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Feb. 28, 2024 - AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. This past fall, we announced the SN40L, the smartest AI chip (rivaling Nvidia), and today we've integrated that chip with the first 1T parameter model for the enterprise," said Rodrigo Liang, co-founder [...]The post SambaNova Says It's First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. This new category of storage architecture - Hyperscale NAS - is built on the tenants required....The post Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MWC BARCELONA-February 26, 2024 - As part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative, NTT Corporation (NTT) and Red Hat, Inc., in collaboration with NVIDIA and Fujitsu, have jointly developed a solution to enhance and extend the potential for real-time artificial intelligence (AI) data analysis at the edge. Using technologies developed by the [...]The post NTT and Red Hat Fuel AI Analysis at the Edge with IOWN Technologies 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 Gauging the likely impact of a warming climate on global and regional water cycles poses one of the top challenges in climate change prediction. Scientists [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: E3SM-MMF appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include the Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper architectures. E4S is a community effort to provide open-source....The post DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The UK's most powerful AI supercomputer, an Intel-Dell system called Dawn (Phase 1, pictured here), is up and running at a University of Cambridge data center. The system is powered by more than 1,000 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series chips and more....The post Dawn Rising: UK's Top AI Supercomputer Begins Operations at Univ. of Cambridge appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

KUMAMOTO, Japan, Feb. 24, 2024 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held an opening ceremony for its majority-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (JASM) in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, bringing together suppliers, customers, business partners, academia and the Japanese government to show appreciation for their continued support and the joint effort that led to the [...]The post TSMC Opens JASM Chip Fab Subsidiary in Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 26, 2024 - Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of its HBM3E (High Bandwidth Memory 3E) solution. Micron's 24GB 8H HBM3E will be part of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, which will begin shipping in the second calendar quarter of 2024. This milestone positions [...]The post Micron Announces Volume Production of HBM3E appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

