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 ….

@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips

In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest Professor Keren Bergman to discuss ….

Study: 40% of Business Leaders Say AI Enables Headcount Cuts

New research conducted by BSI highlights warning signs of the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market, particularly on entry-level roles. The study confirms that business leaders are prioritizing ….

What the OpenAI Deal Means for AMD in AI Factory Compute

Of all the days since the last “AMD winter” (i.e., sometime before Lisa Su took over as CEO in 2014), yesterday is among the most memorable and, the company believes, significant ….

News Bytes 20251006: Big Cloud Balances BYO vs Merchant AI Chips, Surprise Players in AI Infrastructure Market

Good October day to you! HPC-AI, the industry that never sleeps, has served up its usual stew of news of late, here’s a fast (8:38) review of recent developments ….

IBM AI Development Environment Combining with Anthropic Claude LLM’s

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Anthropic today announced a partnership for  development of enterprise-ready AI by combining Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models into IBM’s software portfolio. The companies said ….

AlphaSense Acquires Carousel for AI-Driven Excel Modeling

AI market intelligence platform AlphaSense announced the acquisition of Carousel, an AI-powered Excel modeling company. This acquisition adds Carousel’s modeling technology to AlphaSense’s generative AI suite, creating a ….

Limestone Networks and Charg Announce 60-PFlop AI Supercomputer

Limestone Networks, a bare-metal and cloud infrastructure company, has teamed with GPU cloud platform Charg on a 60-petaflop supercomputer built for AI and advanced enterprise workloads. The companies ….