A happy mid-September morning to you. Here’s a hop (4:54) through recent HPC news, including: AMD launches EPYC 8004 CPUs for energy- and space-constrained workloads; Intel announces FPGAs going into its Innovation 2023 event; Arm’s successful IPO and strategic pivot; a report on AI for science….
HPC News Bytes 20230918: New AMD CPUs and Intel FPGAs, Arm’s IPO and Strategic Pivot, AI for Science
September 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Arm Introduces Neoverse Compute Subsystems
August 28, 2023 by Leave a Comment
At Hot Chips today, Arm introduced the Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) designed to enable Arm users to build specialized silicon at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market compared to discrete IP. Available today, Arm CSS N2 is a pre-integrated, PPA-optimized configuration of the Neoverse N2….
Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Appoints Former Arm CTO/EVP
August 25, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Oxford, 30 August 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics has appointed former Arm CTO and EVP Dipesh Patel as a non-executive director. Patel was with Arm before becoming an operating partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital. The announcement follows £2 million in funding from the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF) which Oxford Ionics will use […]
Supermicro Announces Ampere ARM-based Servers
December 22, 2022 by
SAN JOSE, Dec. 21, 2022 — Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) has announced ARM-based series of servers as part of the MegaDC family. Using Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors, the Mt. Hamilton platform leverages a single unified motherboard design, targeting cloud-native applications. In addition, the new servers address several objectives for cloud-native workloads, specifically delivering high performance per […]
Arm Announces New Board Members
November 30, 2022 by
Arm today announced the appointment of new board members Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of XCOM Labs and former CEO and executive chairman of Qualcomm Inc., and Rosemary Schooler, former corporate vice president and general manager of Data Center and AI Sales for Intel. Both bring significant public company experience spanning technology development, […]
HPE Introduces ProLiant Gen11 Servers for On-prem or via GreenLake As-a-Service
November 1, 2022 by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new ProLiant Gen11 servers available for on-premises infrastructures or through HPE’s GreenLake as-a-service platform. The new servers are designed for compute- and data-intensive workloads, such as AI, machine learning, analytics, rendering, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and virtualization. The servers support several architectures, including 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors, […]
HPC-AI Chips in the News: NVIDIA, AMD Ensnared in US-China Trade War; Arm Sues Qualcomm
September 1, 2022 by
NVIDIA and AMD, makers of advanced GPUs used in HPC-AI workloads, became embroiled this week in the deteriorating relations and ongoing trade war between the US and the People’s Republic of China. Yesterday, Nvidia said it has been prohibited by the US government from selling to the PRC its A100 Tensor Core GPU, on the […]
HighPoint Expands NVMe Solution with Gen3 and Gen4 Host Connectivity Adapter Series
August 25, 2022 by
August 2022 – Fremont, CA — HighPoint Technologies, Inc. is now shipping high-performance NVMe25, HBA solutions for x86-64 Intel/AMD, Nvidia ARM PC and Mac Platforms. For nearly three decades, HighPoint has designed, manufactured and deployed a comprehensive range of high-performance, high-port-count controller boards for the storage and connectivity industry. HighPoint has leveraged the breadth and […]
GIGABYTE Releases Arm-Based Server for NVIDIA Baseboard Accelerators for HPC, AI
May 20, 2022 by
May 19, 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced a scalable server, G492-PD0, that supports dual Ampere Altra Max or Altra processors with NVIDIA HGX A100 Tensor Core GPUs for cloud infrastructure, HPC, AI and other high performance environments. “Leveraging Ampere’s Altra Max CPU with a high core […]
NVIDIA Introduces 144-Core Grace CPU ‘Superchip’ for AI, HPC
March 22, 2022 by
NVIDIA dropped its attempted acquisition of Arm Ltd. earlier this year, but it remains an Arm technology licensee. And today, in a bid to take on the x86 architecture’s long dominance in data center server chips, the company announced its first Arm Neoverse-based data center CPU “designed for AI infrastructure and high performance computing, providing […]
