HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?

A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….

Germany Launches €2B, 5-year Quantum Development Push

Germany plans to invest roughly €2 billion euros (US$2.4B) through 2025 on R&D for its first quantum computer and support technologies, the German economy and science ministries said today, according to a story published today by Reuters. The article stated that Germany’s Aerospace Center (DLR) will be the recipient of about €740 million in subsidies […]

Frédéric Hannoyer Appointed COO of SiPearl, Designer of Europe’s Exascale Chip

Frédéric Hannoyer (48, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, Ecole des Ponts Paris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been appointed chief operating officer of  SiPearl, the microprocessor designer for the European exascale supercomputer. In April, SiPearl signed a technological licensing agreement with Arm, the global semiconductor IP provider, granting the organization access to the Arm Neoverse platform, codenamed […]