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Montreal and Paris, April 12, 2024: Exaion, a Canadian subsidiary of the EDF Group (Electricite de France), a developer of digital service platforms aimed at eco-responsibility1, and PINQ^2 (Quebec Digital and Quantum Innovation Platform), a non-profit organization created by the Quebec government and the University of Sherbrooke, announced plans to launch by the end of [...]The post Exaion and PINQ^2 to Launch the HPC-Quantum Platform in Quebec appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NTT Corporation (NTT) and NTT DATA announced the successful demonstration of All-Photonics Network (APN)-driven connections between data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.K., NTT connected data centers north and east of London....The post NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K. appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Georgia Tech's College of Engineering has established an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub dedicated exclusively to teaching students. The initiative -the AI Makerspace - was launched in collaboration with NVIDIA. College leaders call it a digital sandbox for students....The post Georgia Tech Unveils AI Makerspace with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Proposals must be submitted between April 10 and June 14, 2024. Open to researchers from academia, industry and [...]The post INCITE Call for Proposals for Access to Leadership-Class Supercomputers Open through June 14 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Two early career researchers, Edgar Solomonik of the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and Amanda Randles of Duke University, have been selected as the recipients of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award, to be presented at ISC 2024.The post Two Researchers to Share 2024 Jack Dongarra Early Career HPC Award at ISC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Argonne National Laboratory has issued call for images for the 2024 Argonne Art of Science Contest.Submission deadline for science visualizations: Tuesday, April 23. For submission and prize details, visit this webpage. This is open to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility user community, The contest is accepting scientific visualizations of research created using ALCF computing resources. [...]The post ALCF User Community: Call for Argonne Art of Science Images, April 23 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV - (April 10, 2024) - Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announces the launch of a new certification focusing on the Singularity container platform. Rooted in open-source SingularityCE, the Singularity container platform has become an indispensable tool for users in large computing environments practicing mission-critical data science, [...]The post Sylabs Launches the Singularity Containers Certification appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Apr. 10, 2024 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2024 was approximately NT$195.21 billion, an increase of 7.5 percent from February 2024 and an increase of 34.3 percent from March 2023. Revenue for January through March [...]The post TSMC March 2024 Revenue Report: Up 34% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE - April 09, 2024 -MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, today announced the addition of three technology and semiconductor industry professionals dedicated to driving MIPS' technical differentiation to support the company's global expansion in the automotive, data center and embedded markets. Reporting directly to CEO Sameer Wasson, the new [...]The post MIPS Adds 3 Managers from NVIDIA, Google and SiFive appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TSMC announced it has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce for up to $6.6 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act. TSMC also announced plans to build a third fab at its TSMC Arizona site in Phoenix using 2nm or more processes....The post TSMC in the USA: Up to $6.6B in CHIPS Act Funding for 3rd (2nm or More) Arizona Fab appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC's Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel foundry business's losses, TSMC expands CoWoS capacity, SK hynix to investing in Indiana and Purdue, Quantinuum and Microsoft report 14,000 error-free instancesThe post HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! ...and Quantum Error Rate Progress appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 2, 2024 - Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation today announces ActiveScale Z200 all-flash object storage, designed to help customers accelerate mission-critical AI pipelines and massive data workflows. This new solution extends Quantum's all-flash leadership beyond Quantum Myriad and StorNext file system solutions to address S3-native use cases that require rapid [...]The post Quantum Corp. Announces ActiveScale All-Flash Object Storage for AI, Data Lakes and Storage Clouds appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ROUND ROCK - April 5, 2024 - Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine are using AI to innovate and strengthen patient care to deliver advancements in medicine, including the development and evaluation of a generative multimodal large language model (LLM) for the interpretation of chest x-rays. Northwestern Medicine's goal was to use AI to enhance patient [...]The post Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine Adopt Generative AI for Patient Diagnosis appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 - Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI's bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, the university said IBM Quantum System One will enhance educational and research opportunities for itself and other academic institutions and organizations across [...]The post Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Quantinuum and Microsoft report they have achieved a breakthrough in fault tolerant quantum computing "by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with active syndrome extraction, an achievement previously believed to be years away from realization," the companies said.The post Quantinuum and Microsoft Report 800x Lower Quantum Error Rate appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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.