Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] The Biden administration has announced $3.5 billion for 58 projects across the United States to strengthen the electric grid's resilience. The projects will be funded by the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program.
[Link] A nice article from ArsTechnica on the IBM NorthPole processor, which was designed for inference-focused neural networks. It describes how IBM has taken some of the ideas behind previous experiments and merged them with a very stripped-down approach to running calculations to create a highly power-efficient chip that can efficiently execute inference-based neural networks.
[Link] HPE builds AI supercomputer for CRIANN to accelerate scientific research and innovation. The new AI supercomputer, called “Austral”, is based on HPE Cray supercomputers and the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, for the CRIANN (Centre Régional Informatique et d’Applications Numériques de Normandie) in Normandy, France.
[Link] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has developed a 40kVA-class container-type edge data center with an immersion/air-cooled hybrid cooling system. The company says the new solution is capable of simultaneously housing servers utilizing three types of cooling methods: immersion cooling (25kVA), air cooling (8kVA), and water cooling (8kVA).
[Link] CesiumAstro Wins $395,000 NASA Contract for Communications Study. Following the DSOC news last week, NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program, which manages the agency’s two communication networks — the Deep Space Network and Near Space Network (NSN), selected CesiumAstro to design a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Ka-band active phased array terminal for communicating with commercial and government networks.
[Link] Interesting LightReading article on the state of AT&T, job cuts, and future plans.
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