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The Linux open source software community has been in an uproar since late June when Red Hat announced changes to the status of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the standard-bearer for Linux users in HPC and AI. Red Hat's move prompted a firestorm of reactions from vendors (AlmaLinux, Oracle, SUSE), users and devotees. In this episode, Shahin and Doug talk with Dr. Joe Landman, a Linux open source consultant and veteran of HPE, Cray and Scalable Informatics. Joe has been a business and technology leader, a hands-on engineer and architect, and a data analyst and researcher. A computational physicist by training, he was one of the early pioneers of custom and accelerated systems. Here he helps us sort through Red Hat's June 21 announcement along with the various responses, including a June 29 blog from Greg Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and creator of Rocky Linux, a bug-for-bug" compatible version of RHEL.The post @HPCpodcast: Sorting through the Linux Open Source Uproar - Red Hat Sets off a Firestorm appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PARIS - July 11, 2023 - Fault toerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announced the appointment of Elie Girard as its new executive chairman. Girard will advise the company in its efforts to develop logical qubits based on Cat Qubits technology. Cat Qubits are superconducting qubits with built-in error correction that drastically lower [...]The post Former Atos CEO Elie Girard Joins Quantum Company Alice & Bob as Executive Chairman appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON - JULY 10, 2023 - Today, international technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) announced it approved the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) version 2 beta specifications. These include: theKernel Modeling Language (KerML) specification version 1.0 beta, theSystems Modeling Language (SysML) specification version 2.0 beta, and theSystems Modeling Application Programming Interface (API) and Services specification [...]The post Object Management Group Approves SysML V2 Beta Specs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Mark Himelstein, chief technology officer at RISC-V International, joins us to discuss the latest developments with the RISC-V instruction set architecture and its growing community and footprint. Topics include: HPC use cases from sensors to supercomputer, achieving customization without loss of compatibility, AI and its impact on chips and systems, and the question on everyone's mind: when will we see RISC-V in servers and supercomputers? Himelstein also looks at RISC-V's design wins, including EuroHPC's backing of R&D to develop HPC hardware and software based on RISC-V.You may also be interested in Shahin's conversation with Mark in August 2020 to hear how things have evolved since then.The post @HPCpodcast: An Architecture Update from RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN, July 6, 2023 - Quantum software company Multiverse Computing today announced a joint project with multinational clean energy firm Iberdrola to modernize electrical grids and facilitate additional green energy sources. Because electrical grids are integrating increasing amounts of renewable generation, electric vehicles and other distributed energy resources, supplemental batteries are playing a [...]The post Multiverse Computing, Iberdrola Partner on Quantum Optimization for Power Grids appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Delft, Netherlands; 5 July 2023 - Quantum Delta NL, the Netherlands' national ecosystem for quantum innovation, today announces it secured a 60,2 million investment from The National Growth Fund as the Dutch contribution to the trilateral agreement with France and Germany. The program's goal is to strengthen R&D connections across borders to accelerate the development [...]The post QuantumDeltaNL Awarded 60M by National Growth Fund appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Seoul, July 5, 2023 - SK hynix announced today that it has obtained the AAA certification, the highest level of voluntary compliance traders for strategic items*, from South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). The AAA ratings are given to companies with the export control compliance programs that are in line with the [...]The post SK hynix Obtains AAA Ratings from South Korea Trade Ministry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON, MASS. - Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and deliver resources to users of virtual machines. Amazon EC2 offers resources for HPC compute and graphics rendering, primarily highly available, flexible cloud resources with scalability and redundancy. [...]The post Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 29, 2023 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced three training workshops designed to introduce users to the ALCF AI Testbed's novel AI accelerators: the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system and the Graphcore Bow Pod system. SambaNova Workshop: 1:30-5 pm CT, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 11-12; register here. Cerebras Workshop: 1:30-5 [...]The post ALCF to Hold 3 AI Testbed Workshops in July appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NORWOOD, Mass.,June 26, 2023 - SourceCode, an IT systems company for AI infrastructure, announced it has agreed to acquire UK-EU-based Boston Limited, a provider of high-performance server and storage solutions. SourceCode is a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (Cerberus"). The transaction is expected to close on June 30, 2023. SourceCode said that with [...]The post SourceCode Acquires Boston Limited, Adds Ungaro and Andreolli to Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 27, 2023 - Expedera Inc, a provider of scalable neural processing unit (NPU) semiconductor intellectual property, today announced the opening of its new European regional engineering development center in Bath, UK. This is the company's fourth design center focusing on edge AI inference, with additional locations in Santa Clara (USA), Shanghai, [...]The post Expedera Opens Its First European Development Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

This week's episode of the @HPCpodcast features a return guest, Bob Sorensen, vice president of research at HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, to talk with us about the state of the quantum computing sector. Sorensen offered his quantum insights at last month's ISC 2023 conference in Hamburg, and here he talks about the highlights from his latest update, including market sizing (it's bigger than you might think), growth projections (more than you might think) and how companies are investigating and experimenting with quantum and quantum-related project work. We also touch on progress in making quantum a practical reality, technical barriers, customer sentiment, recent advances in noise management and quantum computing geopolitics.The post @HPCpodcast: Hyperion's Bob Sorensen on the State and Future of Quantum Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Oxford, UK - June 28, 2023 - Women in HPC has announced the call for early career speakers to feature at WHPC's SC23 Workshop. Taking place on November 13, 2023 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, this will be the 16th workshop is dedicated to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion within the supercomputing community. [...]The post Women in HPC Opens Submissions to 16th Annual Workshop at SC23 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Framingham, Mass. - June 27, 2023 - Bluespec Inc. today announced its new MCUX RISC-V processor designed to ease implementation of custom instructions and the addition of accelerators to FPGAs and ASICs. The MCUX is an extension of Bluespec's MCU RISC-V processor family, which is targeted at ultra-low resource utilization on FPGAs. Bluespec said the [...]The post Bluespec Launches MCUX RISC-V Processor appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $3.9 million federal investment for 13 projects that will tap into the DOE national laboratories' HPC resources to connect with industry partners. These short-term, collaborative projects will address manufacturing challenges and are intended to accelerate development of clean energy technologies. Boeing, Ford Motor and General [...]The post DOE's HPC4EI Awards $3.9M for to 13 Clean Energy Projects; Announces Upcoming RFI Solicitation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - June 22, 2023 - Eviden, the Atos business for advanced computing, today announced it was awarded a $100M contract with NCMRWF, on behalf of the India Ministry of Earth Sciences, to build two AMD- and NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF. These systems, based on Eviden's BullSequana [...]The post Eviden in $100M HPC Weather Systems Deal with India's Earth Sciences Ministry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.