SAN FRANCISCO — March 5, 2025 — Ceramic.ai emerged from stealth today with software for foundation model training infrastructure designed to enable enterprises to build and fine-tune generative AI models more efficiently. Founded by Anna Patterson, former Google VP of Engineering and Gradient Ventures founder, Ceramic.ai said it improves AI model training speed and cost-efficiency, […]
Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth, Reports 2.5x Faster Model Training
TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D
TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.
HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. ….
Cisco and NVIDIA Expand Networking Partnership
Cisco [NASDAQ: CSCO] today announced plans for an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to provide AI technology solutions to enterprises. The NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform based on Cisco and NVIDIA silicon is intended to form the foundation for enterprise AI workloads ….
HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System
HOUSTON – FEBRUARY 13, 2025 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. […]
Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell
San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale Blackwell solutions. The portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems […]
HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….
At SC24: An Update from HPC-AI Skills Development Organization OpenACC
OpenACC helps the scientific R&D community develop their accelerated computing skills. Here are Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran of the Univ. of Delaware and OpenACC User Group Chair, and NVIDIA’s Jack Wells, Director of Higher Education and Research Computing ….
HPC News Bytes 20250113: China’s Opaque HPC List, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Exploding Hyperscale Data Center Capacity, New MPI ABI
As our thoughts go out to the victims of the southern California wildfires, here’s a quick (7:29) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China’s opaque TOP100 ….
Nvidia at CES: Omniverse Blueprint for Industry, Generative Physical AI, Access to Blackwells, Cosmos Model for Physical AI
Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, here’s an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins… The company said Mega is an omniverse framework ….