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San Francisco — June 21, 2021 – The Ceph Foundation, dedicated to enabling industry members to collaborate and pool resources to support the Ceph community, today announced the formation of the Ceph Market Development Group. The new group, composed of leading industry organizations, including Canonical, Red Hat and SoftIron , will collaborate to raise awareness […]The post Ceph Foundation Announces Formation of Ceph Market Development Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Research Triangle Park, NC – Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Intel and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, announce Phase Two of the LRZ’s SuperMUC-NG supercomputer. The system will deliver high performance integrated solutions to the LRZ user community, utilising artificial intelligence to implement advanced simulations, modelling, and data analysis that […]The post Lenovo Expands HPC System at Leibniz Supercomputer Center appeared first on insideHPC.

On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject) that will address several questions concerning the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) that ECP is developing for the nation’s forthcoming exascale systems. E4S will have a far-reaching impact on the […]The post ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-mQa appeared first on insideHPC.

Graphcore, the British maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and SiPearl, the Franco-German company building an HPC chip, have entered into a strategic partnership intended to enable innovation in simulation and prediction for use cases such as meteorology, climatology, epidemiology and energy management. Under the terms of the agreement, the […]The post Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

San Antonio, TX, June 15 , 2021 – Subzero Engineering, a maker of data center containment solutions, and Armstrong World Industries (AWI), a designer and manufacture of commercial and residential ceiling, wall, and suspension solutions, have announced a partnership for the Americas markets. Subzero Engineering and AWI will create a containment and structural ceiling solution […]The post Subzero Engineering and Armstrong World Industries Partner to Serve U.S. Data Center Market appeared first on insideHPC.

Palo Alto, California, June 10, 2021 – Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D today announced the formation of a technical alliance with Fujitsu Limited to conduct verification tests of Fujitsu’s PRIMEHPC FX700 on XTREME-D’s high-speed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment. The two companies are planning a series of joint activities through this alliance, starting with […]The post XTREME-D Announces Technical Alliance with Fujitsu appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, June 10, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the adaptive computing company, today announced that it has acquired Silexica, a privately-held provider of C/C++ programming and analysis tools. Silexica’s SLX FPGA tool suite empowers developers with an unparalleled development experience building applications on FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs. This technology will become integrated with […]The post Xilinx Acquires Programming Tools Vendor Silexica appeared first on insideHPC.

AUSTIN – June 10, 2021 – With the summer months quickly approaching and data center managers increasing efforts to keep their operations cool, GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in single-phase data center liquid immersion cooling, announced today the first annual Liquid Immersion Cooling Awareness Month, to take place in August. Liquid Immersion Cooling Awareness […]The post GRC Designates August Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

June 10, 2021 — The U.S. National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy today announced the formation of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. As directed by Congress in the “National AI Initiative Act of 2020,” the task force will serve as a federal advisory committee, developing […]The post US Launches National AI Research Resource Task Force appeared first on insideHPC.

Understanding the physical behavior inside an operating nuclear reactor can be done only with simulations on a supercomputer due to the high-pressure, high-temperature, and radioactive environment inside a reactor core. The whirls and eddies of coolant that flow around the fuel pins play a critical role in determining the reactor thermal and hydraulics performance and […]The post Argonne Claims 1st Full-core Pin-resolved Nuclear Reactor Model appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., –The CW-WDM MSA (Continuous-Wave Wavelength Division Multiplexing Multi-Source Agreement) Group, dedicated to defining and promoting specifications for multi-wavelength advanced integrated optics, today announced the release of its first official specification for 8, 16, and 32 wavelength optical sources. The Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) defines laser sources covering three spans in the O-band wavelength […]The post CW-WDM MSA Consortium Releases Spec for Multi-Wavelength Optical Laser Sources appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ayar Labs announced today that it has successfully demonstrated what is said is the industry’s first terabit per second Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical link with its TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet and SuperNova multi-wavelength optical source. The demonstration shows a fully functional TeraPHY chiplet with 8 optical ports running error free […]The post Ayar Labs Demos Terabit Optical Link for Co-Packaged Optics and Chip-to-Chip Connectivity appeared first on insideHPC.

AMES, IOWA – A mathematician who has advanced wave-scattering calculations and a researcher who has modeled the complex interactions driving snow formations will share the 2021 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science award. A selection committee comprised of alumni and friends of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) chose Thomas […]The post Anderson and Kochanski Share 2021 Howes Award appeared first on insideHPC.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 8, 2021 — Honeywell announced today that Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS) and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) will combine to form what the companies said will be the largest, most advanced standalone quantum computing company in the world, setting the pace for what is projected to become a $1 trillion quantum computing industry over […]The post Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum Computing Will Combine appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, June 9, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the adaptive computing company, today introduced the Versal AI Edge series, designed to enable AI innovation from the edge to the endpoint. With 4X the AI performance-per-watt versus GPUs[1] and 10X greater compute density versus previous-generation adaptive SoCs, the Versal AI Edge series is the […]The post Xilinx Claims Highest AI Performance-per-Watt for Edge Compute appeared first on insideHPC.

