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Palo Alto-based startup Inflection AI yesterday said it is building the world's largest AI cluster comprised of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs that will deliver 22 exaFLOPS performance. The company also said it has raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and new investor NVIDIA, [...]The post 22,000 GPUs: Inflection AI Building 22 exaFLOPS Generative AI Cluster appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

By Yuval Boger, Chief Marketing Officer, QuEra Computing Inc. While quantum computers will ultimately be able to solve problems that no classical supercomputer can, what happens when quantum systems merely match classical's performance for certain problems? What's quantum's value then? One compelling answer: energy efficiency. Based on data from the Top500 list of the world's [...]The post The Energy Advantage of Quantum Computers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston -- June 28, 2023 -- Photonic computing company Lightelligence has introduced Hummingbird, an optical network-on-chip (oNOC) processor designed for domain-specific AI workloads. Lightelligence said Hummingbird utilizes vertically stacked packaging technologies to integrate a photonic chip and an electronic chip into a single package serving as the communications network for data centers and other high-performance [...]The post Lightelligence Announces Optical Network-on-Chip Processor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel and Dell Technologies have announced they are working with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab plan to build a digital twin of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) prototype fusion power plant. The UKAEA will utilize the lab's Dell supercomputer to streamline the development and delivery [...]The post Intel and Dell Partner with UK Atomic Energy Authority on Fusion Power Plant Digital Twin appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ATLANTA & TEL AVIV, June 29, 2023 - Mona, maker of an intelligent monitoring platform, has unveiled a new monitoring solution for GPT-based applications. The free, self-service offering provides businesses with granular visibility into GPT-based products and valuable insights into costs, performance, and quality. Large language models (LLMs), and specifically OpenAI's GPT models, have attracted [...]The post Mona Introduces Free, Self-Service Monitoring for GPT Applications appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The electronics industry operates in a highly competitive landscape, where companies are constantly striving to launch products faster while meeting evolving consumer demands. However, this quest for speed and innovation comes with challenges. Electronics engineers often encounter complex designs, tight schedules, and limited resources. Traditional simulation tools tied to local hardware struggle to keep up with these demands, hampering engineers' ability to iterate quickly and efficiently. However, with the advent of cloud-based simulation tools, electronics engineers now have a powerful ally to overcome these hurdles. This blog explores the challenges faced by electronics engineers and how cloud-based simulation tools like Ansys Gateway powered by AWS can significantly enhance productivity, efficiency, and innovation in electronic design.The post Revolutionizing the Electronic Design Industry with Ansys and AWS appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, CA - June 28, 2023 - Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funding led by IAG Capital Partners, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and Temasek's Xora Innovation fund. Other major investors in the round include Samsung Catalyst, Smart Global Holdings (SGH), Porsche Automobil Holding SE, [...]The post Celestial AI, Maker of Photonic Fabric Optical Interconnect Technology, Raises $100M in Series B Funding appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS- June 26, 2023 - Data cloud company Snowflake and NVIDIA have announced at Snowflake Summit 2023 that they are partnering to provide businesses an accelerated path to create customized generative AI applications using their own proprietary data, all securely within the Snowflake Data Cloud. With theNVIDIA NeMoplatform for developing large language models (LLMs) [...]The post Snowflake and NVIDIA Team on Generative AI in the Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, N.Y.andARMONK, N.Y.,June 28, 2023 - IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced RPI will become the first university to house an IBM Quantum System One. The computer, to be operational by January 2024, will serve as the foundation of a new IBM Quantum Computational Center in partnership with RPI. RPI's investment in quantum computing-related research [...]The post Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to Deploy IBM Quantum System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 27, 2023 - The Department of Energy (DOE) today signed an implementation agreement with Sweden to further promote and facilitate basic science research in energy and related fields.The agreement aims to foster joint research, shared facilities and exchanges of scientists in topics such as scientific computing, high energy physics, nuclear physics, fusion, basic energy [...]The post DOE and Sweden Sign Agreement to Increase Scientific Cooperation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today ML Commons announced new results from two industry-standard MLPerf benchmark suites: Training v3.0, which measures the performance of training machine learning models, and Tiny v1.1, which measures how quickly a trained neural network can process new data for extremely low-power devices in the smallest form factors. To view the results and to find additional [...]The post MLCommons: MLPerf Results Show AI Performance Gains appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AMD today announced theAMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip (SoC), which the company said is the largest1 adaptive SoC. The processor is an emulation-class, chiplet-based device for streamlining the verification of semiconductor designs. Offering 2X2 the