In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present “Live from Nvidia GTC 2025,” covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme. We review the conference, discussing everything from the new AI compute industry landscape, including the recent past (Hopper), the present (Blackwell) and the future (Rubin ….
@HPCpodcast: Live from GTC 2025, Among the Crowds for the New AI Compute Landscape
March 21, 2025 by
Survey: 42% of C-Suite Say Gen AI Is Tearing Their Companies Apart
March 19, 2025 by
The report examines the obstacles leaders are facing as they implement generative AI within their organizations, including internal power struggles, poor ROI, underperforming tools, and clashing perspectives among executives and employees….
Palantir and Databricks Announce AI Product Partnership
March 13, 2025 by
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2025 — Databricks and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), provider of enterprise operating systems, today announced a strategic product partnership that combines Palantir’s AI operating system and Databricks’ platform for AI, data warehousing and data engineering. The partnership will provide an open and scalable data architecture that combines Palantir’s powerful Ontology System with Databricks’ processing scale and […]
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Ian Cutress on the State of Advanced Chips, the GPU Landscape and AI Compute, Global Chip Manufacturing and GTC Expectations
March 13, 2025 by
…. we welcome special guest and high-powered chip industry analyst Dr. Ian Cutress, Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular YouTube ….
Photonic Fabric: Celestial AI Secures $250M Series C Funding
March 11, 2025 by
SANTA CLARA, CA – March 11, 2025 – Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect, today announced that it has raised $250 million in its Series C1 funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, bringing the total capital raised to date to more than $515 million. New investors include funds and […]
CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux
March 11, 2025 by
RENO, Nev—March 11, 2025— Software infrastructure company CIQ announced the availability of a preview of Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened, a version of Enterprise Linux that is optimized for environments with stringent security requirements, such as stronger password policies, memory corruption detection, kernel integrity checking and SSH restrictions. The product delivers Rocky Linux via […]
News Bytes 20250310: TSMC’s $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC’s Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google’s
March 10, 2025 by
Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in HPC-AI last week, here’s a brief (7:46) run-through of recent news: TSMC $100 billion investment in Arizona, new “real world” AGI benchmarks unveiled ….
Data Center Report: Record-low Vacancy Pushing Hyperscalers into Untapped Markets
March 10, 2025 by
In a year when data centers faced their most difficult power challenges, the industry thrived nevertheless. According to the North America Data Center Year-End 2024 Report from real estate and investment management ….
Report: 64,000 Nvidia GB200s for Stargate AI Data Center in Texas
March 7, 2025 by
A report from Bloomberg states that some 64,000 of Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell GB200 chips will be purchased by OpenAI and Oracle as part of the Stargate AI data center project announced in January at a ceremony at the Trump White House. “OpenAI and Oracle Corp. plan to ….”
Agora Launches Conversational AI Engine
March 7, 2025 by
SANTA CLARA, CA, (March 5, 2025) – Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a latform for real-time engagement APIs, today announced the launch of its Conversational AI Engine, enabling developers to create interactive voice experiences with any AI model. Agora said the engine ensures ultra-low latency responses and superior voice processing, allowing for the reation of immersive […]
