HPC News Bytes 20250602: NVIDIA Knocking on China’s AI Door, EDA Software Hits Trade Walls, China Tech Merger, NERSC’s New Supercomputer, UK ‘De-Brexits’ HPC

Good June morning to you! It’s been an intensely geopolitical week for HPC-AI, including: Nvidia earnings outperform despite ….

Cadence Unveils Millennium M2000 Supercomputer with NVIDIA Blackwell Systems

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Cadence today announced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer featuring NVIDIA Blackwell systems, for AI-basted simulation for engineering and drug design workloads. The supercomputer integrates Cadence’s solvers with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solver software. Cadence said this combination reduces simulation run times and up to […]

Altair Names Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Partner

SEOUL, July 9, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, has been selected as an electronic design automation (EDA) partner for the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE). Through this collaboration, Altair and Samsung Electronics will combine Altair’s comprehensive EDA technology with Samsung Foundry’s manufacturing capabilities to establish a more innovative, more efficient semiconductor design and production process. […]

Altair to Acquire EDA Company Metrics Design Automation

TROY, Mich., July 1, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it has agred to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc. (Metrics), a Canadian company with a simulation as a service (SaaS) business model for semiconductor electronic functional simulation and design verification. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions.  The Metrics […]

More ‘EPYC’ Options for HPC

[SPONSORED CONTENT]  High performance computing (HPC) often sets trends for the data center. Driving innovation, adding new functionality, and enabling simulations to deliver more accuracy, finer details, and insights. Recently AMD released four new AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology. Socket compatible with existing EPYC 7003 processors, the AMD 3D V-Cache […]