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Now that the exascale (a billion billion, or 1018, calculations/second) computing barrier has been surmounted, and with discussion of zettascale-class supercomputers already in the wind, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CPGM) has decided to add new prefixes used within the International System of Units (SI) to denote even greater compute power and data […]The post Get Ready for Ronnascale Supercomputing – and Quettascale Data Volumes appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is now seeking proposals for the 2023-2024 allocation year. Pre-proposals are due by 8 pm (ET) on Monday, November 28, 2022. Open to researchers from industry, academia and national laboratories, the ALCC program allocates supercomputing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing […]The post Pre-proposals for Allocations of National Lab HPC Resources Due Nov. 28 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

By Katie Elyce Jones, Editor, PillarQ As the high-performance computing (HPC) community looks beyond the brink of Moore’s Law for solutions to accelerate future systems, one technology at the forefront is quantum computing, which is amassing billions of dollars of global R&D funding each year. Perhaps it’s no surprise that HPC centers — including the […]The post Quantum Computing Users Work Alongside Classical Supercomputers: An Interview with Travis Humble at Oak Ridge Lab appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED CONTENT] How many researchers can say they’ve not only run their scientific job on the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the world’s no. 1 ranked HPC system and the first exascale-class machine, but also on Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter, the world’s second-, fifh- and eighth-ranked HPC systems in the world, respectively? But that’s the case with an interntional group of researchers working on particle-in-cell simulations who have developed code that won....The post Scientists Using Frontier Supercomputer Win 2022 Gordon Bell Prize, Another Frontier Team Named Prize Finalist appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 16-member team drawn from French, Japanese, and US institutions as recipient of the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Pushing the Frontier in the Design of Laser-Based Electron Accelerators With Groundbreaking Mesh-Refined Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Exascale-Class Supercomputers.” The members of […]The post At SC22: ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Frontier, Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build what the companies said will be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI. Azure’s cloud-based AI supercomputer includes […]The post NVIDIA Partners With Azure to Build Massive Cloud AI Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nevada, November 15, 2022 – According to a new report published by 650 Group, “Interconnect Semiconductor Market 2022-2027,” the worldwide market for the portion of semiconductors used for interconnect in data centers will approach $25 billion in revenue by 2027. Interconnect functionality is the critical infrastructure that allows systems and semiconductors to talk […]The post 650 Group Research: Data Center Interconnect Semiconductor Market to Approach $25 Billion in 2027 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released today at the SC22 conference in Dallas, while short on surprises underlines several significant HPC trends. First the headline: the HPE-built, AMD-powered Frontier system, which was crowned the world's first exascale-class system when the previous TOP500 list was released last spring, remains at the top of the list, delivering nearly three times the power of its nearest rival on the list. Frontier remains at 1.102 exaFLOPS....The post TOP500: Frontier Maintains Big Lead, Europe at Nos. 3 and 4, China Quiet appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Maisons-Laffitte (France), 14th November 2022 – SiPearl, the HPC microprocessor designer for European supercomputers, and AMD announced a joint offering for exascale supercomputing in Europe combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor, Rhea, with AMD Instinct accelerators. The latter chip, along with AMD EPYC CPUs, power Frontier, the world’s first exascale-class system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Initially, […]The post SiPearl and AMD in Partnership for Exascale Supercomputing in Europe appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Managers from two AI powerhouses, NVIDIA and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about the multi-year partnership between the two companies, along with its latest joint solutions, which are considerable. From NetApp we have Firmware Engineer Chris Weber and from NVIDIA we have Shawn Kaiser, Senior Product Manager. They discuss a slew of advancements across AI-related hardware and software capabilities including joint activity around NVIDIA’s DGX SuperPOD along with BasePOD, an expansionThe post At SC22: New Offerings from NetApp-NVIDIA Partnership for Scalable, Flexible AI Deployments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The backdrop of this year's SC22 conference is the rising trade conflict between the U.S. and China and the Administration's increasing restrictions on exports of technology driving the development of advanced chips -- the chips that poweer supercomputers. Our special guest on the @HPCpodcast is author Chris Miller, whose new book, Chip War, is a history and analysis of the growing role of the semiconductor industry in global economic and military competitiveness. Miller is associate professor of international history at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy....The post @HPCpodcast: Chip War Author Chris Miller on the Escalating U.S.-China Technology Trade Conflict appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif. – NOVEMBER 10, 2022 – Big Memory software comopany MemVerge has announced it has developed software-defined Compute Express Link (CXL) memory management products that run on 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors featuring support for CXL 1.1+ specifications. AMD has a long history of x86 firsts, and the innovation continues in the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors […]The post MemVerge Unveils Software-Defined CXL Memory Applications for 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Newark, Calif. – November 10, 2022 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC 9004 Series processor-based server platforms highlighting energy efficiency and performance breakthroughs designed for next generation server architecture for data centers. “Facing the post-COVID economy world, data centers are required to build on more […]The post TYAN Announces Systems Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

These are heady days at Argonne National Laboratory -- more particularly, at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which we visited earlier this week. To accommodate the ALCF's new exascale system, Aurora, now undergoing installation, the ALCF built more than a computer room, it added a computer wing -- a computer building -- to the facility. As system footprints go, Aurora is impressive. We talked with ALCF leaders Rick Stevens and Mike Papka....The post Aurora Update from Argonne, and a Look at Leadership Supercomputing on the Horizon appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

