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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.

Paris, March 13, 2024 - Global technology and earth sciences company CGG has commenced a worldwide natural hydrogen screening project with industry support. The project leverages CGG's subsurface data, multi-disciplinary geoscience knowledge, latest technology advances and high-performance computing capabilities to identify high-grade areas for natural hydrogen exploration. Chris Page, VP, Geoscience, CGG, said: CGG is [...]The post CGG Commences Global Natural Hydrogen Screening Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[Sponsored Guest Article] The technology alliance between Lenovo and NVIDIA is one whose total is greater than the sum of its parts. NVIDIA processors are changing the world and Lenovo servers are the platforms in which world-changing compute is happening. The Lenovo-NVIDIA....The post Lenovo and NVIDIA at GTC 2024: An Alliance Enabling AI at Scale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI data platform company VAST Data today announced a AI cloud architecture designed to deliver space/cost/power efficiency that buildson Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) technology. The architecture makes it possible to disaggregate VAST's operating system into AI computing....The post Vast Data Annouces AI Cloud Architecture Built on Nvidia DPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 11, 2024 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $5.2 million federal investment for 13 projects that will tap into the DOE national laboratories' high performance computing (HPC) resources to help industry partners improve material performance, advance manufacturing processes, and reduce industrial emissions. These collaborative projects will address manufacturing and materials challenges [...]The post DOE Awards $5.2M to HPC for Energy Projects, Announces Intent for Spring 2024 Solicitation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy mid-March day to you. Last week in the world of HPC-AI the emphasis was on the latter, including: the expanding IndiaAI Mission will include a 10,000-GPU supercomputer, TSMC's biggest customers, countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs....The post HPC News Bytes: IndiaAI Mission, New Fabs around the World, Atos-Eviden appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] As scientific and industrial computations become increasingly complex, the demand for immense computing power has skyrocketed. In the pursuit of the very first European Exascale supercomputing ambition, JUPITER (Joint Undertaking....The post Eviden Innovating HPC: JUPITER's Modular Data Center Revealed appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

India is getting into AI in a big way. The Indian government announced yesterday it has budgeted more than Rs 10,300 crore (US$1.24 billion) for India's AI ecosystem over the next five years. The IndiaAI Mission includes standing up a 10,000-GPU AI supercomputer (no system details were released) to support such initiatives as....The post India Spending Billions on AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, Texas- Core Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company,andCoreWeave,a GPU cloud provider, today announced a multi-year contract for Core Scientific to supply up to 16 MW of data center infrastructure to CoreWeave. The total potential revenue associated with the contract is more than $100 million. Under the terms of the [...]The post Core Scientific to Provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center Infrastructure for AI and HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 5, 2024 - Cloud hosting and cloud servers company Vultr announced the expansion of our Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers' SDC Columbia location in East Wenatchee, Washington. This expansion includes an increase in NVIDIA HGX H100 clusters, which are now available on demand and via reserved contracts. Vultr's decision to [...]The post Vultr Expands Cloud Nvidia H100 GPU Capacity appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER, March 6, 2024-Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, announced its collaboration in data center cooling market with CoolIT Systems. CoolIT Systems is the world leader in scalable liquid cooling technology for the world's most demanding computing environments. To meet the surging demand in the AI, high-performance computing (HPC) [...]The post Gates and CoolIT Systems Announce Liquid Cooling Collaboration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 7, 2024 - NVIDIA and HP Inc. today announced that NVIDIA CUDA-Xdata processing libraries will be integrated with HP AI workstation solutions to turbocharge the data preparation and processing work that forms the foundation of generative AI development. Built on theNVIDIA CUDAcompute platform, CUDA-X libraries speed data processing for a broad range of data [...]The post NVIDIA CUDA-X to Be Integrated with HP AI Workstations appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE- March 5th, 2024 - High performance data management and storage company Qumulo has announced the availability of Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), part of Qumulo's Scale Anywhereplatform for the hybrid enterprise. ANQ Cold is the world's first cloud-native service to cost-effectively store and retrieve infrequently accessed cold" file data at any scale. At [...]The post Qumulo Launches a Cloud Native Solution for Cold File Data appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7, 2024 - DCS Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Wood to vice president and division manager of the Robotic Systems Division. Wood brings 24 years of experience in software development, network communications, graphical user interfaces, streaming video, systems engineering and program management. Since joining DCS in 1999, he [...]The post DCS Corporation Names Brian Wood Vice President of Robotic Systems Division appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CGG announced today the appointment of Jerome Denigot as Executive Vice President, Sensing & Monitoring, effective February 26, 2024. In this new position, he will lead CGG's global Sensing & Monitoring business line (SMO), marketed under the Sercelbrand name. Denigot joined CGG in 2003, holding various positions of increasing responsibility