The University of Bristol will host the new AI Research Resource, dubbed Isambard-AI, the UK announced, part of a £900 million supercomputing initiative made public last March. The UK said the system will be one the most powerful in Europe. “The world-class AIRR cluster will vastly increase the UK’s compute….
UK AI Supercomputer, ‘One of the Most Powerful in Europe,’ to Be Installed at Univ. of Bristol
September 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SiMa.ai Debuts Palette Edgematic for Edge ML Applications
September 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Former Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Joins Sonar as Co-CEO
September 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
AUSTIN and GENEVA – September 12, 2023 – Sonar, a Clean Code solution provider, announced that Tariq Shaukat has joined the company as co-CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. The company said Shaukat will lead the company with founder and CEO Olivier Gaudin. This model strengthens the leadership team and prepares the company […]
Enfabrica Raises $125M Series B for AI Infrastructure Networking Chips
September 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Sept. 12, 2023 – Enfabrica Corporation, a startup building converged networking and memory fabric silicon and software for AI and accelerated computing workloads, today announced its close of a $125 million Series B financing round. The oversubscribed round, which increases Enfabrica’s valuation more than 5X, was led by Atreides Management, with […]
HPC News Bytes 20230911: NVIDIA LLM Inferencing; Honeywell and Quantinuum; TSMC in Silicon Photonics; Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification
September 11, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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
At the HPC User Forum: 2 Full Days in Tucson of HPC and AI
September 8, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week saw HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research host the HPC User Forum, a supercomputing conference with an end-user emphasis held four times a year (two in the U.S. and two internationally) offering two intensive days of presentations and panels involving commercial and government users, along with hardware and software vendors.
The Rocky Linux Ecosystem’s United Front against Cyber Threats: Building Trust within a Zero Trust Environment
September 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] One of the most popular Linux distributions for the HPC industry is the Rocky Linux operating system, a community-supported, open-source OS that is free of charge and bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Rocky is backed by security measures from CIQ, whose founder and CEO, Greg Kurtzer, is the creator of Rocky Linux…
ETH Prof. Torsten Hoefler Joins CSCS as Chief Architect for Machine Learning
August 28, 2023 by Leave a Comment
August 31, 2023 — As of Sept. 1, ETH Professor Torsten Hoefler will be chief architect for machine learning of the architecture and technology workgroup at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Hoefler has headed the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL) at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since 2012.
VMware and NVIDIA Partner on Generative AI for Enterprises
August 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
August 22, 2023 — VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced the expansion of their partnership with a focus on generative AI. The companies said VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications, including intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization. The platform will feature generative AI…
Ikigai Labs Raises $25M to Bring Generative AI for Tabular Data
August 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2023 — Ikigai Labs, a company focused on generative AI for tabular data, today announced $25M of new capital by Premji Invest with participation from Foundation Capital and e& capital. The capital will further Ikigai Lab’s vision for the way enterprises harness AI.
