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SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, today announced it will incorporate Intel’s forthcoming “Ponte Vecchio” GPU, along with Intel’s oneAPI cross-architecture programming model, in a partnership for the first European exascale supercomputers. SiPearl said the Intel partnership allows European customers “the possibility” to combine SiPearl’s HPC CPU, called Rhea, with Intel’s family of general-purpose […]The post ‘Nice Win’ for Ponte Vecchio – SiPearl Picks Intel GPU for European Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin reports it is using the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit for remote analysis capabilities on the center’s supercomputers, “providing high-fidelity visualization tools for all scales of computing.” TACC, which operates the Frontera and Stampede2 supercomputer along with more than a dozen HPC systems, […]The post TACC Adopts Intel oneAPI for Remote Visual Analysis appeared first on insideHPC.

SEATTLE– Oct. 26, 2021– AWS has announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances designed for training machine learning models and powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs (an Intel company). Providing up to 40 percent better price performance for training machine learning models than the latest GPU-powered AWS EC2 instances, […]The post AWS Announces GA of Habana Labs-powered EC2 DL1 Instances appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode of the Let's Talk Exascale podcast, David Grant, high performance computing engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talks with the lab's Scott Gibson about Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer scheduled to be installed by the end of this year. Grant, who works in ORNL’s Laboratory Modernization Division is responsible for ensuring that supercomputers installed at the lab have the cooling capacity required to operate 24/7.The post Let’s Talk Exascale: Guiding the Construction of Frontier’s Mechanical Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, discusses how OSS uses the latest in NVMe storage technologies and rugged environmental design to meet the need of next-gen HPC storage applications. At the current rate of data expansion, Exabyte storage and communication requirements are an inevitability in the not-so-distant future. The most rapid and secure path to sending this scale of data from source to processing center is in locked transportation cases by truck and plane.The post Secure Petabyte Transportable Storage for the Rugged Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

The Athena Engineering Scholars Program is designed to inspire women to achieve their full potential as future leaders in engineering. The Athena Program is open to all LANL women, students and staff who are interested in pursuing a graduate engineering degree. The program offers educational assistance for engineering graduate degrees to highly qualified and motivated […]The post Los Alamos Names 3 Athena Engineering Scholars appeared first on insideHPC.

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) will host its Accelerated Data Center premiere on Monday, Nov. 8 at 11 am ET, showcasing the company’s upcoming EPYC CPU processors and Instinct GPU accelerators. While AMD declined comment, it’s assumed the EPYC and Instinct technology to be shown will be processing technology that will drive the U.S.’s first exascale system, […]The post AMD to Showcase New EPYC and Instinct Data Center Chips at Nov. 8 Virtual Event appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] Join us for the Advanced Memory Architectures to Overcome Bandwidth Bottlenecks for the Exascale Era of Computing webinar on November 10 at 9:00 am PT. During this webinar, leading industry experts will discuss the future of advanced memory architectures, new optical I/O solutions using silicon photonics, and the technologies and environments needed to make next-generation performance a reality.The post Overcoming Bandwidth and Capacity Bottlenecks in the Exascale Era appeared first on insideHPC.

Argonne National Laboratory has named for 2021 five new Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the lab’s highest title: Pete Beckman, Lois Curfman McInnes and Rick Stevens from the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) directorate; Jeffrey Elam from the Energy and Global Security (EGS) directorate; and Stephen Gray from the Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) directorate. Of […]The post Argonne Names 5 New Distinguished Fellows appeared first on insideHPC.