KANSAS CITY, MO. (Feb. 23, 2024) - ClusterVisor, a HPC cluster management software solution from Advanced Clustering, is now available with a new edition thatincludes a redesigned web user interface, role-based access control, monitoring alerts and a new upgrade tool. Most significantly, ClusterVisor now comes bundled with LogVisor AI, a log file analysis tool that [...]The post Advanced Clustering Launches New ClusterVisor Edition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose and Barcelona - February 26, 2024 - Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a provider for AI, cloud, storage, and 5G/edge solutions, announced an expanded portfolio of purpose-built infrastructure solutions to accelerate performance and increase efficiency in 5G and telecom workloads. Supermicro said it enables customers to expand public and private 5G infrastructures with improved [...]The post Supermicro Expands Portfolio for 5G appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Monday of Leap Year Week to you! We offer a rapid run-through of the latest in HPC-AI, including: Intel Foundry bash, Gelsinger talks up the Systems Foundry Era," Wall Street hangs on Nvidia earnings, AI Training vs Inference, Digitial In-Memory Computing for inference efficiency, HPC in space, ISC 2024.The post HPC News Bytes 20240226: Intel Foundry Bash, Nvidia Earnings and AI Inference, HPC in Space, ISC 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NCSAis the caretaker and manager of the Delta supercomputer, but that means more than just making sure the machine is running. The Center recently worked with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on their research using AI to identify materials capable of passively capturing carbon.Delta's powerful AI capabilities were used in this collaborative effort, which also [...]The post NCSA Aids Researchers with AI on Multiple Fronts 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 Science Challenge One of the most challenging goals for researchers in the fields of nuclear and particle physics is to better understand the interactions betweenquarks and gluons- [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: LatticeQCD for Particle Physics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC industry veteran Charles Wuischpard, formerly of Intel and silicon photonics startup Ayar Labs, announced recently on his LinkedIn page that he has joined Nvidia as vice president of North America Latin America (NALA) sales. In December, Wuischpard ended his tenure as Ayar Lab's CEO, a position he held starting in 2018. Previously, at Intel [...]The post Charles Wuischpard Names Nvidia VP North America Latin America Sales appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - February 22, 2024 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced it has generated photons entangled with ions repeatedly and reproducibly, creating a quantum state which allows future quantum systems to communicate and transfer information between each other. This achievement marks the first known commercial demonstration of ion-photon entanglement outside [...]The post IonQ Achieves Ion-Photon Entanglement for Quantum Networks appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ISC 2024, the International Supercomputing Conference to be held at the Congress Center in Hamburg from Sunday, May 12 to Thursday, May 16, has announced that registration is now open. Early bird rates are available until Wednesday, March 27. Conference organizers expect a total of 3,000 attendees.The post Registration Is Open for ISC 2024 in Hamburg appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[CONTRIBUTED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLE] In-memory computing promises to revolutionize AI inference. Given the rapid adoption of generative AI, it makes sense to pursue a new approach to reduce cost and power consumption by bringing compute in memory and improving performance. By flipping the script and reducing unnecessary data movement, we can make dramatic improvements in AI efficiency and improve AI economics going forward.The post In-Memory Computing Could Be the Inference Breakthrough AI Needs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23, held in Denver, Colorado, last November, members of ECP's Industry and Agency Council, comprised of U.S. business executives, government agencies, and independent software vendors, reflected on how ECP and the move to exascale is impacting current and planned use of HPC....The post Exascale: Bringing Engineering and Scientific Acceleration to Industry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 212, 2024 - The U.S. National Science Foundation published a new funding opportunity designed to bring together innovators in wireless communications to develop and validate low-latency communications technologies that have the potential to transform how Americans live, work and interact with one another. To learn more, read theBreaking Low funding opportunityandregister for an introductory [...]The post NSF Announces $12M Funding Opportunity to Lower Latencies for Wireless Networks appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 21, 2024 - EDA software company Cadence and Intel Foundry have collaborated to develop an integrated advanced packaging flow utilizing Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology to address the complexity in heterogeneously integrated multi-chip(let) architectures, the companies announced. The collaboration enables Intel customers to leverage advanced packaging to accelerate the high-performance computing (HPC), AI [...]The post Cadence and Intel Foundry Partner on EMIB Packaging for Heterogeneous Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Arm today announced two new Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) built on new Neoverse IP for the purpose of enabling the AI infrastructure on Arm," according to the company. The Neoverse CSS V3, for the high-performance V-series portfolio, offers a 50 percent performance-per-socket improvement over CSS N2, and....The post Arm Announces New Neoverse Compute Subsystems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LONDON - 19 February, 2024]VIRTUS Data Centres, part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, has announced plans for a new data centre campus that will be built on a recently acquired 50 acre freehold plot in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, close to the existing data centre hub of Slough, west of London. This strategic initiative [...]The post Virtus Open AI-Ready Data Center in Buckinghamshire appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MELBOURNE & SYDNEY- February 19, 2024-Arcitecta, a data management software company, announced enhancements to its Mediaflux Livewire offering that address the challenges of transmitting data over low-bandwidth and unreliable network connections. With the latest Mediaflux Livewire, customers can securely and reliably transfer massive file volumes at light speed around the globe, fostering collaboration and allowing [...]The post Arcitecta Unveils Global Data Transfer Capabilities appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN DIEGO and GRENOBLE, France - Feb. 20, 2024 - University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti scientists report they have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density. This new power topology, which extends beyond existing topologies, blends the advantages of piezoelectric converters [...]The post UCSD and CEA-Leti Paper: DC-DC Converter Unifies Power Switches on a Single Chip appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Espoo, Finland, 20thFebruary 2024-IQM Quantum Computers announced it has achieved its latest benchmarks measured on its 20-qubit quantum computer. Among the system-level benchmarks IQMobtained: Quantum Volume (QV) of 2^5=32 Circuit Layer Operations Per Second (CLOPS) of 2600 20-qubit GHZ state with fidelity greater than 0.5 Q-score of 11 Quantum volume (QV) is a benchmark that [...]The post IQM Quantum Reports Benchmarks on 20-Qubit System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center today announced Cardinal," an HPC cluster (test node is pictured here) that the center said doubles its AI processing capacity. The system is scheduled to be launched in the second half of this year. A collaboration including Intel, Dell Technologies, Nvidia....The post Ohio Supercomputer Center Announces Cardinal' HPC Cluster, Doubles AI Processing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Feb 20, 2024 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a collaboration to deliver Arm Cortex-X CPU developed on Samsung Foundry's Gate-All-Around (GAA) process technology. This initiative is built on a partnership with devices shipped with Arm CPU intellectual property on various process nodes offered by Samsung Foundry. This collaboration will lead to [...]The post Samsung Collaborates with Arm on Cortex-X CPU appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations run HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy-efficient way. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, improve energy efficiency by running more HPC simulations and AI/ML applications at scale using on-demand AWS compute infrastructure.The post Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY-SCA2024-Feb. 19, 2024-NVIDIA today announced that Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub, in support of its quantum R&D work. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA Quantum - an open-source hybrid quantum computing [...]The post Pawsey Adds NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform for R&D Simulations appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

To control compute - to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power - is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding, or punishing, bad ones. That's the argument forwarded in a white paper from 15 research centers and universities in the U.S., Canada and the UK - and OpenAI....The post AI Governance Proposal: Control AI by Controlling Compute appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Chandler, Ariz., February 15, 2024 -VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV), a provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions, today announced that the VIAVI Xgig CXL Exerciserhas been recognized as a CXL 1.1 Gold device by theCompute Express Link (CXL) Consortium. With this approval, the Xgig CXL Exerciser can now qualifyCXL devices' protocol implementations [...]The post VIAVI Xgig Exerciser Approved for CXL 1.1 Compliance Testing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 15, 2024 - The National Science Foundation will hold a webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 3-4 pm ET for researchers and educators to learn about the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR), the recently launched multi-agency NAIRR pilot. More information can be found onthe NSF event page. Zoom registration is availablehere. Topics discussed will [...]The post NSF to Hold Feb. 21 Webinar on National AI Research Resource appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

