Corning and Lumen in Agreement on Fiber-Optic Cable for Data Center AI

CORNING, NY, Aug. 1, 2024 — Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable. This fiber-dense cable will more than double Lumen’s U.S. intercity fiber miles, offering capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high […]

Crusoe to Build 200MW AI Data Center, Then Expand at 1.2 GW Lancium Clean Campus

SAN FRANCISCO and Abilene, TX  — July 18, 2024 — Crusoe Energy Systems LLC announced it is building a 200 MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. Crusoe, a vertically-integrated AI infrastructure company, and Lancium, an energy technology and infrastructure company focused on the decarbonization and stability of the electric power grid, will […]

HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It’s Healthy, Alibaba’s RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation

Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and….

Applied Digital Wins Contract with Together AI

DALLAS, March 14, 2024 — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of digital infrastructure designed for HPC applications, today announced the onboarding of Together AI. Applied Digital received a contract prepayment of $18 million as part of the $75 million contract, and it has onboarded a compute cluster of GPUs and […]

Immersion Cooling for Transportable HPC

In this sponsored post from our friends over at One Stop Systems, Product Marketing Manager, Braden Cooper discusses how the latest high-performance computing systems for AI applications generate more heat than ever before. Datacenters have begun adoption of immersion cooling solutions that immerse the temperature-sensitive electronics in a non-conductive fluid which efficiently dissipates the heat.

At GTC: NVIDIA Launches Hopper Architecture and 80-billion Transistor GPU for AI Data Centers

At GTC today, NVIDIA bolstered its “AI data center” technology with the launch of the Hopper architecture for accelerated computing, delivering what the company said is an order of magnitude performance improvement over its predecessor, Ampere, launched two years ago. Named for Grace Hopper, a pioneering U.S. computer scientist, the company also announced its first […]