in SMO. In 2017 he [...]The post Jerome Denigot Named EVP, Sensing & Monitoring, at CGG appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the 12th year for ATPESC, which provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems [...]The post Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TORONTO,March 5, 2024 - AI chip startup Taalas Inc., has announced it has exited stealth mode and raised $50 millionover two rounds of funding led byPierre Lamond and Quiet Capital. Taalas was founded by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic, along with early Tenstorrent engineering leaders Drago Ignjatovic, andLejla Bajic. The three have worked on AI processors, [...]The post Tenstorrent Founder and Engineers Say Taalas AI Chip Outperforms a Small GPU Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership....The post AI Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European supercomputing, a commitment to build Europe's first exascale-class system and with major techno- geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC unit....The post Eviden Caught up in Atos' Financial, Acquisition Struggles appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale's New Frontier," a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Scientific Challenge As more renewable sources of energy are added to the national power grid, it becomes more complex to manage. That's because renewables such as wind [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: ExaSGD appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project's Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They highlighted how E4S at Pratt & Whitney, ExxonMobil, TAE Technologies, and GE Aerospace....The post Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Industry Acceptance of Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CARROLLTON, TX-March 5, 2024- Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The new facility supports LiquidStack's mission to deliver liquid cooling solutions for high performance data center and edge computing applications. With an uptick in liquid cooling demand associated with Generative AI scaling, the [...]The post LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships and public policy. Zacharia spent 35 years at Oak Ridge, leaving there after the organization developed and installed the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the first supercomputer to break the exascale performance barrier.The post AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Now in its second year, Women in HPC will partner with ISC 2024 to present a diverse and inclusive event on the exhibition floor coinciding with the May 13th Exhibitor Gala in Hamburg, Germany. March 4, 2024 - Edinburgh, Scotland. The WHPC Volunteers for ISC 2024 have announced that the call for submissions for our [...]The post Women in HPC Launches Call for Submissions for 2nd Annual ISC Solution Forum Takeover appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,March 1, 2024 - AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, a new developer playground with fully integrated documentation, code samples, and self-serve access." Definitive Intelligence Co-founder and CEO Sunny Madra will lead the new GroqCloud business unit with the goal of expanding access to the Groq LPU Inference [...]The post Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Exascale's New Frontier," a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The scientific challenge Diesel and gas-turbine engines drive the world's trains, planes, and ships, but the fossil fuels that power these engines produce much of the carbon emissions [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: Combustion-PELE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverageNERSC's Perlmutter supercomputerto push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning for science and produce novel science outcomes. We are specifically seeking teams with expertise using deep learning for science, a deep understanding of the scientific domain, and demonstrated proofs-of-concept. NERSC staff [...]The post NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, OpenAI and Nvidia, along with a slew....The post AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO - Registration opens March 5th for the14thannual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium's (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium,set for May 21-23at the Wolf Law Center on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder. For information about sponsorships or registration visit: https://hpcsymposium.rmacc.org. For questions contactrmacc@colorado.edu. The multi-track symposium, which brings together faculty, researchers, industry [...]The post Registration for RMACC HPC Symposium Opens March 5 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. According to data presented by NoKyc.com, 42 percent of IT professionals think this is the leading challenge in AI implementation. A recent Coleman Parkes survey asked 1420 IT professionals [...]The post IT Survey: AI Implementation Has Many Hurdles but Funding Isn't One of Them appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2023 - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today delivered what it said is a dramatic increase in bandwidth and throughput for data-intensive AI workloads with the industry's first complete 1.6T Ethernet IP solution. Hyperscale data centers, a backbone in the era of pervasive intelligence, require high-bandwidth, low-latency chips and interfaces to process [...]The post Synopsys Says it Has First 1.6T Ethernet IP Solutionfor AI and Hyperscale Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers across two of Green Mountain's Norwegian locations.The post Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Riverlane and Rigetti Computing(Nasdaq: RGTI)today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer with a large-scale, supercomputing centre. Quantum computers will play an important role in the future of computing as they promise to solve problems [...]The post Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), In Their Own Words" is a Q&A series featuring voices from across the NERSC landscape, past and present, about their experiences at NERSC. Jackie Scoggins arrived at NERSC in 1996 as a system analyst and administrator for the Computational [...]The post HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.