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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | April 04, 2024 - Quantum computing software company Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Corp. today announced the launch of joint research for drug development by applying quantum computing to pharmacology. The collaboration is under the auspices of Classiq's Quantum Computing For Life Sciences & Healthcare Center,launched with NVIDIA [...]The post Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Partner on Drug Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Seattle - April 4, 2024 - RAVEL Inc (formerly StratusCore) today announced the release of RAVEL Orchestrate GenAI, built to provide IT and DevOps administrators with a single-screen interface for managing the assembly and deployment of complex content creation and generative AI environments across teams and pipelines, whether local or remote. RAVEL is also working [...]The post RAVEL Announces Orchestrate GenAI Software and Support for AMD GPU Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 04 April, 2024: Liquid cooling technology company Iceotope Technologies announced that Christian Belady has been named senior advisor to the company. Iceotope said Belady is an established data center executive known for his innovative approaches to infrastructure and quantitative benchmarking. The appointment coincides with increasing global demand for Iceotope solutions and an ambitious global [...]The post Former Microsoft Data Center Executive Joins Iceotope as Senior Advisor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Calif.- SiMa.ai, the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip company, today announced it has raised an additional $70M of funding led by Maverick Capital, with participation from Point72 and Jericho, as well as existing investors Amplify Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lip-Bu Tan and others. SiMa.ai will utilize the $270M raised to date to [...]The post SiMa.ai Raises $70M for Generative Edge AI Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Memory chip company SK hynix announced it will invest $3.87 billion in West Lafayette, Indiana to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products. The project, which the company said is the first of its kind in the U.S., will be an advanced....The post SK hynix to Invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 2, 2024 - Edge AI chip maker Hailo announced it has extended its series C fundraising round with an additional investment of $120 million and also announced the introduction of its Hailo-10 high-performance generative AI (GenAI) accelerators that usher in an era where users can own and run GenAI applications locally [...]The post Hailo Closes $120M Funding Round and Debuts Hailo-10 Chip for Edge AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A news report from a Chinese news outlet states that chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have overcome earlier problems at its Arizona advanced-chip fabs....The post Reports: TSMC Advanced Chip Fab Back on Schedule in Arizona; Dutch Government Announces Support for ASML appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy April Fool's Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and....The post HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It's Healthy, Alibaba's RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We spoke with Eviden's Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos' financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring. He also said that if Eviden were to encounter financial problems it has the backing of the French government. I want to make sure that you know we have a momentum...The post Eviden: No Impact from Atos's Financial Difficulties - We Are Growing and Hiring' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced it raised $175 million in its Series C funding round led by Thomas Tull's U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT). In addition to USIT, the round included participation from new and existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, [...]The post Photonic Fabric Company Celestial AI Closes $175M Series C appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Following the news last week of her departure as director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science since May 2022, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has issued a letter of farewell to her agency and White House colleagues.Dr. Berhe is currently on leave from the....The post Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Issues Letter of Farewell as Director of DOE Office of Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York - March 28, 2024 - Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs. Thunder is the culmination of two years of research on the next generation of deep learning compilers, built with support from NVIDIA. [...]The post Lightning AI Announces Availability Compiler for PyTorch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland- March 26th, 2024 - HPC and AI colocation atNorth announced an expansion of its partnership with Nordic IT services corporation, Advania, providing additional capacity at its state of the artICE03 site in Icelandwhich opened last year. Advania is a long-standing customer of atNorth at itsICE01 site inReykjavikin addition to some of atNorth's other [...]The post Advania Expands into Second atNorth Data Center in Iceland appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON & INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2024 - Industrial generative AI company Zapata Computing, announced today that it has completed its business combination with Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR), a special purpose acquisition company. The combined company, which was renamed Zapata Computing Holdings Inc., will operate as Zapata AI and its common stock and warrants will [...]The post Zapata AI and Andretti Acquisition Corp. Announce Closing of Business Combination appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order....The post Exascale Software and NASA's Nerve-Racking 7 Minutes' with Mars Landers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - March 28, 2024; Today, security and risk management startup SydeLabs announced a seed funding round of $2.5 million to build solutions aimed at securing GenAI systems for enterprises. The funding round was led by RTP Global and also saw participation from Picus Capital and marquee angel investors. The adoption of Generative AI [...]The post SydeLabs