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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.

August 19, 2024: Silicon Valley hardware startupFabric Cryptography announced a $33 million Series A funding round to build computing chips, software and cryptographic algorithms. The round was co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx, with participation from others in the sector, such as Offchain Labs, Polygon and Matter Labs. It follows a $6 million seed round [...]The post Fabric Cryptography Raises $33M for Cryptography Chip appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

English professors at Clemson University and Portland State University have been awarded a six-figure research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct fieldwork and interviews at Argonne ....The post 2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 16, 2024 - AI and quantum technology company SandboxAQ announced that Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has joined SandboxAQ's advisory board. I am excited to join the Board of Advisors at SandboxAQ, a company at the forefront of integrating AI and advanced compute to tackle some of the most [...]The post SandboxAQ Adds Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Dr. Lawrence H. Summers to Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, Aug. 13, 2024 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that it has initiated the Luiz Andre Barroso Awardto recognize researchers from historically underrepresented communities who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. Nomination information for the ACM Luiz Andre Barroso Award can be foundhere. For questions, contact the ACM at [...]The post Dec. 15 Nomination Deadline for ACM Award to Recognize Researchers from Historically Underrepresented Communities appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 15, 2024 - New Haven, CT -Quantum Circuits announced it has secured a final Series B investment round of more than $60 million. The company said the funds will provide additional capital support as the company prepares to commercialize its quantum systems with an industry first - error detection built into a more powerful [...]The post Quantum Circuits Closes $60M Series B Investment appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add Nvidia H100 ....The post GPU Boost: $5M NSF Enhancement for PSC's Bridges-2 HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug 13, 2024, TAMPA, Fla. - Lumina AI, an artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies company, announced the appointment of Trish Damkroger to its Board of Directors. Currently serving as Senior Vice President and GM for HPC and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Damkroger has been instrumental in shaping the company's AI strategy and [...]The post Lumina AI Adds HPE's Trish Damkroger to Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 14, 2024 - Today RISC-V computing company SiFive announced its SiFive PerformanceTM P870-D datacenter processor for highly parallelizable infrastructure workloads including video streaming, storage, and web appliances. When used in combination with products from the SiFive Intelligence product family, datacenter architects can also build a high-performance, energy efficient compute subsystem for [...]The post SiFive Announces RISC-V Datacenter Processor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 13, 2024 - The National Science Foundation said it is seeking nominations for candidates that represent the diversity of the U.S. Nominations for the Alan T Waterman Award will be accepted until Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Visit here for nominations requirements and to access the nomination portal. The Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes an [...]The post NSF: Call for Nominations for $1M Alan T. Waterman Award, Sept. 20 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has updated its market sizing for the HPC market to include "AI-centric servers" from non-traditional HPC suppliers, such as Nvidia, Cerebras, SambaNova and SuperMicro ....The post Hyperion Adds AI-Centric Servers' to HPC Industry Sizing, Boosts Overall Market by 37% appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.,Aug. 13, 2024 - TwoIBM-developed algorithms have been formalized within the world's first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which were published today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), IBM announced The standards include three post-quantum cryptographic algorithms: two of them, ML-KEM (originally known as CRYSTALS-Kyber) and ML-DSA [...]The post IBM-Developed Algorithms Accepted for Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 12, 2024 - The ARCTIC (Advanced Research on Cryogenic Technologies for Innovative Computing"), an EU project, is intended to establish a European supply chain for cryogenic photonics, microelectronics, and, in general, cryo-microsystems around the emerging quantum computing industry and different cryo-enabled ICT applications. The performance requirements asked from electronic devices and circuits at cryogenic [...]The post EU Launches Cryogenic Quantum Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good mid-August morn to you! Here's a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including: the UK government cuts more than 1 billion for an exascale-class system in Edinburgh and AI projects; Groq scores major investment round for its AI inference technology; Llama 3.1 model and the debate over open source AI; will SC24 be the largest ever?The post HPC News Bytes 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24 the Biggest Ever? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Four scientists have each been awarded $1 million in direct funding via the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows program. The 2024 DOEOffice of Science Distinguished Fellows ....The post DOE Announces 2024 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ROSELAND, N.J.,Aug. 8, 2024 - GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced the appointment of Chen Goldbergas Senior Vice President of Engineering, as well asSachin Jainas its new Chief Operating Officer. Goldberg has more than 25 years of experience leading global engineering teams, product R&D initiatives, and high-profile customer engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises. She joins [...]The post CoreWeave Adds Managers from Google, Oracle appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Aug. 9, 2024 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2024 was approximately NT$256.95 billion, an increase of 23.6 percent from June 2024 and an increase of 44.7 percent from July 2023. Revenue for January through July [...]The post TSMC Reports July Revenue up 45% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 9 2024 - The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the initial $5 million investment across five pilot projects taking the first steps toward creating the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL), a first-of-its-kind national resource to enable faster discovery and development of use-inspired quantum technologies. The lab's goal is to realize practical advantages [...]The post NSF National Quantum Virtual Lab Initiates 5 Pilot Projects appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 8, 2024 -Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a next step in their partnership to bring cloud, AI and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. The companies said this is an integrated suite of technology that will allow national security missions to operationalize Microsoft's large language [...]The post Palantir and Microsoft Partner on AI for National Security appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

(We need) ... smarter networks that use software to identify areas of congestion and potential outages - and which can automatically respond, self-configure, self-optimize, and self-heal as needed. This next-level, coherent network intelligence ....The post Preparing Networks for the Growing Demands of HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AMD has released a version 6.2 of its ROCm software stack for GPU programming. Global AI GPU Product Marketing Manager Ronak Shah wrote a blog in support of the announcement: Whether you're working on cutting-edge AI models, developing next-gen AI applications, or optimizing complex simulations, this new release brings amazing performance, efficiency, and scalability enhancements. [...]The post AMD Announces ROCm 6.2 Software Stack for GPU Programming appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPE's planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks has won crucial clearances from two European antitrust regulatory bodies. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which began a Phase 1 inquiry ....The post HPE Acquisition of Juniper Networks OK'd by UK Competition Authority appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston, 7th August 2024 - New research from neutral atom quantum compuing company QuEra Computing says that over half of quantum academics, scientists, and professionals (51 percent) believe the technology is making faster progress than they expected, with 40 percent saying it will become a superior alternative to classical computing for certain workloads within the [...]The post QuEra Survey Says Quantum Is Developing Faster than Expected appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.