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by staff on (#5SSJM)
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Dec. 7, 2021 – HPC-AI data storage and management company DDN today announced what it called “dramatically improved” results in the STAC-M3 benchmark for measuring performance in high frequency trading utilizing DDN’s newly announced A3I AI400X2 appliance. The STAC-M3, used by banks, brokerage houses, exchanges, hedge funds, and proprietary trading shops, is the […]The post DDN Reports Boost in STAC-M3 High Frequency Trading Benchmark appeared first on insideHPC.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., December 7, 2021 –AI data platform company WekaIO (Weka) today announced it has developed a solution with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for demanding AI and ML workloads, now available on the HPE Ezmeral Marketplace. HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise is the industry’s first Kubernetes platform supporting both cloud native and non-cloud native applications. HPE Ezmeral supports […]The post Weka and HPE Launch Joint Offering for Containerized Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SR2F)
Amazon Web Services has announced that Meta (formerly Facebook) has deepened its relationship with AWS as a strategic cloud provider, using AWS’s cloud infrastructure to complement its on-premises infrastructure, and will broaden its use of AWS compute, storage, databases, and security services for scale in the cloud. Meta said it will run third-party collaborations in […]The post Meta Picks AWS as Strategic AI Cloud Provider appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SQXG)
BURNABY, BC — Dec. 6, 2021 – D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software, and services company developing both annealing and gate-model quantum computers, today announced a new quantum acceleration bundle, the Quantum QuickStart, incorporating quantum programming training plus cloud access. Designed to rapidly train and enable developers to easily utilize quantum computing and quantum […]The post D-Wave Launches Developer Quantum QuickStart at Q2B Conference appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SQRX)
SAN JOSE and TEL AVIV — December 6, 2021 – AI (Artificial Intelligence) chipmaker Hailo has partnered with KAGA FEI America, Inc. (KFAI), a global semiconductor distributor, to promote and support Hailo’s products in North America. The partnership is designed to enable Hailo to extend its reach to more customers across the region in sectors such as […]The post AI Chipmaker Hailo Partners with KAGA FEI America appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Daniel on (#5SQVG)
In this sponsored post, Agnès Boudot, SVP, Head of HPC, AI & Quantum at Atos, discusses how exascale means more than 10^18 or exaflops performance. For Atos, Exascale signifies delivering reliable, accurate, federated, and secured simulations anywhere (on-premises or in-the-cloud) at a reduced carbon footprint at exaflopic scale. Data is a crucial asset to society. The potential behind the data – the ultimate actionable insight generated from data, is the eventual game-changer in scientific and industry innovations and breakthroughs.The post The Atos Perspective for Exascale – A Race Beyond 10^18 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Doug Black on (#5SM6Y)
Already facing worldwide regulatory challenges and delays, the planned acquisition by Nvidia of Arm Ltd. may have finally run into a roadblock too high. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today it is suing to block the planned $40 billion acquisition, charging that the “vertical deal between chip supplier Nvidia and chip design provider Arm […]The post FTC to Sue Nvidia for ‘Illegal’ Arm Deal appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SKYF)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, inventions from Sandia National Laboratories captured seven R&D 100 Awards (one in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) this year, as well as two special awards for green technology and corporate responsibility. Independent panels of judges selected projects to represent the […]The post Sandia Labs Takes 7 R&D 100 Awards and 2 Specialty Honors appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SKH8)
CAMPBELL, Calif., December 2, 2021 – AI data platform vendor WekaIO (Weka) today announced the availability of its latest version of WekaFS, the fastest storage for data-intensive applications that provides users with enhanced capabilities for cloud deployments and provides new capabilities for both cloud native and virtualized applications on premises. Weka’s data platform, built on WekaFS, […]The post Weka Extends Capabilities WekaFS Data Platform appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SKC3)
[SPONSORED POST] This technology guide, "insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters," will show how the Silicon Mechanics Miranda CDI Cluster™ reference architecture can be a CDI solution blueprint, ideal for tailoring to specific enterprise or other organizational needs and technical issues. The guide is for a technical person, especially those who might be a sys admin in financial services, life sciences or a similarly compute-intensive field. This individual may be tasked with making CDI work with a realizable ROI or just finding a way to extend the value of their IT investment while still meeting their computing needs.The post insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SJJZ)
CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO., Nov. 30, 2021 – Two companies in the quantum computing industry have combined to create Quantinuum, aimed at accelerating development of quantum computing and innovation of quantum technologies in a platform agnostic manner to deliver quantum-enabled solutions for intractable problems that classical computers have not been able to solve. Cambridge […]The post Honeywell Quantum and Cambridge Quantum Combine to Form Quantinuum appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SJGB)
Is the metaverse really real? Sorry – it’s not real, though uber virtual realism is a big part of its promise. But will it be the next phase of the internet, the next big market opportunity in tech, HPC-AI included (as Nvidia asserts)? Ultimately, will it enable us to escape this world and enter a […]The post @HPCpodcast: Will the Metaverse Hit Next-Big-Thing Status? appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SJAZ)
San Francisco — Dec. 1, 2021 – Today, MLCommons, the open engineering consortium, released new results for MLPerf Training v1.1, the organization’s machine learning training performance benchmark suite. MLPerf Training measures the time it takes to train machine learning models to a standard quality target in a variety of tasks including image classification, object detection, […]The post MLCommons Releases MLPerf Training v1.1 AI Benchmarks appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SJB0)
Chicago — Dec. 1, 2021 — Duality has announced the members of its Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), which will support participating startups with business know-how as well as knowledge of quantum science and technology. The members include: Jean-Francois Bobier, partner and director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Michael Brett, worldwide business development and go-to-market strategy for quantum […]The post Duality Announces Quantum Science and Tech Advisory Committee appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SJ51)
NVIDIA has made a series of significant HPC-related announcements recently, many of them at the company’s GTC conference in early November, including the launch of its Infiniband-based Quantum-2 supercomputer and developments within its Cloud Native Supercomputing capabilities, offering bare-metal performance with multi-tenant isolation. In this interview, bringing us up to speed on all this and […]The post NVIDIA’s Gilad Shainer Talks Infiniband-based Quantum-2 and Cloud Native Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.
by Doug Black on (#5SJ1K)
Dec. 1, 2021 — AMAX, provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and OEM data center manufacturing, announces the launch of LiquidMax series liquid cooled workstations. Starting with LiquidMax TL40-X3, the ultra-quiet dual-socket intelligent GPU workstation accelerates deep learning training and visualisation applications for enterprise and research infrastructures. It is integrated with dual-socket 3rd […]The post AMAX Launches LiquidMax Liquid Cooled HPC-AI Workstations appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SHZ2)
SAN JOSE – Dec. 1, 2021 – High-performance computing (HPC) data storage company Panasas announced it has joined the Thales Accelerate Partner Network and is working with Thales on the adoption of integrated storage security solutions. The Panasas PanFS parallel file system delivers uncompromised performance to meet the intensive requirements of contemporary HPC and AI/ML […]The post Panasas Joins Thales Network for HPC Storage Security appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SH2W)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2021 — The Linux Foundation has announced it will host the Apptainer project (formerly the Singularity project) — Apptainer being a widely used container system for high-performance computing (HPC) and one of the container systems suited for both enterprise and HPC use cases. It is designed to execute applications at bare-metal performance […]The post Linux Foundation Hosts Project for Container Collaboration Between Enterprise and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5SGV4)
Stuttgart, Germany – November 30, 2021 – In a new project called CIRCE (Computational Immediate Response Center for Emergencies), the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), under the auspices of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, will undertake a study to assess the need for and potential applications of high-performance computing (HPC) in crisis situations. The three-year project will identify situations […]The post HLRS Launches Project to Improve Urgent HPC Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SGRB)
Stuttgart, Germany – November 30, 2021: Daimler has selected consulting firm Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY) to transfer the car maker’s high performance computing (HPC) workloads for designing vehicles and automated driving technologies to the Norwegian green colo, Lefdal Mine Datacenter. The shift to Green Data Center as a Service supports Daimler deliver on its […]The post Daimler Selects Green Data Center for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SGK4)
[Sponsored Post] When looking for a simple HPC user experience, many of us would naturally think of public cloud. But on-premises solutions like HPE GreenLake for HPC, powered by AMD EPYC processors, have picked up the advantages of public cloud without compromising performance. HPE GreenLake for HPC is designed to help you get the benefits of HPC without the deployment challenges. It’s a consumption-based solution that is fully managed and operated for you, just like public cloud.The post Can HPE GreenLake for HPC Deliver a Simpler User Experience than Public Cloud? appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5SFAN)
