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Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer

Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 A...

September 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...

September 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Finland

Alibaba Cloud claims modular data center can reduce build times by 50%

Alibaba Cloud has claimed its modular data center architecture can reduce build times by as much as 50 percent as it shared details of its Cube DC 5.0 modular data center architecture at its annual Apsara conference. The provider describes Cube DC 5.0 as a prefabricated modular design that use...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Snowhawk invests in CleanArc Data Centers

Private equity firm Snowhawk LP has invested in data center developer CleanArc Data Centers as the company expands its team and develops its first data center campus in Virginia. Led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout, the company aims to develop hyperscale data center campuses deliveri...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

RISC-V chipmaker SiFive has announced a new series of AI accelerators for high-performance workloads including its Intelligence XM Series which it claims is the first IP to include a scalable matrix engine, designed to accelerate time-to-market for semiconductor companies building system-on-c...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

UK telecoms minister calls for infrastructure sharing

The UK's telecoms minister Chris Bryant has called for infrastructure sharing amid increasing concern around the number of telegraph poles being installed across the country. He met with 15 operators last week to voice concerns about the deployment of the telegraph poles. This comes as the re...

September 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

HBF completes mainframe to cloud migration

Australian insurance provider HBF has completed its "digital transformation" project which began in 2019. This project involved migrating its workloads and core systems from a mainframe to the cloud. The company has reportedly also established a new core insurance platform for policy, product...

September 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

Department of Commerce awards $5m to small businesses under SBIR program

The Department of Commerce has awarded almost $5 million to 17 small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to support microelectronics research projects that have the potential to be commercialized.The 17 companies include California-based HighRI Optics, which ...

September 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

MCA launches £175 million coastguard emergency response network

The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a £175 million coastguard emergency response network across UK coastlines with an aim to prevent the loss of life on the coast and the sea. Technology firm Telent was responsible for designing and building the network, with constructio...

September 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Telesat completes CA$2.54 billion in funding agreements

Canadian satellite firm Telesat has announced the completion of funding agreements with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec for the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband constellation. The satellite firm now has all financing sources in place to fund the Lightspeed network, includi...

September 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make u...

September 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

Lenovo unveils GPU-as-a-Service offering

Lenovo has launched a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering designed to help customers bring artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on-premises, Lenovo has added GPUaaS to its subscription-based infrastructure model, TruScale. The company also added automation, predictive analytics, and generativ...

September 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

SiMa.ai unveils new multi-modal platform for Edge AI

SiMa.ai has launched MLSoC Modalix, a multi-modal, software-centric Edge AI chip for its embedded Edge machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) offering. MLSoC Modalix is the second generation of SiMa’s MLSoC and it supports CNNs, transformers, LLMs, LMMs, and generative AI at the Edge, reporte...

September 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

September 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

EU advised to encourage telecoms mergers

A recent report has advised the European Union (EU) to soften its stance on telecom industry mergers, urging that mergers should be viewed more favorably by the EU than is currently the case. Former European Central Bank president and former Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi stated that Eu...

September 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key connec...

September 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Adisyn exits Perth data center

Australian MSP Adisyn previously known as DC Two, announced it has negotiated a surrender of its Bibra Lake data center lease. The company will exit the lease on 18 October - decommissioning and selling plant and equipment at the site - and said the move would result in approximately AU$350,00...

September 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

US DOE launches HPC research program

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has announced a new $23 million research and development program led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The initiative will see a team led by ORNL source R&D proposals across the areas of hardware, software, and critical technolo...

September 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Beyond.pl to expand Poznan campus capacity

Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to bui...

September 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Poland

EE becomes the third carrier of 5G Standalone network in UK

EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed t...

September 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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