Google Cloud Announces GA of Ironwood TPUs
Google today announced GA on the Google Cloud Platform of three products built on custom silicon built for inference and agentic workloads: – Ironwood, Google’s seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit, will be generally available in the coming weeks. The company said it is built for large-scale model training and complex reinforcement learning, as well as […]
AI Performance Myths: Do IOPS Actually Matter?
By Petros Koutoupis, VDURA With all the buzz around artificial intelligence and machine learning, it’s easy to lose sight of which high-performance computing storage requirements are essential to deliver real, transformative value for your organization. When evaluating a data storage solution, one of the most common performance metrics is input/output operations per second (IOPS). It […]
CIQ: Rocky Linux Is Authorized Linux Distribution for NVIDIA AI Stack
RENO, Nev., Nov. 06, 2025 – CIQ today announced expanded capabilities, adding NVIDIA DOCA OFED support to Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) alongside the previously announced NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit integration. CIQ said this makes RLC the first Linux distribution licensed to deliver the NVIDIA AI and networking software stack, including CUDA Toolkit and DOCA OFED, ready to […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs, referred to as ASICS. OpenAI is ….
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Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] For years, InfiniBand has been the go-to networking technology for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads due to its low latency and lossless transport. But as AI clusters grow to thousands of GPUs and demand open, scalable infrastructure, the industry is shifting. Leading AI infrastructure providers are increasingly moving ….
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From Legacy to Leading Edge: How Mainframe Data Can Transform AI and Analytics
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Powering Innovation: IDC Spotlight: Private AI Infrastructure in the Enterprise
AI is rapidly transforming industries, becoming a critical driver of innovation. As AI’s influence expands, organizations are increasingly turning to private AI solutions to maintain control over their data, ensure regulatory compliance, and customize AI models to meet specific needs. According to IDC’s Spotlight report Powering Innovation: Private AI Infrastructure in the Enterprise, experienced organizations […]
From complexity to clarity: Harnessing the power of AI/ML and risk-informed strategies to streamline clinical data management
In today’s fast-paced world, driven by demands for speed and efficiency, the field of clinical development has undergone a remarkable transformation. The way trials are being conducted has changed significantly with decentralized clinical trials (DCT) becoming mainstream and the collection of clinical data from wearables and other remote-monitoring devices becoming common practice. While these advances […]
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$200M HPC Data Center for AI in Wisconsin Launched by DPO and Billerud
Digital Power Optimization, Inc. (“DPO”), a developer and operator of power-dense data centers, today announced it has secured land and a power supply to develop a $200 million high-performance computing facility in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. This project will enable up to 20 megawatts of AI computing. DPO is working in partnership with Billerud subsidiary Consolidated Water Power Company ….
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency Strategies with DDC Solutions
In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, Chris Orlando of DDC Solutions discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling, monitoring, safety and compliance, hybrid liquid-air solutions and other strategies for data center power efficiency. DDC’s cabinet technology, DCIM real-time monitoring and dynamic ….
Nvidia at CES: Omniverse Blueprint for Industry, Generative Physical AI, Access to Blackwells, Cosmos Model for Physical AI
Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, here’s an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins The company said Mega is an omniverse framework for next-gen industrial AI and robot simulation through software-defined testing and optimization of factories and warehouses.
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Generative AI’s Accuracy Depends on an Enterprise Storage-driven RAG Architecture
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Webinar: Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs
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Optimizing Performance and Cost Savings for Elastic on Pure Storage
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