The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working to combine two key technologies, LLVM and continuous integration (CI), to ensure that current and future compilers are stable and performant on high-performance computing (HPC) and exascale computer systems. The proliferation of new machine architectures has made the continuous testing and verification of software (hence the “continuous” in CI) an essential part of US Department of Energy DOE supercomputing. Valentin Clement, a software engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who is part of the team working to include LLVM in the ECP CI testing and verification framework, notes, “We are working to add CI for ECP-relevant architectures. This facilitates....The post ECP Pushes Cross-Platform Tested Compilers for HPC and Exascale Architectures appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO – Doga Cagdas Demirkan, a third-year mining engineering Ph.D. candidate at Colorado School of Mines, has been named the winner of the annual student poster competition held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium. Judging was done virtually during the Symposium, held on-line in mid-May. Demirkan’s entry, […]The post RMACC Names HPC Symposium Poster Winner appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.– June 8, 2021 —Panasas, a maker of high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, announced an expansion of its 13-year relationship with the University of Minnesota’s Supercomputing Institute (MSI) to supply a new generation of parallel storage systems. As its researchers push further into the fields of bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, MSI plans […]The post Univ. of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Expands Research Capability, Adds 10PB of Panasas Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Hsinchu, Taiwan – June 8, 2021 – Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Advanced ASIC Leader, announced today that it has successfully taped out AI/HPC/Networking CoWoS Platform with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 Controller and PHY, GLink-2.5D and third-party 112G-LR SerDes IPs. The main die of the platform contains the world’s first HBM3 Controller and PHY IP with […]The post GUC Tapes Out AI/HPC/Networking Platform on TSMC CoWoS Technology with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 Controller and PHY, GLink-2.5D and 112G-LR SerDes IPs appeared first on insideHPC.

Deep learning is smart — show off smart. It loves connecting dots no one else can see and being the smartest one in the room. But that’s when deep learning can go wrong – when it thinks it knows everything. What deep learning needs is a touch of humility, to not just be smart but […]The post IBM Releases AI Toolkit for Deep Learning Uncertainties appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif. – June 8, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, and high-performance computing (HPC), today announced record-breaking performance of its Weka File System (WekaFS) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) according to the STAC-M3 Benchmark. An independent audit, conducted by Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC), showed that […]The post Weka Claims 6 Records on STAC-M3 WEKAFS File Systems on EC2 appeared first on insideHPC.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab used Bright Computing’s Cluster Manager to help manage the lab’s HPC cluster environment to produce trajectory correction calculations and entry, descent and landing calculations for the spacecraft that last year carried the Mars rover, called Perseverance, and the small robotic helicopter, Ingenuity. Spacecraft telemetry data was plugged into models and used […]The post JPL Used Bright Cluster Manager for 2020 Mars Mission appeared first on insideHPC.

Two scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are recipients of the 2021 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program award. Andrea Schmidt and Xue Zheng are among 83 scientists nationwide selected for the recognition. Under the program, typical awards for DOE national laboratory staff are $500,000 per year for five years. The […]The post DOE Honors 2 Early Career Lab Scientists appeared first on insideHPC.

TAIPEI, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, brings 3rd Gen Intel-Xeon-Scalable processor-based server platforms featuring built-in AI acceleration, enhanced security and a 2X increase in PCIe 4.0 I/O for the most demanding requirements across HPC, cloud, storage and 5G workloads at the TYAN 2021 server solutions online exhibition beginning Jun […]The post TYAN Delivers AI and Cloud Optimized Systems Based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

The Call for Papers for the 2021 OCP Global Summit, November 9-10, 2021, is now open. These conference will includes keynotes, exhibits, expo hall talks and engineering workshops. The number of engineering tracks and their content for the 2021 Global Summit will depend on the response to the call for papers and the demand from the […]The post OCP Issues Call for Papers for 2021 Global Summit appeared first on insideHPC.

Six science and technology innovators from across the United States will join the fifth cohort of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads program in June. The southeast’s only research and development program for entrepreneurs based at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, Innovation Crossroads provides support to science-based startups to help advance game-changing technologies […]The post ORNL Names Innovation Crossroads Cohort of Manufacturing, Building and Clean Energy Technology Entrepreneurs appeared first on insideHPC.