[Sponsored Post] Get the latest Intel and community technology updates in the virtual HPC + AI Pavilion for Supercomputing 2021. Catch the demos, fireside chats, partner presentations, developer-led talks and Intel keynote at whatever time works best for you.The post Innovation Accelerated: Step Into Intel’s SC’21 Virtual Experience appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S91N)
Nov. 23, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $70 million for research in earth system model development, which will contribute to further development of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) through collaborations that will use DOE high performance computers (HPC) to enable advanced modeling via mathematical and computational solutions. […]The post DOE: Applications Open for $70M for Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S8SD)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science has issued a call for position papers for its ASCR Workshop on Visualization for Sciene: Due Date: 11:59 pm ET on December 10, 2021 Notification of Selection: December 20, 2021 Workshop Date: January 18-20, 2022 WORKSHOP URL: https://www.orau.gov/ASCR_DataVisWS Goal To better understand the open challenges and opportunities and to identify […]The post DOE Office of Science — Call for Position Papers: ASCR Workshop on Visualization for Science , Dec. 10 Due Date appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S8PG)
Since Gina Tourassi began her career, computer science has come a long way. Tourassi learned programming in the 1980s starting with QBasic. It’s a programming environment that hasn’t been included with Microsoft operating systems for more than 20 years. When she first discovered her love of computational research, computer scientists were programming artificial intelligence (AI) […]The post Meet OLCF’s Gina Tourassi, Director of National Center for Computational Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S3YZ)
We pulled together a quartet of HPC thought leaders from the technology analyst and national lab communities to gather their reflections on SC21, ranging from big-picture insights on how the event reflects the state of HPC to the keynotes, sessions and announcements they think were particularly notable. Topics covered: The need for diversity in recruiting […]The post Thoughts on SC21: Exascale, TOP500, Diversity in HPC, Quantum, the Metaverse appeared first on insideHPC.
by Doug Black on (#5S327)
A suite developed by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team to simplify evaluation of approximation techniques for scientific applications has won the first-ever Best Reproducibility Advancement Award at the 2021 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC21). Newly instituted by the conference, the award recognizes outstanding efforts in advancing transparency […]The post LLNL Team Wins SC21 Reproducibility Advancement Award for Approximation Framework appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S2VY)
Cornelis Networks announced it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) as an HPC network provider for the NNSA’s Tri-Laboratory Commodity Technology System 2 (CTS-2) system contract. NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program recently awarded Dell Technologies a contract to deliver computing systems totaling more than 40 petaflops to […]The post Cornelis Fabric Tapped by DOE / NNSA for Advanced Sim appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Doug Black on (#5S2SF)
Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million to connect industry partners with U.S. national laboratory high-performance computing (HPC) resources, including the new exascale systems to be installed at three labs starting with Frontier, at Oak Ridge, scheduled for later this year. DOE will award up to $300,000 […]The post DoE: HPC4EI Solicitation to Connect Industry with Exascale HPC Resources appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S2NB)
[Sponsored Post] For data-driven researchers, the time-related expense of moving data from machines between data centers slows computation and causes costly delays in results. Plus, data center space can be limited for many organizations, even well-established academic campuses. To address these issues, Purdue University deployed NVIDIA InfiniBand MetroX across campus in 2011, connecting remote computation clusters to remote storage facilities.The post NVIDIA Long-Haul InfiniBand at Purdue University – Extending Accelerated Research Across Campus appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S2J5)
New York – November 18, 2021 – Comet, provider of the development platform for enterprise machine learning (ML) teams, today announced it has raised $50 million in a series B funding round, led by OpenView, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, Trilogy Equity Partners and Two Sigma Ventures. In addition, Ofer Bengal, Founder and CEO of […]The post MLOps Company Comet Raises $50M appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S29V)
St. Louis, Nov. 17, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D today announced AXXE-L Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible distributed object storage service that offers high performance, erasure coding, end-to-end encryption, and a simple subscription-based consumption model with support for multiple environments. The company also announced new features for its flagship product, AXXE-L by […]The post XTREME-D Launches S3-Compatible Distributed Object Cloud Storage and Roadmap for AXXE-L HPC as a Service appeared first on insideHPC.
