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Seoul, April 19, 2024 - Memory company SK hynix Inc. announced today a memorandum of understanding with TSMC to produce next-generation HBM and enhance logic and HBM integration through advanced packaging technology. The company plans to proceed with the development of HBM4, or the sixth generation of the HBM family, slated to be mass produced [...]The post SK hynixPartners with TSMC on HBM appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 19, 2024 - CONTACT Software is pushing the use of the Asset Administration Shell with its Elements platform. In Hannover, the company and its partners will showcase several new AAS applications for the digital twin. As a cross-enterprise standard for the digital twin, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) offers significant potential for machinery and [...]The post CONTACT Software Presents AAS Applications at Hannover Messe 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring two powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems combining massive computational capabilities with power efficiency. Engineered for generative AI, the Lenovo systems incorporate support for theNVIDIA HGX AIsupercomputing platform, includingNVIDIAH100andH200Tensor Core GPUsand the new Grace Blackwell....The post Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 18, 2024 - Data solutions company Panasas andAvnet(Nasdaq:AVT) today announced an agreement enabling Panasas to use Avnet Integrated, the systems integration arm of Avnet, as its primary manufacturing and fulfillment operations partner. Panasas said the partnership will enable Panasas to benefit from Avnet's global supply chain and worldwide manufacturing footprint, strengthening Panasas' [...]The post Panasas in Manufacturing and Fulfillment Partnership with Avnet appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, Calif - April 18, 2024 - Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc.(NYSE: QBTS) today launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave's quantum processing units (QPUs) in the Leap real-time quantum cloud service. The fast-anneal feature has been a key part of D-Wave's research milestones, including work published inNature Physics (2022)andNature (2023), [...]The post Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 18, 2024 - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)announced $16million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities to train the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers needed to deliver scientific discoveries. The list of projects and more information can be found on theHigh Energy Physicsprogram homepage and theAccelerator [...]The post DOE Awards $16M for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - April 17, 2024 - CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) andEviden, theAtos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden's BullSequana....The post Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Barcelona, 16 April 2024 - The eFlows4HPC project announced it has delivered a workflow platform and an additional set of services facilitating the integration of high-performance computing (HPC) simulation and modeling with big data analytics and machine learning techniques. Significant advancements in defining complex workflows resulted in enhanced workflow efficiency, and increased overall development and [...]The post eFlows4HPC Delivers European HPC Workflow Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RENO, Nev.-April 17, 2024-CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. CIQ said the new offering was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone. Development of [...]The post CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 17, 2024 - Quantum computing company Riverlane has been selected for Phase 2 of the Quantum Benchmarking program funded by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The aim of the program is to design key quantum computing metrics for practically relevant problems and estimate the required quantum and classical resources needed to reach [...]The post Riverlane Wins DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program Grant appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced that national lab and university researchers recently released two papers introducing new methods of data storage and analysis to make quantum computing more practicalandexploring how visualization helps in understanding quantum computing. This work represents significant strides in understanding and harnessing current quantum devices for data encoding, processing, and visualization," [...]The post LBNL Leads Quantum Data Storage, Visualization Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The AI Index Report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI is out, it's an annual, thoroughgoing snapshot of the state of AI begun by the HAI in 2019. This year's edition presents new estimates on AI training....The post Stanford AI Index: Lax LLM Reponsibility, AI for Science Accelerates, Impact on Workers, US Leads China in Models appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Think of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform as analogous to a general contractor who brings together the most skilled and knowledgeable artisans, technologically speaking, offering the latest and most powerful advanced AI capabilities. This would include the latest NVIDIA AI hardware and software, such as the new NVIDIA Blackwell....The post Microsoft and NVIDIA Together Advance AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE - April 16, 2024 - NeuReality, an AI infrastructure technology company, announced today the release of a software developer portal and demo for installation of its software stack and APIs. The company said the announcement marks a milestone since delivery of its 7nm AI inference server-on-a-chip, the NR1 NAPU, and bring up of [...]The post NeuReality Launches Developer Portal for NR1 AI Inference Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

