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April 19, 2022 — WASHINGTON — Laurie E. Locascio was sworn in today as the fourth Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the 17th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo. Locascio was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7, […]The post Laurie Locascio Sworn in as NIST Director appeared first on insideHPC.

As the word exascale implies, the forthcoming generation exascale supercomputer systems will deliver 1018 flop/s of scalable computing capability. All that computing capability will be for naught if the storage hardware and I/O software stack cannot meet the storage needs of applications running at scale—leaving applications either to drown in data when attempting to write to storage or starve while waiting to read data from storage. Suren Byna, PI of the ExaIO project in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and computer staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, highlights the need for preparation to address the I/O needs of exascale supercomputers by noting that storage is typically the last subsystem available for testing on these systems.The post ExaIO: Access and Manage Storage of Data Efficiently and at Scale on Exascale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Silicon Mechanics discusses how today’s IT organizations must maximize their resource utilization to deliver the computing capabilities their organization needs when and where it’s needed. This has resulted in many organizations building multi-purpose clusters, which impacts performance. Composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) can hold the key to solving this optimization problem, while also providing bare metal performance.The post Optimizing Resource Utilization and Maximizing ROI with Composable Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

April 15, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $40 million for fundamental mathematics research on problems of interest to the DOE that require the integration of multiple mathematical topic areas. The Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Centers (MMICCs) supported by this funding opportunity will enable five-year, multi-institutional collaborations for cross-cutting mathematics. Collaborative applications […]The post DOE: $40M Funding Opportunity for Mathematical Multifaceted Capability Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

April 14, 2022 — Researchers at Intel and QuTech, an advanced quantum computing research center consisting of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), report they have successfully created the first silicon qubits at scale at Intel’s D1 manufacturing factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. The result is […]The post World Quantum Day: Intel and QuTech Collaborate on Silicon Qubits appeared first on insideHPC.

The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems powered by the second-generation wafer-scale engine (WSE-2) processor. PSC said the WSE-2 doubles the system’s cores and on-chip memory as well as offering a new execution mode designed for extreme-scale deep-learning tasks, including larger model […]The post PSC’s Neocortex HPC Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 AI Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

.... investigators in Ukraine are engaged in the grim task of gathering evidence for possible war crime trials of Russian soldiers. For that, the investigators are aided by advanced machine learning technology, including facial recognition, geospatial data analytics, image analysis and analysis of streaming video from security cameras.The post Facial Recognition, Video Analytics, Geospatial and Other AI Techniques Aiding Ukraine’s Investigations of Russian War Crimes appeared first on insideHPC.

Damkroger joins HPE at a pivotal time for the company's HPC organization as its customers at three US Department of Energy national laboratories transition to the exascale era -- supercomputers capable of 10(18) calculations per second. As Hotard stated in his blog, "HPE is at the forefront of making exascale computing, a technological magnitude that will deliver 10X faster performance than the majority of today’s most powerful supercomputers, a soon-to-be reality. With the upcoming U.S. Department of Energy’s exascale system, Frontier, an HPE Cray EX supercomputer that will be hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, we are unlocking a new world of supercomputing."The post Former Intel HPC Leader Trish Damkroger Joins HPE as Chief Product Officer for HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Apr. 8, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2022 was approximately NT$171.97 billion, an increase of 17 percent from February 2022 and an increase of 33.2 percent from March 2021. Revenue for January through March […]The post TSMC: Q1 Revenue Rose 35.5% YoY appeared first on insideHPC.

Federal funding of $25 million has been awarded to semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries and quantum development company PsiQuantum for quantum computing research and development. This funding, secured as a part of the recently passed Fiscal Year 2022 spending package, is intended to expand research conducted by the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York to […]The post $25M Federal Funding for Quantum R&D for GlobalFoundries and PsiQuantum appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 6, 2022 – Today MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, released new results for three MLPerf benchmark suites – Inference v2.0, Mobile v2.0, and Tiny v0.7. MLCommons said the three benchmark suites measure the performance of inference – applying a trained machine learning model to new data. Inference enables adding intelligence to a wide range […]The post MLPerf Results Highlight Advances in Machine Learning Inference Performance and Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

Tokyo, April 6, 2022 — Fujitsu today announced “Fujitsu Computing as a Service” (CaaS) offering computing resources such as Fujitsu’s quantum-inspired Digital Annealer technology; AI and machine learning software applications; and technology used in the Arm-based “Fugaku,” the world’s top-ranked supercomputer. Fujitsu said it began preorders today for for Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC, which offers […]The post Fujitsu Launches Computing as a Service for HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

HONG KONG – April 6, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it has built a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster for the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) for scientific research and report the HPC cluster “is a significant performance upgrade to CityU’s previous HPC resources, delivering nearly 10 times […]The post HPE: New Cluster at City University of Hong Kong Delivers 10X Speed Boost for HPC, AI appeared first on insideHPC.

HOUSTON – April 4, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2), the in-space commercial edge computing and AI-enabled system to run on the International Space Station (ISS), has completed 24 research experiments. HPE said the experiments involved real-time data processing and testing of new applications to prove […]The post Outer Space Edge Computing: HPE Reports Completion of 24 Experiments on International Space Station appeared first on insideHPC.

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