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SINGAPORE, 12th JUNE 2023 – Beyond Limits, an enterprise-grade AI software company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with IQM Quantum Computers, a European quantum computer company, designed to drive the advancement of quantum AI technology within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The partnership, which the companies said is the first between quantum computing and AI, […]The post Beyond Limits and IQM Quantum Announce APAC Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jun. 09, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for May 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for May 2023 was approximately NT$176.54 billion, an increase of 19.4 percent from April 2023 and a decrease of 4.9 percent from May 2022. Revenue for January through May […]The post TSMC Reports May 2023 Revenue Down 4.9% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The release of the latest IO500 ranking, the world's most authoritative storage performance metric, revealed that the Cheeloo-1 system led the way in the 10-node rankings, thanks to the system's use of Huawei OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage capabilities. The IO500 ranking evaluates and ranks storage system performance based on bandwidth (GiB/s) and metadata performance (kIOP/s), making it the most influential benchmark in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) storage. The 10-node ranking scales computing and measures storage performance with a high degree of accuracy, by simulating daily applications. This meticulous attention to detail makes the ranking highly relevant to HPC customers.The post Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage Tops IO500 Rankings appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C, Jun. 8, 2023—TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced the opening of its Advanced Backend Fab 6, the company’s first all-in-one automated advanced packaging and testing fab to realize 3DFabric integration of front-end to back-end process and testing services. The fab is prepared for mass production of TSMC-SoIC (System on Integrated Chips) […]The post TSMC Opens Backend Fab 6 for Expansion of 3DFabric System Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston – June 08, 2023 – Testing and digital quality company Applause today announced capabilities in assisting clients with the training, testing and validation of generative AI models. Applause has been empowering global organizations to deliver advanced and reliable AI-driven solutions for many years, and is now at the forefront of helping companies test their […]The post Applause Announces Generative AI Training, Testing and Validation through Crowdtesting Services appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY, June 8, 2023 — Quantum Brilliance, developer of miniaturised, room-temperature quantum computing products, today announced the release of Qristal SDK, an open-source software development kit for researching applications that integrate the company’s portable, diamond-based quantum accelerators. Previously in beta, the Quantum Brilliance Qristal SDK is now available to develop and test novel quantum algorithms […]The post Quantum Brilliance Releases Open-Source Software for Miniature Quantum Computers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, June 7, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Kunle Olukotun, a professor at Stanford University, is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions and leadership in the development of parallel systems, especially multicore and multithreaded processors. In the early 1990s, Olukotun became a leading designer of a new kind […]The post Multicore Processor Design Pioneer Prof. Kunle Olukotun Receives ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York’s Stony Brook University has announced it will soon deploy an Intel-powered HPE supercomputer for science and engineering research across multidisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, the social sciences and bioscience. The new solution is expected to be in production this summer and in operation sometime during the first semester of the 2023-24 academic year. […]The post Stony Brook Univ. to Deploy HPE Supercomputer Powered by Intel appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 6, 2023 — Amazon Web Services announced the availability of AWS Snowblade for the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. It is designed to provide AWS compute, storage and other hybrid services in remote locations, including Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments for the DoD. AWS Snowblade is […]The post For DoD Only: AWS Announces Snowblade Edge Device appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

IBM today announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data center next year in Ehningen, Germany, providing access to quantum computing for companies, research institutions and government agencies. The data center is expected to offer multiple IBM quantum systems, each with utility scale quantum processors, i.e., those of more than 100 qubits, according to […]The post IBM to Open European Quantum Data Center in 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HOUSTON – June 5, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the preview of a sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and a portfolio of sustainability services. The offerings, which span technology, services, financing and asset upcycling programs, are designed to help organizations reduce the carbon footprint associated with their IT […]The post HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent annual ISC 2023 HPC confab in Hamburg, a conference that this year showed growth in attendees and number of exhibitors, if not a return to pre-pandemic totals. Among the topics we cover: quantum computing, more discussion of the TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the rapid growth of HPC in Europe, and whether we live in times when “everyone” is a systems vendor (think NVIDIA and Microsoft). We also delve into an ISC keynote delivered by the University of Utah’s (and the National Science Board's) Dan Reed, one of the most influential HPC thinkers and planners, on the uncertainties afflicting the next generation of leadership-class supercomputers.The post @HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term of five years maturing in June 2028. According to the story by Greg Rosenvinge of Alliance News, this includes […]The post Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]The post Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – June 1, 2023 – RKVST announced it has been granted a U.S. patent that the company said enables practical scale for blockchains, putting an end to the limitless storage requirements that come with ever-growing transaction data, improving scalability, performance, availability and cost. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are emerging […]The post RKVST Granted Patent Enabling ‘Practical Scale for Blockchain’ appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier, the first supercomputer in the world to reach exascale. Frontier, which was launched this spring, can calculate more than 1 quintillion operations per second and […]The post Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]The post Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Lori Diachin will take over as director of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project on June 1, “guiding the successful, multi-institutional high-performance computing effort through its final stages,” ECP said in its announcement. Diachin, who is currently the principal deputy associate director for LLNL’s Computing Directorate, has served as ECP’s […]The post LLNL’s Lori Diachin Named Director of Exascale Computing Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ROSELAND, N.J. — May 31, 2023 — CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced an additional $200 million in funding from Magnetar Capital (“Magnetar”), a leading alternative asset manager. The funding extension comes just one month after the company announced $221 million in Series B funding, also led by Magnetar, […]The post GPU Cloud Provider CoreWeave Secures $200M Series B Extension appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Bicester, UK and London — May 23, 2023 — The teams at Alces Flight and Deep Green have announced a partnership focused on the use of micro data centres to power HPC and edge workloads. Deep Green’s “data furnace” technology is designed to efficiently transforms the heat from its servers into useful hot water for district […]The post Alces Flight and Deep Green Partner on UK HPC Carbon Output appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO, May 30, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and London-headquartered bank and financial services group HSBC have announced exploratory projects looking at potential benefits of quantum computing for banking with specific projects in cybersecurity, fraud detection and natural language processing. Philip Intallura, Global Head of Quantum Technologies at HSBC said […]The post HSBC and Quantinuum Explore Quantum Computing in Financial Services appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 — AlixPartners, a global consulting firm, and AI software company NAX Group, today announced a partnership to build a platform designed to unlock the value of AI and corporate data sets. The partnership AlixPartners and NAX’s proprietary AI software to unlock growth by: Supporting core growth through AI-enabled productivity of […]The post AlixPartners and NAX Group Partner on AI and Corporate Data Sets appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ISC is an annual global event in which high performance computing (HPC) users and technology providers come together to discuss the prospects of HPC in different areas. One particular area that concerns us all is weather forecasting. In recent years, the demand for greater precision in weather forecasting has increased significantly. The development of HPC plays an important role in this process.The post NWP Development with Nearly 10x Higher Performance Provided by Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

High performance storage company Panasas had an active profile at ISC 2023, highlighting its new ActiveStor Ultra Edge platform, an HPC and AI/ML storage offering for edge computing environments. We spoke with Jeff Whitaker, vice president of product strategy and marketing, on the company’s software-wrapped-around-hardware evolution. We also discuss the company’s investment in edge computing […]The post At ISC 2023: Panasas Pushes HPC and AI Storage to the Edge appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2023 this week, we stopped by the CoolIT Systems booth to catch up with Dominik Dziarczykowski (Global Channel Sales Manager) on the company’s latest achievements. CoolIT Systems specializes in scalable liquid cooling for demanding HPC and data center computing environments. As Dziarczykowski explains in this interview, CoolIT partners with major OEM server integrators […]The post At ISC 2023: Catching Up with CoolIT Liquid Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Bubbles could block a promising technology that would separate carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, capturing the greenhouse gas before it contributes to climate change. A team of researchers with backing from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is out to burst the barrier, using a code that captures the floating blisters and provides insights to deter them. Chemical looping reactors (CLRs) combine fuels such as methane with oxygen from metal oxide particles before combustion. The reaction produces water vapor and carbon