DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Software, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Quantum software firm Zapata Computing raises $38m
Zapata writes the software for future quantum systems
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IBM and AMD team for 'confidential computing' for AI and HPC in the cloud
Engineers from both companies are already cooperating
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AWS launches quantum computing managed service, Braket
Scientists at the University of Chicago also made a breakthrough in quantum computing
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CBRE signs deal with IBM for Smart Maintenance service
Watson will help keep data centers healthy
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Lenovo announces new AI servers for intense workloads
With the latest Intel chips
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Microsoft buys data analytics firm ADRM Software
Azure's latest acquisition will help business, execs say
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Nvidia and Finnish researchers create AI technology center
The new center will support research projects that requires exceptional computing power
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Oracle to offer Nvidia A100 GPUs in its cloud
The company is making use of the newly announced GPUs
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Salute signs up to service ServerFarm's Canadian data center
Salute will monitor the facility remotely using its Global Command Center
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Zoom acquires Keybase.io to tighten its own security measures
Zoom needed the experts from Keybase to optimize the platform's security
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NERSC finalizes contract for Perlmutter supercomputer
Featuring around 6,000 Nvidia GPU processors
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Italian HPC project gets EU funding for Covid-19 research
The EU hopes to have a breakthrough within 18 months
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NEC deploys new HPC at Germany's Ulm University
The new platform will analyze what goes on in an artificial diamond
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US and Canada could have greener grids at a lower cost with two-way power transmission
MIT research suggests using Canada as an energy reservoir
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US weather agency to triple processing power with two Cray systems
The HPCs will be collaborating with other systems elsewhere in the US
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US Navy to deploy Cray Shasta supercomputer with AMD and Nvidia chips
The system will aide in hurricane and engineering research
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Intel buys Israeli AI chip firm Habana Labs for $2bn
Will remain an independent business
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AWS announces new Arm CPU and dedicated inference chip
Graviton2 and Inferentia
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Intel details Ponte Vecchio GPU and Nervana Network Processors
It has been a busy week for Intel
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ITRS Group acquires IT monitoring firm Sumerian
They partnered for nine months before making it official