Delft, 20th November 2024: In a bid to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the fight against climate change, VSParticle (VSP) – a Dutch nanotechnology engineering company – today announced the first results from a collaboration with Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, and the University of Toronto (UofT). The collaboration brings together VSP’s […]
Penguin Solutions’ Big Cluster Expertise Extends to Powerhouse Services for Big AI Deployments
September 4, 2024 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] These are the times that try the souls of IT staffs tasked with deploying AI at scale… Effectively implementing AI at scale involves a whole host of design, build, deployment, and management considerations. It requires ….
Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference
August 27, 2024 by
AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, according to the company, making it 20 times faster than GPU-based solutions in hyperscale clouds.
Open Compute Project Foundation and Hyperscalers to Trial Low-Carbon ‘Green Concrete’
August 21, 2024 by
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 20, 2024 — Today, the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces a collaboration to test development and deployment of low-embodied carbon concrete or “green concrete.” While numerous emerging technologies exist to achieve production of low carbon concrete, adoption has not yet scaled. This proactive and collaborative demonstration project is an important step towards […]
Nvidia AI Foundry for Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models
July 23, 2024 by
Nvidia today announced its AI Foundry service and NIM inference microservices for generative AI with Meta’s Llama 3.1 collection of models, also introduced today. The company said its AI Foundry allows organizaations to create custom “supermodels” for their ….
Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft
May 30, 2024 by
BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed and low latency communication for scale-up AI systems linking in data centers. Called the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), this initial group will define and establish an […]
Meta VR Project Developers Turn to Liqid UltraStack for NVIDIA GPU-Packed Dell Servers
May 21, 2024 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI-related technologies, such as GPUs that drive AI workloads. Members of a virtual reality research project were in need of greater GPU-driven compute ….
HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta’s MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China’s Growth Strategy
April 15, 2024 by
Happy Tax Day to you! Here’s a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel’s Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta’s new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing….
HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?
March 18, 2024 by
A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….
Dell and Meta in GenAI Pact with Llama 2 LLMs
October 31, 2023 by
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is collaborating with Meta in a partnership designed to make it easy to deploy Meta’s Llama 2 large language models on premises with Dell’s generative AI portfolio of IT infrastructure and client devices. Dell said the collaboration simplifies the on-prem AI environment by combining Dell’s infrastructure portfolio and Llama 2 AI models….
