SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 9, 2022 — Astera Labs, a connectivity solutions for intelligent systems company, today announced that its Aries Smart Retimers for PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 and Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 have entered mass production. The company said its first-to-market Aries Smart Retimer portfolio successfully completed rigorous interoperability testing with key industry […]
Astera Labs Announces Production Release Aries PCIe 5.0 and CXL 2.0 Smart Retimers for Cloud Connectivity
March 9, 2022 by
Cloud HPC: AMD Announces Amazon EC2 C6a Instance
February 16, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the expansion of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances. According to AWS, the C6a instances offer up to 15 percent better compute price/performance over previous generation C5a instances for a variety […]
@HPCpodcast: Cloud HPC is Hot – But Is It Right for Everything?
February 10, 2022 by
Growth of cloud HPC for several years has outpaced overall HPC market growth, and public cloud providers continually add the latest and greatest chips, interconnects, memory and software applications to their HPC menus. No doubt public cloud HPC is a great place for HPC experimentation and POC projects. But beyond that, what about making a big move to cloud HPC – which kinds of companies and workloads should go to the cloud and which should stay on-prem?
Google Cloud Chooses 3rd Gen AMD EPYC for HPC, EDA, CFD Workloads
February 10, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 10, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that AMD EPYC processors will power the new C2D virtual machine offering from Google Cloud, bringing customers strong performance and compute power for high-performance (HPC) memory-bound workloads in areas like electronic design automation (EDA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This announcement continues […]
Define Tech Ltd. and CloudCIX Ltd. to Support Genomics Research at 7 Universities in Ireland
February 1, 2022 by
Galway, Ireland – Feb 1st, 2022: Define Tech, in partnership with CloudCIX, will establish a new cloud infrastructure, powered by open standards, to enable researchers at the SFI Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Genomics Data Science, to perform cutting edge research and data analytics across a range of modern genomics technologies. The new cloud platform will […]
AMD Announces GA of New AWS EC2 Hpc6a Instances
January 12, 2022 by
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today GA of Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Hpc6a instances based on the AMD EPYC CPU, built for high performance computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud. AWS pre-announced Hpc6a last November. The instances deliver 100 Gbps networking with 96 third-generation AMD EPYC processor (Milan) cores with 384 GB RAM, according to the company. […]
XTREME-D Launches S3-Compatible Distributed Object Cloud Storage and Roadmap for AXXE-L HPC as a Service
November 18, 2021 by
St. Louis, Nov. 17, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D today announced AXXE-L Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible distributed object storage service that offers high performance, erasure coding, end-to-end encryption, and a simple subscription-based consumption model with support for multiple environments. The company also announced new features for its flagship product, AXXE-L by […]
Penguin Announces GovPOD HPC/AI Cloud On-Demand for the Federal Government
November 15, 2021 by
Supercomputing 2021 – November 15, 2021 – Penguin Computing today announced GovPOD (Government Penguin On Demand) HPC/AI Cloud, built for federal government agencies featuring a software, hardware and management platform designed to eliminate performance, scalability, and security challenges associated with traditional cloud computing environments. GovPOD HPC/AI Cloud is designed to enable federal government customers to access a bare-metal, HPC […]
IBM Cloud Selects AMD EPYCs for Compute-Intensive Workloads
November 10, 2021 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Nov. 10, 2021 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that IBM Cloud has chosen 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors to expand its bare metal service offerings designed to power customers’ demanding workloads and solutions. The new servers, featuring 128 cores, up to 4TB of memory and 10 NVMe drives per server, […]
Azure: HBv3 VMs for HPC up to 80% Faster with AMD Milan-X CPUs
November 9, 2021 by
Microsoft Azure has announced that a preview is now live for Azure HBv3 virtual machines powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-cache, codenamed “Milan-X.” The processors significantly improve the performance, scaling efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of a variety of memory performance-bound workloads, such as CFD, explicit finite element analysis, computational geoscience, weather […]
