Oracle Cloud Supercluster Supports 16,000 AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs

AMD today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has chosen AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs with ROCm open software to power its newest OCI Compute Supercluster instance … For AI models comprised of hundreds of billions of parameters ….

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Install

A good mid-September morn to you!  In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the ….

Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercluster with 131,000 Blackwells

Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available ….

Nvidia AI Enterprise Available on Oracle US Government Cloud

April 25, 2024 — Oracle today announced that Nvidia AI Enterprise on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster is now available in the Oracle U.S. Government Cloud region to help address sovereign AI. Building on the expansion of their partnership, Oracle and Nvidia are helping U.S. government customers train and deploy AI solutions with access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s 100+ services, […]

NVIDIA AI Enterprise and DGX Cloud Availabile in Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Austin, Texas—October 19, 2023 – Oracle today announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an enterprise-grade software that accelerates data science and streamlines development and deployment of production-ready AI, and the NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing platform are now available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. These offerings provide customers with easy access to NVIDIA’s accelerated, secure, and scalable platform for end-to-end AI development […]

@HPCpodcast: Cloud HPC is Hot – But Is It Right for Everything?

Growth of cloud HPC for several years has outpaced overall HPC market growth, and public cloud providers continually add the latest and greatest chips, interconnects, memory and software applications to their HPC menus. No doubt public cloud HPC is a great place for HPC experimentation and POC projects. But beyond that, what about making a big move to cloud HPC – which kinds of companies and workloads should go to the cloud and which should stay on-prem?

Radio Free HPC: Musk and Computer-Brain Interfaces; Oracle Adds Arm Servers to its HPC Cloud

This week Jessi, Henry, and Dan discuss computer-brain interfaces and how Elon Musk’s Neuralink has recently done this with a pig. Surprisingly, we have some concerns about this, primarily security and control… Our next topic is how Oracle is adding a bunch of new hardware to their HPC cloud, including Arm powered servers, Nvidia Ampere GPUs, and a new processor also called Ampere. The new gear is plenty sporty, listen to the pod to hear our discussion and evaluation.

Nissan Shifts to Oracle Cloud for CFD, 3D Visualization HPC Design Workloads

Oracle announced today that Nissan Motor Co. is migrating its on-premises engineering simulation HPC workloads to run on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Nissan uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural simulation techniques to design and test cars for external aerodynamics and structural failures. Oracle said Nissan chose its cloud platform for its bare-metal compute, RDMA […]

Flinders University targets COVID-19 vaccine with Oracle Cloud

Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud and vaccine technology developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. “The team is headed by Nikolai Petrovsky, Flinders University Professor and Research Director at Vaxine. His team has tapped Oracle for technical collaboration, access to an expanded research community, and cloud infrastructure that helped enable the rapid design of the novel COVID-19 vaccine candidate.”

NVIDIA HGX-2 Ai Supercomputer Comes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Today Oracle announced support for the NVIDIA HGX-2 platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Designed to meet the needs of the next generation of analytics, machine learning, and AI, Oracle is offering GPU-accelerated deep learning and HPC containers from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud container registry. “Whether you are an engineer, data scientist, researcher or developer, we are bringing the power of compute and cloud to your fingertips.