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The Trump Administration ended its first full day of business with a major AI business announcement, that hundreds of billions of dollars - potentially trillions of dollars - will be invested in the build-out of AI infrastructure and data centers in the U.S. Joining President Trump at a White House press event late this afternoon [...]The post White House Announces $500B AI Data Center Infrastructure Build-Out appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

FREMONT, CA, January 21, 2025 - Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a maker of of mass capacity data storage, today announced shipments of Exos M hard drive samples to select customers in capacities up to 36 terabytes (TB). Based on Mozaic 3+, the company's heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology platform, Exos M delivers storage [...]The post Seagate Introduces Hard Drive Capacities up to 36TB appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif.- January 20, 2025-Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, has been recognized as a finalist in three categories oftheCUBE Technology Innovation Awards, including Most Innovative Tech Startup Leaders" for CEO and co-founder David Flynn, the HyperCUBEd Innovation Award - Private Company" and Top Data Storage Innovation." Winners will be announced on [...]The post Hammerspacea Finalist in 3 Categories of theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Chris Orlando of DDC discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling, monitoring, safety ....The post @HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency with DDC Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The announcement last August by the UK's then-new Labour Government that it was ending an 800 million supercomputer project at Edinburgh University was greeted by the HPC community with consternation -- particularly in Scotland. But the project may have new life.The post UK's Edinburgh Supercomputer Project May Come Back to Life after Pause' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Donostia, Spain and San Francisco - January 16, 2025 - Multiverse ComputingandKinesis Network Inc. have joined to provide what the companies said is an effort to optimize AI performance while reducing resource consumption. The partnership comes as demand for AI capabilities grows and organizations face challenges related to power demands for AI models. Quantum and [...]The post Multiverse Computing and Kinesis Network Join on AI Optimization' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk's X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors .....The post HPE Hunter' Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

OpenACC helps the scientific R&D community develop their accelerated computing skills. Here are Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran of the Univ. of Delaware and OpenACC User Group Chair, and NVIDIA's Jack Wells, Director of Higher Education and Research Computing ....The post At SC24: An Update from HPC-AI Skills Development Organization OpenACC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science (SC) announced that $625 million is available to support National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. These centers, which are multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary teams, are intended to accelerate the transformational advances in basic science ....The post DOE Announces $625M Quantum Research Funding Opportunity appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The next meeting of theAdvanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's program onAdvanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), will take place on Thursday, January 16 from 10 AM - 5 PM EST, and Friday, January 17 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST via [...]The post Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting to be Held Jan. 16-17 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan - January 14, 2025 - Enterprise storage company Infortrend Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495) introduced its high-density 4U 90-bay HDD solutions: unified storageEonStor GS 5090 andexpansion enclosure JB 4090. The large capacity and high throughput performance of the solutions are designed for applications like high-performance computing and Media & Entertainment. EonStor GS 5090 is [...]The post Infortrend Unveils Storage for HPC and Media & Entertainment appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A vexing problem has long confronted quantum computer designers: the need to keep bits in a superconducting quantum processor free of errors and ready to perform calculations whenever necessary. These qubits" are notoriously sensitive to heat and radiation, which can spoil their calculations ....The post NIST: Novel Quantum Refrigerator' Erases Chalkboard appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Beaverton, Ore. - Jan. 14, 2025 - The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, developer of the UALink for AI clusters, has announced the expansion of its board of directors with the election of Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd., Apple Inc., and Synopsys Inc. UALink said the new board members will share their industry knowledge for development and [...]The post Alibaba, Apple and Synopsys Join Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, announced that $35 million dollars is available to support the advancement of high-performance computing (HPC) data management, storage, and scientific visualization that will help enable the development of the next-generation energy-efficient computing systems and approaches enabling accelerated scientific discovery. Learn more [...]The post DOE ASCR: $35M Available for HPC Data Management, Proposal Deadline May 13 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As our thoughts go out to the victims of the southern California wildfires, here's a quick (7:29) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China's opaque TOP100 ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250113: China's Opaque HPC List, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Exploding Hyperscale Data Center Capacity, New MPI ABI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined with network services provider EPB of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic ....The post ORNL Partners with EPB to Test Quantum Network Protection appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