VANTAA, FINLAND, April 16, 2024 - Canatu, a developer of carbon nanotubes (Canatu CNTs) and manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor and automotive industries, today announced the appointment of former Intel executive Thomas Lantzsch to Canatu's Board of Directors. He has more than 40 years of experience as an executive business leader across Fortune 500 companies [...]The post Former Intel Executive Thomas Lantzsch Joins Canatu Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, Texas - Accelsius, whose patented two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems enable high-performance computing and compute density for data center and edge computer operators, today announced NeuCool, its in-rack solution that delivers unmatched thermal performance, the company said. With a capacity that has been tested beyond 1,500 watts per server chip (CPU, GPU, hot components), [...]The post Accelsius Announces NeuCool Direct Liquid Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Venado's computing capacity will house 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips in the exascale-class HPE Cray EX supercomputer. The system will also use 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, making it the first large-scale system with Nvidia Grace CPU superchips deployed....The post Los Alamos Announces Nvidia-HPE AI Supercomputer Venado' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy Tax Day to you! Here's a quck (6:23) romp through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel's Gaudi 3 GPU and Xeon-6 CPU, Meta's new accelerator chip, GPU shortage easing....The post HPC News Bytes 20240415: Intel Gaudi 3, Meta's MTIA Chip, Easing GPU Shortages, AI Category Theory, China's Growth Strategy appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Montreal and Paris, April 12, 2024: Exaion, a Canadian subsidiary of the EDF Group (Electricite de France), a developer of digital service platforms aimed at eco-responsibility1, and PINQ^2 (Quebec Digital and Quantum Innovation Platform), a non-profit organization created by the Quebec government and the University of Sherbrooke, announced plans to launch by the end of [...]The post Exaion and PINQ^2 to Launch the HPC-Quantum Platform in Quebec appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NTT Corporation (NTT) and NTT DATA announced the successful demonstration of All-Photonics Network (APN)-driven connections between data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.K., NTT connected data centers north and east of London....The post NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K. appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Georgia Tech's College of Engineering has established an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub dedicated exclusively to teaching students. The initiative -the AI Makerspace - was launched in collaboration with NVIDIA. College leaders call it a digital sandbox for students....The post Georgia Tech Unveils AI Makerspace with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Proposals must be submitted between April 10 and June 14, 2024. Open to researchers from academia, industry and [...]The post INCITE Call for Proposals for Access to Leadership-Class Supercomputers Open through June 14 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Two early career researchers, Edgar Solomonik of the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and Amanda Randles of Duke University, have been selected as the recipients of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award, to be presented at ISC 2024.The post Two Researchers to Share 2024 Jack Dongarra Early Career HPC Award at ISC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Argonne National Laboratory has issued call for images for the 2024 Argonne Art of Science Contest.Submission deadline for science visualizations: Tuesday, April 23. For submission and prize details, visit this webpage. This is open to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility user community, The contest is accepting scientific visualizations of research created using ALCF computing resources. [...]The post ALCF User Community: Call for Argonne Art of Science Images, April 23 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV - (April 10, 2024) - Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announces the launch of a new certification focusing on the Singularity container platform. Rooted in open-source SingularityCE, the Singularity container platform has become an indispensable tool for users in large computing environments practicing mission-critical data science, [...]The post Sylabs Launches the Singularity Containers Certification appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Apr. 10, 2024 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2024 was approximately NT$195.21 billion, an increase of 7.5 percent from February 2024 and an increase of 34.3 percent from March 2023. Revenue for January through March [...]The post TSMC March 2024 Revenue Report: Up 34% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE - April 09, 2024 -MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, today announced the addition of three technology and semiconductor industry professionals dedicated to driving MIPS' technical differentiation to support the company's global expansion in the automotive, data center and embedded markets. Reporting directly to CEO Sameer Wasson, the new [...]The post MIPS Adds 3 Managers from NVIDIA, Google and SiFive appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TSMC announced it has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce for up to $6.6 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act. TSMC also announced plans to build a third fab at its TSMC Arizona site in Phoenix using 2nm or more processes....The post TSMC in the USA: Up to $6.6B in CHIPS Act Funding for 3rd (2nm or More) Arizona Fab appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC's Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel foundry business's losses, TSMC expands CoWoS capacity, SK hynix to investing in Indiana and Purdue, Quantinuum and Microsoft report 14,000 error-free instancesThe post HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! ...and Quantum Error Rate Progress appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 2, 2024 - Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation today announces ActiveScale Z200 all-flash object storage, designed to help customers accelerate mission-critical AI pipelines and massive data workflows. This new solution extends Quantum's all-flash leadership beyond Quantum Myriad and StorNext file system solutions to address S3-native use cases that require rapid [...]The post Quantum Corp. Announces ActiveScale All-Flash Object Storage for AI, Data Lakes and Storage Clouds appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ROUND ROCK - April 5, 2024 - Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine are using AI to innovate and strengthen patient care to deliver advancements in medicine, including the development and evaluation of a generative multimodal large language model (LLM) for the interpretation of chest x-rays. Northwestern Medicine's goal was to use AI to enhance patient [...]The post Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine Adopt Generative AI for Patient Diagnosis appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 - Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI's bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, the university said IBM Quantum System One will enhance educational and research opportunities for itself and other academic institutions and organizations across [...]The post Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Quantinuum and Microsoft report they