April 24, 2024 — To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across cloud, edge and on-premises data center infrastructure. Managing and orchestrating generative AI, recommender systems, search engines and other workloads requires sophisticated scheduling to optimize performance at the system level and on the underlying ..read more

HAIFA, Israel and SAN PAULO, Brazil, April 24, 2024 — Xinnor, a leading provider of high-performance software RAID solutions, and Versatus HPC, a trusted advisor and integrator of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in Brazil, announced a strategic partnership to address the growing demand for efficient and reliable storage in HPC and AI environments. This collaboration brings together Xinnor’s cutting-edge software RAID engine, xiRAID, with Versatus HPC’s deep expertise in HPC architecture, deployment, and support. This combined offering empowers custom ..read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 24, 2024 — XConn Technologies (XConn), an innovation leader in next-generation interconnect technology for the future of high-performance computing and AI applications, today announced that it will be showcasing early production samples of its “Apollo” CXL 2.0 / PCIe Gen 5 hybrid switch at the TSMC 2024 North America Technology Symposium on April 24 in Santa Clara, California. As the industry’s first and only hybrid CXL 2.0 and PCIe Gen 5 interconnect solution, the XConn Apollo switch is purpose built to simplify the system designer process with versatile expansion ..read more

CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 24, 2024 — DDN, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced that Jump Trading, a leading quantitative trading firm, has selected DDN to bolster its high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. By leveraging DDN’s cutting-edge storage solutions, Jump Trading aims to accelerate its AI-driven quantitative trading strategies and maintain its competitive edge in the fast-paced world of global financial markets. “At Jump, we consider our research to be our competitive edge, and we believe that DDN’s SSD QLC ..read more

April 24, 2024 – Lenovo today announced a comprehensive new suite of purpose-built AI-centric infrastructure systems and solutions to advance Hybrid AI innovation from edge to cloud. Lenovo is delivering GPU-rich and thermal efficient solutions intended for compute intensive workloads across multiple environments and industries. In industries such as financial services and healthcare, customers are managing massive data sets that require extreme I/O bandwidth and Lenovo is providing the IT infrastructure solutions vital to management of critical data. Across all these solutions is Lenovo TruSc ..read more

April 23, 2024 — Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ocean plastics, rapid and accurate data analysis is paramount. CERN’s expertise in data management is leveraged to combat marine plastic litter through the new EU project, Edge SpAIce CERN is excited to present a new EU project, Edge SpAIce. It applies CERN’s cutting-edge AI technology to monitor the Earth’s ecosystems from space in order to detect and track plastic pollution in our ..read more

April 23, 2024 — ​​Xanadu​, a ​full-stack ​quantum ​computing​​ ​company​ ​​with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere​, joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange as the consortium’s first Canadian corporate partner this month. The Toronto-based photonic quantum computing company also leads the development of PennyLane, an open-source software library for quantum computing ​programming ​and application development. The company, which was founded in 2016, also strategically partners with academic institutions and research labs to collaborativel ..read more

April 23, 2024 — The European Commission has announced the launch of new Horizon Europe calls, with a substantial funding pool of over €112 million. These calls are aimed primarily at pioneering projects in the realms of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. Credit: Shutterstock This includes substantial funding of €50 million fund to advance large AI models by integrating new data modalities and expanding their capabilities. This call targets the development of generative AI capable of processing and generating multimodal data, including but not limited to ..read more

The recent 2024 EuroHPC Summit meeting took place in Antwerp, with attendance substantially up since 2023 to 750 participants. HPCwire asked Intersect360 Research senior analyst Steve Conway, who closely tracks HPC, AI, and related developments in Europe and attended the event, to interview Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, on the latest activities at the JU (EuroHPC Joint Undertaking). HPCWire: Since I began working on studies for the Commission in 2010, Europe has advanced strongly in HPC to become one of the global leaders, not just in funding and deplo ..read more

April 23, 2024 — E4 Computer Engineering has won the tender to upgrade Galileo 100, CINECA Interuniversity Consortium’s supercomputer and Tier-1 cloud system for public scientific research capable of serving over 5000 users (Italy’s largest cloud for public research). Through the tender, CINECA aims to acquire a new solution capable of improving and extending the services provided by its HPC infrastructure. Among the most important requirements for the new infrastructure, CINECA indicated the ability to increase the number of vCPUs available for VM services by at least 10 times, the ability to ..read more