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Gold House Hosts Inaugural Gold Gala With Major Launches and the Largest Gathering of Top Asian & Pacific Islander Leaders

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Monday, May 23, 2022

The theme was embodied in the modern Asian couture attire, which featured several custom outfits created specifically for the gala.

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  • The theme was embodied in the modern Asian couture attire, which featured several custom outfits created specifically for the gala.
  • A major highlight of the Gold Gala was Mindy Kaling accepting the A100 Legend award for her lifelong dedication to creating and embodying affirming API characters and content.
  • The awards were custom designed by artist Maia Ruth Lee, an inaugural Gold Art Prize Awardee .
  • Gold House is the leading Asian and Pacific Islander (API) changemaker community, fighting together for socioeconomic equity.

Introducing Vultr Talon with NVIDIA GPUs — Cloud Platform Breakthrough Makes Accelerated Computing Efficient and Affordable

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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Vultr , a leading independent provider of cloud infrastructure, today announced that Vultr Talon, powered by NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software , is now available in beta.

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  • Vultr , a leading independent provider of cloud infrastructure, today announced that Vultr Talon, powered by NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software , is now available in beta.
  • A breakthrough cloud-based platform, Vultr Talon offers affordable accelerated computing by enabling GPU sharing, so multiple workloads can efficiently run on a single NVIDIA GPU.
  • At the core of Vultr Talon is a state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPU virtualization platform built on NVIDIAs vGPU software.
  • Vultr worked closely with NVIDIA to create its Vultr Talon offering, starting with the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU.

Technology Innovation Institute Announces Launch of NOOR, the World’s Largest Arabic NLP Model

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Monday, April 11, 2022

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global research center and applied research pillar of Abu Dhabis Advanced Technology Research Council, today announced the launch of NOOR, the worlds largest Arabic natural language processing (NLP) model to date.

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  • Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global research center and applied research pillar of Abu Dhabis Advanced Technology Research Council, today announced the launch of NOOR, the worlds largest Arabic natural language processing (NLP) model to date.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220411005085/en/
    Noor, the world's largest Arabic NLP Model - AI Cross-Center Unit, Technology Innovation Institute (Photo: AETOSWire)
    TIIs team of advanced researchers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) specialists, has joined forces with LightOn, a technology company that unlocks extreme-scale machine intelligence for businesses, to transform the Arabic NLP model.
  • The model facilitates extreme-scale distributed training and serving to deliver applications with efficient inference and model specialization.
  • Named for the Arabic word "light", the model has been so called to establish the correlation of the Arabic language model to enlightening the mind.

Kroger and NVIDIA to Reinvent the Shopping Experience Through State-of-the-Art, AI-Enabled Applications and Services

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

CINCINNATI and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and NVIDIA today announced a strategic collaboration to reimagine the shopping experience using AI-enabled applications and services.

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  • CINCINNATI and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and NVIDIA today announced a strategic collaboration to reimagine the shopping experience using AI-enabled applications and services.
  • Our collaboration with NVIDIA supports Krogers Fresh for Everyone commitment, said Wesley Rhodes, vice president of Technology Transformation & Research and Development at Kroger.
  • It will use the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite for retail, NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise to build digital twin simulations and NVIDIA cuOpt to explore logistics optimizations.
  • The initial installation will use nine NVIDIA DGX A100 systems , NVIDIA InfiniBand networking and NVIDIA RTX workstations to gather actionable insights on the grocers nearly 2,800 stores across the United States.

NVIDIA Introduces Grace CPU Superchip

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip comprises two CPU chips connected, coherently, over NVLink-C2C , a new high-speed, low-latency, chip-to-chip interconnect.

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  • The NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip comprises two CPU chips connected, coherently, over NVLink-C2C , a new high-speed, low-latency, chip-to-chip interconnect.
  • The Grace CPU Superchip complements NVIDIAs first CPU-GPU integrated module, the Grace Hopper Superchip , announced last year, which is designed to serve giant-scale HPC and AI applications in conjunction with an NVIDIA Hopper architecture-based GPU.
  • The Grace CPU Superchip offers the highest performance, memory bandwidth and NVIDIA software platforms in one chip and will shine as the CPU of the worlds AI infrastructure.
  • The Grace CPU Superchip will run all of NVIDIAs computing software stacks, including NVIDIA RTX, NVIDIA HPC, NVIDIA AI and Omniverse.

