VAST Data Announces Enterprise-Ready AI Stack with NVIDIA DGX

SAN JOSE – March 18, 2025 – AI data platform company VAST Data today announced the availability of VAST InsightEngine starting with NVIDIA DGX systems and expanding to NVIDIA-Certified Systems from server providers. This combination is designed to provide enterprise customers with a first-of-its-kind turnkey, real-time AI data processing and retrieval platform designed to eliminate […]

HPC News Bytes 20250317: Intel’s New CEO, Is D-Wave Quantum Superior?, ‘AI Woodstock’ at GTC

A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone! As the accelerated computing world congregates in San Jose, here’s a rapid (6:36) rundown of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: What’s coming from Intel’s new CEO, did D-Wave achieve quantum supremacy?, “AI Woodstock” GTC25 in San Jose this week.

@HPCpodcast: Dr. Ian Cutress on the State of Advanced Chips, the GPU Landscape and AI Compute, Global Chip Manufacturing and GTC Expectations

Just before GTC (and for the 100th episode of the @HPCpodcast, and this one sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT) ….

@HPCpodcast: Dr. Handel Jones on the US-China AI Race and the Shifting Technopolitical Balance

Dr. Handel Jones, an expert on the economic, cultural and technology scene in China as well as a noted technopolitical analyst, joins Doug and Shahin for a second appearance on the @HPCpodcast.

Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth, Reports 2.5x Faster Model Training

SAN FRANCISCO — March 5, 2025 — Ceramic.ai emerged from stealth today with software for foundation model training infrastructure designed to enable enterprises to build and fine-tune generative AI models more efficiently. Founded by Anna Patterson, former Google VP of Engineering and Gradient Ventures founder, Ceramic.ai said it improves AI model training speed and cost-efficiency, […]

TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D

TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.

HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute

A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. ….

Cisco and NVIDIA Expand Networking Partnership

Cisco [NASDAQ: CSCO] today announced plans for an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to provide AI technology solutions to enterprises. The NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform based on Cisco and NVIDIA silicon is intended to form the foundation for enterprise AI workloads ….

HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System

HOUSTON –  FEBRUARY 13, 2025  – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. […]

Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell

San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions  accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale Blackwell solutions. The portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems […]