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The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) recently announced the recipients of its annual High Performance Computing Achievement Awards, recognizing eight early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific computation using NERSC resources. The NERSC awards pay tribute to the accomplishments of young researchers in scientific fields supported by the U.S. Department of […]The post NERSC Honors 8 Early Career Scientists with Annual HPC Achievement Awards appeared first on insideHPC.

If you’ve wondered why GPUs are faster than CPUs, in part it’s because they’re asked to do less – or, to be more precise, to be less precise. Next question: So if GPUs are faster than CPUs, why aren’t GPUs the mainstream, baseline processor used in HPC server clusters? Again, in part it gets back […]The post Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs. HPL-AI HPC Benchmarks; Traditional vs. AI Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

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New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s vow earlier this year to move the company into the foundry business – making chips not just for itself but also for others – may take the form of acquiring GlobalFoundries in a deal that could be worth $30 billion, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. The […]The post Report: Intel Weighing Acquisition of GlobalFoundries appeared first on insideHPC.

Using a D-Wave quantum-annealing computer as a testbed, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that it is possible to isolate so-called emergent magnetic monopoles, a class of quasiparticles, creating a new approach to developing “materials by design.” “We wanted to study emergent magnetic monopoles by exploiting the collective dynamics of qubits,” said Cristiano […]The post D-Wave, Los Alamos Isolate Emergent Magnetic Monopoles Using Quantum-annealing Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

SC21 (November 14-19) has announced that registration (both on-site and online) is now open for this year’s conference, to be held for the first time in St. Louis. “We understand there may be unforeseeable events related to COVID-19 that may impact attendee travel or on-site participation,” conference organizers said in their announcement. “If you are […]The post Registration Now Open for SC21 appeared first on insideHPC.

The everlasting rat’s nest that is scientific computing data management, the permanent quest for more advanced-level processing power, and investments in new fabs for advanced chips are HPC topics in the news this week. Taking on data management at the upper reaches of data-intensive workloads is Harvard University Associate Professor Stratos Idreos, who two years […]The post HPC in the News: Data Management Automation and Faster Processor Gates; Intel and TSMC in Arizona, Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

With hope of making quantum computing an automotive innovative engine, BMW today invited researchers, start-ups and companies from the quantum computing community to propose solutions for industrial challenges to the BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and its Braket managed quantum computing service, the challenge entrants will develop […]The post BMW Kicks Off Crowd-sourced Quantum Challenge with AWS; Sept. 24 Deadline appeared first on insideHPC.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preeclampsia, or pregnancy-related hypertension, occurs in roughly one in 25 pregnancies in the United States. The causes are unknown and childbirth is the only remedy, which can sometimes lead to adverse perinatal outcomes, such as preterm delivery. To better understand this serious pregnancy complication, which reduces blood supply to the fetus, researchers used Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego to conduct cellular modeling to detail the differences between normal and preeclampsia placental tissue.The post Modeling on SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Reveals Findings on Pregnancy-related Hypertension appeared first on insideHPC.

The recent proliferation of new hardware technologies has galvanized the high-performance computing (HPC) community and created the ability to deliver the nation’s forthcoming exascale-capable supercomputers and data centers. It has also made LLVM-based compiler technology the default gatekeeper to these new systems. LLVM, an open-source collection of compiler and toolchain technologies, serves as a test bed for proposed parallelization extensions (e.g., the interoperability directive in OpenMP 5.1) and as a vehicle to provide production-quality parallel compiler implementations. Johannes Doerfert, a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, notes that “LLVM is a vehicle to provide performant implementations of OpenMP....The post LLVM Holds the Keys to Exascale Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pentagon’s cancellation of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract won in 2019 by Microsoft – the biggest tech story of the week and surely one of the biggest of the year – has major implications for the HPC and Big AI sectors. Though just what they are or will be is, for now, […]The post Pentagon Document Shows HPC Key to DoD’s Post-JEDI Cloud Strategy; Early Co-favorites: AWS and Azure appeared first on insideHPC.

This is episode 82 of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, provided by the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, exploring the expected impacts of exascale-class supercomputing. This is the third in a series on sharing best practices in preparing applications for the upcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. The series highlights […]The post Let’s Talk Exascale Code Development: WDMAPP—XGC, GENE, GEM appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at Ghent University, Amsterdam University of Medicine, National Chiao Tung University, UNSW Sydney, Illumina, and the Baylor College of Medicine have built one of the most comprehensive catalogs of the human transcriptome ever. By combining complementary sequencing techniques, they have deepened our understanding of the function of known ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules and discovered […]The post TACC’s Stampede2 HPC Helps ID New RNA Molecules for Disease Study appeared first on insideHPC.

Announced last October, NVIDIA today launched Cambridge-1, calling it the United Kingdom’s most powerful supercomputer. Enabling scientists and healthcare experts to use the combination of AI and simulation to accelerate the digital biology revolution, Cambridge-1 represents a $100 million investment by NVIDIA. Cambridge-1 brings together NVIDIA’s work in accelerated computing, AI and life sciences, where […]The post NVIDIA Claims Install of UK’s Top Supercomputer, for Research in AI and Healthcare appeared first on insideHPC.

Startup Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has launched what it said is the UK’s first commercially available quantum computing-as-a-Service. OQC said its proprietary quantum technology will be available to enterprises via its private cloud. OQC’s partner, Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), will be the first to be given access to the private cloud to demonstrate its IronBridge […]The post Oxford Quantum Circuits Claims UK’s First Quantum Computing as-a-Service appeared first on insideHPC.