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COLLEGE PARK, MD - AUG. 6, 2024 - IonQ announced today it has won a contract through a competitive solicitation with the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) to design a first-of-its-kind, networked quantum computing system for the Department of Defense (DOD). The first phase of the project - awarded at $5.7 million [...]The post IonQ Awarded $5.7M for DOD Quantum System Design appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 6, 2024, Cambridge, UK and Boston, MA - Quantum error correction company Riverlane announced it has raised $75 million in Series C funding to deliver its quantum error correction (QEC) roadmap. The company said the funding will enable Riverlane to expand operations to meet demand for QEC technology, with the goal of achieving 1 [...]The post Quantum Error Correction Company Riverlane Raises $75M Series C appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel - August 6, 2024 -LightSolver, maker of a laser-based computing paradigm, today announced that it has been selected for theEuropean Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Program. The company will receive an initial grant of 2.5 million from the EIC Fund combined with a future equity investment of 10 million, totaling 12.5M. This recognition [...]The post Laser-Based Startup LightSolver Wins 12.5M from European Innovation Council appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, August 6, 2024 - Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the expansion of its Vectra AI Platform, which now equips security operations center (SOC) teams with active posture to proactively discover and pinpoint where their hybrid environment is exposed to attackers. With this expansion, Vectra [...]The post Vectra AI Expands XDR Platform to Monitor Attack Exposure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 5, 2024 - The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). A $3.15-million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will fund the system's operations, making it available without cost for non-commercial [...]The post NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amid the gloom of the technology industry meltdown on Wall Street, AI inference chip startup Groq announced today it has secured a $640 million Series D round at a valuation of $2.8 billion. Groq also announced that Stuart Pann, formery at HP and Intel ....The post AI Inference Chip Startup Groq Raises $640M appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHANDLER, Ariz., August 5, 2024 - Microchip Technology(Nasdaq: MCHP)has released theFlashtec NVMe 5016 Solid State Drive (SSD) controller. The 16-channel, PCIe Gen 5 NVM Express (NVMe) controller is designed to offer higher levels of bandwidth, security and flexibility. Data center technology must evolve to keep up with the significant advancements occurring in AI and Machine [...]The post Microchip Introduces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controllers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 5, 2024 -The EPICURE project is a European-led initiative that seeks to provide support services (Level 2 and Level 3) to EuroHPC supercomputers' users with the intent to build a knowledge-sharing platform for continuous training, allowing users to easily move from one high-performance computing system to another. Until now, the support provided to HPC [...]The post EPICURE Offers Support for EU HPC End Users appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In collaboration with U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), HPC4EI will hold an in-person workshop to review program operations and explore future directions. The workshop will be held at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [...]The post HPC4EI Workshop to Be Held Aug. 20-22 at Livermore appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

It's been a rough week for Big Tech, both on Wall Street and at the U.S. Department of Justice, with share prices in the chip sector taking major hits and, now, the DOJ opening two antitrust probes into Nvidia, according to an article in The Information. Intel's stock ....The post Chip Sector under Fire: DOJ Probes Nvidia, Big Intel Layoff appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The world's fastest supercomputer helped researchers simulate synthesizing a material harder and tougher than a diamond - or any other substance on Earth. The studyusedFrontier, the HPE Cray EX supercomputing system at the Department of Energy's Oak ....The post Exascale: Frontier Simulations Could Lead to a Superdiamond' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 1, 2024 - Leopard Imaging Inc., a vision solutions design and manufacturing company, has collaborated with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) on the GS500 AI vision system, empowering smart cities and industrial automation. The GS500 features the GS500-MIPI camera, equipped with the intelligent vision sensor IMX500 from Sony, and powered by their [...]The post Leopard Imaging and Sony Semiconductor Collaborate on Smart City AI-Based Imaging appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

July 31, 2024 - Quantinuum has announced the beta availability of Quantinuum Nexus, which is designed to simplify quantum computing workflows with full-stack support. The company said it is inviting users to apply for beta availability; accepted users can work with Quantinuum on how Nexus can be adopted and customized. Quantinuum said Nexus was developed [...]The post Quantinuum Introduces Nexus Quantum Computing Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Beaverton, Oregon - August 1, 2024 - The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 13: the final public comment draft of version 6.0 of the OpenMP API. V6.0 will be released in November 2024. Implementers and users are encouraged to provide public comment on the proposed API. Comment can be sent to [...]The post OpenMP ARB Releases Public Comment Draft of OpenMP 6.0 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CORNING, NY, Aug. 1, 2024 - Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable. This fiber-dense cable will more than double Lumen's U.S. intercity fiber miles, offering capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high [...]The post Corning and Lumen in Agreement on Fiber-Optic Cable for Data Center AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 1st August, 2024 - Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing, has today announced it has appointed Pete Judson as its new Chief Operating Officer. With more than 30 years of operational leadership experience across the complete spectrum of data centre life cycle services, Judson [...]The post Kao Data Appoints Judson COO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WASHINGTON-August 1, 2024-The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced Dr. Aart de Geus, Synopsys executive chair and founder, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of SIA's highest honor, theRobert N. Noyce Award. SIA presents the Noyce Award annually in recognition of a leader who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry in technology [...]The post Synopsys' de Geus to Receive Semiconductor Industry's Robert Noyce Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON, August 1, 2024 - Neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra today announced the launch of the QuEra Quantum Alliance Partner Program. This initiative aims to accelerate the development, deployment, and utilization of neutral-atom quantum computers to solve the world's most challenging computational problems. Through the QuEra Quantum Alliance, QuEra's goal is to identify and collaborate [...]The post QuEra Launches Quantum Alliance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

