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CGG announced today the appointment of Jerome Denigot as Executive Vice President, Sensing & Monitoring, effective February 26, 2024. In this new position, he will lead CGG's global Sensing & Monitoring business line (SMO), marketed under the Sercelbrand name. Denigot joined CGG in 2003, holding various positions of increasing responsibility in SMO. In 2017 he [...]The post Jerome Denigot Named EVP, Sensing & Monitoring, at CGG appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the 12th year for ATPESC, which provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems [...]The post Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TORONTO,March 5, 2024 - AI chip startup Taalas Inc., has announced it has exited stealth mode and raised $50 millionover two rounds of funding led byPierre Lamond and Quiet Capital. Taalas was founded by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic, along with early Tenstorrent engineering leaders Drago Ignjatovic, andLejla Bajic. The three have worked on AI processors, [...]The post Tenstorrent Founder and Engineers Say Taalas AI Chip Outperforms a Small GPU Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership....The post AI Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European supercomputing, a commitment to build Europe's first exascale-class system and with major techno- geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC unit....The post Eviden Caught up in Atos' Financial, Acquisition Struggles appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale's New Frontier," a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Scientific Challenge As more renewable sources of energy are added to the national power grid, it becomes more complex to manage. That's because renewables such as wind [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: ExaSGD appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project's Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They highlighted how E4S at Pratt & Whitney, ExxonMobil, TAE Technologies, and GE Aerospace....The post Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Industry Acceptance of Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CARROLLTON, TX-March 5, 2024- Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The new facility supports LiquidStack's mission to deliver liquid cooling solutions for high performance data center and edge computing applications. With an uptick in liquid cooling demand associated with Generative AI scaling, the [...]The post LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships and public policy. Zacharia spent 35 years at Oak Ridge, leaving there after the organization developed and installed the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the first supercomputer to break the exascale performance barrier.The post AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Now in its second year, Women in HPC will partner with ISC 2024 to present a diverse and inclusive event on the exhibition floor coinciding with the May 13th Exhibitor Gala in Hamburg, Germany. March 4, 2024 - Edinburgh, Scotland. The WHPC Volunteers for ISC 2024 have announced that the call for submissions for our [...]The post Women in HPC Launches Call for Submissions for 2nd Annual ISC Solution Forum Takeover appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,March 1, 2024 - AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, a new developer playground with fully integrated documentation, code samples, and self-serve access." Definitive Intelligence Co-founder and CEO Sunny Madra will lead the new GroqCloud business unit with the goal of expanding access to the Groq LPU Inference [...]The post Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale's New Frontier," a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The scientific challenge Diesel and gas-turbine engines drive the world's trains, planes, and ships, but the fossil fuels that power these engines produce much of the carbon emissions [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: Combustion-PELE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverageNERSC's Perlmutter supercomputerto push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning for science and produce novel science outcomes. We are specifically seeking teams with expertise using deep learning for science, a deep understanding of the scientific domain, and demonstrated proofs-of-concept. NERSC staff [...]The post NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, OpenAI and Nvidia, along with a slew....The post AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO - Registration opens March 5th for the14thannual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium's (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium,set for May 21-23at the Wolf Law Center on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder. For information about sponsorships or registration visit: https://hpcsymposium.rmacc.org. For questions contactrmacc@colorado.edu. The multi-track symposium, which brings together faculty, researchers, industry [...]The post Registration for RMACC HPC Symposium Opens March 5 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. According to data presented by NoKyc.com, 42 percent of IT professionals think this is the leading challenge in AI implementation. A recent Coleman Parkes survey asked 1420 IT professionals [...]The post IT Survey: AI Implementation Has Many Hurdles but Funding Isn't One of Them appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2023 - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today delivered what it said is a dramatic increase in bandwidth and throughput for data-intensive AI workloads with the industry's first complete 1.6T Ethernet IP solution. Hyperscale data centers, a backbone in the era of pervasive intelligence, require high-bandwidth, low-latency chips and interfaces to process [...]The post Synopsys Says it Has First 1.6T Ethernet IP Solutionfor AI and Hyperscale Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers across two of Green Mountain's Norwegian locations.The post Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Riverlane and Rigetti Computing(Nasdaq: RGTI)today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer with a large-scale, supercomputing centre. Quantum computers will play an important role