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New York - March 28, 2024 - Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs. Thunder is the culmination of two years of research on the next generation of deep learning compilers, built with support from NVIDIA. [...]The post Lightning AI Announces Availability Compiler for PyTorch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland- March 26th, 2024 - HPC and AI colocation atNorth announced an expansion of its partnership with Nordic IT services corporation, Advania, providing additional capacity at its state of the artICE03 site in Icelandwhich opened last year. Advania is a long-standing customer of atNorth at itsICE01 site inReykjavikin addition to some of atNorth's other [...]The post Advania Expands into Second atNorth Data Center in Iceland appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON & INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2024 - Industrial generative AI company Zapata Computing, announced today that it has completed its business combination with Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR), a special purpose acquisition company. The combined company, which was renamed Zapata Computing Holdings Inc., will operate as Zapata AI and its common stock and warrants will [...]The post Zapata AI and Andretti Acquisition Corp. Announce Closing of Business Combination appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order....The post Exascale Software and NASA's Nerve-Racking 7 Minutes' with Mars Landers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - March 28, 2024; Today, security and risk management startup SydeLabs announced a seed funding round of $2.5 million to build solutions aimed at securing GenAI systems for enterprises. The funding round was led by RTP Global and also saw participation from Picus Capital and marquee angel investors. The adoption of Generative AI [...]The post SydeLabs Raises $2.5M for GenAI Security appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a series of training workshops to introduce users to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed. The four individual workshops will introduce participants to the architecture and software of the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system, the Graphcore Bow Pod system, and the GroqRack [...]The post ALCF Announces Online AI Testbed Training Workshops appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amazonannounced it has made its biggest-ever investment, $2.75 billion, in OpenAI/Chat-GPT competitor Anthropic, another indication that the generative AI phenomenon continues to heat up. Today's news follows Amazon and Anthropic announcing an earlier $1.25 billion investment last September - the announcement today brings the total investment to $4 billion. We have a notable history with [...]The post Amazon Adds $2.75B to Stake in GenAI Startup Anthropic appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, MLCommons announced new results from its MLPerf Inference v4.0 benchmark suite with machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking.To view the results for MLPerf Inference v4.0 visit theDatacenterandEdgeresults pages. The MLPerf Inference....The post Updated MLPerf AI Inference Benchmark Results Released appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 27 March 2024:Oriole Networks - a startup using light to train LLMs faster with less power - has raised 10 million in seed funding to improve AI performance and adoption, and solve AI's energy problem. The round, which the company said is one of the UK's largest seed raises in recent years, was co-led [...]The post Oriole Networks Raises 10m for Faster LLM Training appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PARIS - March 27, 2024 - Alice & Bob, a fault tolerant quantum computing hardware developer, and academic partners ENS de Lyon and Mines Paris - PSL, announced the receipt of a 16.5 million ($17.8 million USD) grant, a France 2030 initiative operated on behalf of the French state by Bpifrance, France's public investment bank. [...]The post Alice & Bob and Partners Granted 16.5M to Cut Quantum Costs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - March 26, 2024- HPC and AI interconnect company XConn Technologies today announced the release of early production samples for its Apollo" CXL 2.0 switch, which the company will demonstrate with Samsung during MemCon 2024, March 26-27, in Mountain View, Calif. The XConn Apollo switch is the industry's first and only hybrid [...]The post XConn Releases Silicon Samples of Apollo CXL 2.0 Switch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, March 27, 2024 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IMS, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, have announced the publication of the first issues oftheACM/IMS Journal of Data Science (JDS), a peer-reviewed publication. The scope of the journal is multi-disciplinary and broad, spanning statistics, machine learning, computer systems, and the societal implications [...]The post ACM and IMS Release First Issues of Journal of Data Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - March 26, 2024 -NTT Research, Inc., a division ofNTT(TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from itsPhysics & Informatics (PHI) Labhave achieved quantum control of exciton wavefunctions in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. In an article published inScience Advances, a team lead by PHI Lab Research Scientist Thibault Chervy and ETH Zurich Professor Puneet Murthy documented [...]The post NTT Research PHI Lab Scientists Achieve Quantum Control of Excitons in 2D Semiconductors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 26, 2024. Mountain View - Calif. - Database AI company Activeloop has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, Samsung Next, Alumni Ventures, and Dispersion Capital. The round brings Activeloop's total funding to about $20M. Activeloop'sDeep Lake connects unstructured data - audio, video, images, text and embeddings - to [...]The post Activeloop AI Database Raises $11M Series A appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Munich, 26 March 2024- This March marks the end of REGALE, a European project, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which has carried out research into the development of new software for high performance computing (HPC) centres with a focus on energy efficiency. After three years of research, the project now provides a toolchain that [...]The post EuroHPC JU Energy Efficiency Project REGALE Comes to End appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - March 26, 2024 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the addition of industry veteran Dr. Martin Roetteler as its new head of quantum applications. Roetteler will lead IonQ's Quantum Applications development team, which identifies commercial applications of IonQ's world-leading trapped ion quantum computing technologies and delivers business value [...]The post Dr. Martin Roetteler to Lead IonQ's Quantum Applications Team appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

