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PALO ALTO, Calif. — March 17, 2022 — AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS replacement AlmaLinux, today announced four new members have joined. Sine Nomine Associates has joined at the Gold Member level and three more are joining at the Silver Member level: Advanced Micro Devices […]The post AlmaLinux OS Foundation Announces New Members appeared first on insideHPC.

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MIAMI, PALO ALTO and BURNABY, British Columbia — DPCM Capital, Inc. (NYSE: XPOA), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (“DPCM Capital”), today announced the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by D-Wave Quantum Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of DPCM Capital (“D-Wave Quantum”), of a registration statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration […]The post DPCM Capital Files Statement for Proposed Business Combination with D-Wave appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – High performance AI compute company Cerebras Systems and nference, an AI-driven health technology company, today announced a collaboration to accelerate natural language processing (NLP) for biomedical research and development by orders of magnitude with a Cerebras CS-2 system installed at the nference headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The vast amounts of health data that […]The post Cerebras and nference Launch NLP Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

AUSTIN,TEXAS –March 15, 2022 — Immersion cooling company GRC (Green Revolution Cooling) today announced the launch of its Immersion Cooling Pilot Program, a “Try Before You Buy” offering that allows data center owners and operators to deploy an ICEraQ Series 10 immersion cooling system on a trial basis. The program begins immediately and invites prospective buyers […]The post GRC Launches Trial Program for Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – March 15, 2021 – DevOps Institute, a professional member association for advancing DevOps, announced early bird registration for its first in-person event, SKILup Festival: A Live DevOps Educational Experience. The event takes place June 15 -16, 2022 in Denver, Colorado at The Tivoli, Auraria Campus. DevOps Institute SKILup Festivals help IT […]The post DevOps Institute Announces 2022 SKILup Festival appeared first on insideHPC.

In part 2 of our not-to-be-missed @HPCpodcast with Argonne National Laboratory Associate Director Rick Stevens, he discusses some of the important advances that had, by 2015, likely ended the cycle of AI for science winters. He also delves into the major challenges in AI for science, such as building models that are transparent and unbiased while also robust and secure. And Stevens looks at important upcoming AI for science breakthrough use cases, including the welcome news – for researchers beset by mountains of scientific papers – of utilizing large natural language modeling to ingest and collate existing knowledge of a scientific problem, enabling analysis of the literature that, Stevens said, goes well beyond a Google search....The post @HPCpodcast: Argonne’s Rick Stevens on AI for Science (Part 2) – Coming Breakthroughs, Ethics and the Replacement of Scientists by Robots appeared first on insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Mar. 10, 2022 – DDN, maker of artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions, and Aspen Systems, manufacturer of HPC products, have partnered to deliver custom AI and HPC solutions that enable data-intensive organizations to generate more value and lower times for analyzing data, on premise and in the cloud. Pacific Northwest […]The post DDN and Aspen Systems in HPC – AI Partnership to Help PNNL Study Environmental Impact on Coastal Regions appeared first on insideHPC.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 10, 2022 — Purdue University’s supercomputing power has leveled up in strength and speed with its new Anvil supercomputer. The new capacity will allow Purdue to contribute to the nation’s 21st- century research agenda by simultaneously powering scientific computational and data-driven tools at multiple universities. Having begun operations in November, Anvil is […]The post Purdue’s Anvil HPC System Now at Full Capacity appeared first on insideHPC.

PARIS, 10 March, 2022: — French quantum computing startup Alice&Bob today announced what it said is an advance towards the first marketable quantum computer. “In a major scientific breakthrough, Alice&Bob has eliminated one of the main barriers to, and significantly reduced the complexity of, delivering a functional quantum computer – a goal that could now […]The post Quantum Start-up Alice&Bob Raises Є27M; Claims Error Correction Breakthrough appeared first on insideHPC.

Montreal, March 10, 2022 – A recently awarded grant of $450,000 USD from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s basic research office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) will enable two Canadian start-ups, Ki3 Photonics and Quantum Bridge Technologies, to explore highly-entangled states of light towards cutting-edge functionalities in telecommunications and computing. “We’re […]The post Canadian Start-Ups Receive US Air Force Grant to Investigate Platforms for Quantum Information appeared first on insideHPC.

March 8, 2022 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Amy Elliott was among women in STEM featured with a life-sized statue in a new exhibit, IfThenSheCan, at the Smithsonian to commemorate Women’s History Month. Credit: Amy Elliott Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Amy Elliott is one of 120 women featured in a new exhibit, IfThenSheCan, at the […]The post Smithsonian Exhibit Recognizing Women in STEM, Honors ORNL’s Amy Elliott appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 9, 2022 — Astera Labs, a connectivity solutions for intelligent systems company, today announced that its Aries Smart Retimers for PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 and Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 have entered mass production. The company said its first-to-market Aries Smart Retimer portfolio successfully completed rigorous interoperability testing with key industry […]The post Astera Labs Announces Production Release Aries PCIe 5.0 and CXL 2.0 Smart Retimers for Cloud Connectivity appeared first on insideHPC.

