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COLLEGE PARK, MD - Sept. 11, 2024 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Maryland today announced an agreement to expand their partnership to provide quantum computing access at the National Quantum Lab at Maryland (QLab), which provides UMD-affiliated students, faculty, researchers, staff and partners with an unprecedented opportunity to work [...]The post IonQ and the University of Maryland in $9M Quantum Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Julich Supercomputing Centre in Germany announced the start of installation for Europe's first exascale-class supercomputer, Jupiter. The first containers of the modular data center for the have been positioned ....The post Installation Starts at JSC for Jupiter, Europe's First Exascale HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE - 10 September 2024 - Cloud data platforms company Qumulo today announced the availability of Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on Amazon Web Services. This release delivers a multi-protocol system designed to manage unstructured data with superior performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Now publicly available on AWS, CNQ is set to revolutionize enterprise data [...]The post Qumulo Announces Cloud Native Unstructured Data System on AWS appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER, Sept. 10, 2024- Power transmission and fluid power product maker Gates(NYSE:GTES) announced the launch of the Data Master Data Center Cooling Hose. This fluid conveyance solution, a result of Gates Eco-Innovation process, is intended for data center liquid cooling applications driven by compute-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence. This addition to Gates' fluid conveyance [...]The post Gates Launches Data Master Hose for Data Center Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ISC 2025 Contributed Program is now open for submissions. Scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government are invited to submit proposals. The contributed program comprises research papers, posters, birds of a feather, tutorials and workshop sessions.The post ISC 2025 Is Open for Submissions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, CA - Sept. 10th, 2024 - AI chips and models company SambaNova Systems announced SambaNova Cloud AI inference service powered by its SN40L AI chip. The company said developers can log on for free via an API today - no waiting list - and create their own generative AI applications using both the [...]The post SambaNova Launches AI Inference Cloud Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 10, 2024 - San Diego - DDC Solutions, formerly DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of hybrid liquid-air cooling cabinet technology and dynamic monitoring and management DCIM software, announced the expansion of its engineering leadership team.DDC has hired Paul Bartlett as Chief Operating Officer and Tom Demitras as VP of Engineering to scale design and manufacturing [...]The post DDC Expands Engineering Leadership Team appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good late summer morning to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a quick (6:10) recap of recent news developments, including: DOE's $23M future of HPC RFP ....The post HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240909: AI vs. Copyright, TSMC's CoWoS Capacity, Intel's 18A Fab, an RFP for the Future of HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

September 5, 2024, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy announced $68 million in funding for 11 AI for science multi-institution projects, comprising 43 awards lasting up to three years, with $20 million in Fiscal Year 2024 dollars and outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and more information can be [...]The post DOE Announces $68M for AI for Scientific Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Office of Science in the U.S. Dept. of Energy announced a $23 million research and development opportunity led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance technologies and drive new capabilities for future supercomputers.The post New Frontiers': $23M DOE RFP to Define the Future of HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 6, 2024 - AI cloud hyperscaler CoreWeave announced an integration with AI workload and GPU orchestration company Run:ai that the companies say is designed to offers AI enterprises and labs options for deployment of AI inference and training. The integration enables CoreWeave customers to manage workloads on its high-performance infrastructure using the Run:ai platform. [...]The post CoreWeave Partners with Run:ai on AI Inference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 5, 2024, Stony Brook, NY - Arie Kaufman, distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, has been honored with the SC24 Test of Time Award (TOTA) for supercomputing for his seminal 2004 paper, GPU Cluster for High Performance Computing." Two decades ago, Kaufman, along with Postdoc Suzanne Yoakum-Stover and [...]The post Stony Brook's Arie Kaufman Wins 2024 SC24 Test of Time Award for Supercomputing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 5, 2024 - HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum announced that nominations are open for the 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Winners will be announced at the Hyperion Research AI/HPC Market Update Breakfast Briefing during SC24 this November in Atlanta. To nominate a candidate, use the application form found [...]The post Nominations Open for 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DALLAS, Sept. 05, 2024 - Applied Digital Corporation, a builder of digital infrastructure designed for high performance computing applications, today announced it has entered into definitive agreements for a $160 million private placement financing priced at market, from a group of institutional and accredited investors, NVIDIA and related companies, the most prominent privately-owned real estate [...]The post Nvidia and Others Invest $160M in HPC Data Center Company Applied Digital appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HOUSTON - September 5, 2024 -Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announces HPE Private Cloud AI is available to order and introduces new solution accelerators to automate and streamline artificial intelligence applications. HPE Private Cloud AI is a turnkey, cloud-based experience co-developed with NVIDIA to help businesses of every size build and deploy generative AI applications [...]The post HPE Introduces Private Cloud AI Co-Developed with Nvidia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Copenhagen - September 4th, 2024 - Nordic coloction HPC and AI service provider atNorth has announced plans to build its largest data center to date in Olgod in Varde Denmark. The site, to be known as DEN02, will cater to colocation and build-to-suit projects and will be designed for hyperscalers and companies that run AI [...]The post atNorth Announces Heat Reuse at Denmark Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE and LAUREL, Md.