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CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — AIC Inc., a provider of enterprise storage and server solutions, announced the launch of J4078-02-04X, an ultra-high density 4U 78-bay JBOD enclosure. This new JBOD supports 24G SAS and targets such workloads as virtualization, enterprise backup storage, cold and warm data storage. AIC J4078-02-04X is a […]The post AIC Launches High Density 4U JBOD appeared first on insideHPC.

July 7, 2022 — Women in HPC has announced its July schedule of opportunities for the HPC community. From reviews, to networking, to the announcement of our participation at SC22 in Dallas, here is a summary of events as described by WHPC: WHPC launches early career talk submissions for november 13th workshop – Dallas: Abstract submissions […]The post Women in HPC Announces July Events appeared first on insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif. – July 7, 2022 – Big memory software company MemVerge today announced the MemVerge Memory Machine has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator and container certifications. “This is an important step in enabling cloud builders to lower the cost and increase the availability of their expensive memory infrastructure,” the company said. “With these certifications, cloud builders […]The post MemVerge Memory Machine Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator and Container Certification appeared first on insideHPC.

Washington, DC — The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it has completed the third round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization process, which selects public-key cryptographic algorithms to protect information through the advent of quantum computers. A total of four candidate algorithms have been selected for standardization, and four additional algorithms […]The post NIST Completes 3rd Round of Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process appeared first on insideHPC.

GRENOBLE, France – July 7, 2022 – Technical research institute CEA-Leti announced it has developed an event-driven, object-localization system that couples piezoelectric, ultrasound transducer sensors to a neuromorphic, resistive memories-based computational map. Presented in a paper published recently in Nature Communications, the research team describes development of an auditory-processing system that increases energy efficiency by up […]The post CEA-Leti: Neuromorphic Device Uses Up to ‘5 Orders of Magnitude’ Less Energy appeared first on insideHPC.

July 6, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced awards for 18 projects with private industry to enhance collaboration with DOE national laboratories and U.S. universities to take on challenges in fusion energy development. The 18 selected projects include representation from 10 private companies. The full list of planned awards can be […]The post DOE Announces 18 Public-Private Partnership Awards to Advance Fusion Energy appeared first on insideHPC.

Following DOE's next-gen supercomputing Request for Information (RFI) issued last week, we discussed what it all may mean with Dr. Horst Simon, Special Advisor to the Laboratory Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and co-editor of the TOP500 list since 2000. He takes us through the current (though fungible) state of DOE’s post-exascale vision, the implications of an Advanced Computing Ecosystem (ACE) outlined in the RFI and the possible emergence of a new, more vendor-diverse leadership-class systems market.The post @HPCpodcast: Horst Simon on DOE’s Post-Exascale HPC Vision – More Flexibility, More Vendor Diversity appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) today announced that at its 44th PRACE Council Meeting on 8 June 2022 – held in hybrid mode – PRACE members elected a new chair and vice-chair. The new incumbents will fulfil their mandates for two years. Dr Constantia Alexandrou, Professor at the Physics Department of the University […]The post PRACE Council Elects New Chair and Vice-Chair appeared first on insideHPC.

July 5, 2022 – Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the super-parameterization technique for modeling moist convection into the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), which is a global climate modeling, simulation, and prediction project being developed by DOE. This method is designed to enable E3SM to improve […]The post Exascale Computing Project Supports Atmospheric Convection Modeling appeared first on insideHPC.

We spoke at ISC 2022 with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris across a range of topics, including: The 10 exaflop (HPL-AI benchmark) “Venado” supercomputer to be installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and powered by NVIDIA Grace and Grace Hopper processors. The machine reflects the company’s HPC + AI […]The post At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions appeared first on insideHPC.

Perth, Australia — The first phase of the Pawsey Supercomputing Center‘s Setonix supercomputer is now available, designed to offer a faster, user-friendly interface to accelerate discoveries. Setonix Phase 1 is delivering double the compute power of its predecessor, Magnus, via 3rd generation AMD EPYC CPUs. Setonixm an HPE Cray EX supercomputer, gives Pawsey’s researchers access […]The post Phase 1 of Pawsey’s Setonix Supercomputer Now Available to Users appeared first on insideHPC.

June 30, 2022 — The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) has announce that Kathryn Kelley has joined CASC as it’s new Executive Director. For more than three decades, CASC has promoted the use of advanced computing to accelerate scientific discovery for national competitiveness, global security, and economic success. Kelley will work with the CASC […]The post Kathryn Kelley Joins CASC as Executive Director appeared first on insideHPC.

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.