
Jun 30, 2022
MLCommons’ latest MLPerf Training results (v2.0) issued today are broadly similar to v1.1 released last December. Nvidia still dominates, but less so (no grand sweep of wins). Relative newcomers to the exercise – AI chip/system makers Graphcore and Habana Labs/Intel – along with Google again posted strong showings.

May 10, 2022
IBM today issued an extensive and detailed expansion of its Quantum Roadmap that calls for developing a new 1386-qubit processor – Kookaburra – built from modularly scaled chips, and delivering a 4,158-qubit POC system built using three connected Kookaburra processors by 2025.

May 10, 2022
Panasas started off specializing in storage hardware, but more than 20 years on, the company is placing a big bet on its software stack to meet storage needs for high-performance applications.

May 6, 2022
Responding to the company’s steady year-over-year growth and new business opportunities, including over 20 new clients this past year alone, Hyperion Research, the leading industry analyst and market intelligence firm for high performance computing (HPC), AI, cloud, quantum, and associated emerging markets, is adding new analysts and announcing promotions among existing staff members.

Apr 19, 2022
The AI vendor's update now includes tighter support for PyTorch and TensorFlow. Focused on complex deep learning applications, Cerebras competes with Microsoft Azure and Nvidia.

Apr 19, 2022
Chennai-headquartered automobile major TVS Motor Company uses high-performance computing (HPC) for running R&D simulations and testing the aerodynamics of two-wheelers, which allows it to make the vehicles stable at speed and more efficient, cool engines faster, and achieve better top speeds, quicker. It has been doing this for, like, forever, but something changed in 2020.
