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San Francisco-based data and AI startup Databricks today announced a $1.3 billion deal to acquire generative AI platform MosaicML, whose large language models (MPT-7B and MPT-30B) have more than 3.3 million downloads. The goal of the acquisition: reduce the time and cost of large language model training for generative AI, the companies said. Databricks, which [...]The post Generative AI: Databricks to Acquire MosaicML for $1.3B appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT. This growth is not surprising given how data centers at the edge have the potential to improve productivity for emerging, bandwidth-intensive business applications, speed up real-time decision making and reduce IT costs. However, edge IT deployments - particularly HPC-class edge computing and data storage - pose special requirements that must be taken into consideration.The post Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amazon Web Services today announced the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, in which the company is investing $100 million to help customers build genAI solutions. Customers will work with generative AI strategists, data scientists, engineers and solutions architects from AWS and the AWS Partner Network to select models, define paths to navigate technical or business [...]The post AWS Investing $100M in Generative AI Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - June 22, 2023 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced a partnership with Switzerland-based QuantumBasel to jointly establish a European quantum data center. The companies said the transaction is expected to bring two systems, one that will be capable of #AQ 35 followed by another system capable of #AQ [...]The post IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on European Quantum Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel today announced the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with 10,624 compute blades. Putting a stake in the ground, Intel said in its announcement that later this year, Aurora is expected to be the world's first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops ... [...]The post Intel Announces Installation of Aurora Blades Is Complete, Expects System to be First to Achieve 2 ExaFLOPS appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif.-June 22, 2023-MemVerge, a cloud automation company, today unveiled Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company's Cloud Automation 2.0 technology. The platform is aimed at analytic application users and intended to empower those who are non-cloud experts to take advantage of cloud computing. Memory Machine Cloud is designed to deliver [...]The post MemVerge Introduces Memory Machine Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - June 21, 2023 - High performance data storage and management company DDN today announced it has been selected alongsideHelmholtz Munichas a winner of the2023 AI Breakthrough Awards for the Best AI-based Solution for Life Sciences" category. DDN and Helmholtz Munich were recognized for their work in accelerating AI-driven discoveries that deliver benefits [...]The post DDN and Helmholtz Munich Receive 2023 AI Breakthrough Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel Labs, in collaboration with Blockade Labs, has introduced Latent Diffusion Model for 3D (LDM3D), a diffusion model that uses generative AI to create 3D visual content. Intel said LDM3D is the industry's first model to generate a depth map using the diffusion process to create 3D images with 360-degree views that are vivid and [...]The post GenAI: Intel Labs Introduces AI Diffusion Model for 360-Degree Images from Text Prompts appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative team of scientists, software developers, and hardware integration specialists from across the Department of Energy(DOE) has developed the Exascale Atomistics for Accuracy, Length, and Time(EXAALT) application to bring molecular dynamics (MD) into the exascale era. Danny Perez, a physicist within the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the project's principal investigator says, We've implemented new scalable methods that allow us to access as much of the accuracy, length and time space as possible on exascale machines by rethinking our methods and developing algorithms that go around some of the bottlenecks that limited scaling previously." Such a capability has potential to revolutionize MD.The post EXAALT-ing Molecular Dynamics to the Power of Exascale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV - (June 21, 2023) - Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, announced today the launch of Singularity Enterprise 2.3. The company said the update synergizes the Open Container Initiative (OCI) with the versatility of Singularity for interoperability between OCI-compatible containers and enabling users to leverage Singularity for complex, [...]The post Sylabs Announces Singularity Enterprise 2.3 for Hybrid Docker/Singularity Workflows appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 20, 2023 - The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected the Jules Verne Consortium to host and operate in France the second EuroHPC exascale supercomputer to exceed the threshold of 1 billion billion calculations per second. This new exascale supercomputer will be managed by GENCI (as hosting entity), the French [...]The post Jules Verne Consortium in France Will Host 2nd EuroHPC Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York - June 20, 2023 - Parrot, a platform for transcribing and managing depositions, made its public debut today announcing $11 million in Series A funding and the release of the first product offering AI-generated deposition summaries to legal professionals. Amplify Partners and XYZ Venture Capital led the round bringing the total funds raised [...]The post Parrot Unveils LLM AI Platform for Court Reporting, Raises $11M Series A Funding appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced that registration is now open for a bootcamp on Wednesday, July 19, that will introduce attendees to the Polaris HPC computing environment. Aimed at participants who have experience using clusters or supercomputers, the bootcamp will cover the PBS job scheduler, utilizing preinstalled environments, proper compiler and profiler use, [...]The post ALCF: Registration Open for Polaris HPC Bootcamp on July 19 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