March 9, 2022 — According to research released by Pusan National University in South Korea, multi-layered graphene is a promising carbon-based nanomaterial for a variety of next-generation technologies, but the relationships between its surface structures and properties are not entirely clear. Now, in a recent study, Pusan National University scientists analyze how surface structures like […]The post Pusan National University: Research Sheds Light on Friction in Multi-layered Graphene appeared first on insideHPC.

NEW YORK, March 9, 2022 — Atlan announced that it has closed its $50M Series B round led by Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia Capital India. Several founders in the data space participated in the round including Fivetran founder Taylor Brown and ThoughtSpot founder Ajeet Singh. Atlan creates a unified discovery and collaboration experience, bringing context and […]The post Atlan Raises $50M Series B to Build Collaboration Hub for Data Teams appeared first on insideHPC.

CLEVELAND, March 9, 2022 — MediView XR, Inc., a Cleveland-based company, announced the closing of a $9.9 million round of SAFE financing syndicated by Inside View Investments, LLC, a private investment firm. MediView, a medtech company, is combining augmented reality with surgical navigation to provide surgeons and healthcare professionals 3D “X-Ray vision” through the skin […]The post AR Medtech Company MediView Raises $9.9M appeared first on insideHPC.

STUTTGART, Germany, March 9, 2022 —- Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian manufacturer of innovative quantum computing hardware, today announced it is the commercialization partner in a $17.5 million research project funded by the German government to develop a compact, scalable quantum computer demonstrator with spin-photon qubits leveraging synthetic diamonds. Led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State […]The post Quantum Brilliance Named Partner in $17.5M German Quantum Research Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — March 9, 2022 – Pasqal, a developer of neutral atom-based quantum technology, and ARAMCO announced the signing of an MoU to collaborate on quantum computing applications in the energy sector. Objectives include accelerating the development of quantum-based machine learning models as well as advancing other use cases for the technology across […]The post Pasqal and ARAMCO Collaborate on Quantum Applications for Energy Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

London, 8 March 2022 – Atos UK and Ireland today announces that it has extended its relationship with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), signing a new contract for up to four years to provide application testing services. Atos, together with a number of partners, will support the critical testing services that underpin HMRC’s core capabilities. […]The post Atos Wins Contract with HMRC for Testing Services appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE — March 8, 2022 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks, today announced that it has shipped more than one million single and quad drivers for PAM4 transceivers used in hyperscale data center networks. NeoPhotonics […]The post NeoPhotonics Announces 53 Gbaud PAM4 Driver ICs for 100G and 400G Hyperscale Data Center Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

March 7, 2022 — Intel today introduced product details for the Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs, built on Intel 7 process technology. The company offering has the industry’s highest memory bandwidth FPGAs with in-package HBM DRAM. “The Intel Agilex M-Series incorporates several new functional innovations and features that provide the industry with the high-speed networking, computing […]The post Intel Introduces Details for Agilex M-Series FPGAs appeared first on insideHPC.

San Diego – March 7, 2022 — Ranovus Inc. (“RANOVUS”) today announced the availability of its protocol-agnostic Odin 100G optical I/O cores based on GF Fotonix, GlobalFoundries’ recently announced monolithic platform. The company said GF Fotonix is the first in the industry to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering […]The post Ranovus Claims 1st Monolithic 100G Optical I/O Cores appeared first on insideHPC.

Excelero, a Tel Aviv-based provider of high-performance software-defined storage, is now a part of NVIDIA. “The company’s team of engineers — including its seasoned co-founders with decades of experience in HPC, storage and networking — bring deep expertise in the block storage that large businesses use in storage-area networks,” NVIDIA said in a blog announcing […]The post HPC Storage Specialist Excelero Now Part of NVIDIA appeared first on insideHPC.

PITTSBURGH March 7, 2022 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced it is collaborating with GlobalFoundries to deliver silicon photonics solutions., using photons — instead of electrons — to transfer and move data, supporting GF’s position in the optical networking space. GF Fotonix is GF’s monolithic platform, “the first in the industry to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics […]The post Ansys in Silicon Photonics Partnership with GlobalFoundries appeared first on insideHPC.

