Quantum: CDP Venture Capital Invests in Multiverse Series A 

Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain,December 5, 2024 —Multiverse Computing, a quantum and quantum-inspired AI software company, announced an investment from the largest Italian investor in venture capital CDP Venture Capital Sgr, as part of the company’s Series A round. The investment was carried out through two compartments of the Corporate Partners I fund, ServiceTech and Energytech, a corporate […]

QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses

When we last took a close look at QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), the data center, hyperscale and cloud server maker based in Taiwan, we pointed out that the company is a bigger player in the server industry than ….

QCT Releases New Platform Powered by NVIDIA GPUs for GenAI at Scale

 QCT, the global data center solution provider with an expanding presence in the world of HPC-AI servers, is releasing a new hardware platform powered by NVIDIA GPUs and enhanced by the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.

PCI-SIG Reaches 1000 Member Companies Worldwide  

BEAVERTON, Ore. – December 5, 2024 – PCI-SIG, responsible for the PCI Express standard, today announced that it has reached 1,000 member companies. PCIe technology was first introduced in 2003 and is a key I/O interconnect for the storage industry and beyond. PCI-SIG, which marked 30 years of innovation in 2022, celebrates this achievement in anticipation […]

insideHPC Vanguard: GE Aerospace’s Stephan Priebe — Pushing the Frontiers of Simulation

Dr. Stephan Priebe is a Senior Engineer in the Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab at GE Aerospace Research in Niskayuna, NY. He became involved with HPC and AI ….

Registration Opens for Energy HPC Conference at Rice Univ. Feb. 25-27

Dec. 4, 2024 — Registration is now open for the Energy High Performance Computing Conference at Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute in House, Tuesday-Thursday, Feb. 25-27. Registration is here. For the past 18 years, the Energy HPC Conference has been annual forum on industry needs and challenges, opportunities, and new developments at the interface of energy, […]

At SC24: Hammerspace on Making Data Accessible, Globally Shared and Silo-Free

At SC24, we caught up with Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing at data management platform vendor Hammerspace, a company at the headwaters of making data an instantly accessible and ….

MLCommons Launches LLM Safety Benchmark

Dec. 4, 2024 — MLCommons today released AILuminate, a safety test for large language models. The v1.0 benchmark – which provides a series of safety grades for the most widely-used LLMs – is the first AI safety benchmark designed collaboratively by AI researchers and industry experts, according to MLCommons. It builds on MLCommons’ track record […]

AWS Announces EC2 UltraCluster and GA of Trainium2 Instances

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train ….

Hammerspace Announces Contributions to the Linux Kernel for Enterprise and HPC-AI Storage

SAN MATEO, Calif. – December 3, 2024 – Hammerspace announced contributions to the Linux kernel designed to transform standard Linux servers into platforms for enterprise, AI and HPC file and object storage. These contributions – engineered by Hammerspace and available as part of standard Linux distributions – enable enterprises to achieve unprecedented performance and scalability with trusted, […]