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. […]

@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing

We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the impact of hyperscalers on AI ….

HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs

On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..

@HPCpodcast: Former AWS VP Adrian Cockcroft Talks HPC-AI Trends Coming out of 2024’s End-of-Year Conferences

With the new year upon us, this is a good time to review what we learned at conferences held toward the end of last year. In this episode, sponsored by Lenovo, Adrian Cockcroft joins Shahin and Doug to discuss SC24, the RISC-V Summit and AWS Reinvent. Adrian, who ….

HPC News Bytes 20250106: ‘Beyond’ EUV Lithography, China Chip Sanction Workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI Build-Out, TSMC 2nm in 2025

Here’s a rapid (5:54) rundown of recent news from the HPC-AI sector, including: DOE and LLNL lead effort to go ‘beyond’ EUV lithography, report: ByteDance pursues chip trade sanction workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI ….

@HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Big HPC-AI Deployment Challenges and How to Overcome Them

In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC-class AI systems in a managed services model. We examine ….

Hammerspace and Supermicro in Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Storage Collaboration

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Dec. 10, 2024 – Data management and storage company Hammerspace today announced a collaboration with Supermicro to deliver a unified data platform for enterprise data centers and hybrid cloud storage. This collaboration allows Supermicro to resell Hammerspace’s software platform on Supermicro servers to serve both file and object storage workloads while […]

HPC News Bytes 20241209: Gelsinger’s Intel Exit, Marvell’s Rising Star, Quantum in China

A happy December 9 to you! Here’s a quick (7:23) review of news from the world of HPC-AI: Potential whys and wherefores of Pat Gelsinger exit from Intel, Marvell-AWS custom AI chip alliance, China comes out of the shadows ….

Dell Shipping Blackwell-Powered Server Racks as Part of Relationship with CoreWeave for AI at Scale

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced the expansion of its relationship with AI hyperscaler CoreWeave and reported that it is shipping Dell PowerEdge XE9712 server racks with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, which Dell said is an industry first, to support CoreWeave’s Cloud Services Platform. CoreWeave will receive1 liquid-cooled Dell IR7000 racks with Dell PowerEdge XE9712 servers, supported by Dell’s AI professional […]

QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses

When we last took a close look at QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), the data center, hyperscale and cloud server maker based in Taiwan, we pointed out that the company is a bigger player in the server industry than ….