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The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) to build an Nvidia-powered 250 million high-performance computer, Blue Lion." The system will utilize the HPE Slingshot ....The post HPE to Build 250M Liquid Cooled HPC at Leibniz Supercomputing Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 13, 2024 - The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) - a collaboration of 37 academic and research institutions in the nine-state intermountain region - has set Wednesday-Friday, May 20-22, 2025 for its 15th Annual High Performance Computing Symposium to be held at the Wolf Law School on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. [...]The post RMACC's 15thAnnual HPC Symposium Set for May 20-22 in Boulder appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 13, 2024 - AI company Lambda today announced its Inference API, which the company said enables access to LLMs through a serverless AI for a fraction of a cent." The company said Lambda Inference API offers low-cost, scalable AI inference with such models as Meta's recently released Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (FP8) at $0.20 [...]The post Lambda Launches Inference API appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

With this profile of Argonne's Bethany Lusch, insideHPC begins a new series called The Vanguards, intended to spotlight up-and-coming thought leaders, creative thinkers and innovators in HPC-AI, in scientific and technical ....The post Introducing the insideHPC Vanguards: Tomorrow's HPC-AI Leaders Taking on Today's Big Challenges appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Kathryn Mohror was introduced to HPC in 2002 as a graduate student at Portland State University, where she studied new remote memory access features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). She got hooked on achieving the best performance possible ....The post insideHPC Vanguard: LLNL's Kathryn Mohror - A Passion for Managing Scientific Data appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Yorktown Heights, NY and Chicago - December 12, 2024 - Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced a collaboration to establish the National Quantum Algorithm Center in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) in Chicago. Anchored by IBM and other quantum computing pioneers including the University of Chicago and the University [...]The post IBM and State of Illinois Announce Quantum Initiative appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Vancouver, December 12th - AI vendor Iris.ai has announced a suite of services designed to enhance AI accuracy for companies building LLM solutions for internal and external commercial use. The RSpace Infrastructure solutions include Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-as-a-Service, advanced LLM evaluation frameworks, prompt optimization of user queries and high-precision data extraction capabilities to meet the growing [...]The post Iris.aiServices Announces Suite for AI and LLM Accuracy appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory plan to develop a facility for high-performance computing and AI research designed to enhance the university's research capabilities in science, energy and national security and create new jobs in southeast Michigan. The effort, part of a new partnership agreement, builds on a recently established research collaboration [...]The post Univ. of Michigan, Los Alamos to Develop HPC and AI Research Facility appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The call for proposals for the 2025 OCP EMEA SummitandFuture Technologies Symposium is open. The submission period for both conference ends Monday, Feb. 10 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. When submitting your proposal, please make sure to select the appropriate event: OCP EMEA Summit or OCP Future Technologies Symposium. If in doubt and require guidance, [...]The post Call for Proposals for Open Compute Project EMEA Summit and Future Technologies Symposium, Feb. 10 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Ghent, Belgium, 12 December 2024 - With compute demands growing to meet the insatiable appetite of AI applications, the 2024 cohort of HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award winners show how the HiPEAC (High Performance, Edge and Cloud computing) community is transforming the latest research into solutions fit for the most intense computing requirements. From an advanced [...]The post Europe: HiPEAC Announces 2024 Technology Transfer Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this Industry View" episode of the @HPCpodcast, special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC-class AI systems in a managed services model. We examine ....The post @HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Big HPC-AI Deployment Challenges and How to Overcome Them appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.,Dec. 11, 2024-Synopsys, Inc.(Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced the industry's firstUltra Ethernet IPandUALink IPsolutions, including controllers, PHYs, and verification IP, to meet the demand for standards-based, high-bandwidth, and low-latency HPC and AI accelerator interconnects. As hyperscale data center infrastructures evolve to support the processing of trillions of parameters in large language models, they must scale to [...]The post Synopsys Announces Ultra Ethernet and UALink IP Solutions to Connect AI Accelerator Clusters appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TOKYO, SEMICON Japan, Dec. 10, 2024-Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, today announced a collaboration withCadence Design Systems, Inc.to provide co-optimized AI-driven reference design flows and a broad IP portfolio. The new collaboration will support the Rapidus 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) process and leverage the design and manufacturing benefits from its backside power delivery [...]The post Rapidus Collaborates with Cadence on 2nm Semiconductor Solutions for HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TOKYO, SEMICON Japan, Dec. 10, 2024-Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, today announcedthat it has signed an agreementwithSynopsys Inc., a provider of silicon to systems design solutions, intended to enable a solution that will shorten design cycle time, using a new approach to natively model process sensitivity and variation in the design steps. [...]The post Rapidus Collaborates with Synopsys on Semiconductor Design appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE - Dec. 11, 2024-Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect company for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital. This brings the company's total funding to $370 million and raises the company's valuation to above $1 billion. The strength of the [...]The post Optical Interconnect: Ayar Labs Secures Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA in $155 Round appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 10, 2024 - CEA-Leti research engineers in France have demonstrated for the first time a scalable hafnia-zirconia-based ferroelectric capacitor platform integrated into the back-end-of-line (BEOL) at the 22nm FD-SOI technology node. Reported today at the IEDM 2024 conference, this represents an advance in ferroelectric memory technology, significantly advancing scalability for embedded [...]The post Memory: CEA-Leti Demonstrates Embedded FeRAM Platform Compatible with 22nm FD-SOI Node appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Dec. 10, 2024 - Data management and storage company Hammerspace today announced a collaboration with Supermicro to deliver a unified data platform for enterprise data centers and hybrid cloud storage. This collaboration allows Supermicro to resell Hammerspace's software platform on Supermicro servers to serve both file and object storage workloads while [...]The post Hammerspace and Supermicro in Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Storage Collaboration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Google has announced that its latest quantum computing system, Willow," delivers unprecedented performance on a quantum benchmark and has made significant advances in error correction: Willow can reduce errors "exponentially" ....The post Google: Willow' Quantum System Beats Classical HPC by Exascales appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 9, 2024 - AI developer cloud Lambda today announced a research grant to power AI researchers' most GPU-dependent workloads. Applications for the grant are now open and will be accepted on a rolling basis. AI researchers can apply here. Lambda said it expects to sponsor hundreds of researchers in the coming year, [...]The post Lambda Launches Grant for AI Researchers, Expands Research Program appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy December 9 to you! Here's a quick (7:23) review of news from the world of HPC-AI: Potential whys and wherefores of Pat Gelsinger exit from Intel, Marvell-AWS custom AI chip alliance, China comes out of the shadows ....The post HPC News Bytes 20241209: Gelsinger's Intel Exit, Marvell's Rising Star, Quantum in China appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced the expansion of its relationship with AI hyperscaler CoreWeave and reported that it is shipping Dell PowerEdge XE9712server racks withNVIDIA GB200 NVL72, which Dell said is an industry first, to support CoreWeave's Cloud Services Platform. CoreWeave will receive1 liquid-cooledDell IR7000racks with Dell PowerEdge XE9712 servers, supported by Dell's AI professional [...]The post Dell Shipping Blackwell-Powered Server Racks as Part of Relationship with CoreWeave for AI at Scale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the field and by as much as 200 percent in the greenhouse.The post HPC Helps Researchers Boost Tree Growth and Photosynthesis appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC-AI chip companies have built out and manage major major software development operations, and at SC24, we caught up with two software managers associated with Intel's open source software projects. Here is our ....The post At SC24: Intel, oneAPI and the UXL Foundation - Enabling Open Source Software for HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 5th December 2024 - AVK, a UK supplier of power solutions for data centers in Europe, and the business