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Clustering for high availability and HPC

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management

  Cern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’

  Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Forrester: Curb your AI enthusiasm

  Ongoing supply issues with semiconductors mean IT departments may have to wait up to a year for the latest hardware

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Quantum computing in 2024: What are the challenges?

  Research shows that while there has been a big reduction in quantum computing investment, governments have been ploughing in funding

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Inside India’s supercomputing journey

  India is looking to shore up its supercomputing capabilities, but more needs to be done to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in the field

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  Cardiff University expands HPC cluster with Lenovo

  Expansion of university’s Hawk high-performance computing cluster promises to double the performance of some applications

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  AMD bets on India, doubles down on AI

  The chipmaker recently inaugurated its largest global design facility in Bangalore as part of a $400m investment in India to support its expanded portfolio and build AI capabilities

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  How server makers are surfing the AI wave

  While hyperscalers extend the life of their x86 equipment, the industry’s desperate pleas to find a new killer application to drive up server sales may well be coming true

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  Bristol and Cambridge to host 2024 AI supercomputers

  Dell and HPE are working on supercomputers with the two universities as part of the government’s artificial intelligence funding drive

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  UK government pledges £225m to fund University of Bristol AI supercomputer build with HPE

  The University of Bristol’s much-hyped AI supercomputer has secured hundreds of millions in government funding, and HPE has been confirmed as the project’s technology provider

• October 20, 2023 20 Oct'23

  Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres

  Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI

  Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Datacentre operators ‘hesitant’ over how to proceed with server farm builds as AI hype builds

  As the hype surrounding artificial intelligence enters a new phase with the rising enterprise and hyperscale interest in generative AI, operators are not sure how to proceed with new datacentre builds, it is claimed

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Bristol Uni to host one of Europe’s most power supercomputer clusters

  A high-performance computer system being built at the University of Bristol will run thousands of GPUs to support research in artificial intelligence and scientific discovery

• August 17, 2023 17 Aug'23

  NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care

  Healthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Supercomputing research collaboration to bring fusion energy to UK grid in 2040s

  The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell Technologies and Intel to accelerate pace of fusion energy power plant development

• May 31, 2023 31 May'23

  Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings

  The hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI

  It took the iPhone to kickstart a revolution in mobile phone usage, and Jensen Huang believes datacentres will radically change to support AI workloads

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware

  The AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push

  Imperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  Intel results reveal a push to address AI shortcomings

  The chipmaker has been impacted by poor PC sales, but aims to drive adoption of its AI inferencing technology

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 15, 2023 15 Mar'23

  UK government commits £2.5bn to boost quantum

  Decade of funding aims to fast-track quantum computing engineers to the UK and drive business adoption of this emerging technology

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  UK mini-datacentre startup hails energy savings of heat reuse deployment at leisure centre

  UK startup Deep Green has saved Exmouth Leisure Centre thousands in energy costs through deployment of mini-datacentres

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Government Future of Compute Review calls for nationally coordinated IT infrastructure strategy

  The government’s Future of Compute Review makes 10 recommendations geared towards helping the UK become a technology superpower

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Deci claims breakthrough inference performance on Intel Sapphire Rapids

  Israeli startup Deci claims GPU-like performance in running computer vision and natural language processing models on Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processors

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer

  The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  The inauguration of LUMI: Europe's most powerful supercomputer launches

  A former paper mill in Finland is now home to the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will help researchers across Europe accelerate their scientific breakthroughs in the fields of climate change and medicine

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  APAC life sciences firms face HPC challenges

  More than half of pharmaceutical and biotech companies expect over 10% growth in genomic workloads but are facing scalability and other challenges with their HPC infrastructure

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  How Pfizer is leveraging technology in healthcare

  Pfizer uses predictive modelling to recruit patients for clinical trials and supercomputers to identity candidate molecules that go into antiviral drugs, among other technology use cases

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Durham University upgrades cosmology supercomputer to switchless architecture with Rockport Networks

  Researchers working within the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University are set to reap the benefits of a network upgrade in one of its core supercomputers

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  What will a quantum datacentre look like?

  IBM has set out plans for hybrid supercomputing, with quantum and classical computing. This impacts both hardware installation and software

• April 25, 2022 25 Apr'22

  Researchers explore historical Hubble datasets to understand the solar system

  GPU-based supercomputer helps astronomers simulate exoplanet atmospheres

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA

  The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

  Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  IBM z16 tackles financial fraud and quantum hacks

  New addition to Z series mainframe family uses IBM Telum processor to accelerate AI for real-time credit card fraud detection

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have opened Sweden’s first large-scale HPC hub

  Nordic colocation firm atNorth claims to have pulled off a country first by opening a renewbly-powered HPC datacentre hub in Stockholm, Sweden

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  SingHealth researchers to get new supercomputer

  Healthcare researchers at SingHealth can look forward to a new supercomputer to support their work

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility

  Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  NetApp provides data infrastructure for EMBL

  European Molecular Biology Laboratory uses NetApp to enable researchers to share and process high-end electron microscopy data

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  Nvidia’s Arm deal is dead

  ‘Significant regulatory challenges’ have prevented Nvidia in its $31bn attempt to purchase chipmaker Arm

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough

  High-performance computing-focused colocation provider is opening its second datacentre in Slough, Berkshire

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Should IT leaders plan for the quantum computing era?

  Quantum computing is still at an early stage of development, but there are a handful of use cases where nothing else matches the horsepower it offers

• January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22

  Thailand builds new supercomputer to boost research

  The National Science and Technology Development Agency’s new supercomputer will boost research in pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and weather forecasting, among other areas