HPE Closes $13.4B Acquisition of Juniper Networks
HPE today announced the sucessful completion of its acquisition of AI-native networks company Juniper Networks, Inc., initiailly announced in April of last year. HPE said the transaction doubles the size of the their networking business ….
digiLab and KAUST: AI Digital Twin Coral Restoration in the Red Sea
digiLab announced a partnership with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to develop an AI-enabled digital twin platform to support the KAUST Coral Restoration ….
HPC News Bytes 20250630: The GPU-ASICs War – Chips from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Why Engineering Projects Get Delayed
A happy Fourth of July week to you! There’s been much movement lately by the Big Tech companies developing their own AI chips, a.k.a., ASICs, this includes Meta, Microsoft and Google, to name three. In this episode ….
xFusion at ISC 2025: HPC-AI Computing Infrastructure Technologies for Power, Usability and Efficiency
A prominent exhibitor at ISC was xFusion, a company at the HPC-AI intersection whose computing infrastructure technologies and services embody the power of HPC combined with AI. A Singapore-based company with global ….
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Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] In tech, you’re either forging new paths or stuck in traffic. Tier 0 doesn’t just clear the road — it builds the autobahn. It obliterates inefficiencies, crushes bottlenecks, and unleashes the true power of GPUs. The MLPerf1.0 benchmark has made one thing clear ….
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HPC News Bytes 20250630: The GPU-ASICs War – Chips from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Why Engineering Projects Get Delayed
A happy Fourth of July week to you! There’s been much movement lately by the Big Tech companies developing their own AI chips, a.k.a., ASICs, this includes Meta, Microsoft and Google, to name three. In this episode ….
HPC News Bytes 20260623: Fault Tolerant Quantum by 2029?, Quantum Roadmaps, Metrics and M&A, RIKEN and Fujitsu Team on FugakuNEXT
A good late June morning to you! A healthy portion of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI has focused on quantum computing, here’s a quick (7:09) run-through, including ….
HPC News Bytes 20250616: AI Hardware-Software Wave from AMD, Fujitsu Chip, SIGHPC SC25 Travel Grants, HPC Guru Bids Adieu
A happy day after Father’s Day! It was a week full of news, what with ISC and major vendor activities, here’s a quick (8:52) run-through: AMD’s new GPUs, ROCm 7.0 software and Helios ….
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Federal Partnership Offerings: Solutions and Services
As federal agencies prioritize efficient, secure and scalable solutions, a streamlined IT infrastructure is more crucial than ever. CTG Federal, a Cohesive Technology Group company; Dell Technologies; and Carahsoft have joined forces to offer transformative solutions to address these pressing challenges in government IT. Together, we combine our specialized expertise and advanced technology to deliver […]
Ethernet-based AI Cluster Reference Guide
When building large-scale AI GPU clusters for training or inference, the backend network should be high-performance, lossless, and predictable to ensure maximum GPU utilization. This is hard to achieve when using Ethernet for the back-end network. This guide showcases a high-level reference design for an 8,192 GPU cluster, describing how it can be achieved with […]
New Considerations for Datacenter Risk Exposure
In the rapidly evolving datacenter landscape, the rise in AI accelerators and graphics processing unit (GPU) rack deployments for high-performance computing and AI workloads is altering operational and financial frameworks. As demand for AI accelerators grows, the cost to deploy GPU racks can be 5-10 times the cost for traditional equipment racks, and GPU deployments often […]
ISC 2025 Videos
At ISC 2025: DriveNets Talks Ethernet-based AI Networking
Editor’s Choice
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency with DDC Solutions
Chris Orlando of DDC discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling, monitoring, safety ….
Editor and Data Scientist Daniel Gutierrez on the Relaunch of insideAI News: Illuminating AI’s Frontiers
Last week, we announced that insideHPC’s sister publication, insideBIGDATA, has been relaunched and rebranded as insideAI News, reflecting the evolution of data analytics and data science into the broad-based application of artificial intelligence.
Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’
We spoke with Eviden’s Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos’ financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring.
Sponsored Guest Articles
Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand? Start with Performance!
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ….
Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] In tech, you’re either forging new paths or stuck in traffic. Tier 0 doesn’t just clear the road — it builds the autobahn. It obliterates inefficiencies, crushes bottlenecks, and unleashes the true power of GPUs. The MLPerf1.0 benchmark has made one thing clear ….
Optical I/O: The Key to Unlocking AI Infrastructure, Profitability and Performance
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Scaling GenAI inference performance requires increasing the number of GPUs or accelerators working in parallel within the scale-up domain. In-package optical I/O offers a path forward by breaking the ….