division Power Systems of Rolls-Royce have announced a record-breaking year of sales for hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO)-powered generators for data centers. HVO is a carbon-neutral biofuel made by the hydrocracking or hydrogenation of vegetable oil. [...]The post AVK and Rolls-Royce Report Green-Powered Data Center Generator Sales appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Rueil-Malmaison (France), December 05, 2024 - Energy management and automation company Schneider Electric today released two reports from its Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) regarding AI's impact on sustainability, particularly energy use. The first research,Artificial Intelligence and Electricity: A System Dynamics Approach, examines four possible scenarios for AI's electricity consumption over the next decade. Considering the [...]The post Schneider Electric Releases Research on AI's Energy Consumption Impact appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain,December 5, 2024-Multiverse Computing, a quantum and quantum-inspired AI software company, announced an investment from the largest Italian investor in venture capital CDP Venture Capital Sgr, as part of the company's Series A round. The investment was carried out through two compartments of the Corporate Partners I fund, ServiceTech and Energytech, a corporate [...]The post Quantum: CDP Venture Capital Invests in Multiverse Series A appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

When we last took a close look at QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), the data center, hyperscale and cloud server maker based in Taiwan, we pointed out that the company is a bigger player in the server industry than ....The post QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

QCT, the global data center solution provider with an expanding presence in the world of HPC-AI servers, is releasing a new hardware platform powered by NVIDIA GPUs and enhanced by the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.The post QCT Releases New Platform Powered by NVIDIA GPUs for GenAI at Scale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BEAVERTON, Ore. - December 5, 2024 -PCI-SIG, responsible for the PCI Express standard, today announced that it has reached 1,000 member companies. PCIe technology was first introduced in 2003 and is a key I/O interconnect for the storage industry and beyond. PCI-SIG, which marked 30 years of innovation in 2022, celebrates this achievement in anticipation [...]The post PCI-SIGReaches 1000 Member Companies Worldwide appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dr. Stephan Priebe is a Senior Engineer in the Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab at GE Aerospace Research in Niskayuna, NY. He became involved with HPC and AI ....The post insideHPC Vanguard: GE Aerospace's Stephan Priebe - Pushing the Frontiers of Simulation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 4, 2024 - Registration is now open for theEnergy High Performance Computing Conference at Rice University's Ken Kennedy Institute in House, Tuesday-Thursday, Feb. 25-27. Registration is here. For the past 18 years, the Energy HPC Conference has been annual forum on industry needs and challenges, opportunities, and new developments at the interface of energy, [...]The post Registration Opens for Energy HPC Conference at Rice Univ. Feb. 25-27 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC24, we caught up with Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing at data management platform vendor Hammerspace, a company at the headwaters of making data an instantly accessible and ....The post At SC24: Hammerspace on Making Data Accessible, Globally Shared and Silo-Free appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 4, 2024 - MLCommons today released AILuminate, a safety test for large language models. The v1.0 benchmark - which provides a series of safety grades for the most widely-used LLMs - is the first AI safety benchmark designed collaboratively by AI researchers and industry experts, according to MLCommons. It builds on MLCommons' track record [...]The post MLCommons Launches LLM Safety Benchmark appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 -- At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train ....The post AWS Announces EC2 UltraCluster and GA of Trainium2 Instances appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - December 3, 2024-Hammerspace announced contributions to the Linux kernel designed to transform standard Linux servers into platforms for enterprise, AI and HPC file and object storage. These contributions - engineered by Hammerspace and available as part of standard Linux distributions - enable enterprises to achieve unprecedented performance and scalability with trusted, [...]The post Hammerspace Announces Contributions to the Linux Kernel for Enterprise and HPC-AI Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Valvoline Global has taken its engine cooling and lubrication heritage going back more than a century and announced at SC24 its HPC-AI liquid cooling debut. In this interview, we spoke with Samuel Raudales, Valvoline Global's ....The post At SC24: Valvoline Global Revs up HPC-AI Liquid Cooling with