Google Cloud Announces GA of Ironwood TPUs

Google today announced GA on the Google Cloud Platform of three products built on custom silicon built for inference and agentic workloads: Ironwood, Google’s seventh generation Tensor ….

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened’ Available on Public Cloud Marketplaces

RENO, Nev. – August 26, 2025 – CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced that Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened (RLC-H) is now available on three major cloud marketplaces: AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform. This hardened Enterprise Linux offering enables organizations to deploy proactively secured, compliant systems while maintaining […]

Google Cloud Managed Lustre with DDN EXAScaler Now Available for AI and HPC

Chatsworth, Calif. — July 8, 2025 — AI and data intelligence solutiosn compa ny DDN  today announced that Google Cloud Managed Lustre, a managed, high-performance parallel file system service, powered by DDN’s EXAScaler technology, is now generally available. Designed to accelerate the most demanding workloads in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data-intensive enterprise environments, Google Cloud Managed […]

DDN Collaborating with Google Cloud on AI

LAS VEGAS, May 9, 2025 — Today at Google Cloud Next 2025, AI and data intelligence solutions vendor DDN announced it is working with Google Cloud on AI-powered infrastructure with Google Cloud Managed Lustre based on DDN’s EXASCaler. Accessible on Google Cloud, this solution features a persistent parallel file system, delivering speed, scalability, and efficiency […]

Google Launches ‘Ironwood’ 7th Gen TPU

Google Cloud today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically for inference. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked via Inter-Chip Interconnect ….

NVIDIA and Google DeepMind Collaborate on LLMs

Intended to make it easier for developers to create AI-powered applications with world-class performance, NVIDIA and Google today announced three new collaborations at Google I/O ’24. Using TensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA is working with Google to optimize two new models it introduced at the event: Gemma 2 and PaliGemma. These models are built from the same research and […]

Google Cloud Waves Exit Fees

Starting January 11, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud. This applies to all customers globally. More information can be found….

HPC News Bytes 20230828: Gartner on Composable; An ABI for MPI; AMD Acquires Mipsology; Google Cloud HPC Clone

A happy Monday morn to you. This week’s HPC News Bytes offers a quick (4:53) run-through of the major news in our sector over the past week. This morning we look at: Gartner predicts accelerated growth for composable computing; Proposed ABI (application binary interface) for MPI to simplify parallel apps; AMD buys AI software company Mipsology – a sign of more AI M&A activity to come?; HPC clone on Google Cloud Platform

Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Tens of Thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs

If a computer’s intelligence can be anthropomorphized, then an AI supercomputer that can scale to 26,000 GPUs (26 exaFLOPS AI throughput) is at the head of the class. That’s the case with Google’s new A3 GPU supercomputers for Google Cloud, introduced at the Google I/O 2023 conference. Google said A3 GPU VMs are designed to […]

Deutsche Börse Partners with Google Cloud

Deutsche Börse and Google Cloud have today announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance, economize and concentrate Deutsche Börse’s cloud adoption. Specifically, Deutsche Börse said it will leverage Google Cloud’s security and data analytics capabilities “to accelerate the development of its digital securities platform, D7, innovate its digital asset market operations, and enhance its data distribution and data use cases in the cloud.” Deutsche Börse said Google Cloud will become its preferred partner