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HPE Deploys Exascale Cray Systems; NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm Power Global AI; Space AI Data Centers and Energy‑Efficient HPC Rise

HPE Deploys Exascale Cray Systems; NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm Power Global AI; Space AI Data Centers and Energy‑Efficient HPC Rise

TL;DR * HPE expands HPC with SGI and Cray deals, deploying Cray EX4000 and GX5000 exascale systems at Oak Ridge and Livermore labs. * Frontier supercomputer achieves 1.2 exaflops; Fugaku reaches 442 petaflops, marking continued leadership in exascale performance worldwide. * NVIDIA H100, AMD RDNA4, and Qualcomm AI accelerators power cloud‑

Exascale Engine, AI Satellite, Powerhouse Turbines, Intel’s AI and HPC Boosts

Exascale Engine, AI Satellite, Powerhouse Turbines, Intel’s AI and HPC Boosts

TL;DR * NextSilicon unveils Maverick‑2 dataflow engine, targeting exascale superchip performance * ProEnergy repurposes Boeing 747 engines into 48‑MW PE6000 turbines to supply data center power * Intel finalizes Nova Lake specifications with upgraded 50‑TOPS NPU, enhancing AI acceleration * Intel’s Arrow Lake refresh equips Core Ultra 7270K+ with

Alibaba Cloud Cuts NVIDIA GPU Use 82% with Aegaeon; NVIDIA Launches Orbital H100 Colonies; Maverick‑2 Beats HGX B200

Alibaba Cloud Cuts NVIDIA GPU Use 82% with Aegaeon; NVIDIA Launches Orbital H100 Colonies; Maverick‑2 Beats HGX B200

TL;DR * Alibaba Cloud’s Aegaeon virtualizes GPU access, cutting NVIDIA GPU need by 82 % for LLM workloads * NVIDIA launches H100 GPU colonies in orbit, slashing Earth‑based energy demand by 10× * Maverick‑2 outperforms NVIDIA’s HGX B200 GPU and Intel’s Sapphire Rapids in HPC GPU‑dense workloads

High-Bandwidth Fabric & Immersion Cooling Promise Reduced Water Use in AI-Scale Data Centers

High-Bandwidth Fabric & Immersion Cooling Promise Reduced Water Use in AI-Scale Data Centers

Today I will cover water consumption in GPU-intensive facilities, Alibaba’s compute-pooling efficiency gains, the impact of 400-800 GbE broadband switches combined with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, and the energy-saving potential of liquid/immersion cooling. The data converge on three actionable insights: (1) water is becoming the primary utility constraint for