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SEOUL, Korea - Sept. 1, 2023 - Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the industry's first 32-gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAMusing 12 nanometer (nm)-class process technology.This comes after Samsung began mass production of its 12nm-class 16Gb DDR5 DRAM in May 2023.The post Samsung Announces 12nm-Class 32Gb DDR5 DRAM appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 31, 2023 -- GE Aerospace is partnering with French aerospace company Safran ... on a next-generation technology demonstration program ... that aims to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 20 percent compared to today's most efficient engine technologies. The high-fidelity modeling and simulation capabilities provided by exascale computing enable researchers ....The post Exascale and Industry Innovation at GE Aerospace appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 31, 2023 -- As of Sept. 1, ETH Professor Torsten Hoefler will be chief architect for machine learning of the architecture and technology workgroup at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Hoefler has headed theScalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL) at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since 2012.The post ETH Prof. Torsten Hoefler Joins CSCS as Chief Architect for Machine Learning appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At Hot Chips today, Arm introduced the Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) designed to enable Arm users to build specialized silicon at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market compared to discrete IP. Available today, Arm CSS N2 is a pre-integrated, PPA-optimized configuration of the Neoverse N2....The post Arm Introduces Neoverse Compute Subsystems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 31, 2023 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold Hands-on HPC Workshop on October 10-12, 2023 at the TCS Conference Center at Argonne National Laboratory. Deadline for registration is Friday, Sept. 8. Registration information can be found here. The workshop will provide hands-on time on Polaris and AI Testbeds focusing on porting applications [...]The post Sept. 8 Registration Deadline for October ALCF Hands-on HPC Workshop appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 31, 2023 - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $29million in funding for seven team awards for research inmachine learning, artificial intelligence and data resources for fusion energy sciences. The funding is for projects lasting up to three years, with $11 million in Fiscal Year 2023 dollars and outyear funding contingent on [...]The post DOE Announces $29M for Research on ML, AI and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Monday morn to you. This week's HPC News Bytes offers a quick (4:53) run-through of the major news in our sector over the past week. This morning we look at: Gartner predicts accelerated growth for composable computing; Proposed ABI (application binary interface) for MPI to simplify parallel apps; AMD buys AI software company Mipsology - a sign of more AI M&A activity to come?; HPC clone on Google Cloud PlatformThe post HPC News Bytes 20230828: Gartner on Composable; An ABI for MPI; AMD Acquires Mipsology; Google Cloud HPC Clone appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Pagoda Project researches and develops software that programmers use to implement high-performance applications using the Partitioned Global Address Space model. The project is primarily funded by the Exascale Computing Project and interacts withpartner projects....The post Exascale: Pagoda Updates Programming with Scalable Data Structures and Aggressively Asynchronous Communication appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A Sandia National Laboratories team is working to create an iterative process that uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a proving ground to rapidly test and mature technology in space. In collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration, NASA and commercial space company NanoRacks....The post Sandia: Testing New HPC Technology in Orbit appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Oxford, 30 August 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics has appointed former Arm CTO and EVP Dipesh Patel as a non-executive director. Patel was with Arm before becoming an operating partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital. The announcement follows 2 million in funding from the UK's National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF) which Oxford Ionics will use [...]The post Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Appoints Former Arm CTO/EVP appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 30, 2023 - The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $24 million for quantum networks research projects.The projects were selected by competitive peer review under the DOE National Laboratory Announcement,Scientific Enablers of Scalable Quantum Communications. The list of projects and more information can be found on theAdvanced Scientific Computing Research program homepage. Projects include: [...]The post DOE Announces $24M for Quantum Networks Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 30, 2023 - Berkeley, CA - Atom Computing has appointed Ken Braithwaite, former Secretary of the Navy, to its board of directors. He served as Secretary of the Navy from May 29, 2020, to January 20, 2021, in the Donald Trump administration. Atom Computing also announced that Greg Muhlner has joined the company as [...]The post Atom Computing Adds Former Sec. of the Navy to Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 24, 2023 - Technology industry analyst firm Gartner has issued four