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Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million for research in computation and simulation techniques and tools “to understand the universe via collaborations that enable effective use of DOE high performance computers.” Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) brings together researchers in areas of science and energy with experts in software development, applied mathematics, […]The post SciDAC: DOE Funding $30M Opportunity Using HPC for High Energy Physics Research appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail in unexpected ways. In machine learning, a shortcut solution occurs when the model relies on a simple characteristic of a dataset to make a decision, rather […]The post MIT: Forcing ML Models to Avoid Shortcuts (and Use More Data) for Better Predictions appeared first on insideHPC.

Nov. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $10 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non-profit organizations, for profit organizations, and other federal agencies within the area of Earth and environmental systems modeling research. Grants will focus on two related areas of research: further development of DOE’s flagship […]The post DOE to Provide $10M for Climate and Earth System Modeling Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Nov. 2, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, said they will develop high-performance AI inference platforms designed to deliver cost and power consumption improvements for deep learning. The platforms will be built for such sectors as finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and smart cities to deploy computer vision, natural language […]The post IBM and NeuReality in AI Inference Platforms Partnership appeared first on insideHPC.

Lonestar6, a Dell Technologies HPC system designed and deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, is intended to perform about 3 quadrillion mathematical operations per second — or, in high-performance terminology, 3 petaflops. Lonestar6 is comprised of more than 800 Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 servers with 3rd […]The post TACC Deploys Dell HPC System ‘Lonestar6’ appeared first on insideHPC.

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In this interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s SVP/GM of High Performance Computing & Mission Critical Solutions Justin Hotard, he discusses the new world to be enabled by exascale supercomputing. Among the topics he delves into: why exascale is applicable to more market sectors (read: the enterprise) than some may think and how the Cray programming environment is facilitating supercomputing’s rapidly evolving heterogeneous super power: HPC combined with AI.The post HPE’s HPC Leader Justin Hotard on the Broader Impacts and Implications of Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

[Sponsored Content] Every year, IT professionals and technology enthusiasts from around the world come together at Microsoft Ignite to learn new skills, network, and get the latest announcements for the Microsoft ecosystem. Join AMD November 2-4, 2021 as we gather with the greater tech community and share our data center solutions and vision for cloud […]The post Will We See You at Microsoft Ignite? appeared first on insideHPC.

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.