West Palm Beach, FL. - July 30, 2024 - Privately held cloud platform Vultr, theworld's largest, privately held cloud computing platform,today announced thatRun:ai, a leader in AI optimization and orchestration, is the latest ecosystem partner to join itsCloud Alliance. Run:ai's advanced AI workload orchestration platform, coupled with Vultr's robust, scalable cloud infrastructure - including Vultr [...]The post Vultr and Run:ai Partner on NVIDIA GPU Orchestration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Seoul, July 30, 2024 - SK hynix Inc. announced the introduction of a GDDR7 graphics memory product. Graphics DDR(GDDR) is a standard specification of graphics DRAM defined by the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) and specialized for processing graphics more quickly. Its generation has shifted from GDDR3, GDDR5, GDDR5X, GDDR6 to GDDR7. With the [...]The post SK hynix Introduces GDDR7 Graphics Memory appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Exascale Comuting Project's ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens of megawatt-class turbines spread across 30 square miles. Using the Frontier exascale supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the ExaWind team performed some of the highest fidelity wind energy simulations [...]The post ExaWind: Wind Turbine CFD Simulation on Frontier Exascale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RICHLAND, Wash., July 31, 2024 - The US Department of Energy has created a database designed to make ideas, technologies, methods and software developed by DOE available in one place. DOE said it worked with software engineers and others at Pacific Northwest National Laboratoryon the Visual Intellectual Property Search database, or VIPS, designed to make [...]The post DOE Announces System for Searching DOE IP appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHICAGO - July 31, 2024 - Parallel Works today announced the launch of ACTIVATE, an artificial intelligence and high performance computing control plane that simplifies configuration, access and management of compute resources located on-premises and in major clouds. ACTIVATE is intended for applications with high computing needs, like AI model training, weather modeling, biomedical research [...]The post Parallel Works Launches ACTIVATE for AI Model Training, HPC Simulation and Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, July 30, 2024 - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), announced today that it is shipping ninth-generation (G9) TLC NANDin SSDs, making it the first in the industry to achieve this milestone. Micron G9 NAND features the industry's highest transfer speed of 3.6 GB/s, delivering unsurpassed bandwidth for reading and writing data. The new [...]The post Micron Announces Volume Production of 9th-Generation NAND Flash appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Turbulence, temperature changes, water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, and other gases absorb, reflect, and scatter sunlight as it passes through the atmosphere, bounces off the Earth's surface, and is collected ....The post Physics-Informed Machine Learning': New Technique at PNNL Corrects Remote Sensing Data appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good high-summer day to you! This week's version of HPC News Bytes offers a rapid (6:20) romp through recent HPC-AI news, including:Nvidia's ....The post HPC News Bytes 20240729: Nvidia Monster 2025 Revenue Projection and a Chip for China; China's New' HPC Secrecy; Graphene Plasmon Progress appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Berlin and Munich, 29thJuly 2024- Quantistry, a Berlin-based start-up offering a cloud-native chemical simulation platform, and IQM Quantum Computers announced today a memorandum of understanding to explore hybrid classical-quantum solutions in the chemical and material industry. Through this collaboration, IQM and Quantistry are combining their technical expertise to integrate cutting-edge quantum systems into QuantistryLab, Quantistry's [...]The post Quantistry and IQM Quantum to Explore Solutions for Chemical and Material Industry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 29th July 2024 - Liquid cooling company Iceotope has announced the retirement of David Craig from the position of CEO effective from 30th September 2024. The company will be led jointly by Chief Commercial Officer, Nathan Blom and Chief Financial Officer, Simon Jesenko until the appointment of Craig's successor. He will continue to advise [...]The post Iceotope Announces Retirement of CEO David Craig appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - July 29, 2024 - D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it is strengthening the connection between quantum optimization, artificial intelligence and machine learning by extending its product development roadmap with enhancements to the Leap quantum cloud service that the company said will bring quantum AI solutions to market. The roadmap is intended [...]The post D-Wave Announces Roadmap for Quantum Cloud Service for AI/ML appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The UK government announced it will invest 106 million for five hubs to develop the use of quantum technology in medical scanners, secure communication networks and next-gen positioning systems. The hubs, which will work with industry partners ....The post UK Commits 106M to 5 Quantum Hubs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - July 25, 2024-Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the general availability of initial offerings of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. IncludingNVIDIA DGX BasePODcertification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of [...]The post Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NTT Corporation and The University of Tokyo announced they have generated and controlled graphene plasmon wave packets with a pulse width of 1.2 picoseconds. They said this offers a novel approach to THz ....The post Graphene Plasmon: NTT and Univ. of Tokyo Control THz-Region for High-Speed Signal Processing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia today announced its AI Foundry service and NIM inference microservices for generative AI