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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.

Tea leaf reading regarding Chinese regulators’ decision on Nvidia’s intended takeover of Arm may have taken a negative — or at least a time consuming — turn. A report by IT publication The Information states that regulators in China have not yet begun a formal review of the deal, which was announced last September. “Regulators […]The post Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory and NGD Systems are partnering through LANL’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) to explore scalable computational storage offloads for ultrascale high performance computing (HPC) simulation environments. “Computational storage devices become a key source of acceleration when we are able to directly interpret the data within the storage device,” said Brad Settlemyer, senior […]The post NGD Joins LANL’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium for HPC Storage Offloads appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) the focus is on an ECP application development project called ExaSGD, shorthand for Optimizing Stochastic Grid Dynamics at Exascale. The word “stochastic” means results are given in terms of probabilities instead of exact predictions — weather forecasting may be […]The post Let’s Talk Exascale: Optimizing the North American Power Grid for Reliability and Decarbonization appeared first on insideHPC.

The ExaSky project, one of the critical Earth and Space Science applications being solved by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP), is preparing to use the nation’s forthcoming exascale supercomputers. Exascale machines will enable the ExaSky team to verify the gravitational influences, gas dynamics, and astrophysical inputs that they use to model the universe at unprecedented fidelity, as well as address forthcoming challenge problems to predict and replicate high-accuracy sky survey data.The post Verifying the Universe with Exascale Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

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Juny 28, 2021 — The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the selection of Dr. Frances (Fran) Hill as co-chair of the ECP Industry and Agency Council (IAC). She is chief scientist for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) with the US Department of Defense (DOD) and will assume the role of ECP-IAC co-chair alongside Dave […]The post Exascale Computing Project Picks Fran Hill Co-chair of Industry and Agency Council appeared first on insideHPC.

Last month, Agnès Boudot, SVP, head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, told us — without sharing details — that the company’s global strategy includes expansion into the U.S. market. At least part of that strategy was revealed today with the news that Atos has acquired long-time high-performance computing cloud platform provider Nimbix. Established in 2010 […]The post Atos Acquires HPC Cloud Platform Provider Nimbix appeared first on insideHPC.

PALO ALTO — PsiQuantum has raised $450 million in Series D funding to build what the company said will be the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer. The funding round was led by BlackRock, along with participation from insiders including Baillie Gifford and M12 – Microsoft’s venture fund – and new investors including Blackbird Ventures […]The post PsiQuantum Closes $450M Venture Round appeared first on insideHPC.

HANOVER, N.H. – Funded by a $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Dartmouth Engineering Professor Geoffroy Hautier will lead a three-year, multi-institutional effort to identify qbits, a basic unit of quantum information, to transform and advance quantum computing. The team aims to build a database of viable qbits, which can store information in […]The post Dartmouth Engineering to Lead $2.7M DOE Quantum Computing Grant appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel Corporation today announced a detailed process and packaging technology roadmaps of “foundational innovations” for products through 2025 and beyond. In addition to announcing RibbonFET, its first new transistor architecture in more than 10 years, and PowerVia, a backside power delivery method, the company highlighted its planned adoption of next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV), referred […]The post Intel Releases Foundational Technology Roadmap, Launches New Naming Structure for Process Nodes appeared first on insideHPC.

King’s College London is using the Nvidia-based Cambridge-1 supercomputer to build AI models to generate synthetic brain images by learning from tens of thousands of MRI brain scans taken of patients of various ages and with a variety of diseases. This work is intended to enable scientists to differentiate healthy brains from those that are […]The post NVIDIA and King’s College London Use Cambridge-1 Supercomputer for Synthetic Brain Image Research appeared first on insideHPC.

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Plastic waste is a big problem in the environment. About 300 million tons is produced every year, according to the United Nations. Much of that is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), used to make single-use plastic bottles, carpets, and clamshell packaging. In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency estimates annually that only about 29 percent of PET bottles are recycled. About […]The post NREL Scientists Find Synergy in PET Plastic-degrading Enzymes Using TACC, SDSC HPC Resources appeared first on insideHPC.

Pat Gelsinger’s got one foot on a tiger, the other on an aircraft carrier – one side is a rough, volatile ride; the other plows a course set years ago, hard to change direction. Intel’s new CEO has been pulled in different, difficult directions since returning to the company last February. But at a personal […]The post Drop in Intel Earnings Expected Today appeared first on insideHPC.

The world’s fastest supercomputer comes with some assembly required. Frontier, the nation’s first exascale computing system, won’t come together as a whole until all pieces arrive at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory to be installed—with the eyes of the world watching—on the data center floor inside the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). Once those components operate in harmony as advertised, David Bernholdt and his team can take time for a quick bow—and then get back to work.The post The Whole World Is Watching: ORNL’s Bernholdt & Programming Environment Team Prepare for Frontier and Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.