new Hype Cycle" reports for 2023 in which composable infrastructure is given a high" benefit" rating, according to an announcement from composable infrastructure company GigaIO. While acknowledging barriers to adoption....The post Gartner Reports Composable Infrastructure Increases Market Penetration up to 10x appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 22, 2023 - VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced the expansion of their partnership with a focus on generative AI. The companies said VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications, including intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization. The platform will feature generative AI...The post VMware and NVIDIA Partner on Generative AI for Enterprises appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A Harvard scientist used Google Cloud Platform compute resources to construct an HPC clone to conduct heart disease study, according to a Reuters story, a novel move that other researchers could follow to get around a shortage of powerful computing resources...."The post Harvard Uses Google Cloud to Clone Supercomputer for Medical Research Runs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good Monday morning! Here's a quick summation of recent HPC news: Intel kills Tower Semi deal; Hot Chips preview; GPU shortage as generative AI heats up; Samsung's Texas 4nm chip fab....The post HPC News Bytes 20230821: Intel Ends Tower Bid; Hot Chips Conference; GPU Demand; Samsung's Texas 4nm Fab appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE,Aug. 15, 2023 - The ADLINK COM-HPC-cRLS Client type Size C module based on 13th Gen Intel Core processor is available for order with: oup to 13th Gen Intel Core i9 processor, 16 Performance-cores, 8 Efficient-cores, and 32 threadsoup to 128GB DDR5 SODIMM at 4000MT/s and 36MB cache (6MB more than predecessors)o1 x16 PCIe [...]The post ADLINK Announces COM-HPC Module appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 17, 2023 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for research projects in particle accelerator science and technology. Total funding is for projects up to three years in duration, with $8.4 million in Fiscal Year 2023 dollars and outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and [...]The post DOE Awards $16M for Particle Accelerator Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Los Alamost National Laboratory reported today that a potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids some of the complexity in quantum....The post Los Alamos Reports Hardware Approach Offers New Quantum Computing Paradigm appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco - August 23, 2023: Portkey.aiis today announcing a $3m seed funding round empowering engineering teams to build and launch generative AI apps faster. The funding round was led by Lightspeed with participation from angel investors, including prominent figures from AWS, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Postman, and Asana. Portkey.ai was founded in January 2023 by Rohit [...]The post AI Startup Portkey.ai Secures $3M Funding appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 22, 2023 - NVIDIA today announced system manufacturers will deliver AI-ready servers that support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, announced separately today, designed to help companies customize and deploy generative AI applications using their proprietary business data. Computer makers are building NVIDIA AI-ready servers, including the Dell PowerEdge R760xa, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers [...]The post NVIDIA Announces AI-Ready Servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo for Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI systems company Groq has contracted with Samsung's US-based foundry business to be its silicon partner for Groq's product roadmap. Groq said its next-gen silicon, to be designed...on its SF4X process (4nm)....The post Groq Selects Samsung's Texas Foundry for 4nm appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WAYNE, PA. - August 22, 2023-Cornelis Networks, a provider of high-performance networking solutions for data-intensive technical computing (HPC and AI) applications, today announced a partnership withPenguin Solutions, a provider of HPC, AI, and IoT technologies and services; andPanasas, a provider of HPC and AI storage solutions. The three companies have come together to define and [...]The post Cornelis Partners with Penguin and Panasas on New HPC-AI Reference Design appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The computing capacity of twin supercomputers used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been expanded by 20 percent....The post NOAA Supercomputing Capacity Expanded for Advanced National Weather Forecasting appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ongoing Linux open source controversy took a turn today with the announcement by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), described by the companies as a collaborative trade association intended to encourage development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux [...]The post Red Hat Riposte: CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

