HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture redux, Livermore Lab and OpenAI for national security, small modular (nuclear) reactors for Google data centers

Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security

Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]

HPC News Bytes 20250127: Trillions for AI, the Limits of Data Center Largeness, India’s Chip Fab Entry

Good morning to you on this cold and dry January morning in the Northern Hemisphere. As AI data center fever prevails we offer a rapid (8:04) review of HPC-AI news, including: Massive AI datacenter money for Stargate and from Saudi Arabia, when data centers can’t get bigger, India enters chip manufacturing ….

$200M HPC Data Center for AI in Wisconsin Launched by DPO and Billerud

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2025 — Digital Power Optimization, Inc. (“DPO”), a developer and operator of power-dense data centers, today announced it has secured land and a power supply to develop a $200 million high-performance computing facility in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. This project will enable up to 20 megawatts of AI computing. DPO is working in partnership with […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: ORNL’s Dr. Feiyi Wang – Unlocking HPC-AI Breakthroughs that Neither Could Do Alone

“The potential of combining HPC and AI to push scientific boundaries drives me to explore new ways of leveraging these technologies together to unlock breakthroughs that neither could achieve alone. It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of HPC and AI fuels my career path, allowing me to work at the forefront of scientific innovation.”

Liquid Cooling: Iceotope Names New CEO, Non-Executive Chairman

San Francisco and Sheffield, UK – January 15, 2025 – Iceotope, a liquid cooling for AI systems company, today announced two leadership appointments designed to transition the company from its roots in technology R&D to mass market adoption. Following the launch of KUL AI, these appointments are intended to position the company for growth powered by AI’s […]

Hammerspace a Finalist in 3 Categories of theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards

SAN MATEO, Calif. — January 20, 2025 — Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, has been recognized as a finalist in three categories of theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards, including “Most Innovative Tech Startup Leaders” for CEO and co-founder David Flynn, the “HyperCUBEd Innovation Award – Private Company” and “Top Data Storage Innovation.” Winners will be announced on […]

At SC24: An Update from HPC-AI Skills Development Organization OpenACC

OpenACC helps the scientific R&D community develop their accelerated computing skills. Here are Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran of the Univ. of Delaware and OpenACC User Group Chair, and NVIDIA’s Jack Wells, Director of Higher Education and Research Computing ….

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Erin Acquesta, Extroverted Mathematician and Emerging Leader

In our ongoing Vanguards of HPC-AI series, we now feature Erin Acquesta, who holds a PhD in mathematics from North Carolina State University. She got involved in HPC-AI in 2014as a data scientist at Lenovo. In 2016, she joined the team at Sandia National ….