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SAN JOSE, Sept. 17, 2024 - ZutaCore, a provider of direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solutions, andMunters, an air treatment and climate solutions company, today announced the integration of their two platforms to provide a two-phase, waterless liquid cooling to cool AI factories faced with massive power densities driven by AI accelerators. The solution is designed [...]The post ZutaCore and Munters Team on Waterless Data Center Architecture for AI Factories appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

KIRKLAND, WA, September 17, 2024 - Today, Firebolt announced a data warehouse that the company said delivers low latency analytics with 10x more efficiency. Built across five years of relentless development, it reflects continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases. Data engineers can now deliver customer-facing analytics and data-intensive applications (data apps) more cost-effectively [...]The post Firebolt Introduces Cloud Data Warehouse appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Montreal, Sept. 16, 2024 - Quantum sofware company Q-CTRL today announced that it offers two services via IBM's new Qiskit Functions Catalog to simplify application development and performance management services. Q-CTRL's performance-management software, Fire Opal, improves the usability and capability of quantum computing by reducing errors and abstracting the details of how to operate hardware [...]The post Q-CTRL Delivering New Services to IBM Quantum Network appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RENO, Nev. - September 12, 2024 -Businesses aiming to optimize IT system automation with precision and efficiency now have a solution - Ledger Pro, the newest product fromCIQ. An all-in-one solution for proactive infrastructure oversight, Ledger Pro is built to help organizations track critical changes, ensure compliance and save time and money on system management, [...]The post CIQ Launches Ledger Pro for IT Infrastructure Oversight appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 13, 2024: The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a seven-week virtual training series for undergraduates and graduates on the fundamentals of applying world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research. Please share this opportunity with university students that you think will be interested. The series will be held on Tuesdays from [...]The post Sept. 29 Registration Deadline for ALCF Virtual Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, Israel,Sept. 10, 2024 -Quantum Source, anIsrael-based company developing, technology for photonic quantum computers, announced today it has raised a$50MSeries A investment round led byEclipse, with participation from Standard Investments, Level VC, Canon Equity, as well as existing investors Pitango First, Grove Ventures, 10D, and Dell Technologies Capital. This brings the company's total funding [...]The post Quantum Source Raises $50M Series A Funding appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 12, 2024 - Memory technology company Samsung Electronics today announced it has begun mass production of its 1Tb quad-level cell (QLC) 9th-generation vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory. With the industry's first mass production of QLC 9th-generation V-NAND, following the industry's first triple-level cell (TLC) 9th-generation V-NAND production in April this year, Samsung is solidifying [...]The post Samsung Announces Production of QLC 9th-Gen V-NAND Flash Memory appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2024 - AI and HPC data infrastructure software company VDURA, formerly Panasas, announced the appointment of Peter Ungaro to its company board of directors. In addition, VDURA has established a Technical Advisory Board, bringing on-board industry pioneers Dr. Garth Gibson, founder of Panasas, and Hugo Patterson, co-Founder of Datrium and known [...]The post Pete Ungaro Joins VDURA Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Montreal and Paris, September 12th, 2024 - Quandela, a European photonic quantum computing company, announced the launch of its Canadian subsidiary, Quandela Canada, in Montreal. This is accompanied by the deployment of the first European quantum computer in North American, according to the company, at the Bellevue Data Centre operated by Eaxion, a subsidiary of [...]The post Quandela Unveils European Quantum Computer in North America appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 12, 2024 - The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, endowed with 1.5 million euros, goes to Geordie Williamson, professor at the University of Sydney, for his use of artificial intelligence for fundamental work in mathematics. Meanwhile, Max Planck Humboldt Medals go to Laura Waller, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for her work in [...]The post 3 Max Planck-Humboldt Award Winners Named appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, September 12, 2024 - BQP, a startup developing quantum-based engineering simulations, today announced what it said is a research milestone for simulating computational fluid dynamics. The milestone was achieved using a hybrid quantum-classical solver which is part of BQP's next-gen simulation platform, BQPhy, according to BQP. After conducting ~100000 experiments, BQP researchers published [...]The post BQP Reports on Aircraft CFD Simulations with Quantum Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia's forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available with up to 131,072 Blackwells delivering 2.4 zettaFLOPS of peak performance, according to Oracle. The company said this offers more than [...]The post Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercomputing Cluster with 131,000 Nvidia Blackwells appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Cerebras Systems today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Aramco under which they aim to bring high performance AI inference to industries, universities, and enterprises in Saudi Arabia. Aramco plans to build, train and deploy large language models using Cerebras' CS-3 systems. Aramco's new high-performance [...]The post Aramco and Cerebras Sign AI MoU appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2024 - Kong Inc., a developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the launch of the latest version of Kong Konnect, its API platform for AI, at the API Summit 2024 conference. As organizations increasingly adopt AI, Kong Konnect emerges as the enterprise-grade unified platform that enables them to securely build, [...]The post Kong Updates Its Cloud API Platformfor AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD - Sept. 11, 2024 - Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Maryland today announced an agreement to expand their partnership to provide quantum computing access at the National Quantum Lab at Maryland (QLab), which provides UMD-affiliated students, faculty, researchers, staff and partners with an unprecedented opportunity to work [...]The post IonQ and the University of Maryland in $9M Quantum Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Julich Supercomputing Centre in Germany announced the start of installation for Europe's first exascale-class supercomputer, Jupiter. The first containers of the modular data center for the have been positioned ....The post Installation Starts at JSC for Jupiter, Europe's First Exascale HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE - 10 September 2024 - Cloud data platforms company Qumulo today announced the availability of Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on Amazon Web Services. This release delivers a multi-protocol system designed to manage unstructured data with superior performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Now publicly available on AWS, CNQ is set to revolutionize enterprise data [...]The post Qumulo Announces Cloud Native Unstructured Data System on AWS appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER, Sept. 10, 2024- Power transmission and fluid power product maker Gates(NYSE:GTES) announced the launch of the Data Master Data Center Cooling Hose. This fluid conveyance solution, a result of Gates Eco-Innovation process, is intended for data center liquid cooling applications driven by compute-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence. This addition to Gates' fluid conveyance [...]The post Gates Launches Data Master Hose for Data Center Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ISC 2025 Contributed Program is now open for submissions. Scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government are invited to submit proposals. The contributed program comprises research papers, posters, birds of a feather, tutorials and workshop sessions.The post ISC 2025 Is Open for Submissions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, CA - Sept. 10th, 2024 - AI chips and models company SambaNova Systems announced SambaNova Cloud AI inference service powered by its SN40L AI chip. The company said developers can log on for free via an API today - no waiting list - and create their own generative AI applications using both the [...]The post SambaNova Launches AI Inference Cloud Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 10, 2024 - San Diego - DDC Solutions, formerly DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of hybrid liquid-air cooling cabinet technology and dynamic monitoring and management DCIM software, announced the expansion of its engineering leadership team.DDC has hired Paul Bartlett as Chief Operating Officer and Tom Demitras as VP of Engineering to scale design and manufacturing [...]The post DDC Expands Engineering Leadership Team appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good late summer morning to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a quick (6:10) recap of recent news developments, including: DOE's $23M future of HPC RFP ....The post HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240909: AI vs. Copyright, TSMC's CoWoS Capacity, Intel's 18A Fab, an RFP for the Future of HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

September 5, 2024, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy announced $68 million in funding for 11 AI for science multi-institution projects, comprising 43 awards lasting up to three years, with $20 million in Fiscal Year 2024 dollars and outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and more information can be [...]The post DOE Announces $68M for AI for Scientific Research appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Office of Science in the U.S. Dept. of Energy announced a $23 million research and development opportunity led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance technologies and drive new capabilities for future supercomputers.The post New Frontiers': $23M DOE RFP to Define the Future of HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 6, 2024 - AI cloud hyperscaler CoreWeave announced an integration with AI workload and GPU orchestration company Run:ai that the companies say is designed to offers AI enterprises and labs options for deployment of AI inference and training. The integration enables CoreWeave customers to manage workloads on its high-performance infrastructure using the Run:ai platform. [...]The post CoreWeave Partners with Run:ai on AI Inference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 5, 2024, Stony Brook, NY - Arie Kaufman, distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, has been honored with the SC24 Test of Time Award (TOTA) for supercomputing for his seminal 2004 paper, GPU Cluster for High Performance Computing." Two decades ago, Kaufman, along with Postdoc Suzanne Yoakum-Stover and [...]The post Stony Brook's Arie Kaufman Wins 2024 SC24 Test of Time Award for Supercomputing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 5, 2024 - HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum announced that nominations are open for the 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Winners will be announced at the Hyperion Research AI/HPC Market Update Breakfast Briefing during SC24 this November in Atlanta. To nominate a candidate, use the application form found [...]The post Nominations Open for 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DALLAS, Sept. 05, 2024 - Applied Digital Corporation, a builder of digital infrastructure designed for high performance computing applications, today announced it has entered into definitive agreements for a $160 million