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Santa Clara — Aug. 30, 2021 — AMD today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has chosen AMD EPYC processors to power the Polaris supercomputer (see earlier coverage), which will prepare researchers for the forthcoming exascale HPC system at Argonne called Aurora. Polaris will use 2nd Gen EPYC processors and then upgrade to 3rd Gen […]The post Argonne Picks AMD EPYC CPUs for Polaris appeared first on insideHPC.

Tokyo, August 26, 2021 – Platform as a service provider XTREME-D today announced the launch of a new instance on its bare metal high-speed computing environment. Named G4 for the company’s fourth generation model, it was developed as an all-in-one solution using AXXE-L One, XTREME-D’s first server product, announced in June. AXXE-L by XTREME-D is […]The post XTREME-D Launches HPC G4 Instance on Bare Metal High-Speed Computing Environment appeared first on insideHPC.

As part of the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic project, scientists are gathering and incorporating new data about the Alaskan tundra into global models that predict the future of our planet. Credit: ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy Improved data, models and analyses from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists and many other researchers in the latest global climate […]The post ORNL Researchers, Summit HPC Support IPCC Climate Change Report appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA and Argonne National Laboratory this morning announced Polaris, a GPU-based supercomputer, with 2,2240 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs delivering 1.4 exaflops of theoretical AI performance and about 44 petaflops of peak double-precision performance, up to 4X faster performance than Argonne’s current supercomputers. Argonne is calling the new system, called “Polaris,” a “testbed” supercomputer to […]The post NVIDIA and HPE to Deliver 2,240-GPU Polaris Supercomputer for Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA today announced GA of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a suite of AI tools and frameworks designed to enable users of VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on NVIDIA-Certified Systems. Systems makers Atos, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro are offering NVIDIA-Certified Systems optimized for AI workloads on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA […]The post Nvidia Announces GA of AI Enterprise on VMware vSphere and Standard Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

[SPONSORED POST] In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how Bright Computing has provided a proven method for companies on the outside of HPC looking in to affordably leverage cloud resources and achieve tangible competitive advantage. Companies in Life Sciences have been able to provision additional compute capacity on the fly as needed while keeping their costs much lower than maintaining a cluster in their data center, enabling them to compete effectively with much larger competitors.The post Bright Helps Life Sciences Customer Make the Cloud a More Economical Choice than On-premise for their HPC Environment appeared first on insideHPC.

Despite more than a year and a half of research, there are still many unknowns about how the virus that causes COVID-19 infects human cells. A deeper understanding could lead to new treatment approaches. Using supercomputer simulations, a team from the University of California San Diego, the University of Pittsburgh, The University of Texas at […]The post TACC’s Longhorn GPU Subsystem Helps Researchers Detect Potential COVID-19 Virus Vulnerability appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $61 million in funding awarded to infrastructure and research projects to advance quantum information science (QIS). The selected projects include: Strengthening U.S. competitiveness in QIS: Awards to five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRC) will support the development of cutting-edge infrastructure and capabilities for nanoscience-based research to strengthen America’s competitiveness in QIS to enable […]The post $61M Awarded by DOE for Quantum Information Science Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Harried data center and HPC server market dominator Intel today unveiled what the company said is its biggest shifts in Intel architectures in a generation. The Architecture Day event included looks at the two chips that will power the delayed Aurora exascale supercomputer, to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory; those chips are: Sapphire Rapids, […]The post Intel Architecture Day: Details Revealed on Sapphire Rapids and ‘Powered on’ Ponte Vecchio appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today said it will provide $6 million in funding for five research and development projects to advance 5G wireless networking for science applications. A list of awards is below. The national laboratory-led projects will conduct research aimed at adapting the nation’s emerging fifth generation, or 5G, mobile network to the needs […]The post DOE Funds $6M to 5 Labs for Science Applications over 5G Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

Changes are afoot in the management ranks at HPE – starting with the departure of CTO and Head of Software Kumar Sreekanti, whom President/CEO Antonio Neri said in a blog has announced his retirement from the company. Sreekanti previously was co-founder and CEO of big data company BlueData, which HPE acquired in late 2018. He […]The post HPE CTO Sreekanti to Retire as Neri Announces new GreenLake Teams appeared first on insideHPC.