in the future of computing as they promise to solve problems [...]The post Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), In Their Own Words" is a Q&A series featuring voices from across the NERSC landscape, past and present, about their experiences at NERSC. Jackie Scoggins arrived at NERSC in 1996 as a system analyst and administrator for the Computational [...]The post HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 28, 2024 - AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. This past fall, we announced the SN40L, the smartest AI chip (rivaling Nvidia), and today we've integrated that chip with the first 1T parameter model for the enterprise," said Rodrigo Liang, co-founder [...]The post SambaNova Says It's First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. This new category of storage architecture - Hyperscale NAS - is built on the tenants required....The post Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MWC BARCELONA-February 26, 2024 - As part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative, NTT Corporation (NTT) and Red Hat, Inc., in collaboration with NVIDIA and Fujitsu, have jointly developed a solution to enhance and extend the potential for real-time artificial intelligence (AI) data analysis at the edge. Using technologies developed by the [...]The post NTT and Red Hat Fuel AI Analysis at the Edge with IOWN Technologies appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale's New Frontier," a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Scientific Challenge Gauging the likely impact of a warming climate on global and regional water cycles poses one of the top challenges in climate change prediction. Scientists [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: E3SM-MMF appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include the Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper architectures. E4S is a community effort to provide open-source....The post DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The UK's most powerful AI supercomputer, an Intel-Dell system called Dawn (Phase 1, pictured here), is up and running at a University of Cambridge data center. The system is powered by more than 1,000 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series chips and more....The post Dawn Rising: UK's Top AI Supercomputer Begins Operations at Univ. of Cambridge appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

KUMAMOTO, Japan, Feb. 24, 2024 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held an opening ceremony for its majority-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (JASM) in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, bringing together suppliers, customers, business partners, academia and the Japanese government to show appreciation for their continued support and the joint effort that led to the [...]The post TSMC Opens JASM Chip Fab Subsidiary in Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 26, 2024 - Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of its HBM3E (High Bandwidth Memory 3E) solution. Micron's 24GB 8H HBM3E will be part of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, which will begin shipping in the second calendar quarter of 2024. This milestone positions [...]The post Micron Announces Volume Production of HBM3E appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

KANSAS CITY, MO. (Feb. 23, 2024) - ClusterVisor, a HPC cluster management software solution from Advanced Clustering, is now available with a new edition thatincludes a redesigned web user interface, role-based access control, monitoring alerts and a new upgrade tool. Most significantly, ClusterVisor now comes bundled with LogVisor AI, a log file analysis tool that [...]The post Advanced Clustering Launches New ClusterVisor Edition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose and Barcelona - February 26, 2024 - Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a provider for AI, cloud, storage, and 5G/edge solutions, announced an expanded portfolio of purpose-built infrastructure solutions to accelerate performance and increase efficiency in 5G and telecom workloads. Supermicro said it enables customers to expand public and private 5G infrastructures with improved [...]The post Supermicro Expands Portfolio for 5G appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Monday of Leap Year Week to you! We offer a rapid run-through of the latest in HPC-AI, including: Intel Foundry bash, Gelsinger talks up the Systems Foundry Era," Wall Street hangs on Nvidia earnings, AI Training vs Inference, Digitial In-Memory Computing for inference efficiency, HPC in space, ISC 2024.The post HPC News Bytes 20240226: Intel Foundry Bash, Nvidia Earnings and AI Inference, HPC in Space, ISC 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NCSAis the caretaker and manager of the Delta supercomputer, but that means more than just making sure the machine is running. The Center recently worked with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on their research using AI to identify materials capable of passively capturing carbon.Delta's powerful AI capabilities were used in this collaborative effort, which also [...]The post NCSA Aids Researchers with AI on Multiple Fronts appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale's New Frontier," a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Science Challenge One of the most challenging goals for researchers in the fields of nuclear and particle physics is to better understand the interactions betweenquarks and gluons- [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: LatticeQCD for Particle Physics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC industry veteran Charles Wuischpard, formerly of Intel and silicon photonics startup Ayar Labs, announced recently on his LinkedIn page that he has joined Nvidia as vice president of North America Latin America (NALA) sales. In December, Wuischpard ended his tenure as Ayar Lab's CEO, a position he held starting in 2018. Previously, at Intel [...]The post Charles Wuischpard Names Nvidia VP North America Latin America Sales appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - February 22, 2024 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced it has generated photons entangled with ions repeatedly and reproducibly, creating a quantum state which allows future quantum systems to