Serviceability

Tachyum Upgrades Software Package in Advance of Beta Release of the Prodigy Universal Processor

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Tachyum ® today announced that it has upgraded the software stack for the Prodigy® Universal Processor before the anticipated launch of its beta version around the end of quarter.

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  • Tachyum ® today announced that it has upgraded the software stack for the Prodigy® Universal Processor before the anticipated launch of its beta version around the end of quarter.
  • Quality completion of Prodigy’s software stack is a key component as the company continues to advance towards chip production and distribution.
  • Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of a ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.
  • Once the software package completes its testing and runs cleanly on the FPGA, the company can fully transition to advancing the Universal Processor into production.

Infinitum Unveils the Next Generation of its Sustainable Electric Motor for Commercial and Industrial Applications

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Today at the AHR Expo, Infinitum , creator of the sustainable air-core motor, unveiled the next generation of its award-winning Aircore EC , a high-efficiency motor system designed to sustainably power commercial and industrial applications, such as HVAC fans, pumps and data centers with less energy consumption, reduced emissions and reduced waste.

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  • Today at the AHR Expo, Infinitum , creator of the sustainable air-core motor, unveiled the next generation of its award-winning Aircore EC , a high-efficiency motor system designed to sustainably power commercial and industrial applications, such as HVAC fans, pumps and data centers with less energy consumption, reduced emissions and reduced waste.
  • “Designed with a greener future in mind, the next evolution of our Aircore EC motor system pushes the boundaries of efficiency and sustainability even further,” said Ben Schuler, founder and CEO, Infinitum.
  • The Aircore EC motor system is covered by 43 issued patents and 48 pending patents and IP-65 rated.
  • To learn more about Infinitum’s latest generation Aircore EC motor system, visit:

CXL Consortium Announces Compute Express Link 3.1 Specification Release

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The CXL Consortium, an industry standards body developing and promoting an open coherent interconnect, today announced the release of the Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) 3.1 specification with improved fabric manageability to take CXL beyond the rack and enable disaggregated systems.

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  • The CXL Consortium, an industry standards body developing and promoting an open coherent interconnect, today announced the release of the Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) 3.1 specification with improved fabric manageability to take CXL beyond the rack and enable disaggregated systems.
  • The CXL 3.1 Specification builds on previous iterations to optimize resource utilization, create trusted compute environments as needed, extend memory sharing and pooling to avoid stranded memory, and facilitate memory sharing between accelerators.
  • “The CXL 3.1 specification incorporates new features requested by the CXL community to create disaggregated systems and keep up with high-performance computational workloads,” said Larrie Carr, CXL Consortium President.
  • “With the support of our members, we continue to develop and promote CXL technology to enable an interoperable ecosystem of heterogeneous memory and computing solutions.”
    Expanded visibility and control over CXL memory device RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability)
    Full backward compatibility with CXL 2.0, CXL 1.1, and CXL 1.0
    The Consortium will host demos at the CXL pavilion (Booth #1301) at Supercomputing 2023, November 14-17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

AGI Introduces Next-Gen, High-Capacity Auger Series At 2023 National Farm Machinery Show

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

The AGI Westfield MKX2 auger features an A-frame hydraulic lift system and the AGI Hutchinson-Mayrath HX2 auger features a scissor hydraulic lift system.

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  • The AGI Westfield MKX2 auger features an A-frame hydraulic lift system and the AGI Hutchinson-Mayrath HX2 auger features a scissor hydraulic lift system.
  • AGI will be displaying the Westfield MKX 2 and Hutchinson-Mayrath HX2 augers at next week’s National Farm Machinery Show (Booth 7423),” said Manness.
  • AGI is a provider of solutions for global food infrastructure including seed, fertilizer, grain, feed, and food processing systems.
  • AGI has manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States, Brazil, India, France, and Italy and distributes its product globally.

Tachyum Celebrates 2022 and Announces 2023 Series C and Volume Production Plans

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Prodigy exceeded its performance targets and is significantly faster than any processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.

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  • Prodigy exceeded its performance targets and is significantly faster than any processors currently available in hyperscale, HPC and AI markets.
  • Tachyum completed the final piece of its core software stack with a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) running on a Prodigy emulation system.
  • Company executives were among the featured presenters at ISC High Performance 2022 and Supercomputing 2022 events.
  • With its Series C funding, expected to close in 2023, Tachyum will finance the volume production of Prodigy Universal Processor Chip and be positioned for sustained profitability, as well as increase headcount.

