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The 2022 Intersect360 Research Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is off and running, with 12 teams of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) competing under the mentorship of HPC leaders from NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, AWS, HPE, and BioTeam. The event kicked off with a bang! See the dynamic […]The post 2022 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition: 12 Teams from HPCUs and HSIs appeared first on insideHPC.

Microsoft – and, apparently, HPC – have come to Ukraine’s aid in the cyber aspect of the Russian invasion. Several hours before Russia began its assault on February 24, Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), scanning the company’s vast network, detected a new round of offensive cyberattacks directed at Ukraine’s digital infrastructure, according to a blog […]The post Cyberwar: Microsoft Comes to Ukraine’s Aid Combating Russian Malware appeared first on insideHPC.

In what may be another indication of quantum viability, for the second time in less than a month, a quantum computing company has gone public. Hybrid quantum-classical computing startup Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. (NYSE: SNII) today announced the completion of their “business combination” […]The post Quantum: Rigetti Announces Nasdaq SPAC appeared first on insideHPC.

The National Science Foundation today issued a statement about the ending of the XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) project this coming August 31, giving way to Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS), which will launch on September 1. NSF said that while access to XSEDE-allocated resources will continue under the ACCESS […]The post NSF: Goodbye XSEDE, Hello ACCESS appeared first on insideHPC.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine may involve a heavy measure of cyberwar, a new and shrouded form of espionage and sabotage with potentially devastating impacts. Here we offer a special edition of the @HPCpodcast to discuss the role of "geopolitical cyberwar" -- nation-state cyber strategies driven by combinations of HPC and AI, and the relative sophistication of the Russians vs. the U.S. and western Europe. Our guest: Richard Stiennon (his Google Books profile), he is a cyber security industry analyst and author who was formerly of Gartner’s IT Security Research Practice and a Forbes columnist. Stiennon told us he is surprisedThe post @HPCpodcast Special Edition: HPC/AI-Powered Geopolitcal Cyberwar and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] In this eBook, "High Performance Computing for R&D," sponsored by Rescale, Microsoft Azure and AMD, we take a look at HPC deployments in support of R&D efforts. In many ways, the HPC solution in the cloud offered by Rescale on Azure delivers an unprecedented amount of power while solving for many crucial and common challenges faced by R&D and design teams across many industries.The post High Performance Computing for R&D appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] This technology guide sponsored by PNY describes how the NVIDIA® EGX™ Platform provides a single architecture to meet every data center workload need. PNY aids in GPU selection and testing allowing partners to equip customers with the best NVIDIA EGX Platform solution based on their needs.The post insideHPC Guide to NVIDIA EGX Platform: One Architecture for Every Workload – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

Feb. 22, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $150 million in open funding for research projects focused on increasing efficiency and curbing carbon emissions from energy technologies and manufacturing. This funding will support research underpinning DOE’s Energy Earthshots Initiatives, which set goals for significant improvements in clean energy technology within a […]The post DOE: $150M for Chemical and Materials Science to Cut Climate Impacts of Energy Technologies and Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

The MPICH library is one of the most popular implementations of MPI.[i] Primarily developed at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) with contributions from external collaborators, MPICH has adhered to the idea of delivering a high-performance MPI library by working closely with vendors in which the MPICH software provides the link between the MPI interface used by applications programmers and vendors who provide low-level hardware acceleration for their network devices. Yanfei Guo (Figure 1), the principal investigator (PI) of the Exascale MPI project in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and assistant computer scientist at ANL, is following this tradition. According to Guo, “The ECP MPICH team is working closely with vendors to add general optimizations—optimizations that will work in all situations—to speed MPICH and leverage the capabilities of accelerators, such as GPUs.”The post Exascale Computing Project Brings Hardware-Accelerated Optimizations to MPICH Library appeared first on insideHPC.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has extended operational funding for the Stampede2 supercomputer through June 2023. Prior to the extension, the life of the system was expected to end in September 2022. As part of the extension, 448 of the oldest Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi […]The post NSF Extends TACC’S Stampede2 HPC System through mid-2023 appeared first on insideHPC.

[Sponsored Content] In this interview, part of our series conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, UK-based engineering firm Wirth Research talks about using HPC to cut its clients carbon footprints – specifically, supermarket companies.But as Wirth’s Rob Rowsell explains, Wirth also walks the energy efficiency walk. Two years ago, when the firm decided to overhaul its engineering IT infrastructure, Wirth decided to house its Dell Technologies-based HPC gear (or “kit,” as Rowsell says) in geothermal-powered (zero carbon energy source) Verne Global, which is located in Iceland. The greenhouse gas cutting results Wirth delivers for its clients and for itself are impressive.The post Dell Technologies Interview: Wirth Research Talks (and Walks) HPC for Cutting Carbon Footprints appeared first on insideHPC.

At Intel’s investor day event in San Francisco yesterday, the company unveiled a dual-track the roadmap for its Xeon data center chip through 2024 – one track emphasizing high performance (P-core Sapphire Rapids), the other energy efficiency (E-core Sierra Forest). Intel’s future generation architecture strategy will move from two optimized platforms into a single commonone. […]The post Intel Unveils Dual-track (Performance/Efficiency) Xeon Roadmap through 2024 appeared first on insideHPC.

Berkeley, CA, Feb. 17, 2022 — Quantum-classical systems developer Rigetti Holdings announced today it has achieved entangling gate fidelities as high as 99.5% on its next-generation chip architecture, “crossing what is believed to be a key threshold for commercial quantum computing,” the company said. The results follow the company’s recent announcements on scalability and speed […]The post Rigetti Reports 99.5% Fidelities on Quantum-Classical Chip appeared first on insideHPC.

Feb. 17, 2022 — JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and networking systems company Ciena announced today they have demonstrated a viable quantum key distribution (QKD) network for metropolitan areas that is resistant to quantum computing attacks and capable of supporting 800 Gbps data rates. “The research team demonstrated the ability of the newly developed QKD network to […]The post Toshiba, JPMorgan Chase, Ciena Announce Quantum-secure Network for Blockchain appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, indicates that as new developments and technologies in HPC are introduced, the need for more capture, compute, and storage in autonomous vehicles will continue to grow. To meet the throughput required by the latest GPUs, NVMe storage must be integrated into autonomous vehicles in a rugged and easily removable form factor.The post Edge NVMe Storage for Autonomous Vehicles appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the expansion of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances. According to AWS, the C6a instances offer up to 15 percent better compute price/performance over previous generation C5a instances for a variety […]The post Cloud HPC: AMD Announces Amazon EC2 C6a Instance appeared first on insideHPC.

Atos today unveiled BullSequana XH3000 supercomputer, a hybrid computing platform based on the OpenSequana architecture enabling the system to be powered by CPUs and GPUs architectures from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA (including its Arm-based Grace CPU) and, eventually, by the SiPearl European HPC microprocessor. The system is scheduled for availability the fourth quarter of this year. […]The post Atos Unveils Multi-architecture BullSequana XH3000 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In a new study, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have laid out new practices to guide the curation of high energy physics datasets that makes them more FAIR — more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Data is the lifeblood […]The post Argonne, University Researchers Team to Make Data FAIR for AI appeared first on insideHPC.