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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. Fusion computing provides a reference architecture with multiple configurations. “We went back to evaluate the first principles of why we store and move data. The Fusion Computing Model looks at a broader integration of capabilities to put agility back at the data center model.”The post insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data (Part 3) appeared first on insideHPC.
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July 2, 2021 — DARPA today announced that three teams of researchers led by Raytheon, BAE Systems, and Northrop Grumman have been selected to develop event-based infrared (IR) camera technologies under the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics (FENCE) program. Event-based – or neuromorphic – cameras are an emerging class of sensors with demonstrated advantages […]The post DARPA Announces Research Teams to Develop Intelligent Event-Based Imagers appeared first on insideHPC.
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CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 30, 2021 – DDN, an artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced Bytesnet, a Dutch service provider, has selected DDN to address the diverse storage needs of government, public and private organizations in the Netherlands. In addition to providing networking and co-location data centers that meet the performance, […]The post DDN Selected by Bytesnet to Provide Differentiated and Customizable ‘Pay-Per-Use’ Storage Services for Data-Intensive Organizations appeared first on insideHPC.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 16 projects totaling 6.75 million node-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). Each year, the ASCR program, which manages some of the world’s most powerful supercomputing facilities, selects ALCC projects in areas that aim to further DOE […]The post ALCF Computing Time Awarded to 16 projects appeared first on insideHPC.
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June 30, 2021 — Serge Bogaerts, PRACE Managing Director, announced the PRACE Summer of HPC Awards 2020 to Antonios-Kyrillos Chatzimichail, Igor Abramov, and Josip Bobinac during an online award ceremony held on Wednesday 30 June 2021 at the virtual PRACE booth at ISC 2021. The three students received the awards for their exceptional performance and […]The post PRACE Summer of HPC 2020 Award Ceremony at ISC appeared first on insideHPC.
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This podcast from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) examines the ExaGraph Project, an ECP co-design center, tasked with developing efficient implementation of graph algorithms. Along with technical aspects of graph algorithms, the podcast looks at the significance of graph algorithms and their widespread use. Taking part in the podcast are ExaGraph Project […]The post Exascale Computing Project and Exagraph: Applying Graph Algorithms appeared first on insideHPC.
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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. Today at 3:30 pm Eastern Time/midnight CET we offer an off-hours event: ISC Retrospective: HPC Experts Discuss the Highpoints of ISC 2021, a […]The post insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: Experts Talk ISC Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews appeared first on insideHPC.
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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. Fusion computing provides a reference architecture with multiple configurations. “We went back to evaluate the first principles of why we store and move data. The Fusion Computing Model looks at a broader integration of capabilities to put agility back at the data center model.”The post insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data (Part 2) appeared first on insideHPC.
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At Virtual ISC we chatted with Ayar Lab’s Hugo Saleh, VP of business development and marketing, about what he calls the coming revolution in HPC (and other compute- and data-intensive market segments) brought on by optical I/O. This technology replaces traditional electrical-based I/O, delivering 1000x improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at 10x lower power consumption, […]The post At Virtual ISC: Ayar Labs and Optical I/O – Data at the Speed of Light appeared first on insideHPC.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. & LONDON — In order to address the UK and European market demand for in-package Optical I/O, Ayar Labs has established an international subsidiary with Ayar Labs UK Ltd. Optical I/O has emerged as a key technology for future high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Hugo Saleh, VP of […]The post Ayar Labs Establishes UK Subsidiary, Adds to Executive Team appeared first on insideHPC.
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BERKELEY, Calif.— June 29, 2021 — Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing company, announced today it is launching what it said is the world’s first multi-chip quantum processor. The processor incorporates a proprietary modular architecture that accelerates the path to commercialization and solves key scaling challenges toward fault-tolerant quantum computers. Rigetti expects to make an […]The post Rigetti Launches Scalable Multi-chip Quantum Processor appeared first on insideHPC.
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Paris — June 29, 2021 — Atos today announces that 10 new supercomputers, based on its BullSequana X high-performance infrastructure, are in the TOP500 global supercomputing ranking. This makes a total of 36 Atos supercomputers listed, with a combined peak performance of 206 petaflops – an increase of 27 percent in petaflops from the last TOP500 listing announced in November 2020. Looking back over these last […]The post Atos: 10 New HPC Entries in Top500 Supercomputer List appeared first on insideHPC.
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Research by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist and a group of collaborators is shedding light on one of the major challenges to realizing the potential of quantum computing — error correction. In a new paper published in Nature and co-authored by LLNL physicist Jonathan DuBois, scientists examined quantum computing stability, particularly what causes errors and […]The post Quantum Errors Not Random, Tied to Cosmic Rays, Researchers Say appeared first on insideHPC.