dioxide, which can easily be separated to create a pure CO2 stream for sequestration or industrial use. Standard post-combustion separation must pull carbon dioxide from a multigas mixture.The post ASCR: Exascale to Burst Bubbles that Block Carbon Capture appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HIROSHIMA — At the G7 Summit in Japan, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits. IBM said it will work over the next decade to advance the underlying technologies for this system, as well as to design and build the necessary components […]The post IBM Launches $100M Partnership with Tokyo and Chicago Universities to Develop 100,000-Qubit Quantum-Centric Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Calgary – CoolIT Systems, a provider of liquid cooling solutions for data centers and HPC, announced an expansion of its product portfolio to include what the company said is the industry’s first direct liquid cooling (DLC)-enabled rear door heat exchanger (RDHx). This announcement follows the recent news of KKR’s acquisition of CoolIT. In today’s rapidly […]The post CoolIT Systems Introduces Direct Liquid Cooling-Enabled Rear Door Heat Exchanger appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The HPC industry managed to achieve modest overall growth in 2022, but growth of any kind was in doubt right up to the end of the year, according to HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, which hosted its bi-annual HPC market update at a breakfast event this week during the ISC 2023 conference in Hamburg. […]The post At ISC 2023: Hyperion Reports HPC Industry Grew 4% in 2022; AI to Drive Stronger Growth Next and Following Years appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2023, we talked with AMD Product Manager Mahesh Balasubramanian, who with his usual enthusiasm updated us a host of items, including: New EPYC CPUs (including more than 300 performance records) and Instinct GPU AI accelerators (including information on the upcoming MI300A, recently revealed by CEO Lisa Su and due for launch later this […]The post At ISC 2023: AMD Talks TOP500-GREEN500, the New EPYC 9004 CPU and MI300A GPU Accelerator and AMD’s Strides in HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA has announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning targeting enterprise AI initiatives. The integration will create a secure, enterprise-ready platform that enables Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools that come fully […]The post NVIDIA Teams with Microsoft on Enterprise-Ready Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have announced a joint generative AI initiative designed to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models on premises. Project Helix will offer various solutions with technical support and pre-built tools based on Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure and software. It includes a blueprint to help […]The post Dell and NVIDIA in Generative AI Initiative appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] LUMI is a model of both supercomputing and sustainability. It also embodies Europe’s rise on the global HPC scene in recent years. The AMD-powered, HPE-built system, ranked no. 3 on the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, also ranks no. 7 on the GREEN500 list of the most energy […]The post AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer: In the Vanguard of HPC Performance and Energy Efficiency appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

After a flurry of new competitors in 2022 at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the first list of 2023 – issued here in Hamburg this morning at the ISC conference – reveals the same top 10 systems in the same order. Still, the HPC community will no doubt […]The post New TOP500 HPC List: Frontier Extends Lead with Performance Upgrade appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TOKYO – May 19, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it was selected by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) to build its next-generation supercomputer, TSUBAME4.0, to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery in medicine, materials science, climate research, and turbulence in urban environments. TSUBAME4.0 will be built using HPE […]The post HPE to Build 67 PFLOPS TSUBAME4.0 HPC for AI-Driven Science at Tokyo Tech appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is an annual conference that showcases the key technologies in the supercomputing field. It brings together experts from multiple specialist fields, including research into life sciences and genetics to shed light on the origins and mysteries in our lives. HPC, or high-performance computing, is making breakthroughs in supercomputing technologies and is catalyzing genome sequencing research.The post From 24 Hours to 7 Minutes, Huawei OceanStor Pacific Accelerates Genome Sequencing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ISC 2023, one of the biggest supercomputing confabs of the year, will be held May 21-25 in Hamburg, and for those days the conference will be the place to be in HPC. If last year’s ISC marked a big step in coming out from under the pandemic shadow, let's hope this year’s event leaves it completely behind us. ISC 2023 will have 147 exhibitors, 15 percent more than last year, along with hundreds of items on the conference’s extensive agenda: keynotes, sessions, off-site events – all that. Getting the most of the conference calls for good time management and good judgment. As an assist to attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders – Katie Antypas of NERSC, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research – about conference events, keynotes and potential news developments they think will be worthy of your attention.The post ISC 2023: HPC Experts’ Thoughts on Making the Most of the Conference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.