Interconnect company Cornelis Networks today said it has named Lisa Spelman its new CEO. Spelman joins the company from Intel, which made a major push into the HPC fabric market in 2015 with Omni-Path, which became the flagship product of Cornelis ….
Open Innovation AI and Nscale Partner for AI GPU Cloud Services
July 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
July 16, 2024 — Open Innovation AI, a GPU orchestration platform, and Nscale, an AI cloud service provider, today announced a partnership designed to deliver AI Cloud services and AI workloads at scale. This alliance will combine Nscale’s GPU infrastructure with Open Innovation AI’s end-to-end AI platform. The partnership aims to enhance the performance, scalability, […]
DOE Announces AI for Science Roadmap
July 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Washington, DC, July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced a roadmap for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) in which the agency and its 17 national labs “aims to build the world’s most powerful integrated scientific AI systems for science, energy, and national security, in collaboration with […]
HPC News Bytes 20240715: AI Maturity ROI, OpenAI’s 5 Levels of AI, SoftBank Acquires Graphcore
July 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Much has happened of late in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (5:55) run through of the news, including: survey commissioned by Vultr points to AI maturity ROI, OpenAI proposes five levels of AI based on capability, SoftBank ….
BSC Wins €50M to Develop Spain’s AI Training Program
July 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
July 11, 2024 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) will receive 50 million euros to develop the programs designed to attract and retain talent that are part of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy, approved by the Spanish government last May. The resolution includes the training in the BSC of 158 professionals […]
Faster AI and HPC Workflows with Quobyte’s New File Query Engine
July 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] What sets Quobyte’s File Query Engine apart is its integration with the file system’s distributed metadata architecture. Unlike solutions that require separate database layers, Quobyte’s engine operates ….
SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore
July 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
July 12, 2024 — Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, but news reports estimate the acquisition at roughly $600 million. Graphcore has struggled in recent years, according to a Reuters report, the company was valued at $2.8 billion in 2020, but […]
Eviden and the IOTA Foundation Announce Digital Product Passport
July 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Paris – July 12, 2024 – Eviden today announced ,in partnership with the IOTA Foundation, the Eviden Digital Passport solution (EDPS), “powered by IOTA” technology. This is one of the first ready-to-use blockchain-based Digital Product Passports (DPPs) on the market and the first of its scale to use IOTA’s technology as its Blockchain engine. EDPS “powered by IOTA”, around […]
HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan
July 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ….
AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI
July 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million. AMD said the acquisition is part of its efforts to deliver end-to-end AI solutions based on open ….