private placement financing priced at market, from a group of institutional and accredited investors, NVIDIA and related companies, the most prominent privately-owned real estate [...]The post Nvidia and Others Invest $160M in HPC Data Center Company Applied Digital appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HOUSTON - September 5, 2024 -Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announces HPE Private Cloud AI is available to order and introduces new solution accelerators to automate and streamline artificial intelligence applications. HPE Private Cloud AI is a turnkey, cloud-based experience co-developed with NVIDIA to help businesses of every size build and deploy generative AI applications [...]The post HPE Introduces Private Cloud AI Co-Developed with Nvidia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Copenhagen - September 4th, 2024 - Nordic coloction HPC and AI service provider atNorth has announced plans to build its largest data center to date in Olgod in Varde Denmark. The site, to be known as DEN02, will cater to colocation and build-to-suit projects and will be designed for hyperscalers and companies that run AI [...]The post atNorth Announces Heat Reuse at Denmark Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE and LAUREL, Md.- High performance storage and management company VDURA has announced a partnership with Jeskell Systems, a renowned IT modernization specialist with nearly two decades of experience serving Federal and commercial clients globally. VDURA said the collaboration aims to deliver industry leading data storage solutions that enhance operational performance, resilience, and security [...]The post VDURA Announces Partnership with Jeskell Systems for IT Modernization appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ....The post TACC's Vista' AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 4, 2024 - Ten Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) designed to bring together teams of scientists for fundamental research have been funded in nine states by the U.S. Department of Energy. The projects are: A Center for Power Electronics Materials and Manufacturing Exploration at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. Quantum Photonic [...]The post DOE Awards $118M for Energy Frontier Research Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Sept. 3, 2024 - Dr. Kathryn Mohror, a distinguished member of technical staff and deputy director of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been named the winner of the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing award. The Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award honors mid-career [...]The post Livermore Lab's Dr. Kathryn Mohror Wins ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy Labor Day to you! From the world of HPC-AI, we offer a rapid (5:57) review of recent news, including: Nvidia and Blackwell push technology's limits, big AI inference numbers ....The post HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately 3,000 km one-way network, according to the companies.The post NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced it has built a sixth generation HPC cluster, Iridis 6, for the University of Southampton... The cluster was built using HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors for computational science at-scale ....The post UK's University of Southampton Deploys HPE Iridis' 6 HPC System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 29, 2024 - The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program. This investment will fund 23 research projects aiming to break new ground in fields such as quantum computing, sensors and [...]The post NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 - Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernize how the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) performs patent examinations. The agency receives hundreds of thousands of applications annually which all need to be reviewed before a patent [...]The post Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RENO, Nev. - August 28, 2024 - Software infrastructure company CIQ today released the Fuzzball computing and data management platform for performance-intensive computing (PIC). CIQ said it is shipping new capabilities in Fuzzball, giving individual researchers tools designed to access PIC resources faster and without having to learn and manage infrastructure provisioning and management. CIQ [...]The post CIQReleases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE-Aug. 28, 2024- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing Service, a new managed service that helps customers set up and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters so they can run scientific and engineering workloads at virtually any scale on AWS. The [...]The post AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and ....The post Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference Benchmark for GenAI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aug. 26, 2024 - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers(SDC Austin) as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Horizon is part of the nation's newly announced National Science Foundation-fundedLeadership-Class Computing Facility(LCCF), which will revolutionize America's computational research for the next [...]The post TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, according to the company, making it 20 times faster than GPU-based solutions in hyperscale clouds.The post Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good August morning to you! We offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL exascale power needs enters NM politics, underground nuclear power for AI, AMD-ZT Systems dealThe post HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C.-August 26, 2024 - Open source software company Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, the next release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The company said this is a step forward in how enterprises, particularly telecommunication service providers, can better unify traditional and cloud-native networks into a singular [...]The post Red Hat Announces Availability of OpenStack Services on OpenShift appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.