The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $ 1.1 billion in new funding from investors including Coatue, Fidelity and Altimeter Capital. The round brings its valuation to $ 19 billion post-money, and its total […]
Luminary Cloud’s simulator taps GPUs to help speed up product design
Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering. They enable engineers to create prototypes and understand how they might perform in the real world, accounting for factors like aerodynamic drag, air and water flows and pressure and temperature distributions. But today’s engineering simulators tend to be quite slow and difficult to scale up, according […]