with Meta's Llama 3.1 collection of models, also introduced today. The company said its AI Foundry allows organizaations to create custom supermodels" for their ....The post Nvidia AI Foundry for Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, July 23, 2024 - Micron Technology, Inc. today announced availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD - which Micros said is the fastest data center SSD for AI performance and power efficiency.1 The SSD integrates its own controller, NAND, DRAM and firmware into one product. The Micron 9550 SSD delivers best-in-class performance with [...]The post Micron Introduces PCIe Gen5 Data Center SSD appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Department of Energy has released a request for proposals inviting vendors to submit plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Lab's exascale supercomputer, Frontier. Vendors have until Aug. 30, 2024 ....The post RFP Opens for ORNL's Next-Gen HPC, 3-5x Speed-Up over Frontier Expected, Aug. 30 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Solid oxide fuel cell energy company Bloom Energy and GPU cloud services company CoreWeave have formed a partnership to deploy Bloom's fuel cells for CoreWeave at a data center in Illinois, set to be commissioned in Q3 2025.The post CoreWeave and Bloom Energy Partner on AI Data Center Power appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Bicester, England, July, 2024 - The WHPC Executive Committee and Volunteers for SC24 have announced the launch of the 20th International Women in HPC Workshop: Diversity and Inclusion for All! As part of this all-day event, we are launching the call for lightning talks for SC24, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 17-22, 2024. [...]The post WHPC Announces 20th International Women in HPC Workshop: Lightning Talk Submissions Aug. 16 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jul. 18, 2024 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$673.51 billion, net income of NT$247.85 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$9.56 (US$1.48 per ADR unit) for the second quarter ended June 30. Year-over-year, second quarter revenue increased 40.1 percent while net income and diluted EPS [...]The post TSMC Reports Second Quarter YoY Revenue Jump of 40%, Income up 36% appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Interconnect company Cornelis Networks today said it has named Lisa Spelman its new CEO. Spelman joins the company from Intel, which made a major push into the HPC fabric market in 2015 with Omni-Path, which became the flagship product of Cornelis ....The post Full Circle: Cornelis Names Intel Veteran Lisa Spelman CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The exascale- class Frontier supercomputer set a new standard for calculating the number of atoms in a molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than previous simulations of its kind, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the HPC system is housed. The simulation ....The post Exascale: Frontier Supercomputer Used in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2M Electrons appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday announced a proposed $400 million CHIPS + Science Act investment to build what the agency said would be the first domestic fab for 300mm silicon wafers and expand ....The post U.S. in Preliminary $400M Deal with GlobalWafers to Build 300mm Silicon Wafer Fabs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO and Abilene, TX - July 18, 2024 - Crusoe Energy Systems LLC announced it is building a 200 MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campusoutside Abilene, Texas. Crusoe, a vertically-integrated AI infrastructure company, andLancium, an energy technology and infrastructure company focused on the decarbonization and stability of the electric power grid, will [...]The post Crusoe to Build 200MW AI Data Center, Then Expand at 1.2 GW Lancium Clean Campus appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory has emerged from a year-long shutdown ready for its second act. Together with Argonne's new exascale supercomputer, Aurora, the (APS) will empower scientists to make discoveries ....The post Argonne Lab Unveils Upgraded Advanced Photon Source appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel - July 16, 2024 -Laser-based computing company LightSolver today announced the appointment of Amir Oz as Chief Operations Officer and Miki Sapir as Vice President of Product Management. The company said Oz and Sapir will play key roles in supporting product innovation and market adoption for LightSolver's recently released LPU100 laser computing [...]The post LightSolver Announces Management Changes appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

July 17, 2024 - Quantum error correction technology company Riverland and Atlantic Quantum, a developer of scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers, today announced a partnership to work on quantum error correction. The partnership will combine Riverlane's quantum error correction (QEC) stack (Deltaflow') and Atlantic Quantum's superconducting fluxonium-based qubit architecture to advance quantum computing. Qubits are the [...]The post Riverlane Partners with Atlantic Quantum on Error Correction appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

July 16, 2024 - Open Innovation AI, a GPU orchestration platform, and Nscale, an AI cloud service provider, today announced a partnership designed to deliver AI Cloud services and AI workloads at scale. This alliance will combine Nscale's GPU infrastructure with Open Innovation AI's end-to-end AI platform. The partnership aims to enhance the performance, scalability, [...]The post Open Innovation AI and Nscale Partner for AI GPU Cloud Services appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 16, 2024 - Chilldyne, a provider of direct-to-chip liquid cooling solutions, has released its data center liquid cooling starter kit designed to prepare data centers for the workloads being driven by AI computing. With high-density racks of up to 150 kW and higher in the future, data center operators need to be [...]The post Chilldyne Launches Liquid Cooling Starter Kit AI in Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.