San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale Blackwell solutions. The portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems […]
HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….
Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]
Emerald Invests in NLM Photonics Data Center Efficiency
SEATTLE, January 29, 2025 – Emerald, a venture capital company, has invested in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. Other investors include Oregon Venture Fund, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Pack Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures, and other existing NLM investors to support NLM’s […]
Liquid Cooling: Iceotope Names New CEO, Non-Executive Chairman
San Francisco and Sheffield, UK – January 15, 2025 – Iceotope, a liquid cooling for AI systems company, today announced two leadership appointments designed to transition the company from its roots in technology R&D to mass market adoption. Following the launch of KUL AI, these appointments are intended to position the company for growth powered by AI’s […]
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency with DDC Solutions
Chris Orlando of DDC discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling, monitoring, safety ….
HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs
On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..
Telehouse Launches Liquid Cooling Lab with Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool and Legrand
13 January 2025 – Telehouse International Corporation of Europe, a data centre service provider, today announces the launch of its liquid cooling lab, following the development of partnerships with four liquid cooling technology providers. From early 2025 onwards, the four companies – Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool, and Legrand – will showcase their advanced cooling technologies at […]
HPC News Bytes: The Next New Big Thing in AI?, UALink and Optical I/O, Arm vs. Qualcomm
A happy holiday season to you! As we enter Christmas week, here’s a quick (6:14) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: long thinking AI – the next new big thing?, UALink and optical I/O – a possible next new big thing in interconnects, Arm vs. Qualcomm ….
Photonic Interconnect: Lightmatter Joins UALink Consortium
Dec. 18, 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –Photonic interconnect company Lightmatter has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage technology—a 3D-stacked photonic engine—for accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters. The UALink […]