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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Dec. 11, 2023 - Silicon photonics company Ayar Labs today announced the appointment of co-founder and CTO Mark Wade (pictured here) to serve as its new CEO. Wade succeeds Charles Wuischpard, who will continue to serve in an advisory capacity over the coming weeks before he transitions out of the company [...]The post Ayar Labs Names Mark Wade CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy deep and dark December morning to you! Here's a sprint (5:28) through recent HPC-AI news, including: AMD MI300, the Q2B quantum conference and other quantum news, the Linux Foundation's new projects....The post HPC News Bytes 20231211: AMD's MI300, Quantum in the News, Linux Foundation's 2 New Projects, EU AI Regulations, ISC Extends Deadlines appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

...the (Exascale Computing Project) software presents an array of possibilities and examples that have proven effective. The accelerated abilities afforded by ECP software give access to faster machines, improve our infrastructure, and give scientists tools that could significantly improve the accuracy of our models by supporting new science."The post Exascale Software for Disaster Weather Warnings appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Dec. 8, 2023 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for November 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for November 2023 was approximately NT$206.03 billion, a decrease of 15.3 percent from October 2023 and a decrease of 7.5 percent from November 2022. Revenue for January through November [...]The post TSMC November 2023 Revenue Down 7.5% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 7, 2023 - Pure Storage announced it has been named a leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Container Data Management 2023 Vendor Assessment. According to the IDC MarketScape:Portworx is generally well suited for most organizations looking for a comprehensive container data and storage management solution,but it aligns particularly well with those that are [...]The post IDC Names Pure Storage a Leader in Container Data Management appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

GRENOBLE, France - Dec. 7, 2023 - A team comprising CEA-Leti, CEA-List and two CNRS laboratories has published a paper inNature Communications presenting what the authors said is the first complete memristor-based Bayesian neural network implementation for a real-world task - classifying types of arrhythmia recordings with precise aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty. Considering medical-diagnosis and [...]The post CEA-Leti Paper ReportsMemristor-Based Bayesian Neural Network Implementation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose, California, December 6, 2023 - GigaIO, provider of open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, has announced what the company said is the largest order yet for its SuperNODE utilizing tens of thousands of the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators. GigaIO's infrastructure will form the backbone of a bare-metal specialized AI cloud code-named [...]The post GigaIO's SuperNODE to Power TensorWave Deployment with AMD MI300X appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON, December 6, 2023 - Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing today announced what the company said is a quantum computing breakthrough, published in the scientific journal Nature. In experiments led by Harvard University in collaboration with QuEra Computing, MIT, and NIST/UMD, researchers executed large-scale algorithms on an error-corrected quantum computer with 48 logical qubits and [...]The post Quantum: Harvard, QuEra, MIT and NIST/University of Maryland Announce Error-Corrected Algorithms on 48 Qubits appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

After years of NVIDIA having its dominant way in the GPU AI chip market -- a market that has exploded over the last 12 months with the emergence of generative AI -- AMD today announced the availability of the long-awaited and much previewed MI300X accelerator chip (pictured here) that AMD intends to be a worthy competitor with NVIDIA's H100....The post Taking on NVIDIA: AMD Announces Availability of MI300 GPU Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Dec. 5, 2023 -Nexusflow, a generative AI company targeting the cybersecurity industry, today announced the release of NexusRaven-V2, a 13-billion parameter open-source genAI model that delivers function calling capability-meaning it can understand human instructions and translate the instructions into function/API calls to use software tools. The function calling capability lies at [...]The post Nexusflow Unveils Open-source Generative AI Model appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 05, 2023 - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is shipping the Micron 3500 NVMe SSD, which leverages its 232-layer NAND designed for, among other workloads, business applications and scientific computing.The c ompany said the Micron 3500 SSD, available in the M.2 form factor and with capacities up to 2TB, [...]The post Micron Announces Shipment of Micron 3500 Client SSD appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Helsinki and Yorktown, Virginia December 4, 2023: Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms for life sciences, said it has run one of the largest scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM's hardware. The company said this positions Algorithmiq and IBM to reach quantum utilityfor real world use cases. The experiment was run with Algorithmiq's [...]The post Algorithmiq in Quantum Utility Path Demonstration with IBM Quantum appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, at its annualIBM Quantum SummitinNew York, the company debuted the 133-qubit Quantum Heron, the first in what IBM said will be a series of utility-scale quantum processors whose architecture has been engineered over the past four years. IBM said the processor deliver(s) IBM's highest performance metrics and lowest error rates...."The post IBM Quantum Debuts 133-Qubit Processor and New System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Here's a sprint (5:16) through the latest HPC -AI news, including: NVIDIA's big feature story in The New Yorker, the Open Benchmark Council's TOP100 lists, Intel and TSMC's high-end 3 nanometer fab, digital twins for hydropower at ORNL and PNNL.The post HPC News Bytes 20231204: The New Yorker on NVIDIA, the Open Benchmark Council, Intel and TSMC, Digital Twins for Hydropower appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterpriseannounced atHPE Discover Barcelona2023 the next series of AI-native and hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data analytics, AI-optimized file storage, AI tuning and inferencing and professional services. HPE announced these AI-....The post HPE Announces GenAI Collaboration with NVIDIA, AI-native Architecture and Hybrid Cloud Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Along with his article to be found on this site, technology analyst Adrian Cockcroft of OrionX (and former AWS vice president) joins Shahin and Doug after SC23 to discuss TOP500 trends, the AI-HPC crossover, liquid cooling, chiplets, and the emergence of UCIe and CXL - some of the anticipated advancements are truly eye-popping. In this podcast, sponsored by Lenovo, the relentless pursuit of higher performance, the acceleration in the pace of change in high performance processing, is examined.The post @HPCpodcast: Tech Analyst Adrian Cockcroft on Trends Driving Future HPC Architectures appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

