Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
Conferences: Google IO | Microsoft | ISC2023 | Apple
š¤ Itās conference season! I had barely caught up from the news at the Google I/O conference and Data Center World, when last week brought Microsoft Build, the ISC 2023 #HPC event, Dell Technologies World, and the Embedded Vision Summit! And now I have to get ready (in just a few days) for Appleās annual Worldwide Developer Conference (anxiously awaiting the AR headset here).
Frontier remains #1 on the Top500 Supercomputer list
ā”ļø Frontier, the HP Cray supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Tennessee campus is still in the top spot, with 1.194 Eflop/s using 8,699,904 cores. The number 1 spot on the Green500 was held by the Henri system at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, with an energy efficiency of 65.40 Gflops/Watt.
Microsoft Build 2023 Developer conference
š¤ There was a lot of news coming out of this conference - and (no surprise) an emphasis on AI and ChatGPT-related announcements. The opening keynote from Satya Nadella was very good. I was most intrigued by the announcement of Microsoft Fabric - a data analytics platform. This new platform will be able to āpull data from Microsoftās OneLake data lake, Amazon S3, and even Google Cloud soon.ā
BrainChip and CVEDIA Advance AI and Neuromorphic Computing
ā”ļø BrainChip and CVEDIA announced that they have partnered on the CVEDIA-RT platform for video analytics running on BrainChipās Akida neuromorphic IP. The end resultā¦. the two can create and train AI models that are optimized for event-based processing and inference at the edge without relying on cloud connectivity or high-power consumption.
CyrusOne and KEPCO announce joint venture in Japan
ā”ļø CyrusOne and Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) announced their joint venture called CyrusOne KEP. Leveraging the strengths of each company, they say that CyrusOne KEP plans to invest at least one trillion yen (more than $7B USD) over the next decade and reach a business scale of 900 MW.
HP and Ampere take aim at Intel with vision of ARM-based Open RAN server
Telecom-wavelength quantum repeater node transmits quantum information over tens of kilometers
š² I almost feel obligated to bring some quantum computing news each week. Itās fascinating. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck have built a quantum repeater node for the standard wavelength of telecommunication networks and transmittedĀ quantum informationĀ over tens of kilometers. āThe repeater node consists of twoĀ calcium ionsĀ captured in an ion trap within an optical resonator as well as single photon conversion to the telecom wavelength. The scientists thus demonstrated the transfer of quantum information over a 50-kilometer-longĀ optical fiber, with the quantum repeater placed exactly halfway between starting and end point.ā Time (for me) to study quantum networking a little more.
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