communicate and transfer information between each other. This achievement marks the first known commercial demonstration of ion-photon entanglement outside [...]The post IonQ Achieves Ion-Photon Entanglement for Quantum Networks appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ISC 2024, the International Supercomputing Conference to be held at the Congress Center in Hamburg from Sunday, May 12 to Thursday, May 16, has announced that registration is now open. Early bird rates are available until Wednesday, March 27. Conference organizers expect a total of 3,000 attendees.The post Registration Is Open for ISC 2024 in Hamburg appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[CONTRIBUTED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLE] In-memory computing promises to revolutionize AI inference. Given the rapid adoption of generative AI, it makes sense to pursue a new approach to reduce cost and power consumption by bringing compute in memory and improving performance. By flipping the script and reducing unnecessary data movement, we can make dramatic improvements in AI efficiency and improve AI economics going forward.The post In-Memory Computing Could Be the Inference Breakthrough AI Needs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23, held in Denver, Colorado, last November, members of ECP's Industry and Agency Council, comprised of U.S. business executives, government agencies, and independent software vendors, reflected on how ECP and the move to exascale is impacting current and planned use of HPC....The post Exascale: Bringing Engineering and Scientific Acceleration to Industry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 212, 2024 - The U.S. National Science Foundation published a new funding opportunity designed to bring together innovators in wireless communications to develop and validate low-latency communications technologies that have the potential to transform how Americans live, work and interact with one another. To learn more, read theBreaking Low funding opportunityandregister for an introductory [...]The post NSF Announces $12M Funding Opportunity to Lower Latencies for Wireless Networks appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 21, 2024 - EDA software company Cadence and Intel Foundry have collaborated to develop an integrated advanced packaging flow utilizing Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology to address the complexity in heterogeneously integrated multi-chip(let) architectures, the companies announced. The collaboration enables Intel customers to leverage advanced packaging to accelerate the high-performance computing (HPC), AI [...]The post Cadence and Intel Foundry Partner on EMIB Packaging for Heterogeneous Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Arm today announced two new Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) built on new Neoverse IP for the purpose of enabling the AI infrastructure on Arm," according to the company. The Neoverse CSS V3, for the high-performance V-series portfolio, offers a 50 percent performance-per-socket improvement over CSS N2, and....The post Arm Announces New Neoverse Compute Subsystems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LONDON - 19 February, 2024]VIRTUS Data Centres, part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, has announced plans for a new data centre campus that will be built on a recently acquired 50 acre freehold plot in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, close to the existing data centre hub of Slough, west of London. This strategic initiative [...]The post Virtus Open AI-Ready Data Center in Buckinghamshire appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MELBOURNE & SYDNEY- February 19, 2024-Arcitecta, a data management software company, announced enhancements to its Mediaflux Livewire offering that address the challenges of transmitting data over low-bandwidth and unreliable network connections. With the latest Mediaflux Livewire, customers can securely and reliably transfer massive file volumes at light speed around the globe, fostering collaboration and allowing [...]The post Arcitecta Unveils Global Data Transfer Capabilities appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN DIEGO and GRENOBLE, France - Feb. 20, 2024 - University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti scientists report they have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density. This new power topology, which extends beyond existing topologies, blends the advantages of piezoelectric converters [...]The post UCSD and CEA-Leti Paper: DC-DC Converter Unifies Power Switches on a Single Chip appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Espoo, Finland, 20thFebruary 2024-IQM Quantum Computers announced it has achieved its latest benchmarks measured on its 20-qubit quantum computer. Among the system-level benchmarks IQMobtained: Quantum Volume (QV) of 2^5=32 Circuit Layer Operations Per Second (CLOPS) of 2600 20-qubit GHZ state with fidelity greater than 0.5 Q-score of 11 Quantum volume (QV) is a benchmark that [...]The post IQM Quantum Reports Benchmarks on 20-Qubit System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center today announced Cardinal," an HPC cluster (test node is pictured here) that the center said doubles its AI processing capacity. The system is scheduled to be launched in the second half of this year. A collaboration including Intel, Dell Technologies, Nvidia....The post Ohio Supercomputer Center Announces Cardinal' HPC Cluster, Doubles AI Processing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Feb 20, 2024 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a collaboration to deliver Arm Cortex-X CPU developed on Samsung Foundry's Gate-All-Around (GAA) process technology. This initiative is built on a partnership with devices shipped with Arm CPU intellectual property on various process nodes offered by Samsung Foundry. This collaboration will lead to [...]The post Samsung Collaborates with Arm on Cortex-X CPU appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations run HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy-efficient way. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, improve energy efficiency by running more HPC simulations and AI/ML applications at scale using on-demand AWS compute infrastructure.The post Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.