GE Aerospace has announced that to support the development of a new open fan jet engine architecture, the organization has run simulations using Frontier, the world's no. 1 ranked supercomputer, housed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.To model engine performance and noise levels, GE Aerospace created computational fluid dynamics software to run [...]The post GE Aerospace Runs New Engine Architecture Simulations on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Doug Kothe knows about transitions, including transitions on a grand scale. The outgoing director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project helped transition the supercomputing industry into the exascale era. He took the ECP helm in October 2017, and in May 2022, the project reached a milestone with the certification of the Frontier [...]The post Outgoing Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe Takes on New Role at Sandia Labs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel has announced the release of its Tunnel Falls" quantum research chip, a 12-qubit silicon chip that the company is making available to the quantum research community. Intel also said it is collaborating with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland, College Park's Qubit Collaboratory (LQC), a national-level Quantum Information Sciences [...]The post Intel Quantum: Tunnel Falls' Silicon Spin Chip Available to Researchers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Quantum computing will define the 21st century. It's a once-in-a-generation, paradigm shift in computation performance ... The U.S. has long led the world in computing technologies and it already has tremendous assets and talent in quantum computing. However, it is very early days for quantum and long-term global leadership is far from assured. All of the leading industrial nations have declared quantum computing to be a strategic priority and are committing massive resources to it. According to a World Economic Forum report, public investment in quantum computing reached $30 billion in 2022 with China leading the way.The post How the U.S. Can Win the Quantum Computing Race appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug talk with University of Delaware's Sunita Chandrasekaran, a rock star in the world of supercomputing software. Chandrasekaran is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Information Systems and co-directing the AI Center of Excellence at the university.The post @HPCpodcast: HPC Software Rock Star Sunita Chandrasekaran on Exascale Programming and the Emergence of the RSE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum computing, published on the cover of the scientific journal Nature, demonstrating for the first time that quantum systems can produce accurate results at a scale of 100+ qubits r"eaching beyond leading classical approaches." An IBM research team conducted anexperiment that the [...]The post IBM Reports Accurate Quantum at 100+ Qubits appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV - June 14, 2022 - Sylabs, provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announces the Singularity Containers 101" curriculum. Using the open-source SingularityCE platform, this curriculum is designed for college programs, offering instruction in container technology. This program is built to prepare students to navigate and lead in the next [...]The post Sylabs Unveils Singularity Containers 101' Curriculum for Colleges appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 14, 2023 - RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.- Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced it has reached record annual AI infrastructure revenue of over US$2 billion and unveiled the next phase of its growth strategy, with an additional US$1 billion investment over three years to accelerate AI deployment for businesses. Fueled by increased global [...]The post Lenovo Reports AI Infrastructure Revenue Exceeded $2B appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company's first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.The post AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, Texas – June 13, 2023 – Oracle today announced plans to make available new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E5 instances with 4th generation AMD EPYC processors. Unlike other cloud providers’ rigid instance options that bind organizations to paying more for unused computing resources, flexible instances from OCI allow customers to allocate cores and […]The post Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Announces Instances Based on 4th Generation AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Austin, Texas—June 13, 2023 — Oracle today announced its plans to develop generative AI services. Oracle will provide native generative AI services designed to help organizations automate end-to-end business processes, improve decision-making and enhance customer experiences, in collaboration with Cohere, an AI platform for enterprise. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and leveraging Oracle’s Supercluster […]The post Oracle Partners with Cohere on Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SINGAPORE, 12th JUNE 2023 – Beyond Limits, an enterprise-grade AI software company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with IQM Quantum Computers, a European quantum computer company, designed to drive the advancement of quantum AI technology within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The partnership, which the companies said is the first between quantum computing and AI, […]The post Beyond Limits and IQM Quantum Announce APAC Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jun. 09, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for May 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for May 2023 was approximately NT$176.54 billion, an increase of 19.4 percent from April 2023 and a decrease of 4.9 percent from May 2022. Revenue for January through May […]The post TSMC Reports May 2023 Revenue Down 4.9% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The release of the latest IO500 ranking, the world's most authoritative storage performance metric, revealed that the