capacity over the prior generation, AMD said designers can innovate and validate application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and SoC designs [...]The post AMD Introduces FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Semiconductor Emulation and Prototyping appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, June 26th 2023 - Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centers for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced it has signed a partnership with Zayo, a global communications infrastructure provider, to expand the connectivity solutions at its data center campus in Harlow, UK. The partnership will see Zayo deploy two new [...]The post Kao Data Partners with Zayo to Expand Lit and Dark Fibre Connectivity Options appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco-based data and AI startup Databricks today announced a $1.3 billion deal to acquire generative AI platform MosaicML, whose large language models (MPT-7B and MPT-30B) have more than 3.3 million downloads. The goal of the acquisition: reduce the time and cost of large language model training for generative AI, the companies said. Databricks, which [...]The post Generative AI: Databricks to Acquire MosaicML for $1.3B appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT. This growth is not surprising given how data centers at the edge have the potential to improve productivity for emerging, bandwidth-intensive business applications, speed up real-time decision making and reduce IT costs. However, edge IT deployments - particularly HPC-class edge computing and data storage - pose special requirements that must be taken into consideration.The post Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amazon Web Services today announced the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, in which the company is investing $100 million to help customers build genAI solutions. Customers will work with generative AI strategists, data scientists, engineers and solutions architects from AWS and the AWS Partner Network to select models, define paths to navigate technical or business [...]The post AWS Investing $100M in Generative AI Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - June 22, 2023 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced a partnership with Switzerland-based QuantumBasel to jointly establish a European quantum data center. The companies said the transaction is expected to bring two systems, one that will be capable of #AQ 35 followed by another system capable of #AQ [...]The post IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on European Quantum Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel today announced the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with 10,624 compute blades. Putting a stake in the ground, Intel said in its announcement that later this year, Aurora is expected to be the world's first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops ... [...]The post Intel Announces Installation of Aurora Blades Is Complete, Expects System to be First to Achieve 2 ExaFLOPS appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif.-June 22, 2023-MemVerge, a cloud automation company, today unveiled Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company's Cloud Automation 2.0 technology. The platform is aimed at analytic application users and intended to empower those who are non-cloud experts to take advantage of cloud computing. Memory Machine Cloud is designed to deliver [...]The post MemVerge Introduces Memory Machine Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - June 21, 2023 - High performance data storage and management company DDN today announced it has been selected alongsideHelmholtz Munichas a winner of the2023 AI Breakthrough Awards for the Best AI-based Solution for Life Sciences" category. DDN and Helmholtz Munich were recognized for their work in accelerating AI-driven discoveries that deliver benefits [...]The post DDN and Helmholtz Munich Receive 2023 AI Breakthrough Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel Labs, in collaboration with Blockade Labs, has introduced Latent Diffusion Model for 3D (LDM3D), a diffusion model that uses generative AI to create 3D visual content. Intel said LDM3D is the industry's first model to generate a depth map using the diffusion process to create 3D images with 360-degree views that are vivid and [...]The post GenAI: Intel Labs Introduces AI Diffusion Model for 360-Degree Images from Text Prompts appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative team of scientists, software developers, and hardware integration specialists from across the Department of Energy(DOE) has developed the Exascale Atomistics for Accuracy, Length, and Time(EXAALT) application to bring molecular dynamics (MD) into the exascale era. Danny Perez, a physicist within the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the project's principal investigator says, We've implemented new scalable methods that allow us to access as much of the accuracy, length and time space as possible on exascale machines by rethinking our methods and developing algorithms that go around some of the bottlenecks that limited scaling previously." Such a capability has potential to revolutionize MD.The post EXAALT-ing Molecular Dynamics to the Power of Exascale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV - (June 21, 2023) - Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, announced today the launch of Singularity Enterprise 2.3. The company said the update synergizes the Open Container Initiative (OCI) with the versatility of Singularity for interoperability between OCI-compatible containers and enabling users to leverage Singularity for complex, [...]The post Sylabs Announces Singularity Enterprise 2.3 for Hybrid Docker/Singularity Workflows appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 20, 2023 - The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected the Jules Verne Consortium to host and operate in France the second EuroHPC exascale supercomputer to exceed the threshold of 1 billion billion calculations per second. This new exascale supercomputer will be managed by GENCI (as hosting entity), the French [...]The post Jules Verne Consortium