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Sept. 6, 2022 — Since 2016, the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) has brought together software developers to improve access to essential resources and services with a “community center” approach. By offering development assistance, usability engagements, sustainability training and more, SGCI has helped more than 150 science gateways reach their goals. Through a combination of […]The post NSF Center of Excellence in Cyberinfrastructure Awarded $7.5M appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 6, 2022 — Cogniteam, a robotics company and creator of the Nimbus low-code robot development operating system, has integrated the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform into its robot software packets. A preferred member of the NVIDIA Partner Network, Cogniteam had early access to the AGX Orin developer kit, which allowed the company to prepare […]The post Cogniteam Integrates Robotics AI Capabilities with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Edge Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 6, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million for three joint projects in Nuclear Physics (NP) and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) via a partnership program of Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC). The NP SciDAC program brings together experts in nuclear physics research with experts in software development, applied […]The post DOE: $35M for Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Partnership in Nuclear Physics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA and AMD, makers of advanced GPUs used in HPC-AI workloads, became embroiled this week in the deteriorating relations and ongoing trade war between the US and the People’s Republic of China. Yesterday, Nvidia said it has been prohibited by the US government from selling to the PRC its A100 Tensor Core GPU, on the […]The post HPC-AI Chips in the News: NVIDIA, AMD Ensnared in US-China Trade War; Arm Sues Qualcomm appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE — August 30, 2022 — Edge machine learning company SiMa.ai today announced it has begun shipping what the company said is the industry’s first purpose-built software-centric machine learning system-on-chip platform for the embedded edge – the MLSoC. The $1 trillion global embedded edge market is currently reliant on legacy technology that limits the […]The post SiMa.ai Ships ML SoC Platform for Embedded Edge Applications appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The 2022 Supercomputing Conference (SC) organizers recently announced that a team of students from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department at UC San Diego will be among the 10 groups selected to participate in the 2022 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in mid-November. The six 2022 team members are […]The post UC San Diego Students Team for SC22 HPC Student Cluster Competition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As a leader in high performance computing, Lenovo continually supports the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmarks, that would help customers make better-informed decisions for their HPC workloads. SPEChpc™ 2021 is a newly released benchmark suite from SPEC that produces industry-standard benchmarks for the newest generation of computer systems. What separates SPEChpc™ 2021 from SPEC CPU® 2017, SPEC MPI® 2007 or the other SPEC benchmark suites is that SPEChpc™ 2021 is one-of-a-kind benchmark suite which uses real-world applications that support “multiple programming models and offloading” to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art heterogenetic HPC systems.The post Lenovo HPC Powers SPEChpc™ 2021 with AMD 3rd Generation EPYC™ Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Everyone involved in the Frontier supercomputer project got a taste of what a moonshot is like. Granted, lives were not on the line with Frontier as they were when Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon in 1969. But in other ways there are parallels between the space mission and standing up Frontier, the world’s […]The post OLCF’s Doug Kothe on Pushing Frontier Across the Exascale Line and the Future of Leadership Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $70 million in funding for seven projects intended to improve climate prediction and aid in the fight against climate change. The research will be used to accelerate development of DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), enabling scientific discovery through collaborations between climate scientists, computer scientists and […]The post Los Alamos, PNNL, Univ. of New Mexico Researchers to Lead $70M DOE HPC Climate Model Projects appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 30, 2022 — NVIDIA today announced a data center solution with Dell Technologies designed for the era of AI, bringing state-of-the-art AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science and zero-trust security capabilities to enterprises worldwide. The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and […]The post NVIDIA and Dell Technologies Launch Data Center Solution for Zero-Trust Security and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that the AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card will be one of the first data processing unit solutions to support VMware vSphere 8 available from server vendors including Dell Technologies, HPE and Lenovo. As data center applications grow in scale and sophistication, the resulting workloads […]The post AMD: Pensando DPUs Enable Accelerated Data Centers with VMware vSphere 8 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2022 — NVIDIA today announced a data center offering with Dell Technologies designed for the era of AI, bringing AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science and zero-trust security capabilities to enterprises worldwide. The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, […]The post NVIDIA and Dell Technologies Announce Data Center Offering for Zero-Trust Security and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 29, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a free, eight-week virtual training series to teach undergraduates and graduates the fundamentals of using world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research. Classes will be held on Tuesdays from September 20 – November 8, 2022, from 3-5 pm Central Time. The […]The post ALCF to Offer 8-Week Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers — Student Training Series appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken research institution will team to deliver Japan-made quantum computing starting next April, according to an article on the Nikkei Asia news site. The story states that Fujitsu's quantum system is expected to have 64 qubits, more than the 53 qubits in Google's 2019 machine and second to IBM's 127 qubits developed in 2021, Nikkei reported, adding that “Fujitsu says it hopes to produce a machine that has more than 1,000 qubits after April 2026.”The post Fujitsu, Riken Partner to Deliver Quantum Computing in Japan Next Year appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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The U.S. Commerce Department announced yesterday the CHIPS.gov website that includes implementation information for the recently passed CHIPS and Science Act. The site is intended for organizations seeking funds from the $50 billion for manufacturing, research and development funds allocated by the bill. In addition, the White House announced an interagency CHIPS Implementation Steering Council. […]The post Seeking a Piece of $50B CHIPS Act Funds? Commerce Department Launches ‘CHIPS.gov’ appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The aerospace/defense industry often must solve mission-critical problems as they arise while also planning and designing for the rigors of future workloads. Technology advancements let aerospace/defense agencies gain the benefits of AI, but it’s essential to understand these advancements and the infrastructure requirements for AI training and inference.The post Improving AI Inference Performance with GPU Acceleration in Aerospace and Defense appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO — Untether AI, an at-memory computation company for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, today announced at the HOT CHIPS 2022 conference its next-generation architecture for accelerating AI inference workloads called speedAI devices, with an internal codename “Boqueria.” At 30 TeraFlops per watt (TFlops/W) and 2 PetaFlops of performance, the speedAI architecture sets a new […]The post Untether AI Unveils At-Memory Compute Architecture at Hot Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PITTSBURGH — August 24, 2022 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) said today that Ansys Mechanical is one of the first commercial finite element analysis (FEA) programs supporting AMD Instinct accelerators, the newest data center GPUs from AMD. The AMD Instinct accelerators are designed for data centers and supercomputers to help solve complex problems. To support the AMD Instinct accelerators, Ansys […]The post Ansys and AMD Team on Simulation of Large Structural Mechanical Models appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced a quantum machine learning “proof” they say shows that training a quantum neural network requires only a small amount of data, “(upending) previous assumptions stemming from classical computing’s huge appetite for data in machine learning, or artificial intelligence.” The lab said the theorem has direct applications, including […]The post Los Alamos Claims Quantum Machine Learning Breakthrough: Training with Small Amounts of Data appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reno, NV – August 24, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced it has collaborated with Anchore to bring Syft Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) support to Singularity containers. Developed and maintained by Anchore, a software supply chain security company, Syft is an open source tool for […]The post Sylabs and Anchore Collaborate to Bring SBOM Support for Singularity Containers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter has named Richard Ho its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho spent nearly nine years at Google leading the Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) project. At Lightmatter, Ho will spearhead Lightmatter’s chip engineering division with focus on developing and deploying Lightmatter’s photonic AI accelerator and wafer-scale interconnect, designed for […]The post Photonics Company Lightmatter Names Google TPU Engineer Richard Ho VP of Hardware Engineering appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ARgonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold its annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop this October 4-6. The event is designed to help researchers improve the performance and productivity of simulation, data science, and machine learning applications on ALCF systems. Registration is here. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to: Work directly with ALCF […]The post ALCF to Hold Annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop Oct. 4-6 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY, August 23, 2022 – Quantum control infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced the addition of Alex Shih as head of product. He will lead the company’s product management teams to deliver the technology’s value and ROI to customers and end users. Prior to joining Q-CTRL, Shih was a principal of technical products at Slack; […]The post Quantum Company Q-CTRL Names Alex Shih Head of Product appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

On Friday, Oct. 7, the Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will hold a free virtual event entitled “Computational Science Supports Energy Initiatives” from 8 am to 2:15 pm Pactific Time. Registration is here. HPC4EI is intended to pair industry partners with computational scientists at the DOE national laboratories to increase […]The post HPC4EI to Celebrate National Manufacturing Day Oct. 7 with Virtual Event appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