With support from Dell Technologies, a Clemson University student team prepares for a high performance computing competition at SC21. The SC21 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis takes place Nov. 14–19 in St. Louis, and a Clemson University team backed by Dell Technologies will be there to compete in an HPC […]The post Clemson Will Put HPC Knowledge to the Test at SC21 appeared first on insideHPC.

Amid rumors that SC21 is on the verge of shifting to an all-virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conference General Chair Bronis de Supinski told us today that the rumors are unfounded: SC21 will be an in person/virtual hybrid gathering. “There’s nothing to (the rumors),” de Supinski said. He added that he and several […]The post SC21 Will Remain In-person/Virtual Hybrid, Says Conference General Chair de Supinski appeared first on insideHPC.

For decades, understanding the behavior of a nuclear mushroom cloud was done with careful analysis of observations made during the testing era. Old photos, outdated film and incomplete weather data made precise calculations difficult. Now, with results published in Atmospheric Environment, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are improving our understanding of nuclear cloud rise using a […]The post Using WRF at LLNL to Simulate Nuclear Cloud Rise appeared first on insideHPC.

WASHINGTON — Aug. 12, 2021 — The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA with a focus on building accelerated computing platforms, is the 2021 recipient of the industry’s Robert N. Noyce Award. SIA said it presents the Noyce Award annually “in recognition of a leader who has […]The post NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to Receive Semiconductor Industry’s Noyce Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Physics-based simulations, that staple of traditional HPC, may be evolving toward an emerging, AI-based technique that could radically accelerate simulation runs while cutting costs. Called “surrogate machine learning models,” the topic was a focal point in a keynote on Tuesday at the International Conference on Parallel Processing by Argonne National Lab’s Rick Stevens. Stevens, ANL’s […]The post How Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing HPC Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

Aug. 10, 2021 — The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services (RDS) Chief Strategist Melissa Cragin and Division Director Christine Kirkpatrick were recently awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to fund a GO FAIR symposium in the next several months. The production of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data and […]The post SDSC Team Awarded Funding for NSF GO FAIR Symposium appeared first on insideHPC.

“There are only two natural disasters that could impact the entire U.S.,” according to Gabor Toth, professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. “One is a pandemic and the other is an extreme space weather event.” We’re currently seeing the effects of the first in real-time. The last major space […]The post Univ. of Michigan Researchers Using TACC Frontera HPC for Space Weather Forecasting appeared first on insideHPC.

UK-based Cambridge Quantum is part of a troika that has announced a defense against quantum computing-based security threats to blockchain networks. A project team comprised of developers from CQ, along with the Inter-American Development Bank, its innovation lab, IDB Lab, and Tecnológico de Monterrey, say they built a cryptographic layer that allows blockchain networks to […]The post Cambridge Quantum Part of Team Claiming Blockchain Defense against Quantum Security Threats appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a plan to provide $37 million for small businesses pursuing climate and energy research and development (R&D) projects as well the development of advanced scientific instrumentation through a funding opportunity announcement (FOA). The projects typically range from atmospheric science and critical materials to quantum information sciences and […]The post DOE to Fund $37M to Small Businesses for Climate, Energy and Scientific R&D appeared first on insideHPC.

The largest state public power entity in the U.S., the New York Power Authority (NYPA), is addressing critical, long-term planning challenges by assessing how its ability to generate, transmit and deliver electricity may be affected by climate change. For the first time, NYPA is evaluating its comprehensive climate risk with the help of the U.S. Department […]The post New York Power Authority Turn to ALCF’s Theta Supercomputer for Climate Change Planning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $15.1 million for three collaborative research projects, at five universities, to advance development of what DOE said is a flexible multi-tiered data and computational infrastructure to support a diverse collection of on-demand scientific data processing tasks and computationally intensive simulations. “The projects will accelerate research in the fields […]The post DOE Funds $15M for Integrated Computational and Data Infrastructure for Science Research at 5 Universities appeared first on insideHPC.

As the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) continues its transition to deploying and operating supercomputers powered by graphics processing units (GPUs), training researchers to use the powerful new resources for science is becoming increasingly important. Last year, the facility expanded its Theta supercomputer with GPUs to provide a dedicated resource for COVID-19 research as well […]The post ALCF GPU Hackathon and Computational Performance Workshop: Prepping Researchers for Current & Future HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced today that it is a partner in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE). The institute’s goal is to make AI data and infrastructure more accessible to the larger society. Dhabaleswar […]The post TACC Joins NSF-Funded Icicle Institute for AI Research appeared first on insideHPC.