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11th January 2023 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data centre solutions for high intensity computing, has today announced the expansion of its senior leadership team with three key appointments: Mike Allen as Chief Operating Officer; Kate Hennessy as Chief Financial Officer; and Hildegard van Zyl as General Counsel. As part of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc’ s (D9) portfolio of […]The post Verne Global Announces New COO, CFO, GC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Jan. 10, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $17 million for small businesses in 25 states. The 77 projects are in the fields of advanced scientific computing and scientific instrumentation that support DOE’s clean energy mission. Projects selected for award include: Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing LLC, Tucson, AZ. Structural Components with […]The post DOE Announces $17M in R&D Grants to Small Businesses appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As part of insideHPC's series of interviews on behalf of HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, we spoke with Hyperion's Alex Norton about his overview of the state of AI – or “big AI,” where AI and HPC often combine – at a special Hyperion event in Washington last month. In this interview, Norton, who is Hyperion's principal technology analyst and data analysis manager, highlights key AI trends and insights, including....The post inside HPC-Hyperion Research Interview: Hyperion’s Alex Norton on the State of AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Calling it a “pivotal moment” in its turnaround, Intel today made it official: the company launched its new and much-discussed 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (“Sapphire Rapids”), the Xeon CPU Max Series (“Sapphire Rapids HBM”) and the Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (“Ponte Vecchio”). For HPC, Intel said the new chips “bring a […]The post Intel Launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors, Max Series CPUs and GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. & TORONTO — Today, IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ), announced its acquisition of the operating assets of Entangled Networks , a Toronto-based company focused on enabling computation across multiple distributed quantum processors. The Entangled Networks team will join IonQ to launch IonQ Canada. This marks IonQ’s first corporate acquisition. The acquisition of Entangled […]The post Networked Quantum Computers: IonQ Acquires Entangled Networks appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Jan. 9, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $56 million to provide research opportunities to historically underrepresented groups and institutions in STEM. The funding, through the DOE Office of Science’s Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative, will support internships, mentorship, and training programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), […]The post DOE: $56M for Traineeships Supporting Historically Underrepresented Groups and Institutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Financial Times reported today that the government of the UK has paid a £24 million settlement to Atos over an £850 million contract awarded to Microsoft for a weather supercomputer to be used by the UK’s Met Office. “The French company, which was the only other shortlisted bidder, filed a lawsuit in May last […]The post Atos Wins £24M Settlement over UK Met Office Weather Supercomputer Contract appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

January 9, 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics announced it has raised £30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Braavos Investment Advisers. Lansdowne Partners, Prosus Ventures, 2xN, Torch Partners and Hermann Hauser (founder of chip giant ARM) also participated. Founded in 2019 by Dr Chris Ballance and Dr […]The post Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Raises £30M appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Jan. 4, 2023 — DARPA, along with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and industry and academic stakeholders, is kicking off the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0). The SRC-led effort expands on the original JUMP collaboration aimed at accelerating U.S. advances in information and communications technologies. The consortium created under JUMP 2.0 will pursue high-risk, high-payoff […]The post SRC Leads JUMP 2.0 Microelectronics Consortium — Includes DARPA and 7 University Research Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

January 05, 2023 — Burnaby, British Columbia, Palo Alto and Huntsville, AL — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services company, and Davidson Technologies, Inc., a technology services company that provides engineering, technical and management solutions for the Department of Defense, aerospace and commercial customers, today announced that the companies […]The post D-Wave and Davidson Technologies Enter Reseller Agreement appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco – Poly, a web-first generative AI company for design assets, announced today the close of its $4M Seed, led by Felicis, Bloomberg Beta, and NextView Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Figma Ventures, AI Grant, and other strategic angels. The new capital will be used to train vertically finetuned generative AI models and […]The post Poly Raises $4M to Build Generative AI Tools for Designers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We recently read an interesting article in Wired magazine on neuromorphic computing stating that neuroscientists increasingly regard the human brain is a “prediction machine,” that people, as a rule, are in a constant state of anticipation, extrapolation and inference. In HPC, situated as it is at the forward edge of compute power, data analysis and […]The post An AI-Flavored Set of HPC Predictions for 2023 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Jan. 4, 2023 — Applications are due Wednesday, March 1 for the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), which will take place July 30-August 11, 2023 in the Chicago area. Apply here. There are no fees to participate in ATPESC. Domestic airfare, meals and lodging are also provided. The program offers the opportunity […]The post Argonne: ATPESC 2023 Applications Due March 1 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