February 15, 2024 - Today, Lenovo announced a partnership with AnacondaInc., a provider of source code for artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science platform, to empower Lenovo's data science workstations. The partnership will couple Lenovo's ThinkStation and ThinkPad workstation product portfolio with Anaconda's open-source experience. The rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, deep [...]The post Lenovo and Anaconda Partner to Accelerate AI Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA Thursday released a video that offers the first public look at Eos (pictured here), a monster 18.4 exaflops FP8 AI supercomputer powered by 576 DGX H100 systems... NVIDIA said Eos would be ranked no. 9 on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, according....The post NVIDIA Reveals Eos Supercomputer: 4,600 H100 GPUs for 18 AI Exaflops appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tender for the installation of LUMI-Q, a new EuroHPC quantum computer to be located in Czechia and integrated into the EuroHPC supercomputerKAROLINA. EuroHPC JU said LUMI-Q will be a digital quantum computer....The post EuroHPC JU Issues Procurement Call for LUMI-Quantum appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Espoo, Finland,14thFebruary2024-IQM Quantum Computers announced it is implementing a dual leadership structure, appointing two Co-CEOs. Former sole CEO and Co-founder Dr. Jan Goetz will lead external relations and fundraising, while Dr.Mikko Valimaki will focus on enterprise commercial operations.Together,GoetzandValimakiwill execute IQM's strategy going forward. They are based in IQM's corporate headquarters inEspoo, Finland. When founding IQM [...]The post IQM Quantum Announces Co-CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PARIS - February 13, 2024 - PASQAL, a company focused on neutral atoms quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Wasiq Bokhari as chairman of its board of directors, the promotion of Loic Henriet to Deputy CEO and the creation of separate hardware and software divisions. With over 20 years of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate [...]The post Quantum: PASQAL Announces New Chairman, Deputy CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK - February 13, 2024 - VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced a partnership with Run:ai, a company focused on compute orchestration for AI workloads. This collaboration offers a full-stack AI solution encompassing compute, storage, and data management. Together, VAST and Run:ai are addressing the critical needs of enterprises embarking on [...]The post VAST Data and Run:ai Announce AI Solution with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 13, 2024, COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the renewalof its alliance with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) to provide researchers and academics with continued access to IonQ's trapped-ion quantum systems. Accessible through SKKU'sQ Center, users across South Korea have benefited from hands-on training and mentorship provided by [...]The post IonQ and South Korea's Sungkyunkwan Univ. Renew Quantum Alliance 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. Why Exascale Needs SLATE For nearly 30 years, scores of science and engineering projects conducted on high-performance computing systems have used either the Linear Algebra PACKage (LAPACK) library [...]The post Exascale's New Software Frontier: SLATE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C., -February 12, 2024 - Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) has announced that the 1,200+ qubit Advantage2 prototype is now available via the company's Leap real-time quantum cloud service. Customers with Leap service subscriptions can access the new Advantage2 prototype today, and those new to the Leap service [...]The post D-Wave Announces Availability of 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2 Prototype appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 13, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, is issuing a $36 million funding opportunity announcement for basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI) for science. Deadline for letters of intent: Tuesday, March 19, 5 pm ET. Deadline for [...]The post DOE $36M Funding Opportunity: AI for Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

On Wednesday, Feb. 28, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar from 11 am-noon CT on the compute blade of the Aurora exascale supercomputer. Registration for the event can be found here. Led by ALCF's Servesh Muralidharan, the session will cover details of the blade's components, and the flow of data between them, [...]The post ALCF Developer Session Feb. 28: Aurora's Exascale Compute Blade appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ST PAUL, Minn., February 12, 2024- The HPC User Forum, established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to user, has published an updated agenda spotlighting its list of featured speakers for its upcoming meeting, on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10 at the Hyatt Regency [...]The post HPC User Forum Announces Agenda for April 9-10 Event in Reston, VA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Cadence Design Systems earlier this month released the news that Honda R&D Co. will use Cadence's newly announced Millennium Enterprise Multiphysics Platform, which Cadence said is the industry's first hardware/software-accelerated digital twin solution for system design and analysis.The post Cadence Multiphysics HPC System to be Used by Honda R&D for Air Taxi' Design appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We're seeing the chip industry's version of the scientific aphorism: nature hates a vacuum." The vacuum is the short supply of - and vast demand for - AI chips, and it's roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity....The post Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Computer scientist Alan Perlis once said that fools ignore complexity while pragmatists suffer it. But when it comes to the complexity of configuring HPC, AI and data analytics environments, Perlis might say Dell Technologies walks in the path of geniuses: they remove complexity.....The post Dell: Omnia Copes with Configuring HPC-AI Environments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.