13 January 2025 - Telehouse International Corporation of Europe, a data centre service provider, today announces the launch of its liquid cooling lab, following the development of partnerships with four liquid cooling technology providers. From early 2025 onwards, the four companies - Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool, and Legrand - will showcase their advanced cooling technologies at [...]The post Telehouse Launches Liquid Cooling Lab with Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool and Legrand appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13, 2025 - To meet exponential demand, the data center sector will grow at a phenomenal pace in 2025, according to analyst firm JLL's 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, which explores how AI is not only driving demand but the development of more powerful and efficient data center infrastructure that balances computing power [...]The post Investment Firm: Global Data Center Market to Experience 15% CAGR through 2027 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In our ongoing Vanguards of HPC-AI series, we now feature Erin Acquesta, who holds a PhD in mathematics from North Carolina State University. She became involved in HPC-AI in 2014, when she worked as a data scientist at Lenovo. In 2016, she joined the team at Sandia National Laboratories as a senior member of the [...]The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia's Erin Acquesta, Extroverted Mathematician and Emerging Leader appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Jan. 10, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for last mont. On a consolidated basis, revenue for December 2024 was approximately NT$278.16 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent from November 2024 and an increase of 57.8 percent from December 2023. Revenue for January through December [...]The post TSMC: December Monthly Revenue up 58% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Chatsworth, CA, January 9, 2025 - AI and data intelligence solutions company DDN today announced an investment of $300 million from Blackstone, an alternative asset manager, valuing the company at $5 billion. This investment cements DDN's position as the only choice for organizations seeking to implement scalable, reliable, and secure AI applications that deliver tangible [...]The post Blackstone Invests $300M in DDN at $5B Valuation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - January 9, 2025 - Data orchestration company Hammerspace andCloudian, an S3-compatible object storage company, have announced a partnership to deliver a solution for managing unstructured data at scale. Combining Hammerspace's parallel file system data orchestration with Cloudian's exabyte-scale HyperStore object storage, the partnership empowers enterprises to manage, protect, and extract value [...]The post Hammerspace and Cloudian Partner on Unstructured Data Management appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Since 2017, China stopped taking part in the LINPACK benchmark used by the TOP500 organization to rank the world's most power supercomputers. Yet for the past several years, the Chinese Society of Computer Science has released a listing of the country's top 100 supercomputers. Yet China's HPC opacity remains ....The post Trying to Read China's New Top 100 Supercomputing List appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

With the new year upon us, this is a good time to review what we learned at conferences held toward the end of last year. In this episode, sponsored by Lenovo, Adrian Cockcroft joins Shahin and Doug to discuss SC24, the RISC-V Summit and AWS Reinvent. Adrian, who has appeared on this podcast previously ....The post @HPCpodcast: Former AWS VP Adrian Cockcroft Talks HPC-AI Trends Coming out of 2024's End-of-Year Conferences appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a professor at UC Berkeley, has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation's highest honor for ....The post Berkeley Lab's Jennifer Doudna Awarded National Medal of Technology & Innovation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Pittsburgh - A team of interns from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been selected to represent the United States at an international high-performance computing (HPC) competition for students. PSC's Benchmark Beasts" will be one of 10 teams, and the only one from the U.S., chosen to compete in Hamburg at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC25) [...]The post PSC Interns to Represent US at ISC 2025 Student Competition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, here's an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: Mega' Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins... The company said Mega is an omniverse framework ....The post Nvidia at CES: Omniverse Blueprint for Industry, Generative Physical AI, Access to Blackwells, Cosmos Model for Physical AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Here's a rapid (5:54) rundown of recent news from the HPC-AI sector, including: DOE and LLNL lead effort to go beyond' EUV lithography, report: ByteDance pursues chip trade sanction workaround, Microsoft's $80B AI ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250106: Beyond' EUV Lithography, China Chip Sanction Workaround, Microsoft's $80B AI Build-Out, TSMC 2nm in 2025 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - January 6, 2025 - IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the completion of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Qubitekk, Inc., a quantum networking company. The acquisition brings Qubitekk's esteemed team, advanced technology, and extensive patent portfolio into IonQ's operations, solidifying IonQ's position at the forefront of quantum networking [...]The post Quantum: IonQ Completes Acquisition of Qubitekk appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

EUV, extreme ultraviolet lithography, is nearly completely associated with the Dutch company ASML, the only maker of EUV machines that are used by TSMC, Intel and other chip manufacturers of advanced HPC-AI chips. Now Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory has ....The post LLNL to Lead Research on Advancing Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Italian energy company Eni has officially announced one of the world's most powerful supercomputers that will be used to to scale up its oil and gas discovery technology and support its decarbonisation and clean energy strategies. The system appeared in the latest TOP500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers, ranking no. 5 on the [...]The post Eni Officially Unveils 100M HPC6 Supercomputer for Exploration and Decarbonization appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BERKELEY, Calif.,- Quantum-classical computing company Rigetti announced the launch of its flagship 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system featuring a hardware redesign. Rigetti said it also has achieved two-qubit gate fidelity milestones with Ankaa-3: halving error rates in 2024 to achieve a median 99 percent iSWAP gate fidelity, as well as 99.5 percent median fidelity fSim gates. Ankaa-3 [...]The post Rigetti Launches 84-Qubit Ankaa-3 Quantum System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy penultimate day of 2024 to you! We'll close out the year with this quick ( ) update on news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China's progress in AI despite GPU import restrictions, AI-driven ....The post HPC News Bytes 20241230: China's Surprising' AI Progress, Silicon Valley Biggies to Chase Federal Contracts, New Neuromorphic Chips, Farewell to 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, Md.-- Quantum computing and networking company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced what it said is a technological breakthrough that demonstrates a new approach to scalable quantum computing, resulting from a collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.The post Oak Ridge and IonQ Report Noise Tolerant' Quantum Computing Advance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Washington, DC, Dec. 20, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science (SC), under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, is announcing that $75 million is available to support large multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams for the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes, as part of the SciDAC Program. Learn more about this opportunity [...]The post DOE Issues $75M SciDAC Funding Opportunity appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 20, 2024 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the publication of the 2024 Report on U.S. Data Center Energy Use produced by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) which outlines the energy use of data centers from 2014 to 2028. The report estimates that data center load growth has tripled [...]The post DOE Releases Report on Data Center Electricity Demand appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