January 3, 2023 ─ High-performance server and workstation vendor GIGABYTE Technology today announced its enterprise solutions division has officially been spun off from GIGABYTE and acts as an independent, wholly-owned GIGABYTE subsidiary. The new standalone company will be called Giga Computing Technology. “The GIGABYTE board of directors reached the decision, both the parent company and […]The post GIGABYTE Spins off Server Business Unit appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held a 3 nanometer (3nm) volume production and capacity expansion ceremony on December 29 at its Fab 18 construction site in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together suppliers, construction partners, central and local government, the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association, and member of academia to witness an […]The post TSMC Holds 3nm Chip Ceremony in Taiwan, 2nm on Way appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this year-in-review double-issue episode of @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug continue what is becoming a tradition, a discussion of some of the notable developments, trends and news stories of the past year in HPC, including : HPC market growth, the U.S.-China supercomputing competition and trade war, the official arrival of exascale-class supercomputing, quantum computing, SC22, artificial intelligence (including "sentient AI") and machine learning, Jack Dongarra's ACM Turing Award, the criticality of emerging interconnect technologies, the defunct Nvidia-Arm deal, the CHIPS & Science Act and the push for domestic chip production in the U.S., HPC software and fusion energy.The post @HPCpodcast Special Edition: 2022 in Review and What’s Ahead in 2023 for HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In the face of tremendous complexities and uncertain progress, quantum computing continues to draw significant investments and R&D efforts from countries and companies around the world. A key reason: an “increasing concern about the trajectory of classical HPC,” according to Bob Sorensen, SVP of research at HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, who delivered a […]The post Hyperion: Classical HPC Trajectory Concerns Pushing Quantum R&D appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) has announced its interest in applications in the areas of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and data resources for fusion energy and plasma sciences. The goal of this FOA is to support multi-disciplinary teams aiming to apply advanced and autonomous algorithms to address high-priority research […]The post DOE Announces $33M Funding Opportunity for ML, AI and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 21, 2022 — Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) has announced ARM-based series of servers as part of the MegaDC family. Using Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors, the Mt. Hamilton platform leverages a single unified motherboard design, targeting cloud-native applications. In addition, the new servers address several objectives for cloud-native workloads, specifically delivering high performance per […]The post Supermicro Announces Ampere ARM-based Servers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel announced today a restructuring and leadership change of its AXG (Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group). The organization’s EVP, Raja Koduri, will take on the role of Intel Chief Architecture “to focus on our growing efforts across CPU, GPU and AI, and accelerating high priority technical programs.” In addition, the company is restructuring the […]The post Intel Annouces Restructuring of Accelerated Computing Group, Koduri Named Chief Architect appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEOUL – December 21, 2022 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the development of its 16-gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM built using the industry’s first 12-nanometer (nm)-class process technology, as well as the completion of product evaluation for compatibility with AMD. Leveraging the latest DDR5 standard, Samsung said its 12nm-class DRAM will help unlock speeds […]The post Samsung Electronics Claims Industry’s First 12nm-Class DDR5 DRAM appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland – December 20, 2022 – atNorth, the pan-Nordic colocation, high performance computing and artificial intelligence service provider, has become a Partner of the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Association. atNorth has also joined the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), which was established in February 2022 to bring leading companies together across the digital infrastructure industry to accelerate the journey […]The post atNorth Colocation Provider Joins iMasons Climate Accord appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Gabriella Carini, and Meifing Lin join Shahin and Doug to discuss all things quantum, covering quantum sensing, quantum networks and quantum computing. These women are the front lines of HPC and quantum, discussing the state of quantum capabilities today, workloads in which quantum delivers advantages over classical computing, and the challenges of quantum from an experience-based point of view.The post @HPCpodcast: All Things Quantum from 3 Practitioners at Brookhaven Lab (Guess Which Quantum Platforms They Use) appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

This episode of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, features a discussion between ECP host Scott Gibson and Bronson Messer, who offers insights on computer modeling and simulation for advancing science. Messer is a distinguished scientist and director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing […]The post Let’s Talk Exascale: The Why Behind HPC-class Scientific Simulations appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, Mich., December 20, 2022 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has invested $10 million in Xscape Photonics, a start-up that developed patented technology for photonic chips for ultrahigh-bandwidth connections inside data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems (see related story). In its announcement, Altair said, “Until now, computing leveraged a traditional electronic approach to moving vast […]The post Altair Invests $10M in Columbia Univ. Photonics Startup appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – December 20, 2022 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have presented a new algorithm that successfully combines amplitude control feedback and Zeeman terms to overcome inherent limits of a Coherent Ising Machine […]The post NTT Research and Tokyo Tech Announce Algorithm that Enhances Performance and Scope of Coherent Ising Machine appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED CONTENT] “FLOPS are cheap, moving data is expensive.” In HPC circles this sentiment is heard often. There’s a growing sense that classical HPC systems and the advanced chips that power them are pushing up against their practical limits, that some foundational new technology is needed to build more balanced systems to achieve the next […]The post Silicon Photonics and the Hunt for an HPC Bandwidth Bottleneck Breakthrough appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

