Category: Artificial Intelligence

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AI’s Unprecedented Growth and Power Demand

As the AI boom continues into its third year, the industry is witnessing a surge in ambitious computing projects. One such endeavor is xAI’s plan to scale its Colossus AI supercomputer from 100,000 to one million GPUs. This expansion presents…

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CPU Roles in Modern AI Architecture

Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, AI development has largely been driven by GPUs, although CPUs still play a vital role, particularly in AI inferencing tasks. While GPUs, notably those from Nvidia, dominate training large models due to their parallel…

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Nvidia Replaces Intel on Dow Amid AI Frenzy

Nvidia is set to replace Intel as the sole semiconductor representative in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, effective before market opening on November 8. This shift, announced by S&P Global, is meant to better reflect the semiconductor industry’s landscape. Intel’s…

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Nvidia and Foxconn Build Taiwan’s AI Powerhouse

Nvidia has announced a strategic alliance with electronics giant Foxconn to develop Taiwan’s most advanced AI supercomputing infrastructure. The project, leveraging Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, aims to deliver more than 90 exaFLOPS of AI processing capability at the Hon Hai Kaohsiung…

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Supermicro Packs 18 GPUs into Compact 3U Server

While most GPU-enhanced servers accommodate up to eight GPUs, Supermicro introduces a more compact 3U model capable of housing 18 within its air-cooled framework. Dubbed the SYS-322GB-NR, this design includes 20 PCIe slots for various configurations, indicating a distinctive approach…

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Submer Grabs $55.5M to Boost Datacenter Cooling

Submer, a leader in cooling technology, has successfully secured $55.5 million in new funding to support its expansion efforts. With its headquarters in Barcelona and a manufacturing presence in Houston, Texas, the company is actively addressing sustainability in datacenters, a…

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China’s AI Advancements Unhindered by Sanctions

China Telecom’s AI Research Institute has successfully trained a 100-billion-parameter AI model named TeleChat2-115B using exclusively domestic computing resources. This development indicates that Chinese entities remain resilient against Western technology sanctions. The institute announced that the model was trained with…

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Northern Data AG Launches Its First EU Data Center

TARGETING THE WORLD LARGEST GPU CLUSTERS High-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider Northern Data AG, has just launched its latest HPC data center near Maastricht, a city on the southern tip of the Netherlands. The new Netherlands facility is planned to…

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IBM makes Watson available for all other cloud services

IBM watson open to all Cloud Watson Artificial Intelligence (AI) services which was typically and solely deployed on IBM cloud is now made available to other private, public, hybrid or multi-cloud services which include that of its rivals – Amazon,…

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University of Birmingham deploys UK’s largest IBM POWER9 AI cluster

Birmingham University Deploy Largest IBM AI Cluster in UK The University of Birmingham will be the home of the largest IBM POWER9 AI (Artificial Intelligence) cluster in the UK.  In September, the university installed two IBM Power Systems servers (AC922)…

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