Raises $2.5M for GenAI Security appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a series of training workshops to introduce users to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed. The four individual workshops will introduce participants to the architecture and software of the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system, the Graphcore Bow Pod system, and the GroqRack [...]The post ALCF Announces Online AI Testbed Training Workshops appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amazonannounced it has made its biggest-ever investment, $2.75 billion, in OpenAI/Chat-GPT competitor Anthropic, another indication that the generative AI phenomenon continues to heat up. Today's news follows Amazon and Anthropic announcing an earlier $1.25 billion investment last September - the announcement today brings the total investment to $4 billion. We have a notable history with [...]The post Amazon Adds $2.75B to Stake in GenAI Startup Anthropic appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, MLCommons announced new results from its MLPerf Inference v4.0 benchmark suite with machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking.To view the results for MLPerf Inference v4.0 visit theDatacenterandEdgeresults pages. The MLPerf Inference....The post Updated MLPerf AI Inference Benchmark Results Released appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London, 27 March 2024:Oriole Networks - a startup using light to train LLMs faster with less power - has raised 10 million in seed funding to improve AI performance and adoption, and solve AI's energy problem. The round, which the company said is one of the UK's largest seed raises in recent years, was co-led [...]The post Oriole Networks Raises 10m for Faster LLM Training appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PARIS - March 27, 2024 - Alice & Bob, a fault tolerant quantum computing hardware developer, and academic partners ENS de Lyon and Mines Paris - PSL, announced the receipt of a 16.5 million ($17.8 million USD) grant, a France 2030 initiative operated on behalf of the French state by Bpifrance, France's public investment bank. [...]The post Alice & Bob and Partners Granted 16.5M to Cut Quantum Costs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - March 26, 2024- HPC and AI interconnect company XConn Technologies today announced the release of early production samples for its Apollo" CXL 2.0 switch, which the company will demonstrate with Samsung during MemCon 2024, March 26-27, in Mountain View, Calif. The XConn Apollo switch is the industry's first and only hybrid [...]The post XConn Releases Silicon Samples of Apollo CXL 2.0 Switch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, March 27, 2024 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IMS, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, have announced the publication of the first issues oftheACM/IMS Journal of Data Science (JDS), a peer-reviewed publication. The scope of the journal is multi-disciplinary and broad, spanning statistics, machine learning, computer systems, and the societal implications [...]The post ACM and IMS Release First Issues of Journal of Data Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - March 26, 2024 -NTT Research, Inc., a division ofNTT(TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from itsPhysics & Informatics (PHI) Labhave achieved quantum control of exciton wavefunctions in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. In an article published inScience Advances, a team lead by PHI Lab Research Scientist Thibault Chervy and ETH Zurich Professor Puneet Murthy documented [...]The post NTT Research PHI Lab Scientists Achieve Quantum Control of Excitons in 2D Semiconductors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 26, 2024. Mountain View - Calif. - Database AI company Activeloop has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, Samsung Next, Alumni Ventures, and Dispersion Capital. The round brings Activeloop's total funding to about $20M. Activeloop'sDeep Lake connects unstructured data - audio, video, images, text and embeddings - to [...]The post Activeloop AI Database Raises $11M Series A appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Munich, 26 March 2024- This March marks the end of REGALE, a European project, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which has carried out research into the development of new software for high performance computing (HPC) centres with a focus on energy efficiency. After three years of research, the project now provides a toolchain that [...]The post EuroHPC JU Energy Efficiency Project REGALE Comes to End appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - March 26, 2024 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the addition of industry veteran Dr. Martin Roetteler as its new head of quantum applications. Roetteler will lead IonQ's Quantum Applications development team, which identifies commercial applications of IonQ's world-leading trapped ion quantum computing technologies and delivers business value [...]The post Dr. Martin Roetteler to Lead IonQ's Quantum Applications Team appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

What does a supercomputer center do when it's operating two systems among the TOP-10 most powerful in the world -- one of them the first system to cross the exascale milestone? It starts planning its successor. The center is Oak Ridge National Lab, a U.S. Department of Energy national lab at the tip of the computing spear. Meet Discovery, the supercomputer to succeed Frontier....The post @HPCpodcast: Matt Sieger of OLCF-6 on the Post-Exascale Discovery' Vision appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 26, 2024,SANTA CLARA, Calif. & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.- FPGA technology company Achronix Semiconductor Corporation and Bluespec, Inc., a RISC-V tools and silicon IP company, today announced a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors that are available for the Achronix Speedster7t FPGA family. Marking an industry first, Bluespec's RISC-V processors now integrate into the Achronix 2D [...]The post Achronix FPGAs Add Support for Bluespec's RISC-V Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At GTC 2024 we caught up with Sumit Puri, co-founder of composable computing company Liqid, to discuss the company's GPU-power UltraStack, which he said transforms 2U servers into high-density GPU systems powered by NVIDIA L40S GPUs.The post At GTC 2024: Liqid UltraStack Servers with up to 20 NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

