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Inside Yotta’s Innovate Arena: Standout Breakthroughs for AI
From manure-to-energy RNG to an aluminum-air system that generates electricity on demand, innovators tackled real AI bottlenecks—power-chain integration, rapid fiber turn-ups, AI-driven permitting, and plug-and-play capacity that speeds time-to-value.
AMD’s 38x Efficiency Leap Sets Stage for Ambitious 2030 Goal
AMD improved energy efficiency 38x—roughly a 97% drop in energy for the same compute—and now targets 20x rack-scale gains by 2030, reimagining AI training, inference, and data-center design.
5 Fast Facts on Compute Efficiency with Flex’s Chris Butler
Exploring how Flex is rethinking data center power and cooling – from 97.5% efficient power shelves to liquid cooling and “grid to chip” solutions – with Chris Butler, President of Embedded & Critical Power.
Innovation with Empathy: A Q&A with Vivek Venkatesan
Vanguard lead data engineer and IEEE senior member Vivek Venkatesan shares how a pivotal Botswana project shaped his path, how trust turns innovation into impact , and much more.
CoolIT: 5 Fast Facts on Compute Efficiency
In this 5 Fast Facts on Compute Efficiency Q&A, CoolIT’s Ben Sutton unpacks how direct liquid cooling (DLC) drives PUE toward ~1.02, unlocks higher rack density, and where it beats immersion on cost and deployment.
Mark Grodzinsky on Building Ecosystems That Last
From Wi-Fi to AI, Mark Grodzinsky shares how chance turns, mentors, and market inflection points shaped his career – and why true innovation is about impact, not hype.
OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Play Aims To Democratize AI Compute
Arm’s OCP board seat and new FCSA spec push chiplet interoperability from idea to implementation—enabling mix-and-match silicon and smarter storage so teams can build AI without hyperscaler budgets.
Inside SC25: AI Factories From Racks to Qubits
From WEKA’s memory grid and exabyte storage to 800G fabrics, liquid-cooled AI factories, edge clusters, and emerging quantum accelerators, SC25 proved HPC is now about end-to-end AI infrastructure.
Achieving HPC Performance with Xeon 6 Processors
Xeon 6 marries P-cores, E-cores, and scalable memory to feed data-hungry HPC workloads, eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks so spectral sims and other memory-bound codes can finally scale.
KubeCon Atlanta: CNCF Sets AI Standard for Kubernetes
On Day 1 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Atlanta, CNCF unveiled Kubernetes AI Conformance to make workloads portable—arriving as inference surges to ~1.33 quadrillion tokens/month across Google’s systems.
VAST and CoreWeave Sign $1.17B Deal to Power AI Data Layer
Multi-year agreement makes VAST AI OS CoreWeave’s primary data foundation, aligning roadmaps for instant dataset access and performance across training and real-time inference in global AI cloud regions.
Avayla and OCP Redefine Cooling Standards for the AI Age
At the OCP Global Summit, Avayla CEO Kelley Mullick reveals how rapid standardization and hybrid cooling strategies are reshaping infrastructure for the AI era.
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Podcasts
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
RackRenew & Circularity: Remanufacture, Recertify, Redeploy
From #OCPSummit25, this Data Insights episode unpacks how RackRenew remanufactures OCP-compliant racks, servers, networking, power, and storage—turning hyperscaler discards into ready-to-deploy capacity.
From OCP 2025: Arm’s Chiplet Push and the AI Ecosystem Play
Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Arm’s Eddie Ramirez to unpack Arm Total Design’s growth, the FCSA chiplet spec contribution to OCP, a new board seat, and how storage fits AI’s surge.
Immersion, Not Hype: Midas on Liquid Cooling at OCP
Midas Immersion Cooling CEO Scott Sickmiller joins a Data Insights episode at OCP 2025 to demystify single-phase immersion, natural vs. forced convection, and what it takes to do liquid cooling at AI scale.
Castrol on Liquid Cooling: Additives, Filters, Failure Modes
From hyperscale direct-to-chip to micron-level realities: Darren Burgess (Castrol) explains dielectric fluids, additive packs, particle risks, and how OCP standards keep large deployments on track.
Disruptive Security Advancement with VectorZero
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with VectorZero CTO and co-founder Sean Grimaldi about his extensive experience fighting bad actors to protect the nation’s security and how his learning at the CIA has informed his approach to elimination of attack vectors at VectorZero.
Observability in the Era of Distributed Computing with cPacket Networks
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with cPacket Networks CTO Ron Nevo about how observability has evolved for a multi-cloud to edge era and why his company is delivering four key components of observability solutions to customers.
Phoenix Rising: The Future of CPU Innovation with AMD
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with AMD's Lynn Comp about the changing landscape of CPU design and how AMD is poised to lead future innovation.
Data Center Innovation with OCP
TechArena host Allyson Klein chat’s with OCP’s VP of Market Intelligence and Innovation, Cliff Grossner, about the challenges facing data center innovation and how OCP has transformed to drive deeper partnerships with the industry and broaden its impact on data center innovation.
The Future of Open Solutions with OCP Chair Rebecca Weekly
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with OCP Chair and CloudFlare VP Rebecca Weekly about the future of open computing solutions, how regional demands drive the OCP mission, and the importance of sustainability.
OpenCompute Project’s Skyrocketing Contributions Shaping the Future from Edge to Cloud
TechArena Host Allyson Klein chats with Open Compute Foundation leaders Michael Schill and Steve Helvie about the organization’s rising contributions and what it means for broad adoption of open hardware configurations from edge to cloud.