GigaIO Awarded Lonestar6 Contract in TACC’s First Bid for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Lonestar6 is a 600-node system utilizing Milan-based AMD servers from Dell Technologies and A100 GPUs from NVIDIA, and is the first platform at TACC to incorporate Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) in order to benefit from de-centralized server infrastructure.

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  • Lonestar6 is a 600-node system utilizing Milan-based AMD servers from Dell Technologies and A100 GPUs from NVIDIA, and is the first platform at TACC to incorporate Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) in order to benefit from de-centralized server infrastructure.
  • GigaIOs composable infrastructure platform pairs this unlimited flexibility with the agility of the cloud, allowing researchers to build completely customized and otherwise impossible servers for their AI and HPC workflows.
  • GigaIO is providing Lonestar6s fabric infrastructure, including switches, cards, cables, JBOGs (Just a Bunch Of GPUs), and composition software.
  • Tens of thousands of scientists and students use TACCs supercomputers each year to answer complex questions in every field of science.

Supermicro Enables Deployment of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise at Scale with the Industry's Largest Portfolio of NVIDIA-Certified Systems

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in high-performance computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announces support for NVIDIA's latest software and hardware releases. Supermicro servers and workstations are uniquely matched to meet the needs of innovative professionals who require the latest technology to collaborate in real-time and solve complex business issues.

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  • Supermicro plans to offer several GPU-optimized systems with the upcoming NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU based on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture, the successor to the NVIDIA A100.
  • For example, Supermicro has the largest portfolios of NVIDIA-Certified servers and NVIDIA maintains a list of these servers that have been rigorously tested to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
  • NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise is an end-to-end, 3D collaboration and true-to-reality simulation platform optimized by NVIDIA to run on NVIDIA-Certified Systems.
  • Supermicro is now authorized to bundle NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise licenses with Supermicro workstations and servers, indicating Supermicro's expertise in implementing IT solutions.

Supermicro Enables Deployment of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise at Scale with the Industry's Largest Portfolio of NVIDIA-Certified Systems

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in high-performance computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announces support for NVIDIA's latest software and hardware releases. Supermicro servers and workstations are uniquely matched to meet the needs of innovative professionals who require the latest technology to collaborate in real-time and solve complex business issues.

Key Points: 
  • Supermicro plans to offer several GPU-optimized systems with the upcoming NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU based on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture, the successor to the NVIDIA A100.
  • For example, Supermicro has the largest portfolios of NVIDIA-Certified servers and NVIDIA maintains a list of these servers that have been rigorously tested to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
  • NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise is an end-to-end, 3D collaboration and true-to-reality simulation platform optimized by NVIDIA to run on NVIDIA-Certified Systems.
  • Supermicro is now authorized to bundle NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise licenses with Supermicro workstations and servers, indicating Supermicro's expertise in implementing IT solutions.

DGAP-News: Northern Data partners with State of Oklahoma and secures a home for up to 70,000 ASIC systems by end of 2024

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

The campus is located in the MidAmerica Industrial Park in Northeast Oklahoma and is projected to be fully operational by the end of 2024.

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  • The campus is located in the MidAmerica Industrial Park in Northeast Oklahoma and is projected to be fully operational by the end of 2024.
  • In short, this new alliance promises to be mutually beneficial to both Northern Data and its strategic partners in Oklahoma for years to come."
  • Daniel Sullivan, CEO, GRDA, "This partnership with Northern Data is an enormous win for us and the state of Oklahoma.
  • The Northern Data Group currently operates custom, large-scale data centers and proprietary mobile high-performance data centers and employs a workforce of over 180 people in seven countries.

Aqara Introduces Smart Door Lock A100 Zigbee with Apple Home Key Support

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Aqara, a leading provider for smart home products, announced the launch of its Smart Door Lock A100 Zigbee.

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  • Aqara, a leading provider for smart home products, announced the launch of its Smart Door Lock A100 Zigbee.
  • The A100 Zigbee is a mortise-style smart lock that allows multiple access authentications including fingerprint, password, Aqara Home app, Apple HomeKit/Siri, Google Assistant, NFC, and mechanical key.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220228005427/en/
    Aqara Introduces Smart Door Lock A100 Zigbee with Apple Home Key Support (Photo: Business Wire)
    The A100 Zigbee lock is designed with seamless integration with Apple HomeKit, and supports Apples home key feature in Apple Wallet, which was introduced in iOS 15.
  • Users simply tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to unlock the A100 Zigbee.