A good late February morning to you! Here’s a rapid (7:05) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU ….
HPC News Bytes 20250224: Microsoft Reports Quantum Advancement, DARPA’s Quantum Program, Harnessing GPUs on the Internet, France Claims Fusion Record
February 24, 2025 by
Power & Cooling: CEA Claims Nuclear Fusion Energy Record for Plasma Duration
February 19, 2025 by
Feb. 18, 2025 — French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes, a 25 percent improvement over the previous record. “This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more […]
Data Center Cooling: Carrier Invests in Direct-to-Chip Liquid Provider ZutaCore
February 18, 2025 by
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 18, 2025 — Climate and energy company Carrier Global Corp. (NYSE: CARR) announced that its venture group, Carrier Ventures, is leading an investment and technology partnership with ZutaCore, a maker of two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for data centers. This investment aligns with Carrier’s strategy of providing high-tech, integrated cooling […]
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 […]
@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing
February 7, 2025 by
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 ….
Emerald Invests in NLM Photonics Data Center Efficiency
January 29, 2025 by
SEATTLE, January 29, 2025 – Emerald, a venture capital company, has invested in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. Other investors include Oregon Venture Fund, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Pack Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures, and other existing NLM investors to support NLM’s […]
HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs
January 16, 2025 by
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 …..
HPC News Bytes: The Next New Big Thing in AI?, UALink and Optical I/O, Arm vs. Qualcomm
December 23, 2024 by
A happy holiday season to you! As we enter Christmas week, here’s a quick (6:14) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: long thinking AI – the next new big thing?, UALink and optical I/O – a possible next new big thing in interconnects, Arm vs. Qualcomm ….
Photonic Interconnect: Lightmatter Joins UALink Consortium
December 18, 2024 by
Dec. 18, 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –Photonic interconnect company Lightmatter has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage technology—a 3D-stacked photonic engine—for accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters. The UALink […]
Optical Interconnect: Ayar Labs Secures Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA in $155M Round
December 11, 2024 by
SAN JOSE – Dec. 11, 2024 – Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect company for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $370 million and raises the company’s valuation to above $1 billion. The strength of the […]
