At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he’s also an AI and cloud computing…
AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos
March 1, 2024 by
Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, OpenAI and Nvidia, along with a slew….
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
June 2, 2023 by
Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]
Azure, AMD and the Power of Cloud-based HPC for Sustainability R&D Projects
March 3, 2023 by
Sustainability – both in the way it operates and in its support for the development of sustainable technologies and products – is a theme that permeates the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and its end-user community. Azure, in combination with advanced and ultra-efficient CPUs from AMD….
It’s a Wrap! We’ll See You at ISC Next Year
June 9, 2022 by
[SPONSORED POST] After attending ISC, it’s safe to say that no remote conferencing or communication technology can ever replace the experience of face-to-face human interaction. It was fantastic to engage directly with our customers and partners, sharing new platform developments and intriguing customer stories. It is truly inspiring to hear about some of the new initiatives aimed to conquer challenges that seemed insurmountable in previous years.
Atos Takes Fight Over Met Office-Microsoft $1.6B Weather HPC Contract to UK High Court
May 23, 2022 by
Atos’ fight over the UK Met Office awarding a $1.56 billion contract to Microsoft to build the world’s biggest weather and climate supercomputer will soon go to the UK High Court, according to a story in the Financial Times. Atos, the leading Europe-based HPC vendor, argues that is was excluded unfairly from bids for the […]
Open Compute Project Announces Hardware-Software Co-design Strategy.
April 14, 2022 by
April 14, 2022 – Today, the OCP Foundation, the nonprofit organization focused on hyperscale, announced a new hardware-software co-design strategy that is exemplified by recent contributions to the OCP by Microsoft and Intel of the Scalable I/O (Input/Output) Virtualization (SIOV) specification, and a new collaboration with the SONiC Project now at the Linux Foundation. “Hardware–software co-design […]
Microsoft and UK Met Office Select AI Start-ups for Environmental Sustainability Program
April 6, 2022 by
April 2022 — Ten companies focused on reducing carbon emissions and waste, preserving water and protecting ecosystems have been selected to take part in Microsoft’s AI for Environmental Sustainability Accelerator program. The program, launched in collaboration with the Met Office and Social Tech Trust, will support the cohort through a four-month program to advance their environmental solution using […]
Cyberwar: Microsoft Comes to Ukraine’s Aid Combating Russian Malware
March 2, 2022 by
Microsoft – and, apparently, HPC – have come to Ukraine’s aid in the cyber aspect of the Russian invasion. Several hours before Russia began its assault on February 24, Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), scanning the company’s vast network, detected a new round of offensive cyberattacks directed at Ukraine’s digital infrastructure, according to a blog […]
Intersect360 Research White Paper: Microsoft Azure Delivers HPC Now And Into The Future With AMD
January 26, 2022 by
[SPONSORED POST] Highlighted in this white paper by Intersect360 Research, the fastest growing provider of HPC cloud solutions has been Microsoft Azure. Azure’s momentum is based on completeness of services and solutions for HPC, and this is reflected in the loyalty of Azure users. Microsoft Azure has a greater proportion of its HPC users likely to increase their usage in the future. Meanwhile, in recent years, HPC has seen a new surge in compute from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). As both AMD and Azure have surged in HPC, Microsoft is combining both with its HBv3 instances, featuring AMD EPYC 7003 processors.
