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AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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“Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and providing customers with unprecedented computing power to push the boundaries of what's possible."

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  • “Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and providing customers with unprecedented computing power to push the boundaries of what's possible."
  • Announced at AWS re:Invent 2023, Project Ceiba is a collaboration between NVIDIA and AWS to build one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers.
  • NVIDIA research and development teams will use Ceiba to advance AI for LLMs, graphics (image/video/3D generation) and simulation, digital biology, robotics, self-driving cars, NVIDIA Earth-2 climate prediction, and more to help NVIDIA propel future generative AI innovation.
  • AWS and NVIDIA have joined forces to offer high-performance, low-cost inference for generative AI with Amazon SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

Verkada Establishes Federal Advisory Board, Continues to Build on Offerings for Government Customers

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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SAN MATEO, Calif., March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Verkada, a pioneer in cloud-based physical security solutions, today announced the appointment of four leaders to its newly formed Federal Advisory Board. The board, which brings together experts with extensive experience across the public sector, will provide counsel to Verkada as it continues to expand its product offering for the Federal Government. Board members include: Kiersten Todt, former Chief of Staff of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); Vice Admiral Timothy Szymanski (Retired), former Deputy Commander of United States Special Operations Command; Dan Mathews, former Commissioner of the US Public Buildings Service; and Robert Efrus, Founder and CEO of federal consulting firm, Efrus Federal Advisors LLC.

Key Points: 
  • The board, which brings together experts with extensive experience across the public sector, will provide counsel to Verkada as it continues to expand its product offering for the Federal Government.
  • Today, Verkada offers Federal Government-Grade models that are FIPS 140-2 validated, and, earlier this month, announced FIPS cameras, and visitor management solution Verkada Guest, are supported in AWS GovCloud .
  • "Our approach to building has always been first to deeply understand the needs of our customers," said Filip Kaliszan, Co-Founder and CEO at Verkada.
  • "Our new Federal Advisory Board is critical to helping us continue to do that in a thoughtful way when it comes to engineering our products for the evolving needs of federal customers."

Dogtopia Announces Launch of Dog Spa Product Line

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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PHOENIX, Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dogtopia, the leading dog wellness franchise, has announced the launch of its comprehensive Dogtopia Spa product line, now available to all pet parents on DogtopiaShop.com with free shipping. Crafted with thoughtfulness for canine wellbeing, the Dogtopia Spa product line includes 12 new products catering to various aspects of dog health.

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  • PHOENIX, Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dogtopia , the leading dog wellness franchise, has announced the launch of its comprehensive Dogtopia Spa product line, now available to all pet parents on DogtopiaShop.com with free shipping.
  • Crafted with thoughtfulness for canine wellbeing, the Dogtopia Spa product line includes 12 new products catering to various aspects of dog health.
  • Each Dogtopia spa product is water-based, alcohol-free, and hypoallergenic, making them safe for all dog skin and coat types, even those with sensitive skin.
  • "With Dogtopia's impressive growth, most recently surpassing 265 open daycares, we continue to lead the charge on canine wellness, so our spa product line is a natural next step," said Neil Gill, CEO and President of Dogtopia.

New School Fair Celebrating Increased Options to Bring Little Rock Families, Educators Together

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Monday, January 15, 2024
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With the biggest educational choice expansion in Arkansas history taking place this school year, families and teachers are ready to celebrate this National School Choice Week. At the Statehouse Convention Center on Saturday, Jan. 20, several hundred community members will gather to highlight K-12 learning options, especially the state's new Children's Education Freedom Account (EFA) Program.

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  • LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With the biggest educational choice expansion in Arkansas history taking place this school year, families and teachers are ready to celebrate this National School Choice Week.
  • The fair, hosted by The Reform Alliance, will shine a special light on learning choices now accessible to families through the LEARNS Act.
  • Beginning with enrollment this spring, approved expenses for next school year can also include learning materials, tutoring, therapy and more.
  • The Jan. 20 event marks Little Rock's first large-scale school fair for National School Choice Week.

AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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“Silicon underpins every customer workload, making it a critical area of innovation for AWS,” said David Brown, vice president of Compute and Networking at AWS.

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  • “Silicon underpins every customer workload, making it a critical area of innovation for AWS,” said David Brown, vice president of Compute and Networking at AWS.
  • Graviton is supported by many AWS managed services, including Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EMR, Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda, bringing Graviton’s price performance benefits to users of those services.
  • AWS already provides the broadest and deepest choice of Amazon EC2 instances featuring ML chips, including the latest NVIDIA GPUs, Trainium, and Inferentia2.
  • “We are working closely with AWS to develop our future foundation models using Trainium chips.

