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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 1, 2024 - Data Management solutions company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the availability of Quantum GO, a subscription model to meet growing data demands and cost objectives. Organizations with large and growing data management requirements - particularly as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to drive massive [...]The post Quantum Corp. Announces Subscription Model appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco - May 8, 2024 -Data and AI governance company Atlantoday announced a $105 million Series C funding round, led byGIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund with over $700 billion in assets, and Meritech Capital,early backers of disruptors like Snowflake and Datadog. Existing investorsSalesforce VenturesandPeakXVparticipated in the round, bringing Atlan's total raised to more than [...]The post Atlan's Control Plane for Data and AI Governance Attracts $105M Series C appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK's Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC service at Durham University, with support from Dell Technologies, are working toward an answer to that and other questions about our universe.The post Durham University Cosmologists, DiRAC and Dell Improve HPC Energy Efficiency without Sacrificing Performance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Women in HPC (WHPC) will lead discussions on diversity and inclusion with the HPC community at this year's ISC High Performance conference (ISC 2024), which will be held May 12-17 in Hamburg. "As a globally influential organisation advocating for workforce equality, WHPC has established ....The post Women in HPC's Diversity and Inclusion Events at ISC 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER (April 30, 2024) - The forum for microelectronics packaging and component science and technology, the 74th annual IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), will take place from Tuesday to Friday, May 28-31, 2024 at Denver's Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, with more than 1,500 scientists, engineers and businesspeople from more than 20 [...]The post IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, May 28-31 in Denver appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEOUL, South Korea - April 30, 2024-Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that CUBOX, an AI facial and image recognition company in South Korea, is developing generative AI models to train its existing visual recognition solutions using an HPE Cray XD supercomputer. The system will also augment CUBOX's existing innovation focused on developing new [...]The post AI Developer CUBOX Developing GenAI Models with HPE Cray Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

KRAKOW, Poland - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer CentreCyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland's fastest system based on the latest TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers1. The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet's fifth-generation supercomputer and will be [...]The post HPE Launches 35 Pflops Helios' HPC at Centre Cyfronet AGH in Poland appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Littleton MA - April 30, 2024 - Liquid cooling companyJetCool today announced the availability of its liquid cooling module for Nvidia's H100 SXM and PCIe GPUs. Unveiled initially at the 2023 Supercomputing Conference, JetCool's SmartPlate technology has undergone extensive performance validation with Nvidia's H100 GPUs. It surpasses conventional air cooling methods, delivering a performance improvement [...]The post JetCool Unveils Liquid Cooling for Nvidia H100 GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a series of actions in support of the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. DOE issued AI and Energy: Opportunities for a Modern Grid and Clean Energy Economy,which is a first-ever report on AI's near-term potential [...]The post DOE Annunces Actions in Support of White House AI Executive Orders appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Analyst firm Intersect360 Research has released its annual report placing the worldwide market for scalable computing infrastructure for HPC and AI at $85.7 billion in 2023, up 62.4 percent year-over-year. This was mainly due to a near tripling of spending by ....The post Intersect360 Sizes HPC-AI Market at $85.7B, Up 62% Driven by Hyperscalers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good mid-spring morn to you! You're invited to join Shahin and Doug on a jaunt (6:04) through recent HPC-AI developments, including: AI infra-tech's booming costs and data center scarcity problems, a possibly approaching AI bubble, advanced AI chips showing up in China, Sandia Lab's neuromorphic supercomputer ....The post HPC News Bytes 20240429: Exorbitant AI Infra-Tech, Advanced Chips in China, Neuromorphic HPC, an AI Bubble? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BROMONT, QC,April 26, 2024 - IBM, the government of Canada and the government of Quebec today announced agreements to develop the assembly, testing and packaging (ATP) capabilities for semiconductor modules for telecommunications, high performance computing (HPC), automotive, aerospace and defence, computer networks and generative AI, at IBM Canada's plant in Bromont, Quebec. The agreements reflect [...]The post IBM in $137M Semiconductor Agreement with Canada appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST POST] The AMD HPC User Forum is holding a technical workshop prior to ISC High Performance on Sunday, May 12th, 2024, from 8:00AM - 12:00PM in Hamburg, Germany. The event will cover the AMD InstinctTM MI300 Series products, as well as the ROCmTM stack for HPC and AI.The post Join the AMD HPC User Forum for an HPC Sync at ISC 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 25, 2024 - Oracle today announced that Nvidia AI EnterpriseonOracle Cloud InfrastructureSupercluster is now available in theOracle U.S. Government Cloud region to help address sovereign AI. Building on the expansion of their partnership, Oracle and Nvidia are helping U.S. government customers train and deploy AI solutions with access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's 100+ services, [...]The post Nvidia AI Enterprise Available on Oracle US Government Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, CA - April 29, 2024 - Optical interconnect company Celestial AI today announced the appointment of Diane Bryant to the company's board of directors effective April 11, 2024. With more than 30 years of semiconductor, AI and public and private company experience, Bryant currently serves as an independent board member at Broadcom and [...]The post Diane Bryant Named to Celestial AI Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Association for Computing Machinery, named Amanda Randles of Duke University the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to computational health through innovative ....The post Duke Researcher Dr. Amanda Randles Wins ACM Prize in Computing for Medical Diagnostics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - April 24, 2024 - Data management company DDN has announced that quantitative trading firm Jump Trading has selected DDN for its high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure to accelerate its AI-driven quantitative trading strategies. At Jump, we consider our research to be our competitive edge, and we believe that DDN's SSD QLC based storage [...]The post Jump Trading Selects DDN for AI Quantitative Trading appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia today announced it has agreed to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Terms were not released but TechCrunch reported the price of the acquisition was approximately $700 million, according to sources.The post NVIDIA to Acquire Run:ai GPU Orchestration Software Vendor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lenovo today announced AI-centric infrastructure systems in collaboration with AMD, including the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU server (pictured here), designed for demanding AI workloads, including genAI and large language models. The server, powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC Genoa ....The post Lenovo Launches AI Servers with AMD MI300X GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 23, 2024 - E4 Computer Engineering has won the contract to upgrade Galileo 100, CINECA Interuniversity Consortium's supercomputer and Tier-1 cloud system for public scientific research capable of serving over 5000 users. Among the requirements for the new HPC infrastructure are increasing the number of vCPUs for VM services by at least 10 times, [...]The post CINECA Selects E4 Computer with Dell and Vast for Galileo 100 HPC Upgrade appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - April 23, 2024 - Neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal andWelinq, a quantum networking company, today announced a partnership intended to to address challenging problems in neutral atom quantum computing. The companies said the next-generation Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are expected to execute quantum algorithms relying on a large number of qubits, while [...]The post Pasqal and Welinq Partner to Develop Quantum Interconnects appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland - April 23,2024-atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the appointment ofAnna Kristin Palsdottiras Chief Development Officer. An engineer with extensive experience in leading innovation and operations in large corporations, Palsdottir will be tasked with guiding atNorth's development initiatives, driving the expansion of atNorth's existing sites, and [...]The post atNorth Names NewChief Development Officer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Haifa, Israel and San Paulo, Brazil - April 23, 2024: Xinnor, a provider of high-performance software RAID solutions, and Versatus HPC, an advisor and integrator of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in Brazil, today announced a partnership to deliver storage solutions in HPC and AI environments. This offering is intended to: Unlock [...]The post Xinnor and Versatus Partner on HPC and AI Storage Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 23, 2024 - Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced DXi T-Series all-flash backup appliances to accelerate data protection processes to protect and recover IT operations from ransomware and other data risks. With data-intensive initiatives, like AI, a high priority, coupled with the continuing and ever-present threat of [...]The post Quantum Corp. Announces DXi All-Flash Backup Appliances appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DOD has awarded Phase Three of its Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes - Commercial program to Intel Foundry. This means RAMP-C customers can manufacture prototypes on Intel 18A, the company's most advanced process technology. Although Intel and DOD did not disclose the dollar....The post DOD to Leverage Intel Foundry's Advanced Process Technology appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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.