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At virtual ISC, we interviewed Atos’ Eric Eppe, head of Solution Marketing, HPC, AI & Quantum Solution Marketing & Portfolio; and Cédric Bourrasset, AI Distinguished Expert, HPC & AI Sales Operation, to discuss Atos progress in the HPC and AI markets. In particular, we focused on Atos launch at ISC of its new ThinkAI offering […]The post At Virtual ISC: Atos Talks Its New ‘ThinkAI’ Offering appeared first on insideHPC.
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At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Gilad Shainer, Nvidia’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and a long time figure – with a background at high performance networking complany Mellanox, acquired two years ago by Nvidia – in the HPC community to update us on the company’s new supercomputing architecture, Cloud Native Supercomputing, along […]The post At Virtual ISC: Catching up with Gilad Shainer and Nvidia’s ‘Data Center on a Chip’ appeared first on insideHPC.
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NVIDIA today announced a revamp of its NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform with new technologies that fuse AI with high performance computing, designed to make supercomputing more useful to a growing number of industries. To accelerate the new era of industrial AI and HPC, NVIDIA has added three key technologies to its HGX platform: the […]The post NVIDIA and Partners Launch HGX A100 Systems for Industrial AI and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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To make computer chips, technologists around the world rely on atomic layer deposition (ALD), which can create films as fine as one atom thick. Businesses commonly use ALD to make semiconductor devices, but it also has applications in solar cells, lithium batteries and other energy-related fields. Today, manufacturers increasingly rely on ALD to make new types of films, but […]The post Argonne Researchers Use AI to Optimize Material Coating for Making Microprocessors appeared first on insideHPC.
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San Jose, June 28, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology, announced Supermicro servers that will support the latest NVIDIA technologies. Both 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors or 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor-based servers will be available that incorporate the new NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs. […]The post New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.
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Paris, June 28, 2021 – Atos today launched ThinkAI, which the company described as its secure end-to-end scalable offering which enables organizations to successfully design, develop, and deliver high-performance AI applications. “ThinkAI is for organizations using traditional high-performance computing (HPC) that want to run more accurate and faster simulations thanks to AI applications, and also […]The post Atos Launches ‘ThinkAI’ for High Performance AI Applications appeared first on insideHPC.
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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.
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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.
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by Doug Black on (#5KKE9)
For at least four years, Lenovo has been vocal about its high ambitions in high performance computing, and by all appearances the company is progressing toward its objectives. This is the eighth year since China-based Lenovo purchased IBM’s Intel x86-based server business, an acquisition that marked the company’s entrance into HPC, and despite some U.S. […]The post Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’ appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Doug Black on (#5KK3G)
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.
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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.
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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 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.
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At virtual ISC 2021, we talked with Trish Damkroger, Intel’s Vice President and General Manager, High Performance Computing about the state of HPC and Intel’s place in it. In this interview she discusses virtual activities the company will offer during the conference, profiles some of her favorite HPC customer case histories (think: Tazmanian devil) and […]The post At Virtual ISC 2021: Intel HPC Leader Trish Damkroger Talks ISC Highlights and the Virtuous HPC-AI Circle appeared first on insideHPC.
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Tokyo — June 24, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D Inc. today announced the launch of AXXE-L One, the company’s first server product. The appliance comes with AXXE-L by XTREME-D pre-installed, providing the key components required to run HPC / AI workloads out-of-the-box. AXXE-L by XTREME-D is HPC System Software as a […]The post XTREME-D Launches First Server Product, AXXE-L One appeared first on insideHPC.
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SAN JOSE — June 24, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced a new release of ActiveScale object storage software that reshapes the way organizations store, manage, and extract value from their growing stores of unstructured data. ActiveScale 6.0 software delivers unlimited scalability, and consistent performance at any scale without compromising data availability, durability, […]The post Quantum Corp. Addresses Exabyte-Scale Data Management with ActiveScale 6.0 appeared first on insideHPC.
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SAN JOSE — June 24, 2021 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) is collaborating with global enterprise computing leader Supermicro to deliver object storage solutions to customers demanding the ability to extract more value from their increasing data stores. The engagement enables Supermicro’s customers, resellers, and integrators to easily purchase scalable, software-defined object storage software to […]The post Quantum Corp. Collaborates with Supermicro on Object Storage Software appeared first on insideHPC.
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At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with supercomputing-as-a-service company XTREME-D, a venture-backed company founded in 2015 with the goal of making HPC cloud computing access easy, fast, efficient and economical. The company’s leadership team has 25 years of experience in HPC and cloud technologies, and two of them, Naoki Shibata (CEO/Chief HPC IaaS Architect) […]The post At Virtual ISC 2021: XTREME-D’s Plans to Expand its Supercomputing-as-a-Service Market Presence appeared first on insideHPC.
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At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Andrew Nielsen, VMware’s senior director of cloud migration and technical enablement, for a discussion about major trends driving growth in cloud-based AI as well as a technical and product update from VMware. “If you take the best parts of cloud, like modularity, elasticity, rapid deployment, and scalable […]The post At Virtual ISC 2021: Talking Cloud-based AI with VMware appeared first on insideHPC.