Cheeloo-1 system led the way in the 10-node rankings, thanks to the system's use of Huawei OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage capabilities. The IO500 ranking evaluates and ranks storage system performance based on bandwidth (GiB/s) and metadata performance (kIOP/s), making it the most influential benchmark in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) storage. The 10-node ranking scales computing and measures storage performance with a high degree of accuracy, by simulating daily applications. This meticulous attention to detail makes the ranking highly relevant to HPC customers.The post Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage Tops IO500 Rankings appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C, Jun. 8, 2023—TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced the opening of its Advanced Backend Fab 6, the company’s first all-in-one automated advanced packaging and testing fab to realize 3DFabric integration of front-end to back-end process and testing services. The fab is prepared for mass production of TSMC-SoIC (System on Integrated Chips) […]The post TSMC Opens Backend Fab 6 for Expansion of 3DFabric System Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston – June 08, 2023 – Testing and digital quality company Applause today announced capabilities in assisting clients with the training, testing and validation of generative AI models. Applause has been empowering global organizations to deliver advanced and reliable AI-driven solutions for many years, and is now at the forefront of helping companies test their […]The post Applause Announces Generative AI Training, Testing and Validation through Crowdtesting Services appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY, June 8, 2023 — Quantum Brilliance, developer of miniaturised, room-temperature quantum computing products, today announced the release of Qristal SDK, an open-source software development kit for researching applications that integrate the company’s portable, diamond-based quantum accelerators. Previously in beta, the Quantum Brilliance Qristal SDK is now available to develop and test novel quantum algorithms […]The post Quantum Brilliance Releases Open-Source Software for Miniature Quantum Computers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, June 7, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Kunle Olukotun, a professor at Stanford University, is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions and leadership in the development of parallel systems, especially multicore and multithreaded processors. In the early 1990s, Olukotun became a leading designer of a new kind […]The post Multicore Processor Design Pioneer Prof. Kunle Olukotun Receives ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York’s Stony Brook University has announced it will soon deploy an Intel-powered HPE supercomputer for science and engineering research across multidisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, the social sciences and bioscience. The new solution is expected to be in production this summer and in operation sometime during the first semester of the 2023-24 academic year. […]The post Stony Brook Univ. to Deploy HPE Supercomputer Powered by Intel appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 6, 2023 — Amazon Web Services announced the availability of AWS Snowblade for the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. It is designed to provide AWS compute, storage and other hybrid services in remote locations, including Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments for the DoD. AWS Snowblade is […]The post For DoD Only: AWS Announces Snowblade Edge Device appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

IBM today announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data center next year in Ehningen, Germany, providing access to quantum computing for companies, research institutions and government agencies. The data center is expected to offer multiple IBM quantum systems, each with utility scale quantum processors, i.e., those of more than 100 qubits, according to […]The post IBM to Open European Quantum Data Center in 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HOUSTON – June 5, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the preview of a sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and a portfolio of sustainability services. The offerings, which span technology, services, financing and asset upcycling programs, are designed to help organizations reduce the carbon footprint associated with their IT […]The post HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent annual ISC 2023 HPC confab in Hamburg, a conference that this year showed growth in attendees and number of exhibitors, if not a return to pre-pandemic totals. Among the topics we cover: quantum computing, more discussion of the TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the rapid growth of HPC in Europe, and whether we live in times when “everyone” is a systems vendor (think NVIDIA and Microsoft). We also delve into an ISC keynote delivered by the University of Utah’s (and the National Science Board's) Dan Reed, one of the most influential HPC thinkers and planners, on the uncertainties afflicting the next generation of leadership-class supercomputers.The post @HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term of five years maturing in June 2028. According to the story by Greg Rosenvinge of Alliance News, this includes […]The post Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]The post Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – June 1, 2023 – RKVST announced it has been granted a U.S. patent that the company said enables practical scale for blockchains, putting an end to the limitless storage requirements that come with ever-growing transaction data, improving scalability, performance, availability and cost. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are emerging […]The post RKVST Granted Patent Enabling ‘Practical Scale for Blockchain’ appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier, the first supercomputer in the world to reach exascale. Frontier, which was launched this spring, can calculate more than 1 quintillion operations per second and […]The post Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]The post Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.