NetApp and Nvidia enhance turnkey supercomputing infrastructure
The joint offering provides a new infrastructure for HPC and AI.
This week, NetApp announced that its EF600 all-flash NVMe storage combined with the BeeGFS parallel file system is now certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. The latter is an AI data center infrastructure platform, which is now optimiz... Read more
Lenovo launches TruScale High Performance Computing as a Service
Lenovo is introducing TruScale High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS). Thereby, the organization moves to compete with Dell and HPE, two established HPCaaS providers.
HPCaaS products provide high-performance computing power on a subscription basis. HPE GreenLake HPC and Dell Apex HPC a... Read more
AWS now offers HPC instances as a cloud-based service
AWS has unveiled instances that allow customers to run High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The so-called Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances feature the latest AMD EPYC processors.
Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances are designed to solve complex academic, scientific and business problems. AWS claims that... Read more
Nvidia adds cluster management with Bright Computing
Nvida has acquired Bright Computing, a company dedicated to managing High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. The acquisition promises customers more options for accelerated computing.
Bright Computing's software automates the large-scale management of HPC clusters. For this purpose, the softwa... Read more
TSMC introduces new chip technology for datacenters
They developed the new NX4 process specifically for High Performance Computing products
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has released a new semiconductor manufacturing technology that is part of its N5 process technology family which features transistors as small as 5-nanome... Read more
Linux adopts the Apptainer Project
Previously known as Singularity, Apptainer is the most popular container system used for HPC (high-performance computing). And Linux has just adopted it!
What is the Apptainer Project?
The Apptainer project will enable organizations to efficiently execute high-performance computing tasks whil... Read more
Supermicro launches universal GPU server for HPC and AI
Supermicro announces the upcoming availability of a new, modular GPU server. The server supports multiple compositions of GPUs and CPUs. Freedom of choice is key: the introduction aims at a flexible, optimal fit for various high-performance computing and AI applications.
The aptly named 'Univers... Read more
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) offers high bandwidth memory
The company is focusing on HPC and AI.
At the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Intel showcased how the company is expanding its high performance computing (HPC) offering. It is doing so through a range of technology disclosures, partnerships and customer adoptions.
Intel is... Read more
Intel forms new business units, makes top management changes
High level reshuffling of personnel accompanies the addition of two new focused business units.
This week Santa Clara chipmaker Intel announced it will create two new business units. One will be focused on software and one on high performance computing (HPC) and graphics. As part of these change... Read more
HPE acquires Determined AI for their HPC portfolio
HPE recently took over Determined AI in a bid to improve their model creating abilities and make them more time-efficient.
Details of the acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has acquired a startup named Determined AI with an open-source machine learning platform used in training models fas... Read more