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Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...

NVIDIA and a coalition of partners have announced what they describe as the United Kingdom’s largest coordinated push to build onshore AI supercomputing capacity: an industrial-scale programme of “AI factories” and sovereign compute zones that promises up to £11 billion of investment and as many...

Oracle’s latest financial quarter did more than surprise investors — it rewrote the short-term narrative for how legacy enterprise vendors can compete in an AI-first cloud market by converting a mountain of booked contracts into a five‑year infrastructure roadmap that, if executed, would elevate...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivered a broad, operationally important set of security updates on September 9, 2025, covering Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and related platform components — with industry trackers reporting roughly 80–86 CVEs patched and several high‑priority...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft’s rollout of ND H200 v5 instances for Azure Machine Learning is a substantial, full‑stack upgrade that pairs Microsoft’s cloud orchestration with NVIDIA’s newest H200 Tensor Core GPUs to give teams a rare combination of massive on‑GPU memory, dense compute, and high‑bandwidth...

The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and...

AMD’s “Rome” EPYC announcement and the related Computex chatter about deeper Azure collaboration mixed accurate engineering milestones with translation-smoothed promotional claims, but the core story is straightforward: AMD’s 2nd‑generation EPYC (Rome) legitimately reshaped server economics and...

Microsoft's recent unveiling of the Azure ND GB200 v6 Virtual Machines (VMs) marks a significant milestone in the evolution of AI infrastructure. These VMs, powered by NVIDIA's GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips, are poised to redefine the cost-performance dynamics in AI computing. Architectural...

Change is brewing in the world of AI development as AMD hints at expanding ROCm support from Linux to Windows—an update that has the potential to reshape the landscape for developers, enterprises, and even everyday Windows enthusiasts. For years, this capability has lingered near the top of user...

For anyone who’s ever battled with an HPC cluster, watching as cryptic SLURM commands and arcane SSH rituals defeated your best intentions, there’s a new glimmer of hope on the as-a-service horizon. Azure, along with its regular cast of cloud and silicon heroes, is unleashing a dynamic duo: Open...

Korea’s Seegene Steps into the Future with AI-Driven Diagnostics At the recent Microsoft AI Tour in Seoul, Korea’s Seegene, a frontrunner in diagnostic solutions, set the stage for a groundbreaking collaboration with Microsoft. With a strategic emphasis on Azure OpenAI Service and...

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, where artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) dominate conversations, the need for exceptional data performance in hybrid cloud environments has never been clearer. Recent discussions at Microsoft Ignite 2024 illuminated how...

In a groundbreaking collaboration, AMD and Microsoft are reshaping the landscape of high-performance computing (HPC) with the latest announcement of the HBv5 series virtual machines (VMs) for Microsoft Azure. The magic ingredient? AMD's custom EPYC processors featuring high-bandwidth HBM3...

In a move that's likely to send ripples through the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, Microsoft has unveiled its latest Azure HBv5 virtual machines, powered by a cutting-edge custom AMD CPU. This new CPU, which sports an impressive configuration, seems to be a rebirth of the...

Hi everyone, I'm facing a critical challenge with High-Performance Computing (HPC) on my Windows system, and it's causing major disruptions in my work. I rely heavily on HPC for running complex simulations and data processing tasks, but recently, I've noticed a severe slowdown and instability...

Hello HPC Community, I hope this message finds you well. I'm currently facing a significant issue with my Windows High-Performance Computing (HPC) setup, severely impacting my work. I am hoping someone here can help me resolve it. Here's the situation: I have a small HPC computing cluster...

Hey everyone, I've been delving into the world of High-Performance Computing (HPC) lately, and I'm fascinated by how various companies harness its power for their purposes. From scientific research to business analytics, the applications seem limitless. But I'm curious to hear from all of you...

Hello fellow forum members, I hope this post finds you well. I am currently in the process of setting up an High Performance Computing (HPC) environment on Windows, and I'm reaching out to the community for insights, best practices, and valuable tips. If you have experience in this domain or if...

Hi all, When looking at the logs after the HPC console add-in fails to start I get the following (HPC scheduler): Exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): The datediff function resulted in an overflow. The number of dateparts separating two date/time instances is too large...