- High performance storage and management company VDURA has announced a partnership with Jeskell Systems, a renowned IT modernization specialist with nearly two decades of experience serving Federal and commercial clients globally. VDURA said the collaboration aims to deliver industry leading data storage solutions that enhance operational performance, resilience, and security [...]The post VDURA Announces Partnership with Jeskell Systems for IT Modernization appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ....The post TACC's Vista' AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 4, 2024 - Ten Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) designed to bring together teams of scientists for fundamental research have been funded in nine states by the U.S. Department of Energy. The projects are: A Center for Power Electronics Materials and Manufacturing Exploration at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. Quantum Photonic [...]The post DOE Awards $118M for Energy Frontier Research Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 3, 2024 - Dr. Kathryn Mohror, a distinguished member of technical staff and deputy director of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been named the winner of the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing award. The Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award honors mid-career [...]The post Livermore Lab's Dr. Kathryn Mohror Wins ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy Labor Day to you! From the world of HPC-AI, we offer a rapid (5:57) review of recent news, including: Nvidia and Blackwell push technology's limits, big AI inference numbers ....The post HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately 3,000 km one-way network, according to the companies.The post NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced it has built a sixth generation HPC cluster, Iridis 6, for the University of Southampton... The cluster was built using HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors for computational science at-scale ....The post UK's University of Southampton Deploys HPE Iridis' 6 HPC System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 29, 2024 - The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program. This investment will fund 23 research projects aiming to break new ground in fields such as quantum computing, sensors and [...]The post NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 - Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernize how the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) performs patent examinations. The agency receives hundreds of thousands of applications annually which all need to be reviewed before a patent [...]The post Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RENO, Nev. - August 28, 2024 - Software infrastructure company CIQ today released the Fuzzball computing and data management platform for performance-intensive computing (PIC). CIQ said it is shipping new capabilities in Fuzzball, giving individual researchers tools designed to access PIC resources faster and without having to learn and manage infrastructure provisioning and management. CIQ [...]The post CIQReleases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE-Aug. 28, 2024- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing Service, a new managed service that helps customers set up and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters so they can run scientific and engineering workloads at virtually any scale on AWS. The [...]The post AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and ....The post Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference Benchmark for GenAI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 26, 2024 - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers(SDC Austin) as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Horizon is part of the nation's newly announced National Science Foundation-fundedLeadership-Class Computing Facility(LCCF), which will revolutionize America's computational research for the next [...]The post TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, according to the company, making it 20 times faster than GPU-based solutions in hyperscale clouds.The post Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good August morning to you! We offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL exascale power needs enters NM politics, underground nuclear power for AI, AMD-ZT Systems dealThe post HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C.-August 26, 2024 - Open source software company Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, the next release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The company said this is a step forward in how enterprises, particularly telecommunication service providers, can better unify traditional and cloud-native networks into a singular [...]The post Red Hat Announces Availability of OpenStack Services on OpenShift appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an in-person hands-on HPC workshop from Tuesday, Oct. 29 to Thursday, Oct. 31, at the TCS Conference Center at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL. The deadline to register is Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. For late registration, email alcfevents@alcf.anl.gov. The workshop will provide hands-on time on the Polaris supercomputer [...]The post ALCF In-Person HPC Workshop, Oct. 29-31 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] QCT - a.k.a. Quanta Cloud Technology - is a bigger player in the data center