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Verne Global, the Iceland-based data center services provider utilizing that island country’s zero-carbon geothermal energy resources for high intensity computing, announced yesterday it has been acquired by UK-based Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), a new investment trust investing in digital infrastructure assets, in a deal valued at approximately £231 million in cash. Verne Global’s 40 […]The post High Performance Data Center Services Provider Verne Global Acquired by Digital 9 Infrastructure for £231M appeared first on insideHPC.

NEC Corporation has announced the launch of the “NEC Vector Annealing Service,” a quantum-inspired simulated annealing service that uses a vector supercomputer, as well as the launch of educational services that enable participants to learn about quantum computers and how to use simulated annealing machines, according to the company. NEC said it will start offering […]The post NEC Launches ‘Quantum-inspired’ Simulated Annealing Service Using Vector Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

Following are excepts from a statement released yesterday by Bronis de Supinski, general chair of SC21, to be held in St. Louis in November. The requirement of proof of COVID-19 vaccination for in-person attendees is a change from the conference’s pandemic policy as of August 16, when we interviewed de Supinski. “As we prepare to […]The post SC21 to Require Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for In-Person Attendees appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Didem Unat is the 2021 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner. Dr. Unat is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Engineering at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is recognized for her innovative work in the field of programming models for data locality in high performance computing and […]The post Dr. Didem Unat Named SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 million in research funding to harness research tools for clean energy solutions. The 10 projects announced today will help scientists to unleash the power of data science —including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)—on experiments, theory, and computation-based methods to tackle the basic science challenges that will […]The post DOE: $26M Awarded to Labs, Universities to Advance Chemical Materials Sciences with Data Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it has been awarded a $2 billion contract over 10 years with the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver HPE’s high performance computing (HPC) technology as a service through the HPE GreenLake platform. The collaboration will be designed to enable the NSA to harness growing AI and data […]The post National Security Agency Awards HPE $2B HPC-as-a-Service GreenLake Contract appeared first on insideHPC.

London, September 1, 2021 – Iceland-based Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high intensity computing, today announced that Wirth Research, an engineering, design technology and advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) consultancy, has relocated its HPC resources to Verne Global’s data center campus in Iceland. Wirth Research said the move enables it to analyze […]The post CFD Consultancy Wirth Research Moves HPC Capability to Verne Global for Carbon Zero Footprint appeared first on insideHPC.

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.