HPE and AMD today announced they have been selected to build two systems for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a successor to the Frontier exascale-class HPC system, along with an AI supercomputing ….
Report: DeepSeek Model Delay Forces Use of NVIDIA GPUs
August 14, 2025 by
The Financial Times reported that DeepSeek was forced to delay the release of its new R2 large language model due to performance problems with Huawei Ascend processors, “highlighting the limits of Beijing’s push to replace US technology,” according to the FT. The publication cited three sources who said Chinese government officials encouraged DeepSeek to use […]
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 […]
Vultr Cloud to Provide AI Workloads with AMD Instinct MI355X GPU
June 13, 2025 by
West Palm Beach, FL. – June 12, 2025 – Vultr, a cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it is among the first cloud providers to offer the new AMD Instinct MI355X GPU. Vultr said it is taking pre-orders for early access to AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, available in Q3, to help customers accelerate their AI […]
News Bytes 20250401: Oracle’s Big AMD GPU Buy, ASML in China, Quantum in the News, the Award Winning Hoefler
April 1, 2025 by
Happy April Fool’s Day to you! Here’s a quick (8:42) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000-GPU Oracle cluster, in the face of U.S. trade policy, ASML to open repair hub in China, EuroHPC-JU’s ….
Report: Oracle to Deploy AI Cluster with 30,000 AMD MI355X Accelerators
March 28, 2025 by
Nvidia, hot off the festivities of its big GTC conference last week in San Jose, dominates the GPU market with a roughly 95 percent share. But the question remains whether and how other chip suppliers will make inroads ….
Vultr Announces Availability of AMD MI325X GPUs in its Cloud Infrastructure
February 18, 2025 by
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud infrastructure company Vultr today announced the deployment of the AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs in its Chicago data center region, making it the first cloud provider to offer this AI solution, according to the compay. This news comes on the heels of Vultr announcing its growth financing at a $3.5 billion valuation and the expansion of […]
Oracle Cloud Supercluster Supports 16,000 AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs
September 26, 2024 by
AMD today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has chosen AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs with ROCm open software to power its newest OCI Compute Supercluster instance … For AI models comprised of hundreds of billions of parameters ….
At ISC 2024: AMD’s Recent and Upcoming Milestones in AI and HPC
May 21, 2024 by
At ISC 2024, we caught up with AMD’s Daniele Piccorozzi, senior market development manager for EMEA, to discuss AMD’s strides with its Instinct GPU accelerator and EPYC CPU product lines, how they impact AI and how it all relates ….
Lenovo Launches AI Servers with AMD MI300X GPUs
April 24, 2024 by
Lenovo today announced AI-centric infrastructure systems in collaboration with AMD, including the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU server (pictured here), designed for demanding AI workloads, including genAI and large language models. The server, powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC Genoa ….
