AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6
European Supercomputing
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AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144
House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 |
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 8
UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops
Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 18
Schneider, Nvidia sign pact to cool Europe's AI ambitions
GTC Paris With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 |
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip
Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 1
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 3
Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit
ISC Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall?
European Supercomputing10 Jun 2025 | 1
Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand
After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 |
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy
Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 | 50
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
European Supercomputing22 May 2025 | 95
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris
Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs work
European Supercomputing20 May 2025 | 7
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity
European Supercomputing16 May 2025 | 66
EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer
Updated And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain
European Supercomputing14 May 2025 | 2
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