have achieved a breakthrough in fault tolerant quantum computing "by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with active syndrome extraction, an achievement previously believed to be years away from realization," the companies said.The post Quantinuum and Microsoft Report 800x Lower Quantum Error Rate appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | April 04, 2024 - Quantum computing software company Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Corp. today announced the launch of joint research for drug development by applying quantum computing to pharmacology. The collaboration is under the auspices of Classiq's Quantum Computing For Life Sciences & Healthcare Center,launched with NVIDIA [...]The post Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Partner on Drug Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Seattle - April 4, 2024 - RAVEL Inc (formerly StratusCore) today announced the release of RAVEL Orchestrate GenAI, built to provide IT and DevOps administrators with a single-screen interface for managing the assembly and deployment of complex content creation and generative AI environments across teams and pipelines, whether local or remote. RAVEL is also working [...]The post RAVEL Announces Orchestrate GenAI Software and Support for AMD GPU Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 04 April, 2024: Liquid cooling technology company Iceotope Technologies announced that Christian Belady has been named senior advisor to the company. Iceotope said Belady is an established data center executive known for his innovative approaches to infrastructure and quantitative benchmarking. The appointment coincides with increasing global demand for Iceotope solutions and an ambitious global [...]The post Former Microsoft Data Center Executive Joins Iceotope as Senior Advisor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Calif.- SiMa.ai, the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip company, today announced it has raised an additional $70M of funding led by Maverick Capital, with participation from Point72 and Jericho, as well as existing investors Amplify Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lip-Bu Tan and others. SiMa.ai will utilize the $270M raised to date to [...]The post SiMa.ai Raises $70M for Generative Edge AI Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Memory chip company SK hynix announced it will invest $3.87 billion in West Lafayette, Indiana to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products. The project, which the company said is the first of its kind in the U.S., will be an advanced....The post SK hynix to Invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 2, 2024 - Edge AI chip maker Hailo announced it has extended its series C fundraising round with an additional investment of $120 million and also announced the introduction of its Hailo-10 high-performance generative AI (GenAI) accelerators that usher in an era where users can own and run GenAI applications locally [...]The post Hailo Closes $120M Funding Round and Debuts Hailo-10 Chip for Edge AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A news report from a Chinese news outlet states that chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have overcome earlier problems at its Arizona advanced-chip fabs....The post Reports: TSMC Advanced Chip Fab Back on Schedule in Arizona; Dutch Government Announces Support for ASML appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy April Fool's Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and....The post HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It's Healthy, Alibaba's RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We spoke with Eviden's Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos' financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring. He also said that if Eviden were to encounter financial problems it has the backing of the French government. I want to make sure that you know we have a momentum...The post Eviden: No Impact from Atos's Financial Difficulties - We Are Growing and Hiring' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced it raised $175 million in its Series C funding round led by Thomas Tull's U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT). In addition to USIT, the round included participation from new and existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, [...]The post Photonic Fabric Company Celestial AI Closes $175M Series C appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Following the news last week of her departure as director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science since May 2022, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has issued a letter of farewell to her agency and White House colleagues.Dr. Berhe is currently on leave from the....The post Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Issues Letter of Farewell as Director of DOE Office of Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York - March 28, 2024 - Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs. Thunder is the culmination of two years of research on the next generation of deep learning compilers, built with support from NVIDIA. [...]The post Lightning AI Announces Availability Compiler for PyTorch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland- March 26th, 2024 - HPC and AI colocation atNorth announced an expansion of its partnership with Nordic IT services corporation, Advania, providing additional capacity at its state of the artICE03 site in Icelandwhich opened last year. Advania is a long-standing customer of atNorth at itsICE01 site inReykjavikin addition to some of atNorth's other [...]The post Advania Expands into Second atNorth Data Center in Iceland appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON & INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2024 - Industrial generative AI company Zapata Computing, announced today that it has completed its business combination with Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR), a special purpose acquisition company. The combined company, which was renamed Zapata Computing Holdings Inc., will operate as Zapata AI and its common stock and warrants will [...]The post Zapata AI and Andretti Acquisition Corp. Announce Closing of Business Combination appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order....The post Exascale Software and NASA's Nerve-Racking 7 Minutes' with Mars Landers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - March 28, 2024; Today, security and risk management startup SydeLabs announced a seed funding round of $2.5 million to build solutions aimed at securing GenAI systems for enterprises. The funding round was led by RTP Global and also saw participation from Picus Capital and marquee angel investors. The adoption of Generative AI [...]The post SydeLabs Raises $2.5M for GenAI Security appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.