Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
HPE Discover 2023 event
Last week Hewlett Packard Enterprise held its annual conference, and CEO Antonio Neri talked about the latest company innovations and its edge-to-cloud portfolio. The big announcement from this event was that they entered the AI Cloud market, by introducing GreenLake for Large Language Models (LLMs). This awesome article from Silicon Angle goes deep into how HPE is turning its supercomputing leadership into generative AI profits.
Microsoft announced new advances to Azure Quantum aimed at accelerating scientific discovery. They also announced a first milestone towards a quantum supercomputer - creating and controlling Majorana quasiparticles. Yeah….I’m going to need a bit to watch that 20+ more times, and then ask AI to explain it to me like I’m 5. Still…. very cool!
AI and Quantum enterprise SaaS company SandboxAQ announced its biopharma molecular simulation division, AQBioSim, and some of its customers. Working with UCSF to rapidly identify therapies for neurodegenerative disorders the researchers used SandboxAQ’s proprietary Absolute Free Energy Perturbation (AQ-FEPTM) software to generate thousands of predictions of molecular interactions, leading to some exciting new compounds.
Space News
A strategic agreement between Telstra and OneWeb is set to deliver one of the world’s largest rollouts of OneWeb low Earth Orbit (LEO) backhaul for a commercial mobile network. This will see up to 25 Gbit/s of LEO capacity being delivered to Telstra’s most remote mobile customers across Australia to help enhance their experience when using real-time applications.
RAND Corp. calls for a new coordinated approach for international space traffic management. Advising that as space becomes more congested, contested, and competitive, RAND says the risks to space safety, security, and sustainability are heightened. Their report is titled *International Space Traffic Management: Charting a Course for Long-Term Sustainability.*
Intel says the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with all 10,624 compute blades, boasting 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series and 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors. They are expecting Aurora to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops later this year when it enters the top500 list.
Intel will spend more than 30 billion euros ($33 billion) to develop two chip-making plants in Magdeburg as part of its expansion push in Europe. This will be Germany's biggest ever foreign investment. The German deal marks Intel's third big investment in four days. It unveiled plans on Friday for a $4.6 billion chip plant in Poland, another European Union member, while Israel said on Sunday that Intel would spend $25 billion on a factory there.
Equinix President and CEO Charles Meyers has a really nice piece on the Future of Digital Infrastructure - commemorating the 25th anniversary of Equinix.
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