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 […]
Helmholtz Munich Selects DDN for AI-Driven Workloads
May 10, 2023 by
German scientific research center Helmholtz Munich has selected DDN AI data management solutions to accelerate the organization’s AI-driven workloads. The research integrates AI methodologies and spans multiple data-intensive computational applications, such as decoding plant genomes, tissue sample testing or creature and epidemiology cohort studies. Helmholtz Munich, one of 19 research centers within the Helmholtz Association, […]
IBM Unveils Watsonx Generative AI Platform
May 9, 2023 by
Though long gone from the HPC systems business, IBM is asserting itself in the HPC-AI and generative AI markets with its announcement today of IBM watsonx, a genAI and data platform. Announced at its annual Think conference in San Franciscolso, IBM also unveiled a GPU-as-a-service infrastructure for AI-intensive workloads, an AI-powered dashboard to report on […]
Tenstorrent Selects Arteris IP for HPC RISC-V Chiplets
May 2, 2023 by
CAMPBELL, Calif. – May 2, 2023 – Arteris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIP), a provider of system IP designed to accelerate system-on-chip (SoC) creation, today announced that Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based AI chip startup, has licensed Ncore and FlexNoC interconnect IP for its AI chiplet systems. According to Arteris, the flexible network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect meets the demanding time-to-market […]
Purdue Announces GPU Expansion of Gilbreth HPC Cluster
April 28, 2023 by
April 27, 2023, West Lafayette, IN — The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University has added 104 new NVIDIA A100 GPUs to the Gilbreth community HPC cluster. Based on Dell PowerEdge R7525 compute nodes with .5 TB of RAM, two Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs, and 100 Gbps HDR Infiniband, this expansion […]
Neurala Announces Availability of Brain Builder on Sony AITRIOS Marketplace
April 20, 2023 by
Boston, Trieste and Hannover, Germany – April 20th, 2023 – Vision AI software company Neurala announced the availability of a new version of the company’s development software, Brain Builder, in the Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation AITRIOS Marketplace. The new version of Neurala Brain Builder features AI model outputs that are optimized for AITRIOS edge AI […]
Comet Unveils ‘LLMOps’ Tools and Integrations for Large Language Model Workflow
April 19, 2023 by
New York – April 19, 2023 – Comet, maker of a platform for managing models ranging from training runs to production monitoring, today announced a new suite of tools designed to revolutionize the workflow surrounding large language models (LLMs). Comet said the tools “mark the beginning of a new market category, known as LLMOps.” With […]
Report: Former Intel Exec Koduri, Now at Generative AI Start-up, in Acquisition Talks with Indian Data Center Operator
April 6, 2023 by
Raja Koduri, the former senior Intel architect who led the company’s accelerated computing and graphics chip efforts, is in acquisition discussions with a major data center operator in India for the generative AI software company Koduri joined after leaving Intel in March. According to a Reuters story, Koduri’s still unnamed startup could partner or acquire […]
Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs
March 28, 2023 by
In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has created a firestorm of competitive responses. At least two companies – Cerebras, maker of the dinner-plate […]
HPE DoD Webinar April 27: Bringing Exascale HPC to the Masses
March 27, 2023 by
There will be an HPE DoD webinar on Thursday, April 27 from 2-3 pm ET entitled “Bringing Exascale to the Masses.” The speaker will be Steve Heibein, public sector AI chief technologist, HPE. For registration information, go here. This webinar will present the latest hardware platforms bringing exascale features to rack-scale, server-scale and the tactical […]
