SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 – Intel today launched its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores) for data center and networking portfolios. The company said: The Intel Xeon 6700/6500 series processor with P-cores is designed for for modern data centers, offering the perfect balance between performance and energy efficiency. Delivering an average of 1.4x better […]
Toward 1M Qubits? Microsoft Quantum Chip Is Based on ‘New State of Matter’
February 19, 2025 by
Microsoft today said its new quantum chip is the first to be powered by a new Topological Core architecture that “will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years ….
SambaNova Reports Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B with High Efficiency
February 18, 2025 by
Palo Alto, CA – Generative AI company SambaNova announced last week that DeepSeek-R1 671B is running today on SambaNova Cloud at 198 tokens per second (t/s), “achieving speeds and efficiency that no other platform can match,” the company said. DeepSeek-R1 has reduced AI training costs by 10X, but its widespread adoption has been hindered by […]
Vultr Announces Availability of AMD MI325X GPUs in its Cloud Infrastructure
February 18, 2025 by
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud infrastructure company Vultr today announced the deployment of the AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs in its Chicago data center region, making it the first cloud provider to offer this AI solution, according to the compay. This news comes on the heels of Vultr announcing its growth financing at a $3.5 billion valuation and the expansion of […]
HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry
February 17, 2025 by
A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s …
VyperCore Launches Compute Accelerator Evaluation Platform
February 17, 2025 by
Cambridge, United Kingdom – 17 February 2025 – VyperCore has launched VyperLab, a cloud-based evaluation platform that the company said allows Lead Partners to explore its hardware accelerator innovation designed to deliver energy savings, enhanced performance and memory-safety for server applications in data centers. Examples include large-scale web enterprises, high volume data analytics, bioinformatics and […]
Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio for Semiconductor Design
February 14, 2025 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2025 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the expansion of its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio with new HAPS prototyping and ZeBu emulation systems using AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC. Synopsys said the next generation HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems deliver improved runtime performance, better compile time and improved debug productivity. They are […]
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
February 2, 2025 by
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….
Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference
January 31, 2025 by
Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second – 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions. Cerebras said this speed enables instant reasoning capabilities for one of the industry’s ….
Tell Us Your Data Center Disaster Stories!
January 30, 2025 by
[SPONSORED CONTENT] DDC Solutions, the maker of patented data center cabinet technology and dynamic management software, and insideHPC are running a contest focused on your data center disaster stories. Be it a fire, water leaks, power problems, shutdowns caused by overheated equipment or infrastructure limitations ….
