Full Circle: Cornelis Names Intel Veteran Lisa Spelman CEO

Interconnect company Cornelis Networks today said it has named Lisa Spelman its new CEO. Spelman joins the company from Intel, which made a major push into the HPC fabric market in 2015 with Omni-Path, which became the flagship product of Cornelis ….

Ayar Labs Names Intel Veteran Pooya Tadayon VP of Packaging and Test

SAN JOSE – June 11, 2024 – Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs today announced the appointment of Pooya Tadayon as its Vice President of Packaging and Test. Tadayon was formerly a Fellow and Director of Assembly & Test Pathfinding within Intel’s Assembly and Test Technology Development (ATTD) group. Tadayon brings to Ayar Labs more than two […]

Industry Heavyweights Form Ultra Ethernet Consortium for HPC and AI

SAN FRANCISCO – July 19, 2023 – A host of industry heavyweights have formed the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), intended to promote “industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance networking” for HPC and AI workloads, the new group said. Founding members include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden (an Atos Business), […]

Optical I/O Company Ayar Labs Raises $130M in Series C Funding

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 26, 2022 – Ayar Labs, a chip-to-chip optical connectivity company, today announced that the company has secured $130 million in additional financing led by Boardman Bay Capital Management to drive the commercialization of its breakthrough optical I/O solution. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA entered this investment round, joining existing […]

Ayar Labs Establishes UK Subsidiary, Adds to Executive Team

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & LONDON — In order to address the UK and European market demand for in-package Optical I/O, Ayar Labs has established an international subsidiary with Ayar Labs UK Ltd. Optical I/O has emerged as a key technology for future high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Hugo Saleh, VP of […]

Gen-Z Consortium’s Activity Lineup at Upcoming Flash Memory Summit, SC20

The Gen-Z Consortium has announced it will participate in the upcoming Flash Memory Summit and SC20 conferences. Along with speaking engagements and panel participation, the interconnect consortium will showcase Gen-Z technology demos from member companies in GenZ’s virtual booths. Flash Memory Summit, Nov. 10-12, will include online presentations along with a virtual exhibit hall featuring […]

It’s Here: The Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City

At insideHPC, are very pleased to publish the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City. We designed this Guide to be an in-flight magazine custom tailored for your journey to SC16 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance computing professionals. “Inside this guide you will find technical features on supercomputing, HPC interconnects, and the latest developments on the road to exascale. It also has great recommendations on food, entertainment, and transportation in SLC.”