Happy April Fool’s Day Eve to you! Here’s a quick (8:42) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000-GPU Oracle cluster, in the face of U.S. trade policy, ASML to open repair hub in China, EuroHPC-JU’s ….
HPC News Bytes 033125: Oracle’s Big AMD GPU Buy, ASML in China, Quantum in the News, the Award Winning Hoefler
March 31, 2025 by
Report: Oracle to Deploy AI Cluster with 30,000 AMD MI355X Accelerators
March 27, 2025 by
Nvidia, hot off the festivities of its big GTC conference last week in San Jose, dominates the GPU market with a roughly 95 percent share. But the question remains whether and how other chip suppliers will make inroads into the GPU sector. The top potential inroad-making candidate is ….
CoreWeave Adds Managers from Google, Oracle
August 9, 2024 by
ROSELAND, N.J., Aug. 8, 2024 — GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced the appointment of Chen Goldberg as Senior Vice President of Engineering, as well as Sachin Jain as its new Chief Operating Officer. Goldberg has more than 25 years of experience leading global engineering teams, product R&D initiatives, and high-profile customer engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises. She joins […]
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. […]
Red Hat Riposte: CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
August 15, 2023 by
The ongoing Linux open source controversy took a turn today with the announcement by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), described by the companies as a collaborative trade association intended “to encourage development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux […]
HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
August 14, 2023 by
A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux Wars continue: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux Association (watch for upcoming episodes on @HPCpodcast on this); China’s tech companies place $5 billion of orders on US chips; Intel improves hardware for on-chip AVX (or APX) vector instructions; 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists also point to TOP500
Comparing Price-performance of HPE GreenLake for HPC vs. the Public Cloud
October 14, 2021 by
[SPONSORED POST] In this article, Max Alt, HPE’s Distinguished Technologist and Director, Hybrid HPC, discusses recent real-world tests measuring the price-performance of HPC applications used in a range of workloads – including High Performance Linpack (HPL) and OpenFOAM CFD solver. The tests compared performance on AWS and Oracle Cloud solutions powered by Intel® processors against HPE GreenLake for HPC solutions powered by AMD EPYC™ processors.
Cloud Compute in 2019: Workloads and Options
December 30, 2019 by
In this video, Oracle Sr Director Leo Leung cloud computing options by workload in 2019. “Of course there’s variance when it comes to clock speeds, when it comes to the amount of memory versus storage is on board. But generally they fall in these families: CPU based instances that have storage onboard, CPU instances that require network storage, and GPU instances that require network storage.”
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.”
Enabling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with IBM Spectrum Scale
November 11, 2019 by
In this video, Doug O’Flaherty from IBM describes how Spectrum Scale Storage (GPFS) helps Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. “To deliver insights, an organization’s underlying storage must support new-era big data and artificial intelligence workloads along with traditional applications while ensuring security, reliability and high performance. IBM Spectrum Scale meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale with the distinctive ability to perform archive and analytics in place.”
