By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel next month will launch a tender to establish the country’s first supercomputer to ensure the country remains a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the chief executive of the state-backed Israel Innovation Authority said on Wednesday. Speaking at an AI conference, Dror Bin said that while AI […]
(Reuters) -Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer will provide server racks for the supercomputer that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is building, the U.S. businessman said on social media platform X on Wednesday. Dell is assembling half of the racks for xAI’s supercomputer, Musk said on X. In a reply to another post enquiring […]
(Reuters) -Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer will provide server racks for the supercomputer that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is building, the U.S. businessman said on social media platform X on Wednesday. Dell is assembling half of the racks for xAI’s supercomputer, Musk said on X. In a reply to another post enquiring […]
Elon Musk has aspirations to unseat Frontier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s pride and joy, as the world’s largest supercomputer with his “gigafactory of compute” in Memphis. He has billions to make it happen. Frontier has taken the No. 1 spot on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers five times in a row since […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Excitement continues to stir surrounding xAI building the world’s largest supercomputer right here in Memphis. But along with the excitement comes concern, specifically from environmentalists. In a joint statement, environmental groups Protect Our Aquifer, Memphis Community Against Pollution, and the Young Gifted and Green expressed their concerns about the facility’s impact on […]
Cheyenne, a US supercomputer once ranked 20th in the world and with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM (plus a few maintenance issues, including water leaks), was recently auctioned off by US General Services Administration (GSA). After a tussle between 27 bidders, Cheyenne went for a respectable $480,085, plus the costs of dismantling […]
(Reuters) – U.S. businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported on Saturday citing a presentation to investors. Musk said he wants to get the proposed supercomputer running by the fall of […]
Data center. To counter the strain on global energy resources due to accelerating computational demands – yes, AI, we’re looking at you – research institute imec is suggesting a radical shift away from traditional computing methods. Its solution, detaile in IEEE Spectrum engineering magazine, involves exploiting the fundamental properties of superconductors to greatly reduce energy […]
Elon Musk told investors this month that his startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer by the fall of 2025 that would power a future, smarter iteration of its Grok chatbot, The Information reports. This supercomputer, which Musk reportedly referred to as a “gigafactory of compute,” would rely on tens of thousands of NVIDIA […]
(Reuters) – U.S. businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported on Saturday citing a presentation to investors. Musk said he wants to get the proposed supercomputer running by the fall of […]
A high-end gaming personal computer can set you back around $5,000, a top-of-the-range Macbook Pro much the same. Chump change, however, compared to what you might end up paying for the Cheyenne, a former US government “super computer” that has been on auction for a week and is going-going but not yet gone, with the […]
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