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Today, IBM and Samsung Electronics jointly announced what they said is a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new transistor architecture that allows more transistors to be packed in an IC chip. The key: the transistors stand up rather than lie down, thus taking up less space and offering “a pathway to the continuation of […]The post IBM and Samsung Unveil ‘Semiconductor Breakthrough That Defies Conventional Design’ appeared first on insideHPC.

The allure of “technology resource disaggregation” – a.k.a., composable computing – doesn’t get old. It’s an ingenious yet common-sense strategy for addressing our increasingly heterogeneous HPC-AI world where no single system can cost-effectively satisfy the range of workloads needed to be kept in play, each workload having its own unique combination of system requirements that would otherwise produce, in a single system, “marooned” resources that sap budgets. Put another way, with a composable HPC infrastructure there are pools of compute, memory, and storage resources enabling the dynamic assembly of customized nodes on a per-workload basis, offering configuration of “Goldilocks” solutions.The post Composable HPC-AI at Scale: The Emergence of Optical I/O Chiplets appeared first on insideHPC.

Teams responsible for installation of the Frontier exascale supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory received recognition at ORNL’s Director’s Awards, an event hosted by lab Director Thomas Zacharia. Two teams received a Director’s Award for Outstanding Team Accomplishment for Mission Support for the design, construction and installation of Frontier, a system to be powered by […]The post Frontier Exascale Install Teams Win ORNL Director’s Award appeared first on insideHPC.

BMW Group and Amazon Web Services have announced the winners of the BMW Quantum Computing Challenge with the winners being announced at Q2B 2021, a conference for the application of quantum computing. The BMW Group, in collaboration with AWS, last July called on the global quantum computing community to develop innovative quantum algorithms for four […]The post BMW and AWS Announce Winners of Quantum Computing Challenge at Q2B appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] Intel’s Partner Ecosystem with ISVs, OEMs, standards organizations, channel resellers and others are delivering amazing capabilities and products using Intel technology. Recently updated for Supercomputing ’21, the Intel HPC + AI Pavilion showcases the breadth of technology innovations that our partners have created.The post Intel Technology Partners Are World Changers appeared first on insideHPC.

[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 – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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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[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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.