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Paris, 30 June, 2022 – Atos, in agreement with the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK, today announced the opening of its global Life Sciences Centre of Excellence. The facility will provide scientists on campus, and global genome and bio-data institutes worldwide, early access to emerging technologies to support their research, helping to accelerate the […]The post Atos Opens Life Sciences Centre of Excellence for Drug Development and Precision Health in UK appeared first on insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS – June 28, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) said it is the first major server provider to deliver a new line of cloud-native compute solutions using Arm processors from Ampere. The HPE serveers are designed to provide service providers and enterprises embracing cloud-native development with an agile, extensible, and trusted compute […]The post HPE Launches ProLiant Servers Using Ampere Chips appeared first on insideHPC.

Less than a month after its Frontier system broke the exascale performance barrier and won the no. 1 supercomputing world ranking, the U.S. Department of Energy today issued an RFI revealing its strategic thinking for the next generation of leadership-class supercomputers extending out to 2030. The documentis calls for “the development of an approach that […]The post DOE Document Reveals Next-Gen Supercomputing Strategy: A Move to More Modular, Faster Upgrade Cycles appeared first on insideHPC.

June 28, 2022, BOULDER, CO – Registration is underway for the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, August 2-4. To register, learn more about the symposium and view the program, visit the symposium website at www.rmacc.org/hpcsymposium. The conference will be held at the Wolf Law Center on the campus of the University […]The post Registration Open for Aug. 2-4 RMACC HPC Symposium appeared first on insideHPC.

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) has welcomed its Frontera Computational Science Fellowship awardees for 2022-2023. The program provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students to compute on the Frontera supercomputer world and collaborate with experts at TACC. TACC released the following profiles and Q&A with the new cohort of fellows: Alma Carolina Escobosa, […]The post TACC Announces Frontera Fellows Cohort for 2022-2023 appeared first on insideHPC.

Paris, June 28, 2022 — CGG announced today the creation of a new HPC & Cloud Solutions business, under the leadership of former Atos executive Agnès Boudot, who will report to the CEO. CGG said Boudot brings in-depth high-performance computing (HPC) experience from the IT industry to CGG. Over her 30-year career, she has gained […]The post CGG Launches HPC and Cloud Solutions Business under Former Atos Executive Agnès Boudot appeared first on insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS – June 27, 2022 – At HPE Discover 2022,, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced its long-time partner, Red Hat is joining the HPE GreenLake ecosystem. The companies will work together to combine new HPE IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) offerings with Red Hat’s pioneering open-source technologies, such as Red Hat Open Shift, Red Hat Enterprise […]The post Red Hat Joins HPE GreenLake Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

June 24, 2022 — The Women in HPC organization issued the following announcement today regarding their Tuesday, July 12 (10 am Central Time) webinar (registration here): Following on from our successful return to in-person events at ISC’22, Women in HPC (WHPC) will be hosting a one-hour webinar with speakers from our June 2nd workshop in […]The post Women in HPC to Host ISC 2022 Re-cap Webinar July 12 appeared first on insideHPC.

IBARAKI, Japan, June 24, 2022 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that its subsidiary, the TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center, has completed construction of its clean room in the Tsukuba Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). An opening event was held today. The TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D […]The post TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center Completes Clean Room Construction in AIST Tsukuba Center appeared first on insideHPC.

June 23, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a virtual hands-on training session on DeepHyper (https://github.com/deephyper/deephyper), on Friday, July 15 from 9 am to 4 pm Central Time. Registration is here, the deadline for registering is Thursday, July 1. Deep Hyper is a distributed automated machine learning (AutoML) software package for automating the […]The post Argonne to Host DeepHyper Training Session July 15 appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June, 22, 2022 — AMD today announced that Mathew Hein is joining the company as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of corporate development, effective June 27, 2022. Hein will be responsible for advancing the company’s strategy across high-performance and adaptive computing solutions and will work with the AMD executive […]The post AMD Appoints Mathew Hein Chief Strategy Officer appeared first on insideHPC.

OTTAWA — June 22, 2022 — High performance networking company Rockport Networks today announced the appointment of data center industry executive Phil Harris as CEO of the switchless network innovator. With more than two decades in corporate leadership, he will focus on the way next-generation networks are changing how high-performance data centers are designed, deployed, and operated […]The post Rockport Networks Taps Phil Harris as CEO appeared first on insideHPC.

When a tech news story gets talked about on sports radio, you know it’s gone very viral. That’s what happened last week with the story about a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who declared that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA, is a person with rights. Lemoine promptly got suspended by Google for his trouble, and he says he won’t be surprised if he gets fired. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan of OrionX.net and insideHPC editor-in-chief Doug Black talk about LaMDA’s amazingly lifelike conversational capability, how it can ingest books and research papers and share insights about them in real time (i.e., during conversations), deep fake-related ethical questions raised by LaMDA, the urgency of thoughtful social policies based on ethical and legal frameworks and philosophical issues of sentience, being and nothingness – artificial and otherwise.The post @HPCpodcast: Google’s Lifelike LaMDA AI Chatbot and Questions of Being or Nothingness appeared first on insideHPC.

Paris, June 21, 2022 – Pasqal, a neutral atoms quantum computing company, today announced the company has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing by Gartner. This report is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. The ‘Cool Vendors in Quantum Computing’ report by Gartner noted, “Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Quantum […]The post Pasqal Named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Nuremberg, Germany – June 21, 2022 – RISC-V International, the open-design standards organization, announced its first four specification and extension approvals of 2022 – Efficient Trace for RISC-V (E-Trace), RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), RISC-V Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specifications, and the RISC-V Zmmul multiply-only extension. The news builds on momentum from 2021, in which 16 […]The post RISC-V Announces First Specifications of 2022 appeared first on insideHPC.

June 21, 2022 — Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced 10 U.S. scientists and engineers as recipients of the prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for their exceptional contributions in research and development supporting the Energy Department’s missions in science, energy, and national security. The 2021 Ernest O. Lawrence Award recipients are: Matthew C. […]The post DOE Announces Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Winners appeared first on insideHPC.

June 21, 2022 — Lubricant brand Castrol and Submer, an immersion cooling systems solutions maker, have signed an agreement aiming to accelerate the adoption of immersion cooling as a path to more efficient and sustainable data centre operations. The companies plan to collaborate on the global supply, standardization, and development of next generation immersion cooling fluids […]The post Castrol and Submer to Collaborate on Immersion Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 21, 2022 — PCI-SIG today announced that the PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification will double the data rate to 128 GT/s and is targeted for release to members in 2025. PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing the PCIe 7.0 specification with the following feature goals: Delivering 128 GT/s raw bit rate and […]The post PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 7.0 Specification to Reach 128 GT/s appeared first on insideHPC.

June 21, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN), whose mission is to address scientific and engineering challenges and to develop new hardware, software, and applications for quantum networks. AWS said CQN will complement the quantum science and engineering efforts underway at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing and […]The post AWS Launches Center for Quantum Networking appeared first on insideHPC.

Following his highly anticipated and always-insightful closing night keynote at the recent ISC conference, we caught up with Prof. Thomas Sterling to discuss the state of HPC. Dr. Sterling is professor of intelligent systems engineering at Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and president and co-founder of Simultac, a technology company focused on […]The post @HPCpodcast: Parallel Processing Systems Pioneer Dr. Thomas Sterling on the State of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The Frontera supercomputer at TACC has furthered scientists' understanding of how the HIV-1 virus infects and helped generate the first realistic simulations of its capsid, complete with its proteins, water, genetic material, and a key cofactor called IP6 recently discovered to stabilize and help form the capsid. "The vulnerabilities in the armor of the HIV-1 virus capsid were revealed by these very big simulations and the analysis we did," said Gregory Voth, the Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Voth is the lead author on the HIV-1 capsid study published in March 2022 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The post TACC: Frontera HPC Helps Reveal Weaknesses in HIV-1 ‘Armor’ appeared first on insideHPC.

We sat down with Doug Fuller, director of software development at high-performance fabric provider Cornelis Networks, to discuss new hardware developments within its Omni-Path along with a new software layer within Omni-Path Express, designed to increase performance and compatibility. The company positions Omni-Path as a processor-neutral fabric, as well as “upstream first open source” — […]The post At ISC 2022: Cornelis Networks’ New Hardware, Software for Omni-Path High-Performance Fabric appeared first on insideHPC.

Stockholm – 16 June 2022 – atNorth, a Nordic data center operator based in Iceland, today announces the appointment of Mats Hultin to its board of directors. As CIO and head of Group IT at Ericsson, Mats is responsible for Ericsson’s internal digital platforms for innovation and user experience. He brings valuable knowledge of enterprise digitization to […]The post Ericsson Group CIO Joines Board of HPC Colo Provider atNorth appeared first on insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, B.C. — June 16, 2022 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems today announced it is showcasing an experimental prototype of the next-generation Advantage2 annealing quantum computer in the Leap quantum cloud service. The quantum prototype is available for use today. D-Wave said the prototype has 500+ qubits, woven together in the […]The post D-Wave Shows Annealing Quantum Prototype appeared first on insideHPC.

