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insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with a host of vendor interviews with HPC companies. We currently feature an ISC Off-Hours Event aired yesterday: insideHPC’s “HPC Shark Tank” — insideHPC hosts a TV gameshow-like event as two start-ups […]The post insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: ‘HPC Shark Tank,’ Experts Talk ISC Highlights and Our Vendor Interviews appeared first on insideHPC.

The new edition of the Top500 saw the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer solidify its number one status in a list that the list organizers said shows a somewhat static and flattening performance growth curve. Just one new system made it into the top 10 (here’s the complete list). Fugaku performance is now at 442 petaflops on […]The post Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something? appeared first on insideHPC.

Atos, with its BullSequana line of supercomputers, will no doubt be a prominent player at this year’s ISC conference. While ISC is an international HPC event, it has, after all, a strong European flavor – even if this year’s edition isn’t in Frankfurt but instead is virtual (for the last time, we hope). Atos has […]The post Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Since we last saw HPE at ISC a year ago, the company embarked on a strong run of success in HPC and supercomputing – successes the company will no doubt be happy to discuss at virtual ISC 2021. This being the year of exascale, HPE is likely to put toward the top of its list […]The post HPE at ISC: ‘Perform Like a Supercomputer, Run Like a Cloud’ appeared first on insideHPC.

insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with a host of vendor interviews with leading companies. ISC Off Hours Event, now live on the ISC site: ISC in Advance: HPC Experts Discuss What's Coming Up at ISC 2021, a panel discussion on the key sessions, keynotes, announcements and trend lines that will highlight virtual ISC 2021. Our all-star panel: Katie Antypas, Division Deputy, NERSC; Shahin Khan, Partner, OrionX.net; Earl Joseph, CEO, Hyperion Research; Karl Freund, Founder, Cambrian AI Research.The post insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews appeared first on insideHPC.

This whitepaper, "AI Transportable Market," from One Stop Systems, describes how the requirements for AI in the field form a specific and distinct segment in the big, fast-growing edge computing market, separate from the familiar segments of edge data centers and the Internet of Things. One way to describe this emerging segment is “AI Transportables.”The post AI Transportable Market appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced the addition of two new technology managers to its executive leadership team, as well as several changes to Intel business units. Current Intel executives Sandra Rivera and Raja Koduri will take on senior leadership roles, and technology industry veterans Nick McKeown and Greg Lavender will join the company. Navin […]The post Intel Changes Leadership, Structure of Data Platforms Group appeared first on insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June, 22, 2021 — Platform9 today announced the appointment of Diane Bryant to its Board of Directors. Bryant, a technology executive who COO of Google Cloud and Group President of Intel’s Data Center Group, brings more than 30 years of experience spanning cloud technology, data center infrastructure, and artificial intelligence, to Platform9. […]The post Diane Bryant, Former Intel and Google Cloud Exec, Named to Platform9 Board of Directors appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA AI LaunchPad, a program delivered through hybrid-cloud providers designed to give enterprises access to NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and software. Digital infrastructure company Equinix will be the first in the AI LaunchPad program, providing NVIDIA-powered hybrid-cloud solutions globally on Platform Equinix. NVIDIA said the Equinix infrastructure deploys in minutes, “allowing enterprises to access […]The post NVIDIA Launches AI LaunchPad: AI Enterprise Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

This insideHPC technology guide, insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data, discusses how organizations need to adopt a Fusion Computing Model to meet the needs of processing, analyzing, and storing the data to no longer be static.The post insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco-based startup with a software stack designed to train AI models faster using its open source machine learning (ML) platform. HPE will combine Determined AI’s unique software solution with its AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings to enable ML engineers […]The post HPE Buys Startup Open Source ML-HPC Platform Determined AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has been selected by Ferrari S.p.A.’s for cloud-based machine learning, HPC and artificial intelligence. Ferrari said it will utilize AWS’s analytics, machine learning compute, storage and database capabilities for car design and insight into road and track performance. Ferrari will leverage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), with specialized instance […]The post Ferrari Selects AWS for Graviton-based Instances for HPC, AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has awarded Codeplay a contract implementing the oneAPI DPC++ compiler, an implementation of the SYCL open standard software, to support AMD GPU-based high-performance compute (HPC) supercomputers. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is deploying an exascale supercomputer, Aurora, based on Intel GPUs with […]The post Argonne and Oak Ridge Award Codeplay Software to Strengthen SYCL Support appeared first on insideHPC.

By coordinating efforts to improve early exascale hardware stability at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), computer scientist Servesh Muralidharan is working to make it easier for application developers to use Aurora testbeds at Argonne’s Joint Laboratory for System Evaluation (JLSE). His work will facilitate a faster transition to the Aurora system upon its delivery and help […]The post Preparing for Exascale: Aurora Software Development – Packaging and Early Hardware appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons released a new benchmark, MLPerf Tiny Inference to measure trained neural network AI inference performance for low-power devices in small form factors. MLPerf Tiny v0.5 is MLCommons’s first inference benchmark suite for embedded device machine learning, a growing field in which AI-driven sensor data analytics is performed in real-time, close […]The post MLCommons Launches MLPerf Tiny AI Inference Benchmark appeared first on insideHPC.

In this recent interview, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable and sustainable exascale computing ecosystem for the nation.The post Exascale Computing Project Update: Director Kothe Talks Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights appeared first on insideHPC.

This article describes the extensive evaluation testing of the optimal operational configuration for running Ansys RedHawk-SC Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool on Microsoft Azure. The results identified two categories of results: the first being the best choices for selecting from Azure’s service portfolio. And the second identifies the optimal number of CPUs required to minimize the overall cloud TCO for these workloads.The post Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has unveiled a programmable networking device for hyperscalers and their massive data center infrastructures. Called the Infrastructure Processing Unit and announced at Intel made the announcement during the Six Five Summit, it’s a networking device is intended to help cloud and communication service providers cut overhead and free up performance for CPUs, to better utilize […]The post Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit Targets Hyperscaler Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

Quantum Computing Inc., a Leesburg, VA-based company focused on bridging classical and quantum computing, today announced a three-year cooperative research and development agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory. QCI will collaborate with Los Alamos scientists through its administrator, Triad National Security, LLC, on a key component of large-scale simulations that are critical for a range […]The post Los Alamos in R&D Pact with Quantum Computing Inc. for Exascale and Petascale Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

The move to heterogenous computing will require shifting some ... interconnects to a more performant industry standard interface enabling new capabilities like memory tiers, pooled memory, and even the convergence of memory and storage. And to unshackle architectural innovation and choice, we need an open standard with broad industry acceptance. Enter the Compute Express Link (CXL). CXL is an open interface that standardizes a high-performance interconnect for data-centric platforms – it provides the ability to connect CPUs to XPUs, storage, memory and networking, enabling increased degrees of freedom for platform architecture via the ability to build more optimized infrastructures.The post Tear Down These Walls: How CXL Could Reinvent the Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.

In early 2020, when the novel coronavirus was gaining momentum but had not yet been named a pandemic, computational chemist Marti Head of Oak Ridge National Laboratory – along with scientists and researchers around the globe – abruptly switched her focus to the fight against COVID-19. The world was struggling to understand this new virus known as severe acute […]The post How DOE Scientists Disrupted COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.