It was a day of high pride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a day to stop and take stock of the successful completion of a project based on an idea – exascale computing – that was begun more than 20 years ago. We’re talking about the official unveiling of Frontier, the country’s and the world’s […]The post Frontier Exascale Unveiling: ‘Breathtaking…, a Huge Leap Forward for Science, for Our Country” appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Rice University synthetic biologists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to modify living cells to act as memory-storage devices, the university announced today. NSF issued the award for research by principal investigator Jonathan Silberg, the Stewart Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, and his colleagues to make the equivalent of read-write-erase […]The post Rice Team Wins $1.5 NSF Award for Biomolecule-based Data Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting will be held Aug. 22-24 in Columbus, OH. Registration is here. The MUG meeting is intended to provide an open forum for users, system administrators, researchers, engineers, and students to discuss and share knowledge on using MVAPICH2 libraries (including MVAPICH2-X, MVAPICH2-GDR, MVAPICH2-X-Azure, and MVAPICH2-X-AWS), OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB), and OSU […]The post 10th Annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting August 22-24, 2022 Columbus, OH appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 18, 2022 — OpenSSF Day will be held at Open Source Summit Europe, Dublin, on Tuesday, September 13th, to discuss what the OpenSSF community is doing to secure the open source ecosystem. Working group and project leaders will hold sessions on on Sigstore, Alpha-Omega, best practices and SBOMs. Registration for the event is here. […]The post OpenSSF Day to Be Held Sept. 13 at Open Source Summit Europe appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN, August 18, 2022 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing company, and IQM Quantum Computers today announced a partnership to develop integrated solutions for specific quantum-based applications in finance, energy, chemistry, logistics, material science and other verticals. Through this partnership, both companies will tightly integrate IQM’s co-designed quantum processors with Multiverse’s Singularity SDK to accelerate […]The post Multiverse Computing and IQM Quantum Partner on Application-Specific Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, Md.– Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the availability of IonQ Aria exclusively on the Azure Quantum platform, at launch. IonQ Aria is the second IonQ system to join the Azure Quantum platform, following the rollout of IonQ Harmony in late 2019. “Having IonQ Aria be available to Azure Quantum customers […]The post IonQ Aria Available on Azure Quantum Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 16, 2022 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that a multidisciplinary team of researchers from ORNL and Purdue University won the Truth CT Reconstruction Grand Challenge, which was organized by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The team’s win was announced at the 2022 AAPM Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, in […]The post ORNL/Purdue Team Wins CT Imaging Competition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Milpitas, Calif. – August 16, 2022 – cPacket Networks, maker of hybrid-cloud observability solutions, today announces the latest set of products designed for broader connectivity, versatility and observability. This includes cStor S-series packet capture and analysis observability nodes, and cVu NGE-series packet broker observability nodes. The products range from 10Gbps to 100Gbps speeds, designed to prolong […]The post cPacket Networks Announces Data Center Observability Products appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

August 16, 2022, Taipei — Memory company TEAMGROUP announced announced MP44L M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD, featuring what it said is a breakthrough cooling technology: the industry’s first SSD label to incorporate graphene copper foil. This less than 1mm thick heat dissipating graphene SSD label has received Utility Patents [1] and is adhered to the SSD to provide […]The post TEAMGROUP Claims 1st Heat Dissipating Graphene PCIe 4.0 SSD Label for Cooling Performance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—August 16, 2022 — Verge.io, with a mission to offer a simpler way to virtualize data centers, has added new features to its Verge-OS software designed to give users the performance of GPUs as virtualized, shared resources. The intent is to create a cost-effective, simple and flexible way to perform GPU-based machine learning, remote […]The post Verge.io Unveils Virtualized GPU Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Tel Aviv August 11, 2022- Granulate, an Intel company, developer of autonomous workload optimization solutions, announced the upcoming launch of a free cost-reduction solution, gMaestro, a workload and pod rightsizing tool for Kubernetes cost optimization. The offering provides DevOps, SREs, and FinOps teams full visibility into their K8s clusters allowing them to eliminate over-provisioning and […]The post Granulate to Launch Free Autonomous Kubernetes Cost Optimization appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Having previewed its Private 5G offering last November, Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of the managed service designed “to help enterprises set up and scale private mobile networks in their facilities in days instead of months,” according to the company. However, in a blog discussing the new offering AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff […]The post AWS Launches GA of Private 5G — Though it’s 4G for Now appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Shanghai, August 12, 2022 – The RISC-V Summit China 2022 (Aug. 24-26) today announced its 2022 agenda, including keynotes, tutorials, and technical presentations in English language and Chinese language editions. This year’s summit includes more than 80 tech talks, showcases, and tutorials and will include presentations in both Chinese and English. The RISC-V Summit brings together innovators, […]The post RISC-V Summit China 2022 Announces Agenda appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 11, 2022 — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has purchased a high performance computing system from HPE in a three-year deal for US$35 million. The new system, intended to improve the resilience of Australia’s weather forecasting supercomputing capability, will augment a Cray XC50 supercomputer installed at the BOM in 2016, according to a story in […]The post HPE Wins $35M HPC DR Deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 9, 2022 — Peter Rose, director of the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was recently presented with a team award from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) noting his work in the COVID-19 Common Data Elements Working Groups. Specifically, Rose has been […]The post SDSC’s Peter Rose Wins COVID-19 NIH/NICHD Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million, five-year collaborative project in nuclear energy research through the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. SciDAC brings together researchers in science and energy with those in software development, applied mathematics, and computer science […]The post DOE Picks Los Alamos Lab for $9.25M Nuclear Energy Research HPC Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.