Tewksbury, MA – June 15, 2022 – Avery Design Systems, a functional verification solutions company, today announced its support for the new UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) standard, providing an efficient approach to enable design and verification engineers to leverage the recently-introduced standard for die-to-die interface connectivity. Avery’s offering includes models and test suites that support […]The post Avery Design Systems Announces Verification Support for New Chiplet Interconnect Standard appeared first on insideHPC.

Registration for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit, October 18-20 in San Jose, is now open. Registration information can be found here. The summit is a gathering of technologists looking to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and software, and increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the […]The post Registration Open for Open Compute Project Summit, Oct. 18-20 appeared first on insideHPC.

BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 14, 2022 – Quantinuum today announced an upgrade to its System Model H1 technology that includes expanding to 20 fully connected qubits and increasing the number of quantum operations that can be completed in parallel. “The improvements significantly bolster the computational capabilities of the H1-1 quantum computer, Powered by Honeywell, which has set numerous industry records […]The post Quantinuum: Hardware Upgrade Completed with 20 Connected Qubits appeared first on insideHPC.

At ISC 2022, we caught up with Panasas Chief Operating Officer Brian Peterson, who caught us up on the high performance storage company’s latest product and market developments. Peterson, who joined Panasas last November, said today’s key trend in the high-performance storage category is that, while it has traditionally been dominated by the high-end enterprise […]The post At ISC: Panasas Spotlights New Products for High Performance HPC/AI and Enterprise Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 13, 2022 — Aiming to help customers optimize performance, power and area (PPA) for next-generation system-on-chips (SoCs) used in mobile and high-performance computing applications, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that TSMC has certified the Synopsys digital and custom design flows for its N3E and N4P process technologies. In addition, Synopsys’ leading Foundation IP […]The post Synopsys Work Flows Certified for Next-Generation Mobile and HPC Designs on TSMC N3E and N4P Processes appeared first on insideHPC.

June 13, 2022 — LUMI was inaugurated today, with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking calling it the organization’s first pre-exascale supercomputer and now Europe’s most powerful supercomputer. It was launched in Kajaani, Finland. “LUMI offers European researchers a world-class tool for understanding complicated phenomena, such as climate change,” the organization said. “LUMI serves as a platform […]The post EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Launches LUMI, Europe’s Top HPC System appeared first on insideHPC.

At ISC 2022 we spoke with atNorth CCO Gisli Kr., who discussed the company’s Iceland- and Sweden-based HPC/AI colocation services powered by renewable (hydro and geothermal) energy. Kr. also discusses its latest offering, GPU-as-a-Service, added last week to its AI infrastructure portfolio, as well as an upcoming announcement focused on the nearly 100 percent total […]The post At ISC 2022: atNorth’s Nordic Renewable Energy-powered HPC/AI Colocation Services appeared first on insideHPC.

In this interview with high performance storage enthusiast Ulrich Plechschmidt, worldwide product marketing HPC Storage at HPE, he updates us developments and milestones for the company’s storage product line. Included is the news that the same storage technology used in Frontier—the world’s no. 1 supercomputer on the latest TOP500 list — is now available for […]The post At ISC 2022: HPE Offering the High Performance Storage Used in Frontier – the No. 1 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Seoul, June 9, 2022 – SK hynix announced that it began mass production of HBM3, high-performance memory that vertically interconnects multiple DRAM chips “and dramatically increases data processing speed in comparison to traditional DRAM products,” the company said. HBM3 DRAM is the 4th generation HBM product, succeeding HBM (1st generation), HBM2 (2nd generation) and HBM2E […]The post SK hynix to Supply HBM3 DRAM to NVIDIA appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Angeles – June 8, 2022 — Today at Pure//Accelerate techfest22, data storage technology and services company Pure Storage announced the FlashBlade//S family of products with what the company described as a new modular architecture built on co-designed hardware and software. “The new platform leverages a nearly unlimited scalable metadata architecture, offering more than double […]The post Pure Storage Introduces FlashBlade//S for Unstructured Data and Application Growth appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2022 in Hamburg was notable for a number of reasons – it was not only the first in-person ISC since 2019, it also provided a plethora of major news. This included big changes at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and the Frontier HPC system at Oak Ridge National Lab surpassing of the exascale milestone. While AMD, whose chips power Frontier, and HPE, which built Frontier, were the conference’s spotlight vendors, Intel also made some impressive product announcements, as analyzed in this discussion by Shahin Khan. You can find our podcasts at insideHPC’s @HPCpodcast page, on Twitter and at the OrionX.net blog. Here’s the RSS feed.The post @HPCpodcast: On the Scene at ISC 2022 – HPE, AMD Make TOP500 News; Intel Makes News of Its Own appeared first on insideHPC.