server business than some might think. The Taiwan-based company, a long-term partner of Intel's, reports that it produces one in every seven ....The post QCT's New Server Portfolio Addresses Full Range of High-Demand Data Center Needs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 22, 2024 - SandiaNational Laboratories and Arizona State University are collaborating to combine quantum technology and large-scale optical systems into integrated microsystems. Nils Otterstrom, a Sandia physicist specializing in integrated photonics, is working on scaling down optical systems to the size of a chip, which is intended to offer performance advantages and scalability for [...]The post Sandia and Arizona State to Integrate Photonics and Light-Wave Frequency for Quantum Processing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CARROLLTON, Texas, August 22, 2024 - Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced the availability of CDU-1MW, a high-performance coolant distribution unit (CDU) designed to be universally compatible with commercial direct-to-chip (DTC) solutions. LiquidStack's CDU-1MW system is available now. Built for advanced computing applications such as generative AI, large language models and HPC, LiquidStack's [...]The post LiquidStack Launches Universally Compatible' Coolant Distribution Unit appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced it has completed the buildout of its Kestrel supercomputer, slated to reach 44 petaflops of computing power focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency research. Built by Hewlett ....The post HPE Kestrel' Supercomputer Operational at NREL appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Dr. Michael Heroux as ....The post @HPCpodcast: ECP Software Leader Mike Heroux on Building and Sustaining Exascale-Class Codes appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, Texas,Aug. 20, 2024 - Today, the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces a collaboration to test development and deployment of low-embodied carbon concrete or green concrete." While numerous emerging technologies exist to achieve production of low carbon concrete, adoption has not yet scaled. This proactive and collaborative demonstration project is an important step towards [...]The post Open Compute Project Foundation and Hyperscalers to Trial Low-Carbon Green Concrete' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 19, 2024, Austin, TX - More than 50 scientists gathered in Austin for the 2024 Frontera User Meeting held at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), August 5-6. This community of computational scientists and engineers from across the U.S. presented recent discoveries from research projects, discussed plans for future systems, and exchanged views on [...]The post Academic Supercomputing Community Gathers at TACC Frontera User Meeting appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DRESDEN, Germany, August 20, 2024- ESMC - a joint venture between TSMC, Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors N.V. - today held a groundbreaking ceremony to officially mark the initial phase of land preparation for its first semiconductor fab in Dresden, Germany. Together with our partners, Bosch, Infineon and NXP, we are [...]The post TSMC Joint Venture Breaks Ground on Dresden Fab appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif.- Aug. 20, 2024 - Data intelligence platform company DDN today announced it has been certified as a tier-one performance data solution forNVIDIA PartnerNetworkcloud partners, collaborating with NVIDIA to deliver an integrated, proven reference architecture for accelerated AI cloud infrastructure. DDN said it provides the world's leading data intelligence platform for cloud service providers [...]The post DDN Wins Tier-1 Performance Data Platform Certification for Nvidia Partner Network Cloud Partners appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TOKYO - August 20, 2024 - NTT Corporation (NTT) has developed technology to visualize the state of end-to-end fiber-optic links without using measuring equipment and succeeded, according to the company, for the first time in demonstrating the world's highest accuracy in a North American field-deployed environment simulating a commercial network. This technology will advance the [...]The post NTT Demonstrates Optical Fiber Monitoring Technology for All-Photonics Network appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 20, 2024 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar tomorrow from 11 am to noon Central Time covering chipStar, a HIP implementation for Aurora, the exascale-class supercomputer housed at Argonne. Registration information can be found here. ALCF Performance Engineering Team Lead Brice Videau will present chipStar, Argonne's implementation of HIP, and [...]The post Aug. 21 Argonne Webinar on chipStar: a HIP implementation for Aurora Exascale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 20, 2024- Quantum computing company Diraq announced it has demonstrated consistent and repeatable operation with above 99 percent fidelity of two-qubit gates in the SiMOS (silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor) quantum dot platform. Consistent performance is key to the underlying integrity and capability of multi-qubit systems, with reliability and consistency in high-fidelity entangling operations [...]The post Diraq Says It Drives 2-Qubit Gate Accuracy in CMOS above 99% appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Zurich - August 19, 2024: Deep tech startupApheros is today announcing a $1.85m funding round the company will use to introduce its metal foam technologyfor data center cooling. Apheros said its patented manufacturing process creates foam structures with open porosity and surface area, which translates into exceptional heat transfer and flow properties. Ideal for high [...]The post Female-led Swiss Start-up Apheros Secures $1.85M for Data Center Cooling Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In a vertical integration move, AMD today announced an agreement to acquire data center and hyperscale systems supplier ZT Systems for nearly $5 billion. The acquisition underscores the high-stakes competition AMD is waging ....The post Upping the AI Ante: AMD to Acquire Data Center Server Company ZT Systems for $5B appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.