by Doug Black on (#5S1N0)
SEOUL, November 16, 2021 — Today at the IBM Quantum Summit, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Yonsei University announced that Korea is expected to become the fourth country in the world to have an on-premises IBM Quantum System One after the United States, Germany, and Japan. The IBM Quantum System One at Yonsei is expected to be online in 2023 at […]The post Yonsei Univ. to Bring IBM Quantum System One to Korea appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S1JQ)
insideHPC in association with the technology analyst firm OrionX.net have released episode 2 of the @HPCpodcast, launched earlier this week and featuring OrionX.net analyst Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief. In our second @HPCpodcast episode, we take a look at the latest update of TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers — we […]The post @HPCpodcast – How to Get the Most out of the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S1JR)
A team of collaborators from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Google Inc., Snowflake Inc. and Ververica GmbH has tested a computing concept that could help speed up real-time processing of data that stream on mobile and other electronic devices. The concept explores the function of watermarks, considered the most efficient mechanism […]The post ORNL, Google and Snowflake Formalize Novel Data Stream Processing Concept appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S1GN)
A research team used machine-learned descriptions of interatomic interactions on the 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to model more than a billion carbon atoms at quantum accuracy and observe how diamonds behave under some of the most extreme pressures and temperatures imaginable. The team was led by scientists […]The post Research Team Uses Summit to Earn Gordon Bell Prize Nomination for Simulating Carbon in Extreme Conditions appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S1ER)
Bing Xie, a high-performance computing systems engineer for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society’s Early Career Researchers Award for excellence in high-performance computing, or HPC. The award recognizes outstanding, influential and potentially long-lasting HPC contributions. Xie received her Ph.D. in computer science from Duke University […]The post OLCF’S HPC Systems Engineer Bing Xie Wins IEEE Early Career Award appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S1ES)
Today, MLCommons released new results for MLPerf HPC v1.0, the organization’s machine learning training performance benchmark suite for high-performance computing (HPC). To view the results, visit https://mlcommons.org/en/training-hpc-10/. NVIDIA announced that NVIDIA-powered systems won four of five MLPerf HPC 1.0 tests, which measures training of AI models in three typical workloads for HPC centers: CosmoFlow estimates details […]The post MLPerf Releases Results for HPC v1.0 ML Training Benchmark appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S15G)
We sat down with XTREME-D to get an update on the company’s supercomputing-as-service strategy and what the company will be highlighting during SC21. Speaking on behalf of the company are Daisuke Nagao, Senior Vice President and CTO; Andrei Vakhnin, chief HPC cloud architect; and Dr. David Barkai, technical advisor, about new developments in the company’s […]The post XTREME-D’s Evolving Supercomputing-as-a-Service Strategy appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S15H)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 51 high-impact computational science projects for 2022 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program. These awards, which will pursue transformational advances in science and engineering, account for 60 percent of the available time on the […]The post INCITE Program Awards HPC Time to 51 Open Science Projects appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S15J)
Siemens Energy, a supplier of power plant technology in the worldwide energy market, is relying on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to create digital twins to support predictive maintenance of power plants. In doing so, Siemens Energy joins companies across industries using digital twins to enhance operations. Among them, BMW Group, which has 31 factories around the […]The post Siemens Energy Taps NVIDIA Omniverse for Power Plant Digital Twin appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S15K)