What does a supercomputer center do when it's operating two systems among the TOP-10 most powerful in the world -- one of them the first system to cross the exascale milestone? It starts planning its successor. The center is Oak Ridge National Lab, a U.S. Department of Energy national lab at the tip of the computing spear. Meet Discovery, the supercomputer to succeed Frontier....The post @HPCpodcast: Matt Sieger of OLCF-6 on the Post-Exascale Discovery' Vision appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 26, 2024,SANTA CLARA, Calif. & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.- FPGA technology company Achronix Semiconductor Corporation and Bluespec, Inc., a RISC-V tools and silicon IP company, today announced a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors that are available for the Achronix Speedster7t FPGA family. Marking an industry first, Bluespec's RISC-V processors now integrate into the Achronix 2D [...]The post Achronix FPGAs Add Support for Bluespec's RISC-V Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At GTC 2024 we caught up with Sumit Puri, co-founder of composable computing company Liqid, to discuss the company's GPU-power UltraStack, which he said transforms 2U servers into high-density GPU systems powered by NVIDIA L40S GPUs.The post At GTC 2024: Liqid UltraStack Servers with up to 20 NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

What happens when Department of Energy (DOE) researchers join forces with chemists and biologists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). They use the most advanced high-performance computers to study cancer at the molecular, cellular and population levels.The post Exascale Computing Project: Leveraging HPC and Neural Networks for Cancer Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Montreal, March 25 th, 2024 - Hydro Quebec is now a partner of the Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ^2). As the administrator of Canada's first IBM Quantum System One located at IBM 's facility in Bromont, Quebec, PINQ^2 offers an innovative approach to computing for companies wishing to conduct research , [...]The post PINQ^2 and Hydro Quebec Form Partnership Utilizing IBM Quantum appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - March 18, 2024 - Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes [...]The post Hitachi Vantara to Collaborate with Nvidia on Industrial AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Hamburg, Germany, March 22 - This year's Hans Meuer Award recipients are a team of five researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their evaluation of the classical HPC hardware requirements for large-scale quantum computations. The Hans Meuer Award is an annual award presented atISC High Performance. It recognizes the most outstanding research paper [...]The post LBNL Researchers to Be Presented Hans Meuer Award at ISC 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure's Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA'S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure's AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he's also an AI and cloud computing enthusiast. Here he talks about Microsoft as one of the [...]The post Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure's Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA'S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure's AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he's also an AI and cloud computing...The post Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lenovo ThinkSystem AI servers with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs are set to power the era of generative AI for enterprises and cloud. In this interview at GTC 2024, we spoke with Pat Moakley....The post At GTC 2024: Lenovo's New Blackwell-Powered ThinkSystem AI Portfolio Built in Collaboration with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel - March 19, 2024 -Laser-based computing company LightSolver announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system utilizes the power of 100 lasers to solve optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100's laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle [...]The post LightSolver Announces LPU100 Laser Computing System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Live from Nvidia's GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast. We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot....The post @HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia's Week at the Center of the Tech World appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA GTC 2024 - SAN JOSE - March 18, 2024:Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including with the new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, organizations can accelerate integration of their data, AI tools and on-premises infrastructure to [...]The post Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 18, 2024- At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud. Stemming from the expanded engineering collaboration announced with NVIDIA during Lenovo Tech World, the innovations help enterprises and cloud providers [...]The post Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 - Today at NVIDIA GTC,Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications. The updates include: Availability of two HPE and NVIDIA co-engineered full-stack GenAI solutions. A preview of HPE Machine Learning Inference [...]The post Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for a two-hour GTC keynote event and victory lap, which was held before a sold-out crowd at the 17,500-seat SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Today's news begins with Blackwell, which Nvidia said delivers six....The post Nvidia Launches Flagship Blackwell' GPU at GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy St. Patrick's Day week to you! Here's a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU's European AI Act, Cerebras's new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI....The post HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU's AI Act, Cerebras's Whopping AI Chip, Meta's Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 17, 2024 - The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. The full agenda and registration information can be foundhere. Register at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2024/ The forum is a meeting place for the HPC community to [...]The post HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - Data storage companyScality recently announcedthe results of a survey of 500 IT decision-makers across France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. to gain insight into the role immutable data storage plays in an organization's overall cybersecurity strategy. Key findings reveal: 94% either already rely on immutable data storage or plan to implement [...]The post Survey: 94% of IT Leaders Rely on Immutable Storage for Ransomware Protection appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DALLAS, March 14, 2024 - Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of digital infrastructure designed for HPC applications, today announced the onboarding of Together AI. Applied Digital received a contract prepayment of $18 million as part of the $75 million contract, and it has onboarded a compute cluster of GPUs and [...]The post Applied Digital Wins Contract with Together AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - March 13, 2024-ClearML today announced new research findings from a global AI survey conducted withFuriosaAI and the AI Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA) called The State of AI Infrastructure at Scale 2024: Findings: 96 percent of respondents plan to expand their AI compute infrastructure with availability, cost, and infrastructure challenges weighing on their minds, [...]The post Survey on AI Infrastructure Spotlights GPU Challenges appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris, March 13, 2024 - Global technology and earth sciences company CGG has commenced a worldwide natural hydrogen screening project with industry support. The project leverages CGG's subsurface data, multi-disciplinary geoscience knowledge, latest technology advances and high-performance computing capabilities to identify high-grade areas for natural hydrogen exploration. Chris Page, VP, Geoscience, CGG, said: CGG is [...]The post CGG Commences Global Natural Hydrogen Screening Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[Sponsored Guest Article] The technology alliance between Lenovo and NVIDIA is one whose total is greater than the sum of its parts. NVIDIA processors are changing the world and Lenovo servers are the platforms in which world-changing compute is happening. The Lenovo-NVIDIA....The post Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI data platform company VAST Data today announced a AI cloud architecture designed to deliver space/cost/power efficiency that buildson Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) technology. The architecture makes it possible to disaggregate VAST's operating system into AI computing....The post Vast Data Annouces AI Cloud Architecture Built on Nvidia DPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 11, 2024 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $5.2 million federal investment for 13 projects that will tap into the DOE national laboratories' high performance computing (HPC) resources to help industry partners improve material performance, advance manufacturing processes, and reduce industrial emissions. These collaborative projects will address manufacturing and materials challenges [...]The post DOE Awards $5.2M to HPC for Energy Projects, Announces Intent for Spring 2024 Solicitation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy mid-March day to you. Last week in the world of HPC-AI the emphasis was on the latter, including: the expanding IndiaAI Mission will include a 10,000-GPU supercomputer, TSMC's biggest customers, countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs....The post HPC News Bytes: IndiaAI Mission, New Fabs around the World, Atos-Eviden appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] As scientific and industrial computations become increasingly complex, the demand for immense computing power has skyrocketed. In the pursuit of the very first European Exascale supercomputing ambition, JUPITER (Joint Undertaking....The post Eviden Innovating HPC: JUPITER's Modular Data Center Revealed appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

India is getting into AI in a big way. The Indian government announced yesterday it has budgeted more than Rs 10,300 crore (US$1.24 billion) for India's AI ecosystem over the next five years. The IndiaAI Mission includes standing up a 10,000-GPU AI supercomputer (no system details were released) to support such initiatives as....The post India Spending Billions on AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, Texas- Core Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company,andCoreWeave,a GPU cloud provider, today announced a multi-year contract for Core Scientific to supply up to 16 MW of data center infrastructure to CoreWeave. The total potential revenue associated with the contract is more than $100 million. Under the terms of the [...]The post Core Scientific to Provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center Infrastructure for AI and HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 5, 2024 - Cloud hosting and cloud servers company Vultr announced the expansion of our Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers' SDC Columbia location in East Wenatchee, Washington. This expansion includes an increase in NVIDIA HGX H100 clusters, which are now available on demand and via reserved contracts. Vultr's decision to [...]The post Vultr Expands Cloud Nvidia H100 GPU Capacity appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER, March 6, 2024-Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, announced its collaboration in data center cooling market with CoolIT Systems. CoolIT Systems is the world leader in scalable liquid cooling technology for the world's most demanding computing environments. To meet the surging demand in the AI, high-performance computing (HPC) [...]The post Gates and CoolIT Systems Announce Liquid Cooling Collaboration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 7, 2024 - NVIDIA and HP Inc. today announced that NVIDIA CUDA-Xdata processing libraries will be integrated with HP AI workstation solutions to turbocharge the data preparation and processing work that forms the foundation of generative AI development. Built on theNVIDIA CUDAcompute platform, CUDA-X libraries speed data processing for a broad range of data [...]The post NVIDIA CUDA-X to Be Integrated with HP AI Workstations appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.