November 10, 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced its portfolio of products ready to support the new AMD EPYC 9004 Series Processors in the first wave of GIGABYTE solutions that will target a demanding workloads that include GPU-centric, high-density, edge, and general computing. A new x86 […]The post GIGABYTE Announces Portfolio of Enterprise Solutions with New AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) today announced new PowerEdge servers with 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors that the company said delivers more than twice the power of previous-generation PowerEdge systems. The new servers are designed for such workloads as data analytics, AI, high performance computing (HPC) and virtualization. Available in one- and two-socket configurations, the system offer […]The post Dell Announces PowerEdge Servers with 4th Gen AMD EPYCs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today at an AMD event in San Francisco, the company announced the general availability of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors built on the “Zen 4” core for data center servers running compute-intensive workloads. AMD said the new EPYCs can provide up to 2.8X more performance than competing x86 chips with up to 54 percent […]The post AMD Announces GA of 4th Gen EPYC Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

With use cases like computer vision, natural language processing, predictive modeling, and much more, deep learning (DL) provides the kinds of far-reaching applications that change the way technology can impact human existence. The possibilities are limitless, and we’ve just scratched the surface of its potential. There are three significant obstacles for you to be aware of when designing a deep learning infrastructure: scalability, customizing for each workload, and optimizing workload performance.The post Overcoming Challenges to Deep Learning Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED CONTENT] Lenovo’s decade-long stream of advancements in liquid cooling technology for its HPC-class servers will be a focus of activity for the company at the SC22 conference (booth 1204) from Nov. 14-17 in Dallas. The company also will be demonstrating new server platforms powered by the latest AMD, Intel and NVIDIA processors, along with the company’s TruScale HPC-as-a-Service capabilities and other advanced computing developments.The post Lenovo at SC22: Neptune™ Liquid Cooling Technology, HPC Servers Powered by New AMD, Intel and NVIDIA Chips, TruScale HPC-as-a-Service appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SC22 is around the corner, and there’s a special feeling surrounding this year’s annual conference, it being the first SC many of us will have attended in person since 2019. Getting the most out of the conference in Dallas next week calls for good preparation, so as an assist to attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders – Katie Antypas of NERSC, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research – about conference events, keynotes and potential news developments they think will be worthy of your attention.The post Preparing for SC22: 3 HPC Thought Leaders on Sessions to Go to, Trends to Watch Next Week in Dallas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today at the IBM Quantum Summit 2022 that Vodafone Group is collaborating with IBM on quantum-safe cybersecurity, and also joining the IBM Quantum Network, which will give the company cloud access to IBM’s advanced quantum computing systems, as well as IBM’s industry-leading quantum expertise. The multinational telecommunications company will […]The post Vodafone Partners with IBM to Prepare for the Quantum Era of Applications in Telecom appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif., – Nov. 9, 2022 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions company, is growing its services offerings with embedded onsite professionals and managed services to support in-house technology teams. DDN said it has technologists that can serve as Storage Account Managers, Technical Account Managers and Storage Analysts, and already has […]The post DDN Announces Expanded Services Portfolio appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. – November 9, 2022 – Neo4j, a graph technology company, announced today the general availability of Neo4j 5, the cloud-ready graph database. The company said Neo4j 5 widens the performance lead of native graphs over traditional databases while providing easier scale-out and scale-up across any deployment, whether on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid, […]The post Neo4j Announces GA of Graph Database Neo4j 5 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris, Nov. 8, 2022 – IBM Quantum Network member Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale and IBM today announced that they have started the discovery phase of an engagement to include exploring applicability of quantum computing to banking and insurance use cases and development of a proof of concept and have started workforce development. This engagement marks the […]The post Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale Launches Quantum Computing Readiness with IBM appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel today officially announced its long awaited, next-generation server chips: the Xeon CPU Max, known to date as “Sapphire Rapids,” and the Data Center GPU Max, which for more than two years has been known – and been a focal point of scrutiny, speculation and frustration – as “Ponte Vecchio.” Both chips have been delayed, […]The post It’s Official: Intel Announces Ponte Vecchio and Sapphire Rapids, Hints at ‘Falcon Shores’ XPU in 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Third-party performance benchmarks show CPUs with HBM2e memory now have sufficient memory bandwidth and computational capabilities to match GPU performance on many HPC and AI workloads. Recent Intel and third-party benchmarks now provide hard evidence that the upcoming Intel® Xeon® processors codenamed Sapphire Rapids with high bandwidth memory (fast, high bandwidth HBM2e memory) and Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions can match the performance of GPUs for many AI and HPC workloads.The post Recent Results Show HBM Can Make CPUs the Desired Platform for AI and HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

London — 2nd November, 2022 – High performance data center vendor Kao Data has announced it has joined University Technical College (UTC) Heathrow’s Digital Futures Programme to help support and educate the next generation of data centre engineers. Following the launch of the Kao Academy in May 2022, which was recently nominated for an Open:UK […]The post Kao Data Joins UTC Heathrow’s ‘Digital Futures’ Program appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amazon Web Services said in a blog post today that in partnership with start-up TidalScale it has taken on the problem of scaling up on the AWS cloud platform. The result of joint work between the two companies means AWS users “can now aggregate the CPUs, memory, network, interrupts, and storage of multiple AWS bare […]The post AWS and Start-up TidalScale: Scaling Up in the Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Long-time HPC industry veteran and HPE executive Bill Mannel has been named Chief Technologist for Americas HPC & AI Solution Sales at HPE. Mannel joined HPE in 2014, serving as vice president and general manager of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. Of his new role, Mannel said on his LinkedIn profile, “I’ll be working closely […]The post Industry Veteran Bill Mannel Takes on New HPC-AI Role at HPE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new ProLiant Gen11 servers available for on-premises infrastructures or through HPE’s GreenLake as-a-service platform. The new servers are designed for compute- and data-intensive workloads, such as AI, machine learning, analytics, rendering, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and virtualization. The servers support several architectures, including 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors, […]The post HPE Introduces ProLiant Gen11 Servers for On-prem or via GreenLake As-a-Service appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.