@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution

Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He joins us to discuss the, well, “Cambrian explosion” we’re witnessing in AI chips, the general state of the AI semiconductor….

Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing Win Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Award

Tel Aviv and Boston, November 7, 2023 – Quantum Machines,  the provider of quantum control solutions that accelerate the development of practical quantum computers, and neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra Computing today announced they have been awarded a grant from the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation to […]

ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works in Joint Venture

Kaiserslautern, Germany, November 7, 2023,  ThinkParQ the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the launch ThinkinQ a new joint venture company between ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works. ThinkinQ’s primary objective to increase the presence of BeeGFS across North America through offering localized USA based sales and technical support services directly to their network of […]

HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI

Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro’s appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings in Intersect360 Research’s HPC-AI new market update.

atNorth Joins Finnish Data Center Association

Reykjavik, Iceland – November 2, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced it joined the Finnish Data Center Association (FDCA). The association aims to nurture the fast growing data center ecosystem in Finland, and enhance the standardization and sustainability of its industry processes. The business acquired two […]

Researchers in Japan Announce Room-Termperature Quantum Advance

Tokyo, November 2, 2023 — In a study published in Volume 20, Issue 4 of the journal Physical Review Applied on 16 October 2023, a team of researchers from Japan, led by Associate Professor Kaoru Sanaka from Tokyo University of Science (TUS), has successfully developed a single-photon light source consisting of doped ytterbium ions (Yb3+) in […]

Dell and Intel Deploy UK AI Supercomputer at Univ. of Cambridge

UK AI supercomputers are breaking out all over. Today, Dell, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the deployment of the co-designed “Dawn” Phase 1 supercomputer. Claiming the system to be the U.K.’s fastest AI system, it will be comprised of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers combining two 4th Gen Xeon….

Datasaur Launches LLM Lab for ChatGPT and Similar Models

Oct. 27, 2023 — Datasaur, a natural language processing (NLP) data-labeling platform, today launched LLM Lab, an interface designed for data scientists and engineers to build and train custom LLM models like ChatGPT. The product will provide a wide range of features for users to test different foundation models, connect to their own internal documents, […]

HPE to Build NVIDIA-Powered 21 ExaFLOPS AI Supercomputer in UK

HPE will build an NVIDIA-powered £225 million supercomputer at the University of Bristol in the UK that is expected to deliver “well over” 200 petaFLOP/s using the Top500’s LINPACK benchmark, and more than 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI performance, according to the university. The system, called Isambard-AI, will be built on HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecte and will consist of 5,448 NVIDIA….

Dell and Meta in GenAI Pact with Llama 2 LLMs

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is collaborating with Meta in a partnership designed to make it easy to deploy Meta’s Llama 2 large language models on premises with Dell’s generative AI portfolio of IT infrastructure and client devices. Dell said the collaboration simplifies the on-prem AI environment by combining Dell’s infrastructure portfolio and Llama 2 AI models….