This Reference Architecture highlights the key findings and demonstrated scalability when running SAS® 9.4 using the Mixed Analytics Workload running on HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage. These results demonstrate that the combination of the HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage with SAS 9.4 delivers up to 20GB/s of sustained throughput, up to a 2x performance improvement from the previous server and storage generation testing.The post HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

By Eric Bassier, Quantum Corp. With the proliferation of IoT devices, sensors and robots spanning industries such as autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, surveillance, smart cities and healthcare, edge computing is creating vast amounts of unstructured data that will, at some point in its lifecycle, need to be centralized at the core or moved to the cloud. […]The post The New Frontier for Data Management: Edge-Core-Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Two new developments emerged this week in the US-China technology rivalry that have bearing on the HPC futures of the two superpowers. According to a Reuters story, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei, speaking at the company’s annual technology meeting, said construction has begun on a $12 billion chip fab in Arizona and […]The post US-China Tech Rivalry Takes 2 New HPC-Related Turns appeared first on insideHPC.

June 4, 2021 – The worldwide iRODS user community will connect online from June 8 – 11 for the 13th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting – four days of learning, sharing of use cases, and discussions of new capabilities that have been added to iRODS in the last year. Registration for the Virtual iRODS UGM […]The post 2021 iRODS User Group Meeting June 8-11 appeared first on insideHPC.

St. Paul, MN, June 4, 2021 – Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update session to be held in conjunction with the ISC High Performance 2021 Digital conference. The annual session is free of charge and will be streamed twice for convenience: Friday, June 25, 1:00-2:30pm U.S. Eastern time (EDT). Register […]The post Hyperion Research Opens Registration for HPC Market Update During ISC appeared first on insideHPC.

June 3, 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced additional GIGABYTE servers that have been added to the growing list of NVIDIA-Certified Systems. This program validates the best configuration of servers that use hardware such as NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs and NVIDIA SmartNICs, including the newly added […]The post GIGABYTE Offers More NVIDIA-Certified GPU Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – June 3, 2021 – cPacket Networks, a provider of intelligent observability for the hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks, today announced two new products designed to deliver low-latency, high-performance, high-density 100Gbps network observability in support of enterprise automation, data center consolidation, and high-performance computing requirements. Building on cPacket’s existing 100Gbps portfolio, the new cVu 32100 and cVu 32100E network […]The post cPacket Networks Announces Solutions for 100Gbps Network Observability appeared first on insideHPC.

This whitepaper, “Bright Computing Cluster as a Service for VMware,” from Bright Computing discusses how through advanced automation, Bright Cluster Manager eliminates the complexity of building and managing high-performance Linux clusters, enabling greater organizational efficiency and flexibility. And now, Bright Cluster Manager also supports clusters in VMware vSphere—and goes one step further to enable high-performance […]The post Bright Computing Cluster as a Service for VMware appeared first on insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland June 2, 2021 – atNorth, formerly known as Advania Data Centers, has delivered an AI and deep learning system to Icelandic start-up Miðeind. The Supercomputer – built on HPE servers and powered by the latest generation of nVidia Graphic Processor Units (A100) – is hosted in atNorth’s Mjölnir Colocation Data Center facilities in […]The post Icelandic AI Company Miðeind Leverages atNorth’s HPC & AI Cluster-as-a-Service for NLP appeared first on insideHPC.

June 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)announced the selection of 32 outstanding undergraduate and graduate students across the nation to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, jointly managed by the Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). A list of fellows, their institutions, and their fields […]The post DOE Picks 32 Students for Computational Fellowships appeared first on insideHPC.

A growing number of HPC applications must deliver high performance on CPU and GPU hardware platforms. One software tool available now and showing tremendous promise for the exascale era is the open-source RAJA Portability Suite. RAJA is part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) NNSA software portfolio and is also supported by the ECP Programming Models and Runtimes area.The post Exascale Computing Project: RAJA Portability Suite Enables Performance Portable CPU and GPU HPC Codes appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, brings a variety of AI, cloud and storage server platforms incorporating the latest AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors in TYAN’s 2021 Server Solutions Online Exhibition beginning June 2. “As the continued growth of using clouds for running […]The post TYAN Highlights AI, Cloud and Storage Server Platforms Powered by AMD EPYC 7003 Series Chips appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv, Israel and New Taipei, Taiwan June 1, 2021 – AI chipmaker Hailo announced today its partnership with Lanner Electronics, a maker of intelligent edge computing appliances, to launch AI inference solutions for real-time computer vision at the edge. Hailo has combined its Hailo-8 AI acceleration module with Lanner’s edge computing boxes to create high-performance, compact devices to support the […]The post AI Chipmaker Hailo Partners with Lanner Electronics to Launch AI Inference at the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK – June 1, 2021 – Sunlight.io, a developer of virtualization technology for data-intensive applications, today announced an OEM partnership with Altos Computing, a subsidiary of Acer Inc., to deliver the industry’s fastest and most efficient hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances. Under the agreement, Altos will embed Sunlight’s NexVisor Hyperconverged stack on its Brainsphere appliances. By combining the power […]The post Sunlight and Altos Computing Align for Edge-to-Core Hyperconverged Applicances appeared first on insideHPC.