By Adrian Cockcroft, Partner & Analyst, OrionX Last year the UCIe chiplet standard had just been launched, and since then just about everyone has joined it, about 130 companies. The idea is that to build a complete CPU or GPU you don't have to put it all on the same chip from the same....The post SC23: TOP500 Trends, the AI-HPC Crossover, Chiplet Standardization, the Emergence of UCIe and CXL Advancements appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this interview at the SC23 conference, we caught up with Milind Pandit, AI Technical Evangelist at Intel, who discussed the company's Bringing AI Everywhere" mission and its significance for the HPC community. AI was everywhere at the Supercomputing event in Denver, and in his comments, Pandit takes up the theme of how large language [...]The post At SC23: AI Evangelist Milind Pandit on Intel's Bringing AI Everywhere' Mission appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families - AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 - that the company said delivers advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for such workloads as machine learning (ML) training and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.The post AWS Unveils Graviton4, Trainium2 Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has announced the recipients of the 19thround of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. The 2023 winners are: FedData Technology Solutions, Boston University, McMaster University and HPE, and HLRS and WIKKI GmbH.The post Hyperion Research Announces Winners of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23, we had a lively discussion with Cristin Merritt, Business Manager at the Women in HPC organization as well as chief marketing officer at Alces Flight, a UK-based creator and manager of versatile HPC clusters and cluster environments. Here, Merritt updates us on WHPC's growth and mission, she reviews the organization's activities at SC23, [...]The post At SC23: Cristin Merritt Talks Women in HPC's Inclusivity Mission appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 27, 2023 - French quantum computing company PASQAL announced it is part of the inauguration of Espace Quantique 1, a $90 million quantum initiative, in the center of the DistriQ Quantum Innovation Zone in Sherbrooke, Quebec, showcasing its approach to developing neutral atom quantum computers. The project aims to conduct manufacturing and commercialization activities [...]The post PASQAL and Investissement Quebec Launch $90M Quantum Initiative appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this interview with CGG's EVP, HPC & Cloud Solutions, Agnes Boudot, she discusses the Paris-based company's mission to use its decades in HPC to help provide companies across a range of domains and global regions with solutions enabling them to leverage the latest HPC-AI technologies. As Boudot points out, CGG has built large HPC [...]The post At SC23: CGG's Agnes Boudot on the Company's Expanded HPC-AI Mission appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23 in Denver, we spoke with Paris-based CGG, a global technology and HPC company, which recently announced its Outcome-as-a-Service (OaaS) offering, delivering customized HPC and AI solutions for scientific and engineering domains, including generative AI and life sciences. In this interview we spoke with Jean-Marc Denis, Vice President of Sales, HPC and Cloud Solutions, [...]The post At SC23: CGG Talks its New Outcome-as-a-Service' for HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF's new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30 to 5 pm Central Time. To register go here. The ALCF said the Groq machine's AI inference capabilities can assist users in making predictions, discovering patterns in [...]The post ALCF: Groq AI Online Workshop, Dec. 6-7 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23, we talked with Chris Orlando, CEO of DDC, maker of S-Series Cabinets, which utilize DDC's liquid-air hybrid cooling technology for high-density data centers and cloud providers. Orlando says the cabinets combine the efficiency of liquid cooling with the risk-free flexibility of air. With him is Keith Markley, Executive Vice President, Data Center Operations, [...]The post At SC23: DDC and TierPoint Talk Liquid-Air Cooling' Data Center Cabinets for HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23 in Denver, Amazon Web Services announced the Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, an open source, web-based portal for administrators to manage cloud-based research and engineering environments. Here we interview AWS's Debra Goldfarb, Director, AWS HPC Products and Strategy, and Brendan Bouffler, AWS Head of Developer Relations, HPC Engineering. They explain how scientists [...]The post At SC23: AWS's Research and Engineering Studio Suite for HPC-Class, Cloud-Based Environments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Diego - DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of scalable data center-to-edge solutions that feature patented Dynamic Density Control (DDC) technology, announced the company's better than liquid' cooling technology will support the augmentation of a TierPoint data center in eastern Pennsylvania, helping meet explosive demand for AI workloads and representing one of the largest ultra-high-density, single-user [...]The post TierPoint Selects DDC Cabinet Technology for AI Workloads in High-Density Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 20, 2024 - NVIDIA today announced that Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo will be the first to integrate NVIDIA Spectrum-XEthernetnetworking technologiesfor AI into their server lineups to help enterprise customers speed up generative AI workloads. Purpose-built for generative AI, Spectrum-X offers enterprises a new