HPE today announced the sucessful completion of its acquisition of AI-native networks company Juniper Networks, Inc., initiailly announced in April of last year. HPE said the transaction doubles the size of the their networking business ….
A Conversation with AMD’s Director of Data Center GPU Marketing, Mahesh Balasubramanian
July 2, 2025 by
At AMD’s recent “Advancing AI” event in San Jose, we had the opportunity to speak with Mahesh Balasubramanian, AMD’s Director of Data Center GPU Marketing. We previously interviewed him in 2023 when AMD was rolling out the AMD Instinct MI300X AI Accelerator, so it was good to reconnect and learn more about AMD’s advancements upcoming […]
HPC News Bytes 20250630: The GPU-ASICs War – Chips from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Why Engineering Projects Get Delayed
June 30, 2025 by
A happy Fourth of July week to you! There’s been much movement lately by the Big Tech companies developing their own AI chips, a.k.a., ASICs, this includes Meta, Microsoft and Google, to name three. In this episode ….
Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric
June 24, 2025 by
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 ….
OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency
June 17, 2025 by
OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD “identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting […]
@HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List — How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared
June 11, 2025 by
The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday at the ISC conference in Hamburg with a new addition to the top 10 and with three exascale-class U.S. HPC systems on top. Tune in to this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems ….
Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand? Start with Performance!
June 3, 2025 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ….
Putin Pushes for Russian National Supercomputing Center
April 22, 2025 by
21 April 2025 — According to the Russian news agency AK&M, Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian government to consider the creation of a national supercomputing center. The corresponding instruction is posted on the Kremlin’s website. Putin instructed the cabinet of ministers to submit proposals to the head of state on the creation […]
HPC News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
April 21, 2025 by
Good April morning to you! It’s been an active week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:43) rundown of recent industry news: Nvidia, AMD and China export ….
Cadence Announces DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 Memory IP System for Cloud AI
April 21, 2025 by
SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 memory IP system solution on the TSMC N3 process. The new solution addresses the need for greater memory bandwidth to accommodate AI processing demands in enterprise and data center applications, including AI in the cloud. The […]
