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 […]

HPE to Build €250M Liquid Cooled HPC at Leibniz Supercomputing Center

The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) to build an Nvidia-powered €250 million high-performance computer, “Blue Lion.” The system will utilize the HPE Slingshot ….

Optical Interconnect: Ayar Labs Secures Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA in $155M Round

SAN JOSE – Dec. 11, 2024 – Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect company for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $370 million and raises the company’s valuation to above $1 billion. The strength of the […]

Flex Acquires Liquid Cooling Company JetCool

Austin, Texas, November 14, 2024 – Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced today it has acquired JetCool Technologies, a liquid cooling company for data centers. The acquisition is intended to bolster Flex’s data center and power portfolio to help hyperscale and enterprise customers solve growing power, heat, and scale challenges in the era of AI. Building on […]

‘It’s Vertical’: Lenovo’s New Rack Server Chassis Turns HPC-AI Liquid Cooling on its Edge

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] The first thing you notice about the N1380 is that the servers stand on their sides and are stacked vertically within a rack. Individual server trays slide into the ….