There’s an unsung hero in Livermore Lab’s announcement this week regarding heroic progress made on fusion energy. It was unsung even by Livermore. It’s HPC. Two supercomputers powered the research of hundreds of scientists at Livermore’s National Nuclear Security Administration facility: Sierra, the IBM supercomputer installed at NNSA in 2018 and currently ranked number six […]The post Due Credit: Sierra, JADE and HPC’s Role in Livermore’s Fusion Ignition Breakthrough appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Tel Aviv, IL, December 15, 2022 – ClearML, an open source, end-to-end MLOps platform, and Ultralytics, a vision AI company, announced today that they have partnered to integrate ClearML’s open source toolkit into Ultralytics’ YOLOv5 stack. Track YOLOv5 training runs in ClearML Experiment Version and connect datasets to models (ClearML Data) Automate execution on local and remote cloud […]The post ClearML and Ultralytics Partner on Open Source Technologies for MLOps appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The CSC – the Finnish IT Center for Science – and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote research collaboration using high-performance computing (HPC) applications to address global challenges. The organizations said the collaboration focus on joint use of supercomputing resources […]The post Finnish IT Center CSC (Site of LUMI) and TACC in HPC Collaboration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Quantum software company Classiq has released research results on the emerging quantum computing market that echo those of other reports: quantum adoption is happening and interest in quantum across multiple economic sectors is strong. In its announcement today, Classiq said the research results indicate “that companies understand the tremendous economic opportunities that quantum computing represents […]The post Classiq Releases Research on Growing Quantum Momentum, Led by Financial Services appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Jülich / Luxembourg, 14 December 2022 – A hosting agreement has been signed between the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) where JUPITER, the first European exascale supercomputer will be located (see earlier JUPITER coverage). JUPITER has been designed to support the development of high-precision models of […]The post EuroHPC and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Hosting Agreement for Exascale Supercomputer JUPITER appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AUSTIN, TX and HOUSTON, TX – December 14, 2022 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the global leader in immersion cooling for data centers today announced that Shell Lubricants (‘Shell’) has joined GRC’s newly launched ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program. By collaborating with Shell, GRC expands its capability to provide state-of-the-art liquid immersion cooling solutions to meet growing customer use cases and applications. “We […]The post Shell Joins GRC’s ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program for Data Center Immersion Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DNA-based data storage and computation company Catalog Technologies reported today what it said is “a historic breakthrough in DNA computation by demonstrating the ability to search data stored in DNA in a massively parallel and scalable manner with resource usage almost independent of the data size.” The company said this demonstration is a result of […]The post Shakespeare Content Helps CATALOG Claim DNA-based Computing Milestone appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Dec. 9, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for November 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for November 2022 was approximately NT$222.71 billion, an increase of 5.9 percent from October 2022 and an increase of 50.2 percent from November 2021. Revenue for January through November […]The post TSMC: November Revenue Up 50 Percent YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In the potboiler world of HPC industry analyst firms this is a surprising development: Steve Conway, longtime senior member of Hyperion Research, a firm he left last summer to start Conway Communications, has joined Hyperion’s closest rival, Intersect360 Research, led by CEO Addison Snell. Conway, who has been in the HPC industry for 30 years, […]The post Former Hyperion HPC Analyst Steve Conway Joins Intersect360 Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Last November, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory launched its QIS@Perlmutter program to provide researchers working on quantum information science (QIS) problems with supercomputing resources, while also exploring how QIS could benefit high-performance computing (HPC). NERSC is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) computing facility that provides supercomputing and other scientific computing resources to thousands of researchers each year. Among these researchers, QIS experts from government, industry, and academia are interested in using supercomputers at NERSC and other HPC centers to advance quantum technologies and study untapped questions in quantum-driven sciences such as materials, chemistry, and physics.The post A Year of Quantum Information Science on NERSC’s Perlmutter Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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Dec. 7, 2-22 — At HPE’s Discover conference in Frankfurt, Germany today, the company announced new application, analytics and developer services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform designed to enable organizations to drive a data-first modernization strategy for production workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Updates include: HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise now offers expanded […]The post HPE GreenLake Adds Application, Analytics and Developer Services for Hybrid Cloud Environments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 7, 2022 – A CEA-Leti tutorial presented at IEDM 2022 highlighted promising advantages that resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technologies hold for implementing novel neuromorphic/in-memory computing systems for massively parallel, low-power and low-latency computation. In a presentation titled “Resistive Memories-Based Concepts for Neuromorphic Computing”, Elisa Vianello, CEA-Leti’s edge AI program manager, said RRAMs, aka memristors, offer advantages […]The post CEA-Leti Presents RRAM’s ‘Promising Advantages’ For Neuromorphic/In-Memory Computing at IEDM 2022 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.