What happens when Department of Energy (DOE) researchers join forces with chemists and biologists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). They use the most advanced high-performance computers to study cancer at the molecular, cellular and population levels.The post Exascale Computing Project: Leveraging HPC and Neural Networks for Cancer Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Montreal, March 25 th, 2024 - Hydro Quebec is now a partner of the Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ^2). As the administrator of Canada's first IBM Quantum System One located at IBM 's facility in Bromont, Quebec, PINQ^2 offers an innovative approach to computing for companies wishing to conduct research , [...]The post PINQ^2 and Hydro Quebec Form Partnership Utilizing IBM Quantum appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - March 18, 2024 - Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes [...]The post Hitachi Vantara to Collaborate with Nvidia on Industrial AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Hamburg, Germany, March 22 - This year's Hans Meuer Award recipients are a team of five researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their evaluation of the classical HPC hardware requirements for large-scale quantum computations. The Hans Meuer Award is an annual award presented atISC High Performance. It recognizes the most outstanding research paper [...]The post LBNL Researchers to Be Presented Hans Meuer Award at ISC 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure's Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA'S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure's AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he's also an AI and cloud computing enthusiast. Here he talks about Microsoft as one of the [...]The post Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure's Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA'S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure's AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he's also an AI and cloud computing...The post Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lenovo ThinkSystem AI servers with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs are set to power the era of generative AI for enterprises and cloud. In this interview at GTC 2024, we spoke with Pat Moakley....The post At GTC 2024: Lenovo's New Blackwell-Powered ThinkSystem AI Portfolio Built in Collaboration with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel - March 19, 2024 -Laser-based computing company LightSolver announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system utilizes the power of 100 lasers to solve optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100's laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle [...]The post LightSolver Announces LPU100 Laser Computing System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Live from Nvidia's GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast. We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot....The post @HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia's Week at the Center of the Tech World appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA GTC 2024 - SAN JOSE - March 18, 2024:Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including with the new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, organizations can accelerate integration of their data, AI tools and on-premises infrastructure to [...]The post Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 18, 2024- At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud. Stemming from the expanded engineering collaboration announced with NVIDIA during Lenovo Tech World, the innovations help enterprises and cloud providers [...]The post Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 - Today at NVIDIA GTC,Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications. The updates include: Availability of two HPE and NVIDIA co-engineered full-stack GenAI solutions. A preview of HPE Machine Learning Inference [...]The post Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for a two-hour GTC keynote event and victory lap, which was held before a sold-out crowd at the 17,500-seat SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Today's news begins with Blackwell, which Nvidia said delivers six....The post Nvidia Launches Flagship Blackwell' GPU at GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy St. Patrick's Day week to you! Here's a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU's European AI Act, Cerebras's new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI....The post HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU's AI Act, Cerebras's Whopping AI Chip, Meta's Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 17, 2024 - The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. The full agenda and registration information can be foundhere. Register at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2024/ The forum is a meeting place for the HPC community to [...]The post HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - Data storage companyScality recently announcedthe results of a survey of 500 IT decision-makers across France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. to gain insight into the role immutable data storage plays in an organization's overall cybersecurity strategy. Key findings reveal: 94% either already rely on immutable data storage or plan to implement [...]The post Survey: 94% of IT Leaders Rely on Immutable Storage for Ransomware Protection appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DALLAS, March 14, 2024 - Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of digital infrastructure designed for HPC applications, today announced the onboarding of Together AI. Applied Digital received a contract prepayment of $18 million as part of the $75 million contract, and it has onboarded a compute cluster of GPUs and [...]The post Applied Digital Wins Contract with Together AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - March 13, 2024-ClearML today announced new research findings from a global AI survey conducted withFuriosaAI and the AI Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA) called The State of AI Infrastructure at Scale 2024: Findings: 96 percent of respondents plan to expand their AI compute infrastructure with availability, cost, and infrastructure challenges weighing on their minds, [...]The post Survey on AI Infrastructure Spotlights GPU Challenges appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.