Storj Acquires Leading AI Compute Provider, Valdi

Storj announced a new era in distributed cloud innovation with the acquisition of Valdi. Storj is a leader in distributed cloud object storage, disrupting the $100 billion cloud storage market, delivering up to 90% cost savings and 90% less carbon emissions for customers. Valdi is the leader in on-demand high performance cloud computing (GPUs) widely used for AI training and inference in data-intensive industries like technology, research and life-sciences.

New Alluxio Enterprise AI Innovations Accelerate GPUs Anywhere with 97%+ GPU Utilization

Alluxio, the developer of the open-source data platform, announced the immediate availability of the latest enhancements in Alluxio Enterprise AI. Version 3.2 showcases the platform’s capability to utilize GPU resources universally, improvements in I/O performance, and competitive end-to-end performance with HPC storage.

Webinar: Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs

[Sponsored Post] This webinar: “Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs” provides a guide to installing Hugging Face transformers, Meta’s Llama 3 weights, and the necessary dependencies for running Llama locally on AMD systems with ROCm™ 6.0.

Hammerspace Advances GPU Data Orchestration Capabilities to Accelerate Access to S3 Data

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the addition of the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With today’s announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data. By adding S3 to all other standard protocols for data ingestion, the Hammerspace platform ensures a seamless and efficient transfer of existing data into a global file system fueled by its automated orchestration system.

Alice & Bob to Integrate Cat Qubits in Datacenters of the Future, Accelerated by NVIDIA Technology

Alice & Bob, a quantum hardware manufacturer and leading QPU designer, announced it is working to accelerate the integration of quantum technology into industry by introducing cat qubits into the datacenters of the future.

AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

GTC—Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform—unveiled by NVIDIA at GTC 2024—is coming to AWS. AWS will offer the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and B100 Tensor Core GPUs, extending the companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to deliver the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to help customers unlock new generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search

Kinetica, the real-time GPU-accelerated database for analytics and generative AI, unveiled at NVIDIA GTC its real-time vector similarity search engine that can ingest vector embeddings 5X faster than the previous market leader, based on the popular VectorDBBench benchmark.

Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. This new category of storage architecture – Hyperscale NAS – is built on the tenants required for large language model (LLM) training and provides the speed to efficiently power GPU clusters of any size for GenAI, rendering and enterprise high-performance computing.

SQream Announces Strategic Integration for Powerful Big Data Analytics with Dataiku

SQream, the scalable GPU data analytics platform, announced a strategic integration with Dataiku, the platform for everyday AI. This collaboration brings together SQream’s best-in-class big data analytics technology with Dataiku’s flexible and scalable data science and machine learning (ML) platform.

NVIDIA Supercharges Hopper, the World’s Leading AI Computing Platform

NVIDIA today announced it has supercharged the world’s leading AI computing platform with the introduction of the NVIDIA HGX™ H200. Based on NVIDIA Hopper™ architecture, the platform features the NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance computing workloads.