News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
Good April morning to you! It’s been an active week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:43) rundown of recent industry news: Nvidia, AMD and China export rules, Intel sells part of FPGA business, storage investments soar, 2nm coming to Taiwan and Arizona
Survey: 60% of Business Leaders Unsure of Data-AI Readiness
A global audit examining the state of data readiness to embrace GenAI value creation finds big companies worldwide are not confident in the quality and usability of their data assets for AI-driven business improvement.
Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the AI Data Center Energy Gap
Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers, a voice is whispering in the industry’s ear: “Where’s the electricity for all this?” Good point! It’s generally assumed the data center energy gap will be filled by some combination of […]
AI Data Platform Hammerspace Raises $100M
AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which inveted in Meta, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Snowflake and Uber, led the Series B round.
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Generative AI’s Accuracy Depends on an Enterprise Storage-driven RAG Architecture
[SPONSORED POST] In this sponsored article, Eric Herzog, CMO of Infinidat, suggests that as part of a transformative effort to bring one’s company into the AI-enhanced future, it’s an opportunity to leverage intelligent automation with RAG to create better ….
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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 […]
Find out what drives today’s most successful platform businesses
In ‘The enterprise guide to platform thinking: What it can do for your business’, we explore how to achieve platform success and realize the full spectrum of business, operational, and customer value platforms can deliver. Inside, we dive into: – How platform thinking has evolved over the last five years, and the role that cultural, […]
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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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Webinar: Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs
[Sponsored Post] This webinar: “Getting Started with Llama 3 on AMD Radeon and Instinct GPUs” provides a guide to installing Hugging Face transformers, Meta’s Llama 3 weights, and the necessary dependencies for running Llama locally on AMD systems with ROCm™ 6.0.
Optimizing Performance and Cost Savings for Elastic on Pure Storage
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Crafting Precision Content Using Large Language Models
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