If HPC had a band of rock stars, Rick Stevens might well be lead guitarist and do the vocals. The associate lab director and Exascale Computing Initiative leader at Argonne National Lab (and professor at the University of Chicago) has one of the most impressive records of sustained achievement in the HPC community. Here, in part one of a two-part episode of the @HPCpodcast, Stevens takes up the topic of AI is changing the face of science from the points of view of a scientist and a computer scientist.The post @HPCpodcast: Argonne’s Rick Stevens Surveys Trends and Technologies Driving AI for Science — Part 1 appeared first on insideHPC.

March 4, 2022 — The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will host a virtual event, “Focus on Materials,” on April 8, 2022 at 8 am Pacific Time. Speaker profiles and the agenda can be found here. The HPC4EI program, comprised of the pillars, High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg), and High Performance Computing […]The post HPC4EI Virtual Event: Focus on Materials on April 8 appeared first on insideHPC.

March 4, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold an online event on Wednesday, March 30 at 11 am Central Time as part of its Aurora Early Adopter Series – Praveen Kundurthy, Intel senior technical evangelist, AI and oneAPI, will cover how Data Parallel Python can be used to develop high-performing code […]The post Exascale: Aurora Early Adopter Series March 30 – Data Parallel Python, Bringing oneAPI to Python appeared first on insideHPC.

COLLEGE PARK, MD – March 3, 2022 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today published results from its new barium-based quantum computer showing its state detection fidelity. The results reflect a 13x reduction in state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors, a metric core to producing accurate and reliable quantum computers. On a per-qubit basis, […]The post IonQ’s Barium Systems Demonstrate Qubit Readout Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

Valencia, Spain and Burnaby, BC, Canada – March 3, 2022 – CaixaBank, a financial group in Spain, and D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced the business results for two significant financial quantum hybrid computing applications for investment portfolio optimization and investment hedging calculation. The quantum hybrid applications have […]The post D-Wave, CaixaBank Group Collaborate on Quantum for Finance Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

ST PAUL, Minn., March 2, 2022 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced that registration is open for the HPC User Forum’s March 2022 virtual meeting. As with previous HPC User Forum virtual events, the upcoming March meeting will be streamed multiple times to accommodate participants in different global time zones. The virtual […]The post Hyperion Research Announces March 2022 HPC User Forum appeared first on insideHPC.

MELBOURNE and SINGAPORE – March 2, 2022 – Big data software company Arcitecta today announced that Mediaflux, its end-to-end data management platform, has been awarded the “Most Complete Solution” and “Best Software Architecture” by the International Data Mover Challenge (DMC) at this week’s Supercomputing Asia 2022 (SCA22) event. Arcitecta was also recognized for its pioneering […]The post Arcitecta Wins Data Management Awards at Supercomputing Asia 2022 appeared first on insideHPC.

A consortium of tech industry heavyweights today announced the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) industry consortium with a mission to establish a die-to-die interconnect standard and foster an open chiplet ecosystem. Founding members include Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel Corporation, Meta, Microsoft Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing […]The post Heavyweight UCIe Consortium Launched to Standardize Chiplet Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Calgary, Alberta. March 2, 2022 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC) for desktops and data centers, is reporting a record-breaking 2021. CoolIT’s progress in 2021 was led by their data center segment which experienced 93% year-over-year growth. Driven by their industry leading technology, CoolIT’s high performance computing customers integrated CoolIT technology at an […]The post CoolIT Systems Reports Record Annual Revenue appeared first on insideHPC.

ALBUQUERQUE — Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day Technology Leaders. For the second consecutive year, 10 Sandia National Laboratories engineers were honored with Black Engineer of the Year Awards. (Image by Laura Hatfield) Click on […]The post Black Engineer Awards Distinguish Sandia Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

March 01, 2022 — SiPearl today said the Ansys multiphysics platform has been selected by SiPearl, Europe’s exascale supercomputer chip project for development of its high performance computing (HPC) microprocessor family as part of the European Processor Initiative (EPI). SiPearl will use the Ansys RedHawk-SC simulation platform with the intent to validate semiconductor power integrity, minimize […]The post SiPearl Selects Ansys’ Power Signoff Solution for European Supercomputer Chip appeared first on insideHPC.

The PathForward element of Exascale Computing Project, established to prepare the US industry for exascale system procurements and generally improve US competitiveness in the worldwide computing market. The report is available through the US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Here’s a summary of the report: A competitive PathForward RFP (Request for Proposals) was released […]The post Exascale Computing Project Issues Final Assessment on PathForward Program for U.S. Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

London, 1st March 2022 – Kao Data, the operator of high-performance data centers for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, today announced the expansion of its Harlow data center campus, with construction underway on its second 10MW facility, underpinning infrastructure in the UK Innovation Corridor. Following the recent investment from Infratil Limited, and the launch of […]The post Kao Data Expands Harlow Campus with 10MW Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.