Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed through the kingdom’s ….
News Bytes 20250505: Japan’s Rapidus 2nm Chips, $7T Data Center Forecast, NVIDIA and Trade Restrictions, ‘Godfather of AI’ Issues Warning
May 5, 2025 by
Good May morning to you! Here’s a somewhat rapid (10:11) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Rapidus 2nm chips and Japan’s position in the chip fab arena, McKinsey releases $7T ….
Oracle Cloud Deploys NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
April 30, 2025 by
Nvidia said Oracle has stood up its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run reasoning models and AI agents, according to a blog post from Ian Buck ….
News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
April 21, 2025 by
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
NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs on CoreWeave
April 16, 2025 by
NVIDIA announced that GPU cloud platform CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale, with Cohere, IBM and Mistral AI using them for model training and deployment.
News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s AI-based Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode
April 14, 2025 by
A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It’s been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here’s a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news, including: Argonne’s AI-based reactor digital twin, AI factory on the moon?, TSMC may face ….
NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.
April 14, 2025 by
NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers — i.e., “AI factories” — entirely in the United States… NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion dollars worth of AI infrastructure in the U.S. through partnerships ….
NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Scheduler
April 1, 2025 by
Today, NVIDIA posted a blog announcing the open-source release of the KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native GPU scheduling solution, now available under the Apache 2.0 license. Originally developed within the Run:ai platform, KAI Scheduler is now available to the community while also continuing to be packaged and delivered as part of the NVIDIA Run:ai platform. NVIDIA […]
AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems
March 31, 2025 by
On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward integration — or verticalization — of chip makers and the AI factory, defined by at least one company (data center company Vertiv) the AI “unit of compute.” […]
Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell
March 28, 2025 by
Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. “Our mission has ….