"I am passionate about working in the broad areas of machine learning for science, codesign of algorithms and architectures, performance portable algorithms, and combinatorial scientific computing.I focus on ...."The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia's Siva Rajamanickam - AI for Science That Outpaces Predictions' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HOBOKEN, N.J.,Dec. 17, 2024 - Quantum Computing Inc. ((Nasdaq: QUBT), a photonics and quantum optics technology company, today announced that the company has been awarded a prime contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA") Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said it will apply its entropy quantum optimization machine, Dirac-3, to support NASA's [...]The post NASA Awards Quantum Computing Inc. Contract for Phase Unwrapping Using Dirac-3 Photonic Optimization Solver appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 18, 2024,MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -Photonic interconnect company Lightmatter has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage technology-a 3D-stacked photonic engine-for accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters. The UALink [...]The post Photonic Interconnect: Lightmatter Joins UALink Consortium appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] The big generative AI bang of November 2022 -- OpenAI's release of ChatGPT -- stands as one of the great upheavels in the history of high tech in general and HPC-AI specifically. Now, two years later, we're seeing new AI solutions that are addressing ....The post Lenovo and AI for Good': Helping the Voiceless Speak Again appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN - December 18, 2024 - AI and quantum company Multiverse Computingand the Bundesdruckerei Gmbs, the German federal government's technology company, are exploring the potential of quantum and quantum-inspired solutions. The two companies recently completed two research projects that combined quantum-inspired software and data security expertise to build new prototypes that generate synthetic [...]The post Multiverse Computing and Bundesdruckerei Use Quantum for Data Privacy and Fraud Detection appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Maarssen, Netherlands-December 17, 2024 - Eurofiber, a provider of open digital network infrastructure in Europe, today announced partnership with Quantum Bridge, a distributed symmetric key establishment (DSKE) technology company, and Juniper Networks. This collaboration is intended to make quantum-safe communication solutions and expanded secure data transfer capabilities available for organizations across Eurofiber's network. A steady [...]The post Juniper Networks, Quantum Bridge and Eurofiber Partner on Quantum-Safe Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Pisa, Italy - December 17, 2024 - Quantum technology company Planckian today announced the release of a blueprint for a superconducting quantum chip designed to address the quantum wiring problems. The chip architecture employs a control setup that manipulates qubits via a shared control line while selectively driving them to perform universal quantum computation. The [...]The post Planckian Announces Architecture Addressing Quantum Wiring Problems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec 17, 2024, SUNNYVALE, Calif.andSAN JOSE,Dec. 17, 2024-Synopsys(Nasdaq:SNPS) andSiMa.ai today announced a collaboration to deliver a solution for automotive companies to accelerate development of workload-specific silicon and software needed to power AI-enabled features. The solution will combine Synopsys' EDA, automotive-grade IP, and hardware-assisted verification solutions with SiMa.ai's machine learning accelerator (MLA) IP and ML software [...]The post Synopsys and SiMa.ai in Collaboration to Develop Automotive Edge AI Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 16, 2024 - The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched six pilot projects to bridge scientific gaps between current quantum technological capabilities and those needed to fully harness quantum properties of energy and matter for practical uses," the NSF said. ClickHEREto learn more. The six projects join five others that the agency announced in [...]The post NSF Launches 6 Quantum Pilot Projects appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good mid-December morn to you! We offer this rapid (7:49) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Google "Willow" quantum chip: hype or reality?, LRZ in Europe chooses HPE, mutual retaliations engulf Nvidia in China-US geo-techno-political clash, the poplar tree and OLCF supercomputing could boost crop yieldsThe post HPC News Bytes 20241216: Google Quantum - Hype or Reality?, HPE's Blue Lion' Win in Europe, US-China Tech Retaliations, HPC and Crop Yields appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.