AWS and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Collaboration to Offer New Supercomputing Infrastructure, Software, and Services for Generative AI

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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The NVIDIA GH200 NVL32 multi-node platform connects 32 Grace Hopper Superchips with NVIDIA NVLink and NVSwitch technologies into one instance.

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  • The NVIDIA GH200 NVL32 multi-node platform connects 32 Grace Hopper Superchips with NVIDIA NVLink and NVSwitch technologies into one instance.
  • • NVIDIA and AWS will collaborate to host NVIDIA DGX Cloud , NVIDIA’s AI-training-as-a-service, on AWS.
  • DGX Cloud on AWS will accelerate training of cutting-edge generative AI and large language models that can reach beyond 1 trillion parameters.
  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud is an AI supercomputing service that gives enterprises fast access to multi-node supercomputing for training the most complex LLM and generative AI models, with integrated NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and direct access to NVIDIA AI experts.

AWS Announces Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Workloads

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, an industry-first consumption model that enables any customer to access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity to run their short duration machine learning (ML) workloads.

Key Points: 
  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, an industry-first consumption model that enables any customer to access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity to run their short duration machine learning (ML) workloads.
  • With EC2 Capacity Blocks, customers can reserve hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs colocated in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters designed for high-performance ML workloads.
  • EC2 Capacity Blocks help ensure customers have reliable, predictable, and uninterrupted access to the GPU compute capacity required for their critical ML projects.
  • With EC2 Capacity Blocks, customers can reserve the amount of GPU capacity they need for short durations to run their ML workloads, eliminating the need to hold onto GPU capacity when not in use.

Applied BioMath, LLC Announces Participation at the 14th American Conference on Pharmacometrics

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Applied BioMath will host a pre-conference workshop entitled, "Practical Application of MID3 to Inform Early Drug Discovery Decisions Using Applied BioMath Assess™" on Sunday, November 5th from 1:00 - 5:00p.m.

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  • Applied BioMath will host a pre-conference workshop entitled, "Practical Application of MID3 to Inform Early Drug Discovery Decisions Using Applied BioMath Assess™" on Sunday, November 5th from 1:00 - 5:00p.m.
  • The workshop will provide an understanding of the Early Feasibility Assessment (EFA) methodology and teach participants how to use Applied BioMath Assess™ to gain insight into project feasibility early in R&D.
  • "We are looking forward to the pre-conference workshop, poster presentations, and celebrating the achievement of Dr. Rendary at ACoP14," said John Burke, PhD, Co-founder, President and CEO of Applied BioMath.
  • "The scientific program highlights the advances of quantitative approaches in drug and therapeutic R&D and we look forward to the scientific discussions with the attendees."

EQS-News: Vulcan Energy Resources Limited: A$200 million Letter of Support received from Export Finance Australia

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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd.  (Vulcan, ASX: VUL, FSE: VUL, the Company) is pleased to announce that it has received a conditional, non-binding Letter of Support from Export Finance Australia (EFA) for up to $200 million (~€120 million) for the upcoming financing of Phase One of Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium™ Project.

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  • Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd.  (Vulcan, ASX: VUL, FSE: VUL, the Company) is pleased to announce that it has received a conditional, non-binding Letter of Support from Export Finance Australia (EFA) for up to $200 million (~€120 million) for the upcoming financing of Phase One of Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium™ Project.
  • Following a successful market sounding period, Phase One project level debt and strategic equity financing is formally due to commence in mid-November, after completion of the Bridging Study.
  • Vulcan’s Phase One financing process start is also timed to coincide with public funding applications in Germany.
  • Vulcan has already secured substantial in-principle government-backed ECA support, subject to customary conditions, from Bpifrance Assurance Export, the French ECA, SACE, the Italian ECA, and EDC, the Canadian ECA.

Northland Power Announces Financial Close of the 1.0 GW Hai Long Offshore Wind Project in Taiwan Financing and Date for Investor Presentation Conference Call

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northland Power Inc. (Northland) (TSX: NPI) today announced that its Hai Long offshore wind project (Hai Long or the project) in Taiwan has successfully met all conditions to close its 1171 billion New Taiwan Dollars long-term non-recourse green financing (equivalent of CAD 5 billion).

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  • TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northland Power Inc. (Northland) (TSX: NPI) today announced that its Hai Long offshore wind project (Hai Long or the project) in Taiwan has successfully met all conditions to close its 1171 billion New Taiwan Dollars long-term non-recourse green financing (equivalent of CAD 5 billion).
  • Hai Long will play an important role in helping the Government of Taiwan achieve its renewable energy target of 15 GW of offshore wind to be constructed between 2026 and 2035.
  • Once operational, Hai Long will be one of the largest offshore wind facilities in Asia, and will provide enough clean energy to power more than one million Taiwanese households.
  • There were no other material changes to the financial metrics disclosed within the press release dated September 21, 2023.