of 19 research centers within the Helmholtz Association, […]
QScale Announces Financing Round
May 9, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Lévis, Québec, Canada – May 9, 2023 – QScale, a sustainable computing infrastructure company, today announced a strategic investment by Aligned Data Centers, with support from existing shareholders, including the government of Québec through Investissement Québec and Desjardins Capital. The investment enables QScale to accelerate its development of high-density computing center ecosystems across Québec. QScale will use […]
IBM Unveils Watsonx Generative AI Platform
May 9, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Though long gone from the HPC systems business, IBM is asserting itself in the HPC-AI and generative AI markets with its announcement today of IBM watsonx, a genAI and data platform. Announced at its annual Think conference in San Franciscolso, IBM also unveiled a GPU-as-a-service infrastructure for AI-intensive workloads, an AI-powered dashboard to report on […]
Dell: The Crucial Government-Industry HPC Link for Accelerating U.S. Global Competitiveness
May 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] HPC-based research and development is expensive, and lagging investments by U.S. industry in HPC could jeopardize this country’s global economic standing. This article provides a summary of a white paper developed on behalf of Dell Technologies by HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, on the crucial role that HPC investments by the U.S. government can play in supporting and accelerating the economic success and global competitiveness of U.S. industry.
