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Cirrascale Cloud Services has integrated Nvidia’s powerful HGX H200 servers into its AI Innovation Cloud, offering unprecedented performance for generative AI, HPC, and NLP models. Featuring eight H200 Tensor Core GPUs with 32 petaflops of compute power and 1.1TB of HBM3e memory, this upgrade allows users to accelerate AI projects with top-tier efficiency and speed. Available as of October 6, this marks a leap in AI cloud capabilities.

Crusoe Energy Systems has partnered with Vast Data to enhance AI storage performance through its Crusoe Cloud platform. Additionally, Crusoe is collaborating with SES AI Corp. to accelerate material discovery for lithium-metal batteries, utilizing Nvidia-powered AI models. This dual collaboration aims to push boundaries in both AI and battery technologies, advancing scientific progress while minimizing environmental impact.

IBM has launched Nvidia H100 GPUs on its cloud platform, boosting AI capabilities for training and inferencing. Available in multiple global regions, the H100 GPUs promise up to 30x faster performance than previous A100 models. However, IBM trails competitors like AWS and Google, which have offered H100s for over a year. This move comes amidst IBM’s ongoing workforce reductions and plans to add Intel Gaudi 3 chips in 2025.

South Africa’s Absolute Hosting has secured ZA Domains, a leading .za domain registrar. The acquisition reduces .za domain registration prices from R80.50 to R78.00 and introduces a new, user-friendly control panel for domain management. Absolute Hosting will transfer all ZA Domains customers to its system automatically, ensuring a smooth transition. ZARC-accredited registrars can move their services to Absolute Hosting for free until January 2025.

 

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