in France Will Host 2nd EuroHPC Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York - June 20, 2023 - Parrot, a platform for transcribing and managing depositions, made its public debut today announcing $11 million in Series A funding and the release of the first product offering AI-generated deposition summaries to legal professionals. Amplify Partners and XYZ Venture Capital led the round bringing the total funds raised [...]The post Parrot Unveils LLM AI Platform for Court Reporting, Raises $11M Series A Funding appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced that registration is now open for a bootcamp on Wednesday, July 19, that will introduce attendees to the Polaris HPC computing environment. Aimed at participants who have experience using clusters or supercomputers, the bootcamp will cover the PBS job scheduler, utilizing preinstalled environments, proper compiler and profiler use, [...]The post ALCF: Registration Open for Polaris HPC Bootcamp on July 19 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

GE Aerospace has announced that to support the development of a new open fan jet engine architecture, the organization has run simulations using Frontier, the world's no. 1 ranked supercomputer, housed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.To model engine performance and noise levels, GE Aerospace created computational fluid dynamics software to run [...]The post GE Aerospace Runs New Engine Architecture Simulations on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Doug Kothe knows about transitions, including transitions on a grand scale. The outgoing director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project helped transition the supercomputing industry into the exascale era. He took the ECP helm in October 2017, and in May 2022, the project reached a milestone with the certification of the Frontier [...]The post Outgoing Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe Takes on New Role at Sandia Labs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel has announced the release of its Tunnel Falls" quantum research chip, a 12-qubit silicon chip that the company is making available to the quantum research community. Intel also said it is collaborating with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland, College Park's Qubit Collaboratory (LQC), a national-level Quantum Information Sciences [...]The post Intel Quantum: Tunnel Falls' Silicon Spin Chip Available to Researchers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Quantum computing will define the 21st century. It's a once-in-a-generation, paradigm shift in computation performance ... The U.S. has long led the world in computing technologies and it already has tremendous assets and talent in quantum computing. However, it is very early days for quantum and long-term global leadership is far from assured. All of the leading industrial nations have declared quantum computing to be a strategic priority and are committing massive resources to it. According to a World Economic Forum report, public investment in quantum computing reached $30 billion in 2022 with China leading the way.The post How the U.S. Can Win the Quantum Computing Race appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug talk with University of Delaware's Sunita Chandrasekaran, a rock star in the world of supercomputing software. Chandrasekaran is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Information Systems and co-directing the AI Center of Excellence at the university.The post @HPCpodcast: HPC Software Rock Star Sunita Chandrasekaran on Exascale Programming and the Emergence of the RSE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum computing, published on the cover of the scientific journal Nature, demonstrating for the first time that quantum systems can produce accurate results at a scale of 100+ qubits r"eaching beyond leading classical approaches." An IBM research team conducted anexperiment that the [...]The post IBM Reports Accurate Quantum at 100+ Qubits appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV - June 14, 2022 - Sylabs, provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announces the Singularity Containers 101" curriculum. Using the open-source SingularityCE platform, this curriculum is designed for college programs, offering instruction in container technology. This program is built to prepare students to navigate and lead in the next [...]The post Sylabs Unveils Singularity Containers 101' Curriculum for Colleges appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 14, 2023 - RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.- Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced it has reached record annual AI infrastructure revenue of over US$2 billion and unveiled the next phase of its growth strategy, with an additional US$1 billion investment over three years to accelerate AI deployment for businesses. Fueled by increased global [...]The post Lenovo Reports AI Infrastructure Revenue Exceeded $2B appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company's first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.The post AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, Texas – June 13, 2023 – Oracle today announced plans to make available new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E5 instances with 4th generation AMD EPYC processors. Unlike other cloud providers’ rigid instance options that bind organizations to paying more for unused computing resources, flexible instances from OCI allow customers to allocate cores and […]The post Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Announces Instances Based on 4th Generation AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Austin, Texas—June 13, 2023 — Oracle today announced its plans to develop generative AI services. Oracle will provide native generative AI services designed to help organizations automate end-to-end business processes, improve decision-making and enhance customer experiences, in collaboration with Cohere, an AI platform for enterprise. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and leveraging Oracle’s Supercluster […]The post Oracle Partners with Cohere on Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.