Viridien has announced its Q3 and 9M 2024 results, with revenue of $246m and $778m respectively, and adjusted EBITDA of $98m. The company reported a net cash flow of $10m for Q3 and $34m for 9M, compared to -$15m in 9M 2023. The company's financial roadmap for 2024-25 includes expected revenue in line with 2023, an EBITDA positively impacted by business mix, Earth Data cash capex of $230-250m, and a net cash flow similar to 2023. The company's CEO, Sophie Zurquiyah, stated that the results demonstrate the strength of Viridien's strategic vision and that the company is on track to achieve its full-year targets.

Management and technology consulting firm Camelot Management Consultants, which has strengths in supply chain, data and analytics, has been acquired by Accenture. Terms of the deal, which was first announced in July this year, have not been disclosed. The acquisition is intended to bolster Accenture's ability to help clients improve their SAP and AI-driven supply chains. Camelot was founded in 1996 and is a leading SAP partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with a broad portfolio of large and mid-size clients in the chemicals, life sciences, consumer goods and industrial manufacturing sectors.

Survey and data analytics company Viridien and seismic services provider SLB have completed a multi-client survey of the Bonaparte Basin, offshore Australia. The 6,760 sq km survey, prefunded by industry support, is designed to evaluate the exploration and carbon storage potential of the area, which has been described as "highly prospective but underexplored". The data, which is currently being processed, will be available in Q2 2025.

Viridien, the advanced technology, digital and Earth data company, formerly CGG, will reveal its Q3 2024 financial results on Thursday, October 31st. The press release and presentation will be available on the company website at 5:45 pm CET. An English language analysts conference call will take place the same day at 6 pm CET. The conference call will be available as a webcast and a replay will be available on the company website for 12 months.

Dell Technologies has expanded its Dell AI Factory portfolio with new rack-scalable systems, servers, storage and data management innovations to support high-density computing and AI workloads at scale. The expanded range includes the Dell Integrated Rack 7000, which offers liquid-cooled high-density compute infrastructure with scalable power management; the PowerEdge XE9712, which is an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based platform for large AI GPU clusters; the PowerEdge M7725, a direct-to-chip liquid-cooled system based on 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors; and updates to the PowerScale and Data Lakehouse products. The company has also introduced Dell Generative AI Solutions with Intel, which offer AI-optimised solutions for various-sized workloads. The company said the aim of the expanded range was to help organisations to "remain competitive" in the fast-evolving AI landscape.

Dell Technologies has expanded its Dell AI Factory portfolio to offer enhanced AI capabilities, including greater scalability and flexibility, to its customers, helping them to remain competitive in an evolving technology landscape. The expanded portfolio includes five new Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD 5th Generation EPYC processors, offering improved performance and efficiency, and simplifying server management and security for a variety of AI use cases and traditional workloads. Additionally, the expanded Dell AI Factory includes new generative AI solutions using the PowerEdge server with AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators, and Dell Implementation Services for the Generative AI platform.

OpenPBS has released version 22.05.11, which marks its switch to date-based versioning. Users can now build their own versions while maintaining consistent versioning for their build. This latest version includes new hook events, support for Nvidia A100 GPUs and Rocky Linux and Ubuntu 20, as well as bug fixes and refactoring of the code. Users can download the packages from the OpenPBS website.

Altair has released some bug fixes and updates from its commercial version of PBS, PBS Professional, to its open-source version, OpenPBS, and says it will release more soon. The changes already implemented include fixes around Python, job execution and the rejection of jobs. Among the upcoming updates are fixes for issues around compilation, server crashes and job alteration, as well as compatibility with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and RHEL 9. OpenPBS users can access the updates and bug fixes on GitHub.

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Slurm, an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters, has released version 24.05.1 that addresses several issues from its previous version. The new release is available for download on the project's website, along with the previous security fix for switch plugins (versions 23.11.9 and 23.02.8) and the next upcoming version 23.11.8.

Slurm versions 24.05.2, 23.11.9, and 23.02.8 are now available, including a fix for a security issue with the switch plugins. The issue affects the switch/hpe_slingshot and switch/nvidia_imex plugins where a user can override isolation between Slingshot VNIs or IMEX channels, although what information could be accessed is unclear. The disclosure is being released due to an abundance of caution and customers with these plugins enabled must restart slurmctld before slurmd to avoid disruption.

The latest versions of the Slurm scheduler, a popular workload management platform used in HPC, have been released. Slurm 24.05.3 fixes a potential database problem when deleting a QoS, which only existed in version 24.05, while both new versions resolve issues with jobs getting stuck when using cloud nodes, and a regression in 23.11.9 and 24.05.2 that caused the sattach command to crash. Users are advised to update as soon as possible.