Tachyum Successfully Runs LINPACK on FPGA With IEEE 754-2019 Compliant FPU

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

This was achieved by running applications under Linux on the integer part of the processor and uses IEEE compliant Floating-Point Unit (FPU) to analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-square problems.

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  • This was achieved by running applications under Linux on the integer part of the processor and uses IEEE compliant Floating-Point Unit (FPU) to analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-square problems.
  • LINPACK measures a systems floating-point computing power by solving a dense system of linear equations to determine performance.
  • After successfully reaching this FPU milestone, Tachyum has only four more steps to go before the final netlist of the Prodigy processor chip.
  • Its FPU is fully IEEE compliant and corner cases have been successfully debugged.

Astera Labs Enters Pre-Production Phase of Leo Memory Connectivity Platform for CXL-Attached Memory Expansion and Pooling

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220830005197/en/
    Leo Memory Connectivity Platform: CXL-attached memory expansion and pooling for cloud servers.
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    Our Leo Memory Connectivity Platform for CXL 1.1 and 2.0 is purpose-built to overcome processor memory bandwidth bottlenecks and capacity limitations in accelerated and intelligent infrastructure, said Jitendra Mohan, CEO, Astera Labs.
  • Our continued collaboration with the CXL ecosystem providers, such as Astera Labs through their Leo Memory Connectivity Platform, will help enable customers to develop reliable, interoperable CXL memory expansion and pooling solutions.
  • Astera Labs Leo Memory Connectivity Platform for CXL-attached memory offers the following product solutions:
    Leo P-Series Smart Memory Controllers supporting memory expansion, pooling, and sharing
    Astera Labs has released extensive product documentation, application notes, firmware, software, management utilities and development kits to enable partners and customers to seamlessly evaluate, develop and deploy Leo Smart Memory Controllers and Aurora A-Series Smart Memory Hardware Solutions.

Sandler Partners Adds AT&T to SCOUT Tool for Near Real-Time Pricing for AT&T Internet Services

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Monday, August 29, 2022

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Sandler Partners community can now use SCOUT to determine AT&T availability, serviceability, and pricing for AT&T Business Fiber (ABF) and AT&T Dedicated Internet (ADI). Sandler Partners' time-saving SCOUT tool gives its Partners the ability to respond faster to customers with the most up-to-date pricing and availability for internet services from AT&T, one of the leading and most reliable connectivity providers.

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  • Look up AT&T Serviceability, Pricing, and Promotions to generate pricing proposals in near real-time for AT&T Business Fiber and AT&T Dedicated Internet.
  • REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Sandler Partners community can now use SCOUT to determine AT&T availability, serviceability, and pricing for AT&T Business Fiber (ABF) and AT&T Dedicated Internet (ADI).
  • Sandler Partners' time-saving SCOUT tool gives its Partners the ability to respond faster to customers with the most up-to-date pricing and availability for internet services from AT&T, one of the leading and most reliable connectivity providers.
  • "There are few leading players like AT&T," adds Gerry Davis Jr., Sandler Partners SVP of Sales Engineering.

Microchip Introduces New CXL™ Smart Memory Controllers for Data Center Computing Enabling Modern CPUs to Optimize Application Workloads

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

This solution delivers more memory bandwidth per core, more memory capacity per core, and lowers the overall total cost of ownership in the data center by allowing modern CPUs to optimize application workloads.

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  • This solution delivers more memory bandwidth per core, more memory capacity per core, and lowers the overall total cost of ownership in the data center by allowing modern CPUs to optimize application workloads.
  • Typical CXL attached memory modules include 512 GB of memory or more, providing an effective mechanism to increase the memory bandwidth available to processing cores.
  • Microchip is excited to introduce our first CXL-based serial memory controller device to the market, said Pete Hazen, corporate vice president of Microchips Data Center Solutions business unit.
  • Data center application workloads require future memory products that can deliver the same high-performance bandwidth, low latency and reliability of todays parallel-DDR based memory products.

VAST Federal and Mercury Systems Collaborate to Build Ruggedized Ceres Platform for Military and Defense Operations at the Edge

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Additional details on the benefits of the rugged data solutions with Universal Storage will include:

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  • Additional details on the benefits of the rugged data solutions with Universal Storage will include:
    High Performance for Mission-Critical Edge Workloads.
  • VAST Federal, a subsidiary of VAST Data headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, helps the federal government modernize data center infrastructure with a unified all-flash platform called VAST Universal Storage.
  • VAST Datas managed storage software unlocks the value of data and modernizes data centers, ushering in the era of AI computing.
  • Mercury Systems is a global commercial technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry.