Preparing for ISC 2024: HPC Luminaries on Sessions, Trends and News to Watch for in Hamburg

The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2024 Conference, Sunday, May 12 – Thursday, May 16. The theme of this year’s event is “Reinventing HPC,” and indeed, HPC has been made over during the past 18 months by the overwhelming presence of generative AI, which has spurred tremendous ….

Atlan’s Control Plane for Data and AI Governance Attracts $105M Series C

San Francisco — May 8, 2024 — Data and AI governance company Atlan today announced a $105 million Series C funding round, led by GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund with over $700 billion in assets, and Meritech Capital, early backers of disruptors like Snowflake and Datadog. Existing investors Salesforce Ventures and PeakXV participated in the round, bringing Atlan’s total raised to more than […]

Nvidia NIM Integrated Support on Red Hat OpenShift AI

DENVER – May 7, 2024 — Open source solutions company Red Hat today announced coming integration support for Nvidia NIM microservices on Red Hat OpenShift AI to enable inferencing for artificial intelligence (AI) models backed by a consistent, open source AI/ML hybrid cloud platform. Organizations will be able to use Red Hat OpenShift AI with Nvidia NIM […]

Panasas Is Now Vdura for AI and HPC Data Storage

Long-time HPC data storage company Panasas (formed 1999) is now Vdura. The new brand “signifies the company’s shift to a software company operating under a software subscription-based business model,” Vdura said in its announcement. The focus on software will enable ….

Cabinet Technology is Bridging the Efficiency of Air Cooling with the Performance of Liquid Cooling for HPC and AI Workloads

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Data center operators need to modernize and future-proof their facilities, so they don’t get left behind as AI and HPC deployments expand. While the industry is exploring several liquid cooling …. 

IBM Launches Power Server for AI Workloads, Core-Cloud-Edge

Today IBM introduced the IBM Power S1012, a 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system that IBM said delivers up to 3X more performance per core versus Power S812. [2] It is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing and  also delivers the lowest entry price point in […]

HPC News Bytes: ASML and China Trade Wars, TikTok, HPC-AI 2023 Market Size, WHPC at ISC

A good May morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:10) run through recent developments in HPC-AI, including: ASML’s new CEO and US-China trade wars, the TikTok ban, Intersect360 Research sizes the HPC-AI market, Women in HPC at ISC 2024

ISC 2024’s Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC

Overarching both themes is the slowing of Moore’s Law, the deceleration of improvement in HPC performance combined with increasing costs for new generations of systems. In addition, implementing and realizing the benefits of new systems is slowing ….

Quantum: Photonic Adds to its Executive Management Team

VANCOUVER, May 2, 2024—Quantum in silicon company Photonic today announced it is adding to its executive leadership team in the areas of research and development, materials science, quantum technologies, marketing, human resources and legal. “Photonic has searched extensively for the right talent to help us achieve our ambitious goals. We are confident that, with these […]

Australian Government Invests $940M AUD in PsiQuantum

April 29, 2024 — The Australian government has announced a $940 million AUD — about $617 million US — investment in PsiQuantum, a Silicon Valley start-up with Australian roots, in a bid to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer in Brisbane. The federal and Queensland governments are each contributing $470 million to PsiQuantum […]