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SAN FRANCISCO – April 6, 2022 – Today MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, released new results for three MLPerf benchmark suites – Inference v2.0, Mobile v2.0, and Tiny v0.7. MLCommons said the three benchmark suites measure the performance of inference – applying a trained machine learning model to new data. Inference enables adding intelligence to a wide range […]The post MLPerf Results Highlight Advances in Machine Learning Inference Performance and Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

Tokyo, April 6, 2022 — Fujitsu today announced “Fujitsu Computing as a Service” (CaaS) offering computing resources such as Fujitsu’s quantum-inspired Digital Annealer technology; AI and machine learning software applications; and technology used in the Arm-based “Fugaku,” the world’s top-ranked supercomputer. Fujitsu said it began preorders today for for Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC, which offers […]The post Fujitsu Launches Computing as a Service for HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

HONG KONG – April 6, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it has built a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster for the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) for scientific research and report the HPC cluster “is a significant performance upgrade to CityU’s previous HPC resources, delivering nearly 10 times […]The post HPE: New Cluster at City University of Hong Kong Delivers 10X Speed Boost for HPC, AI appeared first on insideHPC.

HOUSTON – April 4, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2), the in-space commercial edge computing and AI-enabled system to run on the International Space Station (ISS), has completed 24 research experiments. HPE said the experiments involved real-time data processing and testing of new applications to prove […]The post Outer Space Edge Computing: HPE Reports Completion of 24 Experiments on International Space Station appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] Azure offers Virtual Machines (VMs) with local NVMe drives that deliver a tremendous amount of performance. These local NVMe drives are ephemeral, so if the VM fails or is deallocated, the data on the drives will no longer be available. Excelero NVMesh provides a means of protecting and sharing data on these drives, making their performance readily available, without risking data longevity. This eBook from Microsoft Azure and AMD in coordination with Excelero provides in-depth technical information about the performance and scalability of volumes generated on Azure HBv3 VMs with this software-defined-storage layer.The post Azure HBv3 VMs and Excelero NVMesh Performance Results appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA and Taiwan-based Asustek Computer have announced a partnership with Taiwan’s National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) to develop Taiwan’s first AI biomedical research supercomputer. According to an article in Digitimes Asia, NHRI will provide health research data while Asustek and NVIDIA will deliver AI cloud technology and high-performance computing servers. Digitimes Asia reported that Asustek […]The post NVIDIA in Partnership to Build Taiwan’s 1st HPC System for Medical Research appeared first on insideHPC.

The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) high-performance computing (HPC) software ecosystem—an ongoing broad collection of software capabilities continually developed to address emerging scientific needs for the US Department of Energy community—recently released version 22.02. E4S, which began in the fall of 2018, is aimed at accelerating the development, deployment, and use of HPC software, thereby […]The post Exascale Computing Project Releases New Version of Extreme-Scale HPC Scientific Software Stack appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC-as-a-Service is one of the hot growth sectors of the high performance computing industry. R Systems is a significant player in this arena, providing HPC-on-demand resources and technical expertise to commercial and institutional research clients in partnership with Dell HPC Cloud Services. R Systems offers bare-metal clusters and a variety of solutions for client’s HPC needs, including lease time on clusters for bursting, no charges for data ingress and egress, and HPC support and expertise for short-term and long-term projects (more details can be....The post Dell Technologies Interview: R Systems and its HPC-on-Demand Partnership with Dell appeared first on insideHPC.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Jack J. Dongarra recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades. Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical […]The post ACM Names Jack Dongarra Winner of 2021 Turing Award for Contributions to HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The International Supercomputer Conference, ISC 2022, is now open for registration and as such, this year’s ISC will be the first major HPC conference to be held on-site (with partial online streaming) since SC19 in Denver. Conference organizers report that exhibit space for the event — to be held at the Congress Center Hamburg, Germany […]The post ISC 2022: Registration Open, 3,000 On-site Attendees Expected, Updated COVID19 Rules appeared first on insideHPC.

“Crusher,” a partial form of the planned 100+-cabinet Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is now running principal scientific codes at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The Crusher test system is comprised of 1.5 cabinets powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct MI250x GPU accelerators. […]The post Oak Ridge: Frontier Exascale to Deliver ‘Full User Operations’ on Jan. 1, 2023; ‘Crusher’ Test System Now Running Code appeared first on insideHPC.

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In a recently published paper, "Reinventing High Performance Computing: Challenges and Opportunities," three HPC luminaries have started an important discussion about the future of HPC and its impact on American competitiveness. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, we talk with one of the authors, Dan Reed of the University of Utah, on the challenges facing the United States as it strives to compete globally in high-end supercomputing.The post @HPCpodcast: Dan Reed on the Challenges to U.S. Global Supercomputing Competitiveness appeared first on insideHPC.