We sat down with Penguin Computing President and CEO Sid Mair to talk about the interesting year his company — the developer of open, Linux-based solutions for enterprise data centers, HPC and cloud — has had in 2021 and about the latest development in the company’s strategy. Mair talks about the rapid emergence of the […]The post Penguin CEO Sid Mair Talks Origin AI and the Emergence of the ‘AI Infrastructure’ appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S073)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN DIEGO — Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, today announced they have shattered the NVMe over TCP storage initiator performance world record, achieving 10M IOPS,* beating the old record of 6.55 IOPS. The tests were administered […]The post SDSC and Fungible Claim Record HPC Storage Performance appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S074)
As the coronavirus pandemic entered its second year, a team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to streamline the search for potential treatments. “The approach we used to search for promising molecules resembles natural selection in fast forward,” said Andrew Blanchard, one of the […]The post ORNL Study on COVID-19 Earns Gordon Bell Prize Nomination appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5S05E)
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – November 16, 2021 – Cerebras Systems, whose mission is to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today announced at SC21 a new Cerebras Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to enable creation of new wafer-scale applications across computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, signal processing, and more. The SDK is in Beta now and will be […]The post Cerebras Systems Launches Software Development Kit for Wafer-Scale Applications appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S05F)
The development of the VTK-m toolkit, a scientific visualization toolkit for emerging architectures, is a critical advancement in support of scientific visualization on exascale and GPU-accelerated systems for high-performance computing (HPC) users. VTK-m is needed because—counterintuitively—GPUs currently have software challenges when supporting large-scale scientific visualization tasks. For historical reasons, their massively multithreaded architecture, separate memory subsystems, and advent of new visualization workflows, such as in situ and in transit visualization, that bypass data movement for big-data simulations are currently problematic for scientific visualization.The post ECP Brings Visualization Software to Exascale and GPU-accelerated HPC Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5S04C)
TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL and SANTA CLARA, Calif.–November 16, 2021– Habana Labs, an Intel Company and developer of AI processors, today announced the availability of a turnkey, enterprise-class AI training solution featuring the Supermicro X12 Gaudi AI Training Server with the DDN AI400X2 Storage system. This system is the product of the collaboration of Habana Labs and […]The post Habana Labs Announces Turnkey AI Training Solution Featuring Supermicro Server and DDN Storage appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5RZY4)
insideHPC in association with the technology analyst firm OrionX.net today announced the launch of the @HPCpodcast, featuring OrionX.net analyst Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief. @HPCpodcast is intended to be a lively and informative forum examining key technology trends driving high performance computing and artificial intelligence. Each podcast will feature Khan and Blacks’ comments […]The post insideHPC and OrionX.net Launch the @HPCpodcast appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5RZM5)
Nov. 16, 2021 — At SC21, Dell has announced new computer-aided engineering and design solutions, expanded HPC/AI managed services, a Dell EMC PowerSwitch and GPU accelerator options for PowerEdge servers, all designed for modeling and simulation-intensive workloads. In CAE, new Dell Technologies validated designs are available for Siemens Simcenter Star CCM+ computational fluid dynamics software. […]The post Dell Announces New CAE Solutions, PowerSwitch and GPU-Driven HPC Server Options appeared first on insideHPC.
by staff on (#5RZFE)
Moving high performance AI capabilities out to the edge – what One Stop Systems calls its “AI transportable” strategy – is the company’s mission. In this interview with OSS President and CEO David Raun, he updates us on edge computing modules and systems developed by the company over the past year and new developments it […]The post One Stop Systems: Transporting AI to the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.