SEATTLE – 10 September 2024 – Cloud data platforms company Qumulo today announced the availability of Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on Amazon Web Services. This release delivers a multi-protocol system designed to manage unstructured data with superior performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Now publicly available on AWS, CNQ is set to revolutionize enterprise data […]
HPC News Bytes 20240617: Controlling AI, Big Tech Invests in Taiwan, A Step for Specialty AI Chips, Alternative Energy for AI Data Centers, Apple Silicon
A happy summer solstice week to you! The HPC-AI ecosystem produced a raft of news and insights over the past week, here’s a rapid (7:59) review: New paper in Science on controlling AI from an all-star lineup of strategists, Big Tech invests in Taiwan, Chip Wars; AI chip landscape, specialty AI chips take a step forward, AI data centers seek new energy sources, Apple silicon in the data center?
Amazon Adds $2.75B to Stake in GenAI Startup Anthropic
Amazon announced it has made its biggest-ever investment, $2.75 billion, in OpenAI/Chat-GPT competitor Anthropic, another indication that the generative AI phenomenon continues to heat up. Today’s news follows Amazon and Anthropic announcing an earlier $1.25 billion investment last September – the announcement today brings the total investment to $4 billion. “We have a notable history with […]
Energy efficiency drives HPC to the cloud
The high-performance computing (HPC) market is witnessing a notable shift towards the cloud, partially driven by the benefits of enhanced energy efficiency. According to Hyperion Research nearly every organization running HPC workloads is either already using or investigating the cloud to accelerate application performance, with the cloud market for HPC workloads forecast to reach $11.5 […]
HPC in the cloud is growing, ensure your organization benefits
Projected to reach $11.5 billion by 2026, the cloud market for HPC workloads has seen a significant shift in buying behavior. This is driven partly by the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads, with cloud computing becoming a critical environment. Hyperion Research highlights how nearly every organization adopting high performance computing […]
AWS Unveils Graviton4, Trainium2 Chips
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families — AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 — that the company said delivers advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for such workloads as machine learning (ML) training and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
At SC23: AWS’s Research and Engineering Studio Suite for HPC-Class, Cloud-Based Environments
At SC23 in Denver, Amazon Web Services announced the Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, an open source, web-based portal for administrators to manage cloud-based research and engineering environments. Here we interview AWS’s Debra Goldfarb, Director, AWS HPC Products and Strategy, and Brendan Bouffler, AWS Head of Developer Relations, HPC Engineering. They explain how scientists […]