IRVINE, Calif. August 21, 2023 - Edge cloud services company Zadara today announced it has partnered with Node4, a leading digital transformation and managed services provider (MSP), to deliver a multi-tenanted immutable and secure storage for its Veeam backup and recovery platform via its zStorage Object Storage solution. This new partnership with Node4 complements Zadara's [...]The post Zadara Partners with Node4 to Support Veeam BaaS Offering appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 21, 2023 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $70 million in funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to diversify leadership in the physical sciences. The funding, through DOE's Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative, will support internships, training programs, and [...]The post DOE Announces $70M in Research Training for Students and Faculty from Historically Underrepresented Institutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 22, 2023 - Today at VMware Explore 2023, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a turnkey solution from their joint Edge and Cloud Innovation Labs, delivering hybrid multi-cloud capabilities to mid-size companies and helping customers more easily harness data to empower their intelligent transformation. Lenovo also unveiled its Reference [...]The post Lenovo and VMware Partner on NVIDIA-Powered Generative AI and Multi-Cloud Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 15, 2023 - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)Office of Science (SC),announced $112million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations among fusion scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists to maximize the use of high performance computing, including exascale computers. The list of projects and more information can be found on theFusion [...]The post DOE Announces $112M for Research on Computational Projects in Fusion Energy Sciences appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux Wars continue: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux Association (watch for upcoming episodes on @HPCpodcast on this); China's tech companies place $5 billion of orders on US chips; Intel improves hardware for on-chip AVX (or APX) vector instructions; 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists also point to TOP500The post HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 10, 2023 - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11 million in funding for 15 projects in exploratory research for extreme-scale science intended to leverage emerging trends and advances in high-end computing, massive datasets, scientific machine learning, artificial intelligence, and novel computing architectures, including quantum computing. Total funding is $11 million for [...]The post DOE Announces $11M Awarded for Extreme-Scale Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Aug. 10, 2023 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2023 was approximately NT$177.62 billion, an increase of 13.6 percent from June 2023 and a decrease of 4.9 percent from July 2022. Revenue for January through July [...]The post TSMC: July Revenue Down 4.9% YoY, Up 13.6% MoM appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Ensuring the nation's electrical power grid can function with limited disruptions in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic weather or a manmade attack is a key national security challenge. Compounding the challenge of grid management is the increasing amount of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind that are continually added to the [...]The post LLNL: 9,000 Exascale Nodes for Power Grid Optimization appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 8, 2023 - Today, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 was featured on stage at SIGGRAPH as an NVIDIA OVX server that will soon include the newly announced NVIDIA L40S GPUs. Lenovo said these servers will help professionals worldwide advance AI and bring generative AI applications like intelligent chatbots, search and summarization tools to users [...]The post Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers Featured with NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA today at the SIGGRAPH conference announced the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper platform - based on a new Grace Hopper Superchip with the first HBM3e processor, according to NVIDIA - built for accelerated computing and generative AI. Built for large language models, recommender systems and vector databases, the new platform will be available in a [...]The post NVIDIA Unveils GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Platform with HBM3e Processor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Fremont, CA, August 8, 2023 - Exxact Corporation today announced it will feature new NVIDIA RTX professional GPUs in its configurable workstations, servers, and clusters to offer computational performance edge in real-time rendering, graphics, and AI, as well as accelerated simulation in engineering, scientific, and molecular research. These integrations include four new additions to the [...]The post Exxact Corporation Systems to Feature NVIDIA Ada Generation GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At the the SIGGRAPH conference this morning in Los Angeles, NVIDIA made several generative AI-related announcements, including a partnership with Hugging Face intended to broaden access to generative AI supercomputing (NVIDIA's DGX cloud hardware) for developers building large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications on the Hugging Face platform. The companies said the combination [...]The post NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: DGX Integration with Hugging Face for LLM Training; Announcement of AI Workbench appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE and DALLAS - August 8, 2023 - Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) (Applied Digital"), a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC") applications, today announced it signed has formed a strategic partnership with ZEDEDA, the leader in edge orchestration. The strategic partnership will enable Applied Digital to [...]The post Applied Digital and ZEDEDA Form Partnership for On-Demand Transmutable AI Cloud Service appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.