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 world of HPC-AI, including: Oracle Cloud’s 130K Blackwell-powered supercluster, AMD and Intel poised to gain in the GPU market?, AI’s impact on data storage in the changing IT landscape, installation begins for Europe’s first exascale HPC ….
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Intall
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Palantir’s Foundry and AI Platform Certified on Oracle Cloud
July 9, 2024 by
Austin, Texas—July 9, 2024 — Oracle today announced that Palantir’s Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and generally available across all of Oracle’s distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle’s distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities, combined with Palantir’s leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives. […]
Nvidia AI Enterprise Available on Oracle US Government Cloud
April 25, 2024 by
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
October 20, 2023 by
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 […]
Arm-based Oracle Ampere with HPC-class Instances Now on Oracle Cloud
May 25, 2021 by
Oracle today said its first Arm-based compute offering, OCI Ampere A1 Compute, is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while also announcing tools and support for Arm-based application development. “We’re seeing interest from early customers that are using our new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ampere A1 Compute instances for computationally intensive workloads like machine learning inferencing, encoding […]
Oracle Cloud Announces HPC Instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Ice Lake
April 6, 2021 by
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) today announced availability of Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Ice Lake processor instances in limited preview, with worldwide general availability on April 28, 2021. “The launch of these new instances is the latest step in Oracle’s commitment to providing enterprise-grade capability for compute-intensive and high performance computing (HPC) workloads,” the company said. […]
Nissan Shifts to Oracle Cloud for CFD, 3D Visualization HPC Design Workloads
August 11, 2020 by
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 […]
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Power Oracle Cloud E3 Platform
April 30, 2020 by
Today, AMD announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are powering the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform, bringing a new level of high-performance computing to Oracle Cloud. “The Oracle Cloud E3 Platform enables customers to run HPC workloads such as risk simulations, molecular modeling, and contextual search. Customers will have access to virtual machines that support higher core counts, increased memory bandwidth, and the highest core count for any bare metal instance on any public cloud to run any workload.”
Developing Better Vaccines with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
December 11, 2019 by
Researchers from the University of Bristol and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, teamed up with computer technology giant Oracle and vaccine innovator startup Imophoron to find a way to make vaccines that are thermostable, can be designed quickly, and are easily produced. “The research resulted in a new type of vaccine that can be stored at warmer temperatures, removing the need for refrigeration, in a major advance in vaccine technology.”
Altair Teams with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
November 15, 2019 by
“Altair and Oracle have teamed up to help customers quickly expand their engineering and high performance computing (HPC) capacity in Oracle’s cloud. Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance is a fully managed engineering service that provides modeling and visualization software, solvers, and post-processing tools—all on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The solution offers simplified administration, unlimited use of Altair HyperWorks™ applications, and full global support from Altair’s team. Plus, it’s pre-configured and ready to use on day one.”
