News Bytes 20250818: DeepSeek Model Training Troubles; RISC-V GPU Startup Seeks Funds

A good August morning to you! It was a geopolitically-weighted week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:29) overview of recent developments, including: US government to invest in Intel?; training trouble for Chinese AI ….

Cornell to Lead Aristotle Cloud Federation for Research

Today Cornell University announced a five-year, $5 million project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to build a federated cloud comprised of data infrastructure building blocks (DIBBs) designed to support scientists and engineers requiring flexible workflows and analysis tools for large-scale data sets, known as the Aristotle Cloud Federation.