HPC, AI, ML and Edge Solutions Drive Duos Railcar Inspection System Powered by Dell Technologies and Kalray

Industries such as railways are moving from traditional inspection methods to using AI and ML to perform automated inspection of railcars. Data streaming from the edge at high rates requires the compute power of a HPC cluster, storage and advanced analytics to return results in real time. The system also must effectively enable remote administration and management to ensure reliable….

HPC User Forum: ‘Lawyers Who Use AI Will Replace Lawyers Who Don’t’

“Lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t.” That was the coda of a presentation given at the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson by Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a professor at ASU since 1999. Marchant’s presentation at the Forum, hosted by Hyperion Research, was one of the conference’s most talked-about sessions. In this interview, Marchant shares his observations on how generative AI and large language models….

NVIDIA-Powered CoreWeave and VAST Data Partner on Public Cloud for GenAI, HPC

VAST Data and CoreWeave today announced a partnership to build an NVIDIA GPU-powered computing cloud for generative AI, high performance computing and visual effects workloads. Startup CoreWeave is a GPU cloud services provider that has attracted more than $400 million in investment funding (including $100 million from NVIDIA and $200 million from….

KAUST and Cerebras Named Gordon Bell Award Finalist

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 20, 2023 — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and AI chip developer Cerebras Systems announced that its work on multi-dimensional seismic processing has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievements in HPC. By developing a Tile […]

SambaNova: New AI Chip Runs 5 Trillion Parameter Models

Specialty AI chip maker SambaNova Systems today announced the SN40L processor, which the company said will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite. Manufactured by TSMC, the SN40L can serve a 5 trillion parameter model, with 256k+ sequence length possible on a single system node, according to the company.

Vertiv Increases Manufacturing Capacity for Chilled Water Solutions

Piove di Sacco, Italy, September 18, 2023 –Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, unveiled an upgraded testing room at its thermal management centre near Tognana, Italy. This investment increases the facility’s testing capacity and manufacturing capabilities in the existing space. The upgraded testing room will allow Vertiv to do standard […]

$100M Series B for Generative AI Platform Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Writer, a generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today. The round is being led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from WndrCo, Balderton Capital and Insight Partners, who led the Series A, and Aspect Ventures, who led the seed round. This round includes participation from […]

SiMa.ai Debuts Palette Edgematic for Edge ML Applications

SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2023 — SiMa.ai, an embedded edge machine learning company, today launched Palette Edgematic, a free visual development environment designed for organizations to get started with ML at the edge. With Palette Edgematic, SiMa is delivering an onramp to AI and ML at the edge via a no-code approach to creating, evaluating […]

HPC News Bytes 20230911: NVIDIA LLM Inferencing; Honeywell and Quantinuum; TSMC in Silicon Photonics; Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification

As we reflect on the events of 9/11/2001 (it’s still living hell no matter how long ago it happened), let’s quickly (4:52) review last week’s HPC news highlights, including: NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM for faster AI inferencing; Honeywell integrates quantum-hardened encryption keys from Quantinuum; TSMC enters the silicon photonics arena; Microsoft to defend Copilot AI customers; Hyperion Research hosts HPC User Forum

Samsung Announces 12nm-Class 32Gb DDR5 DRAM 

SEOUL, Korea – Sept. 1, 2023 – Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the industry’s first 32-gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM using 12 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. This comes after Samsung began mass production of its 12nm-class 16Gb DDR5 DRAM in May 2023.