class of Ethernet networking that can achieve 1.6x [...]The post NVIDIA Announces Ethernet Platform for AI from Dell, HPE, Lenovo appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week's conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands to 14,000; exascale update and future; raft of new chips, many focused on AI; Quantum Village at SC23; UCIe, PCIe and Ultra EthernetThe post HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview - Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nearly 120 years ago, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 provided a stark and sobering view of the havoc that can be caused by the sudden and violent movement of Earth's tectonic plates. According to USGS, the rupture along the San Andreas fault extended 296 miles (447 kilometers) and shook so violently that the [...]The post EQSIM and RAJA: Enabling Exascale Predictions of Earthquake Effects on Critical Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST INTERIVEW] We spoke at the Lenovo booth with Andreas Thomasch, Director of HPC and AI, European Markets, in this sponsored interview about recent developments across critical HPC-AI challenge areas: Water Cooling: Lenovo was an....The post At SC23: Lenovo's Advancements in Liquid Cooling, Storage, Digital Twins and HPC-AI Software appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the high performance computing systems integrator's LogVisor AI during the SC23 conference in Denver. LogVisor AI analyzes log files and re-organizes the data, bringing forward items deemed critical to the health and proper functions of the system. Since log files can be littered with thousands of messages, LogVisor AI, [...]The post Advanced Clustering Launches Log File Analyzer LogVisor AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are among the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world, Top500 organizers announced Monday. Funded under the second Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) by NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, [...]The post New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ALawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world's first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, ACM officials announced Thursday. The Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) team, led by LLNL staff scientist Peter Caldwell and [...]The post LLNL-led SCREAM Team Clinches Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. TheArgonne Leadership Computing Facility's (ALCF) AI Testbed-which aims to help evaluate the usability and performance of machine learning-based high-performance computing (HPC) applications on next-generation accelerators-has been upgraded to include Groq's inference-driven AI systems, designed to accelerate the time-to-solution for complex science problems. [...]The post Accelerating AI Inference for High-throughput Experiments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today, our patented cabinet technology can be deployed in nearly any environment or facility and supports one of the highest-density, air-cooled thermal loads-85kW per cabinet-on the market. In a recent deployment with TierPoint, a US-based colocation provider, we are supporting a 26,000 sq ft facility augmentation outside of Allentown, PA.The post The Future-Proofed Datacenter: DDC Delivers 85kW Air-Cooled Density for AI and HPC Workloads appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYC and Ryzen CPUs with AI engines. Microsoft's new Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series....The post Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Denver, November 13, 2023 -Panasas, a leading data solutions provider for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today introduced PanFS 10, the newest release of its flagship parallel file system. PanFS 10, which powers Panasas' ActiveStor portfolio of storage appliances, utilizes a unique shared-nothing architecture that now supports Seagate Exos 2X18 with MACH2 dual-actuator [...]The post Panasas PanFS 10 AI/HPC Hybrid Storage Management appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 14, 2023 - DarkByte will host its AI cloud powered by renewable energy using sources including solar, batteries, hydro, and nanotech - helping to define new industry standards in environmental sustainability, incorporating security that meets the standards prescribed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for its vendors, and scalable AI solutions. DarkByte will [...]The post DarkByte Teams with HPE on AI Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 - Quantum software pioneerClassiqtoday unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, formed in collaboration withNVIDIAand theTel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. The initiative will champion the development and implementation of quantum algorithms and applications, targeting their transformative potential on life sciences and healthcare. Quantum [...]The post Classiq Announces Quantum Center for Life Sciences with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, Mich.,Nov. 14, 2023 - Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced significant upgrades to Altair HPCWorks, its high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platform. New tools and integrations include an AI-enhanced user portal, next-generation technology for distributed workflows, advanced HPC monitoring and reporting, and easier-than-ever cloud scaling. Altair [...]The post Altair Announces Altair HPCWorks 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it's an immersive VR....The post At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display at Dell Technologies Booth 625, Come and Experience It appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Tokyo, November 14, 2023 -The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Fujitsu, has retained the top spot for eight consecutive terms in multiple major high-performance computer rankings including HPCG and Graph500 BFS (Breadth-First Search), and has also taken fourth place for the TOP500 and third place for the HPL-MxP [...]The post Supercomputer Fugaku Retains First Place in HPCG and Graph500 Rankings appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Denver -- Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list. Not only are there four new systems among top 10, the most new entrants at the top of the ranking in years, but one of them, the no. 2 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab, fell short....The post A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the top 10 of this year's list has more changes than any list in recent memory....The post @HPCpodcast: Views and Insights on the New TOP500 List appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.