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Hammerspace upgrades AI Anywhere data platform software, with  performance, security and ecosystem enhancements

November 20, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hammerspace upgrades AI Anywhere data platform software, with  performance, security and ecosystem enhancements
 The v5.2 release lets Hammerspace raise the bar on standards-based parallel file system performance, particularly for AI and HPC workloads, continuing the trajectory demonstrated in public benchmarks earlier this year and bringing significant performance, security and ecosystem enhancements.

HPC

HPE and partners launch Quantum Scaling Alliance to make quantum computing breakthroughs

November 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE and partners launch Quantum Scaling Alliance to make quantum computing breakthroughs
The consortium combines a deep expertise in quantum with leadership in supercomputing and semiconductor design and manufacturing, in order to drive quantum technology into mainstream adoption.

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  Fujitsu expands strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver full-stack AI infrastructure

October 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on   Fujitsu expands strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver full-stack AI infrastructure
Fujitsu and NVIDIA  will collaborate around AI robots and other high-performance infrastructure in order to accelerate AI adoption and drive industrial transformation.

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VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era
Garth Gibson, who has a well-regarded history around AI and HPC, discusses his vision about where VDURA and technology in general are going, as well as the likely impact on VDURA’s channel partners.

Artificial Intelligence

VDURA partners to launch first scalable AMD Instinct GPU reference architecture

September 26, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VDURA partners to launch first scalable AMD Instinct GPU reference architecture
The new reference architecture combines VDURA V5000 Storage with AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators to overcome data bottlenecks and simplify deployment at scale.

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BUZZ High Performance Computing partners with VAST Data for agentic computing and sovereign AI

September 11, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on BUZZ High Performance Computing partners with VAST Data for agentic computing and sovereign AI
BUZZ HPC, a Canadian Sovereign AI cloud provider, has standardized on the VAST AI OS to provide agentic computing and power Sovereign AI in its Canadian data centres.

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IBM and AMD announce plans to develop next generation of computing architectures

September 4, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM and AMD announce plans to develop next generation of computing architectures
IBM  and AMD have announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing

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Dell Technologies unveils new Quantum Computing solution

November 14, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies unveils new Quantum Computing solution

While the Quantum announcement is the most interesting from a technology perspective, today Dell is also announcing new Dell PowerEdge servers for high-performance computing, and an HPC service offering, Dell APEX High Performance Computing.

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Lenovo looks to bring HPC to new customers with TruScale HPC as-a-Service

January 26, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo looks to bring HPC to new customers with TruScale HPC as-a-Service
Lenovo’s new HPC service is designed to deal with specific problems of HPC usage patterns other as-a-service solutions do not address, and to use channel partners to drive it to both traditional big iron HPC users and much smaller ones who use HPC workloads, but don’t think of themselves as HPC customers.