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The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower

Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The goal, of course, was getting men and equipment to the moon and back. Big goals take organization, ... Full article

Report: China’s Race to Build AI Datacenters Has Hit a Wall

China’s multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure gold rush is now unraveling, according to a new investigative report from Caiwei Chen, a reporter covering technology topics related to China at MIT Technology Review. “Just months ago, a boom in data center construction was at its height, fueled by both government and private investors. However, many newly built facilities ... Full article

Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches

Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the Vera Rubin. Jensen Huang, the company’s founder and CEO, also touted new DGX systems and discussed how the power crunch is driving Nvidia to use photonics ... Full article

Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever

At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introduced last year, Nvidia is integrating its new Blackwell Ultra GPUs into two DGX systems: the NVIDIA DGX GB300 and the NVIDIA DGX B300. The ... Full article

NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?

All eyes are on Nvidia this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipated. Investors, analysts, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from other leading companies are eagerly awaiting updates on Nvidia’s ... Full article

Cerebras Scales AI Inference with Hugging Face Partnership and Datacenter Expansion

As Nvidia and its partners prepare for the upcoming GTC event, another AI infrastructure company, Cerebras Systems, is making strategic moves to expand its role in high-speed AI inference. This week, Cerebras announced two developments: a new partnership with Hugging Face to offer developers access to its inference platform, and the planned launch of six ... Full article

Nebius Accelerates AI Cloud Growth with US and European Expansion

AI cloud infrastructure provider Nebius is expanding its U.S. footprint with its first major datacenter in New Jersey, a facility designed to scale up to 300 MW of capacity. The Amsterdam-based company, which specializes in AI-optimized cloud computing, is making an aggressive push into the U.S. market, putting it in competition with other hyperscalers catering ... Full article

Alibaba Launches C930 RISC-V Chip Amid Shift from Western Tech

Damo Academy, Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, has launched its first server-grade central processing unit (CPU), according to a recent piece in the South China Morning Post.* Designed for server-level, high-performance computing (HPC), the new chip, C930, is the most recent addition to Alibaba’s XuanTie RISC-V processor series. At a Beijing conference on Friday, Damo revealed ... Full article

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still under rapid development. One of the challenges in HPC and technical computing is finding where GenAI “fits in” and, more importantly, ... Full article

Five Big Questions for HPC-AI in 2025

2024 ended in a bang for the HPC-AI market. SC24 had record attendance, the Top500 list had an impressive new number one with El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the market for AI boomed, with hyperscale companies spending more than double their already lofty investments in 2023. So why does it all feel so unstable? As we kick off ... Full article

DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed

Earlier this week, news of DeepSeek GPT swept through the media. The market reacted, and many hardware companies (e.g., Nvidia, ASML, Broadcom, Marvell) saw a drop in their market value. Presumably, the demand for truckloads of GPUs will be reduced because DeepSeek has delivered a foundation model that rivals the “big kids” at 1/50 the cost. This ... Full article

AI Needs Its Linux: Oumi Comes Out of Stealth with an Open Source Vision

A new company called Oumi has just been launched, emerging from stealth today with $10 million in seed funding. The company’s founders describe Oumi as the world’s first unconditionally open source AI platform, positioning it as a collaborative and transparent alternative to today’s proprietary AI ecosystems, similar to how Linux revolutionized operating systems. AIwire spoke with Oumi ... Full article

Intersect360 Research 2024 HPC-AI Software Survey; HPC Is All In

It’s nearly impossible to have a conversation in the high-performance computing (HPC) space (or any space for that matter) without artificial intelligence (AI) creeping into the discussion. The technology’s versatility has skyrocketed its overall deployment, and as such, AI can seem like a miracle cure that’s come to solve all computing problems. Of course, this ... Full article

AI Tools Help Scientists Predict the Evolution of Viruses

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a critical gap in our ability to effectively predict and respond to emerging infectious diseases. The devastating impact of the pandemic serves as a lasting reminder. However, as we move past COVID-19, other viruses or new mutations could still pose a threat. With virus outbreaks capable of emerging and evolving with ... Full article

AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Scientific Research

Scientific researchers are responsible for conducting experiments and making discoveries that improve our lives or, sometimes, even save them. However, the process of scientific research — from forming and testing a hypothesis to making groundbreaking discoveries available for public or commercial use — is complex, costly, and time-consuming. Without the right tools at their disposal, ... Full article

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not to be confused with Nvidia's Deep Learning GPU Training System: DIGITS). The platform offers a series ... Full article

NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC24, Focus in 2025

Editor's Note: In this note of reflection, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), takes us through a year of achievements at NCSA. From the launch of the DeltaAI supercomputer to groundbreaking partnerships in AI, healthcare, and quantum research, Gropp highlights NCSA's critical role in advancing innovation and collaboration, underscoring the center's ... Full article

Nvidia Touts Lower ‘Time-to-First-Train’ with DGX Cloud on AWS

Customers have a lot of options when it comes to building their generative AI stacks to train, fine-tune, and run AI models. In some cases, the number of options may be overwhelming. To help simplify the decision-making and reduce that all-important time it takes to train your first model, Nvidia offers DGX Cloud, which arrived ... Full article

DeltaAI Unveiled: How NCSA Is Meeting the Demand for Next-Gen AI Research

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has just launched its highly anticipated DeltaAI system. DeltaAI is an advanced AI computing and data resource that will be a companion system to NCSA’s Delta, a 338-node, HPE Cray-based supercomputer installed in 2021. The new DeltaAI has been funded by the ... Full article

Kempner Institute’s AI Cluster Named One of the World’s Fastest ‘Green’ Supercomputers

Researchers at Harvard now have access to one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world. Built to support cutting-edge research at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, and Harvard University more broadly, the Kempner’s AI cluster has just been named the 32nd fastest “green” supercomputer in the world in the Green500, the ... Full article

Report: China’s Race to Build AI Datacenters Has Hit a Wall

Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever

Cerebras Scales AI Inference with Hugging Face Partnership and Datacenter Expansion

Nebius Accelerates AI Cloud Growth with US and European Expansion

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