In this installment of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series produced by the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, Justin Whitt, program director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, discusses deployment of Frontier, the first U.S. exascale supercomputer. The system, built by HPE-Cray and powered by AMD microprocessors, is scheduled to be installed by […]The post Frontier: OLCF’S Justin Whitt on Deploying the First Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Exascale Day, today, is a special occasion for HPE, which isn’t surprising considering that the company is the prime contractor for two of the first three exascale systems (Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Lab) scheduled to be installed in the U.S. and is heavily in a third […]The post Join insideHPC for HPE Exascale Day Broadcast appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has confirmed a story run earlier today on insideHPC that Trish Damkroger will leave her position as vice president and general manager of Intel's High Performance Computing (HPC) Group. Intel has confirmed a story run earlier today on insideHPC that Trish Damkroger will leave her position as vice president and general manager of Intel's High Performance Computing (HPC) Group.An email sent by Intel's communications office to insideHPC today said "Intel recently made some changes to our Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics organization (AXG). The changes we made were done to improve organizational workflows and enable us to scale to the ambitions of our roadmap. Intel’s HPC business and engineering teams are part of AXG. As part of the changes we made ...."The post Intel Confirms Damkroger Out as Head of HPC; McVeigh to Lead Newly Formed Super Computer Group appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] In this article, Max Alt, HPE's Distinguished Technologist and Director, Hybrid HPC, discusses recent real-world tests measuring the price-performance of HPC applications used in a range of workloads – including High Performance Linpack (HPL) and OpenFOAM CFD solver. The tests compared performance on AWS and Oracle Cloud solutions powered by Intel® processors against HPE GreenLake for HPC solutions powered by AMD EPYC™ processors.The post Comparing Price-performance of HPE GreenLake for HPC vs. the Public Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Cambridge Quantum today announced the release of what it said is the world’s first toolkit and library for Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). The toolkit is called lambeq, named after the late mathematician and linguist Joachim Lambek. CQ said lambeq converts sentences into a quantum circuit and is designed to accelerate the development […]The post Cambridge Quantum Releases Quantum NLP Toolkit and Library appeared first on insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the upgrade of the supercomputer system of Eni, the Italian multinational supermajor energy company. The upgrade of the company’s supercomputer, HPC4, will be delivered as a service through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and is intended increase performance and double storage capacity to improve accuracy of image-intensive modeling […]The post Eni Upgrades HPE HPC Infrastructure via GreenLake appeared first on insideHPC.

...today’s situation is clear: HPC is struggling with reliability at scale. Well over 10 years ago, Google proved that commodity hardware was both cheaper and more effective for hyperscale processing when controlled by software-defined systems, yet the HPC market persists with its old-school, hardware-based paradigm. Perhaps this is due to prevailing industry momentum or working within the collective comfort zone of established practices. Either way, hardware-centric approaches to storage resiliency need to go.The post HPC: Stop Scaling the Hard Way appeared first on insideHPC.

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Hailo today announced it has raised$136 million in a Series C funding round led by Poalim Equity and Gil Agmon. The company said the round brings Hailo’s total funding to $224 million and will be used to further develop the Hailo-8 AI Processor for Edge Devices and for expansion into new and […]The post Hailo Claims Record AI Chip Venture Round with $136M Series C appeared first on insideHPC.

It is well known in the high-performance computing (HPC) community that many (perhaps most) HPC workloads exhibit dynamic performance envelopes that can stress the memory, compute, network, and storage capabilities of modern supercomputers. Optimizing HPC workloads to run efficiently on existing hardware systems is challenging, but attempting to quantify the performance envelopes of HPC workloads to extrapolate performance predictions for HPC workloads on new system architectures is even more challenging, albeit essential. This predictive analysis is beneficial because it helps each data center’s supercomputer procurement team extrapolate to the new machines and system architectures that will deliver the most performance for production workloads at their datacenter. However, once a supercomputer is installed, configured, made available to users, and benchmarked, it is too late to consider fundamental architectural changes.The post Exascale Hardware Evaluation: Workflow Analysis for Supercomputer Procurements appeared first on insideHPC.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is seeking $50 million in federal dollars via the American Rescue Plan to fund supercomputing expansion at the university’s Holland Computing Center. According to an article on its Nebraska Today news site, the university’s proposals seek $75 million in total — $50 million for the computing center and $25 million for […]The post Univ. of Nebraska Seeks $50M Fed Funding for HPC Center Expansion appeared first on insideHPC.

Samsung today introduced what it said is the first open-source software solution designed for the Compute Express Link (CXL) memory platform. The company said the Scalable Memory Development Kit (SMDK) builds on Samsung’s May launch of a CXL memory expander, designed to allow memory capacity and bandwidth to scale to levels exceeding server system limits. […]The post Samsung Claims First Open-source Software for CXL Memory Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

A wind power revolution is blowing through the U.S. electrical industry, and exascale-class supercomputing is expected to play an increasingly instrumental role in its growth. The Energy Information Administration puts wind power’s share of America’s electricity generation at 8.4 percent in 2020, up from less than 1 percent in 1990. Increasingly competitive on cost and […]The post ExaWind: How Exascale-class HPC Will Help Optimize Skyscraper-sized Wind Turbines of the Future appeared first on insideHPC.

Stuttgart, Germany – October 6, 2021 – Founded in 1996 as Germany’s first national high-performance computing (HPC) center, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) has grown to become not just a key facility of the University of Stuttgart but also an internationally prominent center for research involving simulation, visualization, and data analytics. Today, HLRS marks […]The post HPC Center Stuttgart Celebrates 25 Years appeared first on insideHPC.