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At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Brock Taylor, AMD’s global HPC solutions director, to talk about the HPC community’s response to AMD’s launch last March of its EPYC 7003 Series 7nm CPUs and to its Radeon Instinct GPUs – including the implementation of both in exascale-class supercomputers to be installed at U.S. national […]The post At Virtual ISC 2021: AMD Talks EPYC 7nm CPUs, Instinct GPUs, in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Vangel Bojaxhi, high end server maker Inspur System’s global AI & HPC director. A five-year veteran of Inspur, Bojaxhi talked with us about the announcements the company will make at ISC as well as its latest customer case histories. On the announcement front, Inspur will announce a […]The post At Virtual ISC 2021: Catching up with High End Server Maker Inspur appeared first on insideHPC.
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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.
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June 22, 2021, New York – Rasgo Intelligence, the feature store that is transforming how data scientists engineer, collaborate on, and operationalize Machine Learning (ML)features, announced today a $20M Series A investment round led by Insight Partners, with continued support from Unusual Ventures. This brings Rasgo’s total funding to over$25M since its founding. Rasgo was […]The post Rasgo Raises $25M to Deliver the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases and Introduce New Data Science Capabilities appeared first on insideHPC.
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Paris, France – June 23 2021 — ‘Topaze’ is part of Atos‘ range of HPC supercomputers, acquired following a call for tenders, and is the result of joint R&D by Atos and the CEA’s Military Applications Directorate (DAM). It has a peak computing power of around 8.8 petaflops. The new computer includes a general-purpose partition […]The post Atos-CEAs’ ‘Topaze’ at CCRT appeared first on insideHPC.
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In this interview at virtual ISC 2021, Altair and AMD discuss their joint venture in which the performance of Altair applications, such as the RADIOSS finite element solver for linear and non-linear problems, is accelerated when run using AMD’s new EPYC 7003 Series 7nm CPUs, announced in March. “The EPYC in general (was developed) as […]The post At Virtual ISC 2021: Joint Venture Revs up Altair Solvers with AMD EPYC 7003 Chips appeared first on insideHPC.
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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.
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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.
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Tokyo, June 23, 2021 — Fujitsu Limited successfully leveraged on the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance, large-scale, very high-definition analyses with commercial applications widely used in the industrial field for simulations including fluid dynamics. The trials were conducted in collaboration with a number of application vendors between November 2020 and […]The post Fujitsu Demonstrates Industrial Simulations on Fugaku appeared first on insideHPC.
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Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $28.9 million in funding for nine research projects to advance the development of sophisticated software for the chemical sciences. Funding totals approximately $8.4 million in Fiscal Year 2021 dollars for projects of up to four years in duration, with outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. A list of projects can be found here. Projects funded in this announcement will develop new computational methods and open-source codes to take advantage of […]The post DOE Funding $29M to Develop Advanced Chemical Sciences Software appeared first on insideHPC.
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Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced Vivado ML Editions, which the company said is the industry’s first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine-learning (ML) optimization algorithms, as well as team-based design flows, intended to deliver design time and cost savings. Vivado ML Editions delivers 5x faster compile time and breakthrough quality of results (QoR) […]The post Xilinx Announces FPGA EDA Tools with ML appeared first on insideHPC.
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ASHBURN, VA. – June 22, 2020 – CPG, an end-to-end data center technology partner, today unveiled upgrades to its cloud-based Insight for Batteries predictive analytics and monitoring platform, which now includes advanced machine learning algorithms that automate time to replace (TTR) predictions while supporting continued trend analysis, as well as critical alarm notifications that help mitigate the […]The post CPG Adds ML Capabilities to Data Center Battery Monitoring Service appeared first on insideHPC.
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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.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a call for nominations for the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which is presented by the Secretary of Energy to honor mid-career U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions and achievements in research and development supporting the broad missions of DOE and its programs to advance the national, […]The post DOE: 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Call for Nominations appeared first on insideHPC.
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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.
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Maisons-Laffitte,France and Barcelona, June 22, 2021 – SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, is opening its Barcelona office as the second operational subsidiary outside of France. This opening comes one year after opening its office in Duisburg, Germany. At the heart of this ecosystem, SiPearl […]The post SiPearl Opens Site in Barcelona appeared first on insideHPC.
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Tokyo — June 22, 2021 — Fujitsu Japan Limited today announced a research project leveraging Fugaku, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, to identify small molecule inhibitory compounds that could be used to treat COVID-19. The research team is led by Takefumi Yamashita, project associate professor of Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) , […]The post Fugaku in Joint Research for COVID Therapies appeared first on insideHPC.
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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.
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NEW YORK — AI and machine learning platform Daitaku announced today that it is available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors designed to make it easy to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). This availability lets AWS customers […]The post Dataiku Launches in AWS Marketplace appeared first on insideHPC.