supercomputing

  1. Glenn Lockwood's Departure Highlights Industry Shifts in Supercomputing and AI Priorities

    Glenn Lockwood, a prominent figure in the high-performance computing (HPC) world and a respected voice in the supercomputing community, has recently made headlines by announcing his departure from Microsoft. This move is significant not only because of Lockwood’s stature—gained through his...
  2. OpenAI and Google Cloud Partnership: Transforming AI Infrastructure and Cloud Competition

    The landscape of artificial intelligence infrastructure is undergoing a remarkable transformation, driven by surging demand for generative AI services and an escalating arms race among the world’s technology giants. Few developments exemplify this shift better than OpenAI’s recent decision to...
  3. Britain's Met Office Unveils Cloud-Powered Supercomputer for Accurate Weather Forecasting

    Few topics capture the British public imagination quite like the ever-changing weather. From morning commutes to summer holidays, the reliability of weather forecasting touches nearly every facet of daily life in the United Kingdom. Now, the Met Office—Britain's national meteorological...
  4. AWS Accelerates AI Innovation with NVIDIA GB200 Semiconductors & Open Model Hosting Ecosystem

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is significantly enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by expanding access to NVIDIA's latest GB200 semiconductors and fostering an open ecosystem for AI model hosting. AWS CEO Matt Garman highlighted these developments, emphasizing the company's...
  5. AWS Expands Global Infrastructure and Integrates NVIDIA's Latest AI Hardware for Cloud Leadership

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is significantly enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by expanding its global infrastructure and integrating NVIDIA's latest AI hardware. This strategic move aims to meet the escalating demand for AI services and maintain AWS's leadership in the cloud...
  6. Microsoft to Host Elon Musk's Grok AI on Azure, Reshaping the AI Industry

    Microsoft is reportedly preparing to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model on its Azure AI Foundry platform, a move that could significantly impact the AI landscape and Microsoft's existing partnerships. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft has been instructing its engineers to ready the...
  7. UK Met Office Leads Climate Resilience with Cloud-Based Supercomputing and AI

    Amid mounting climate uncertainties and the intensification of extreme weather events worldwide, the pursuit of more accurate weather forecasting has never been more urgent. The United Kingdom’s Met Office, one of the world’s preeminent meteorological organizations, is stepping boldly into this...
  8. Microsoft Build 2025: AI Innovations, Windows 11 Upgrades & Developer Platform Advances

    Microsoft's annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, is set to take place from May 19 to 22, 2025. This year's event is poised to showcase significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly focusing on the evolution of Microsoft's Copilot feature and enhancements to...
  9. UK Met Office Enhances Weather Forecasting with Microsoft Azure Cloud Supercomputing

    The Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service, has embarked on a transformative journey by transitioning its supercomputing capabilities to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. This strategic move is poised to enhance weather forecasting accuracy and advance climate research...
  10. Azure & Open OnDemand Revolutionize HPC Accessibility with Slurm & AMD Support

    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...
  11. ParTec vs. Nvidia: High-Stakes Patent Dispute in European HPC

    In a significant escalation in the realm of high-performance computing, German HPC vendor ParTec has decided to extend its legal battle against Microsoft to include none other than Nvidia—a giant in the GPU market. The heart of this clash lies in allegations of patent infringement, as ParTec...
  12. Microsoft Brings Bioscience “BLAST” to the Windows Azure Cloud

    Announcements at Supercomputing 2010 conference highlight Microsoft’s efforts to bring technical computing to the mainstream. Link Removed due to 404 Error
  13. Windows 7 Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled

    Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only. This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade. "Larrabee silicon and software...