Debut in Atlanta appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 20224 - For applicants and recipients of Department of Energy (DOE) financial assistance and loan funding, a newly published Research Technology and Economic Security Framework" highlights DOE's goals, process, high-level risk factors, and commitment to mitigation when assessing RTES risk. This framework codifies a harmonized approach across all DOE/NNSA funding offices, while also [...]The post DOE Announces Research, Technology and Economic Security Framework appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 2024 -- The Julich Supercomputing Centre(JSC) at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany received a 100-qubit quantum computer from neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal in mid-November.The post Pasqal 100-Qubit Quantum Computer Shipped to Julich Supercomputing Centre appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C.-Dec. 2, 2024 - Red Hat, Inc., open source solutions provider, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale availability of Red Hat open source solutions in AWS Marketplace, building upon the two companies' long-standing relationship. Red Hat intends to help organizations with leading hybrid cloud platforms, [...]The post Red Hat Signs Agreement with AWS for Virtualization and AI in Hybrid Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amsterdam, December 2, 2024 - Nebius Group N.V.; NASDAQ:NBIS), an AI infrastructure company, today announced s definitive agreements for a USD 700 million private placement financing from a group of institutional and accredited investors, including participation from Accel, NVIDIA, and certain accounts managed by Orbis Investments. The financing supports Nebius' previously announced plans to further [...]The post Nebius Announces $700M Equity Financing for AI Infrastructure Rollout appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 2024, Santa Clara, CA: Tenstorrent said it closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the oversubscribed round.In addition to the leads, other investors joined the round including XTX Markets, Corner Capital, MESH, Export Development Canada, Healthcare of Ontario Pension [...]The post Tenstorrent Closes $693M+ Series D Round appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA -- Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced that Pat Gelsinger, the company's CEO since February 2021, has retired from the company after a 40-plus-year career and has stepped down from the board of directors, effective immediately.The post Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In our continuing series on HPC-AI Vanguards, in which we recognize young members of the HPC-AI community showing potential to become industry leaders of tomorrow, we here profile Si Hammond, Federal Program Manager at the National ....The post insideHPC Vanguard: NNSA's Si Hammond and the Almost Impossible' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 26, 2024: AMD today announced the release of ROCm Version 6.3 open-source platform, introducing tools and optimizations for AI, ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct GPU accelerators. ROCm 6.3 is engineered for a range of organizations, from AI startups to HPC-driven industries, and is designed to enhance developer productivity Features of this release [...]The post AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PARIS, 26th November 2024 - Alice & Bob, a fault-tolerant quantum computing company, today announced Felis 1.0, its toolbox with logical qubit emulator designed to help users prepare for quantum computing by facilitating the transition from NISQ to fault-tolerant algorithms. Many business leaders have yet to realize that the quantum algorithms their teams develop will [...]The post Quantum: Alice & Bob Announce Logical Qubit Emulator appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 20, 2024: The National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsandVAST Dataare giving supercomputing systemDeltaand thenewly launched DeltaAIa boost in their storage and application performance. NCSA launched Harbor, a service that provides fast storage for global home and software directories across all NCSA open-science resources. Its deployment has led to a 400 percent increase in application launch [...]The post Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Storage Upgrade for NCSA Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We sat down with DDN co-founder and CEO Alex Bouzari at SC24 to discuss new trends in high performance storage - or, as Bouzari refers to DDN's core offering, its data intelligence platform. Bouzari is a stalwart of modern HPC ....The post At SC24: Alex Bouzari on HPC-AI Trends Driving DDN's Data Intelligence Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Thanksgiving week to you Americans and a happy last week of November to the rest of the world. Here's a rapid (6:43) run-through of recent news and trends from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC24 in Atlanta ....The post HPC News Bytes 20241125: SC24 Hit Show in Atlanta, Hyperion's Booming Market Update, Report: TSMC Tech in Huawei AI Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.