Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs

Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]

Intel Unveils Dual-track (Performance/Efficiency) Xeon Roadmap through 2024

At Intel’s investor day event in San Francisco yesterday, the company unveiled a dual-track the roadmap for its Xeon data center chip through 2024 – one track emphasizing high performance (P-core Sapphire Rapids), the other energy efficiency (E-core Sierra Forest). Intel’s future generation architecture strategy will move from two optimized platforms into a single commonone. […]

AMAX Launches LiquidMax Liquid Cooled HPC-AI Workstations

Dec. 1, 2021 — AMAX, provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and OEM data center manufacturing, announces the launch of LiquidMax series liquid cooled workstations. Starting with LiquidMax TL40-X3, the ultra-quiet dual-socket intelligent GPU workstation accelerates deep learning training and visualisation applications for enterprise and research infrastructures. It is integrated with dual-socket 3rd […]

Intel Changes Leadership, Structure of Data Platforms Group

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced the addition of two new technology managers to its executive leadership team, as well as several changes to Intel business units. Current Intel executives Sandra Rivera and Raja Koduri will take on senior leadership roles, and technology industry veterans Nick McKeown and Greg Lavender will join the company. Navin […]

LRZ Expanding Flagship HPC System to Integrate AI

Garching/Munich – May 4, 2021 – The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) will expand its flagship HPC system SuperMUC-NG, which is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). In addition to performance in simulation and modelling, phase 2 of SuperMUC-NG will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) methods of computation. The system will be equipped with Intel […]

TYAN Uses 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Chips for AI and Cloud Data Centers

Newark, Calif. – April 6, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer, and MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced the  3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based server platforms featuring built-in AI acceleration, enhanced security, and PCIe Gen4 support for the most demanding workloads in cloud, enterprise, AI and HPC fields. “Thanks to new […]

Cloud HPC Platform Nimbix Offers Hybrid Software and Services on Kubernetes Infrastructures

High performance computing cloud platform Nimbix today announced availability of Nimbix Cloud Everywhere, a single pane of glass to HPC and supercomputing applications converged with Kubernetes across HPC infrastructures. The hybrid service and software offering is designed to let customers to deploy HPC on Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures, including their own HPC clusters, any cloud provider or […]

Granulate Collaborates with Intel to Improve Java-Based Performance with Agent for Real-Time Continuous Optimization

Tel Aviv, March 31, 2021 – Granulate, an autonomous real-time computing workload optimization company, today announced a collaboration with Intel to show new Java-based performance results, with significant improvement of 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors using Granulate’s real-time continuous optimization software solution. Key highlights of the new Java-based benchmark completed by Intel show the following results when running with Granulate on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon […]

Gelsinger Speaks: Intel’s New CEO Debuts Today – What Will He Say?

Speculation abounds about Pat Gelsinger’s first public appearance as CEO of Intel at a webinar (5 pm Eastern Time) today that will capture close attention from a host of the company’s core audiences: customers, business partners, employees, industry and financial analysts – and the HPC community. The webinar, confidently called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Future,” […]

HPC End User Survey: Intel Xeon Still Dominates but AMD EPYC Gaining

Industry analyst firm Intersect360 has released partial results from an HPC end-user survey identifying the top user-rated processors, servers and cloud vendors. The key finding, according firm CEO Addison Snell: the disconnect between the HPC users, who want integration of Nvidia GPUs with CPUs from Intel or AMD, over against HPC vendors developing their own integrated solutions.