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PALO ALTO, Calif. and YOKNEAM, Israel, May 25, 2021 — Ramon.Space, developer of space computing solutions, has raised $17.5M in Series A funding. The round includes StageOne Ventures, Deep Insight, WorldQuant Ventures, UMC Capital and existing investor Grove Ventures. The capital will be used to continue development of the company’s computing solutions, support its rapidly expanding US and Israel operations, and […]The post Ramon.Space Raises $17.5M for Supercomputing in Space appeared first on insideHPC.

London, May 25, 2021 — Kao Data, developer and operator of carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced it has become NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center certified. The company said this step reinforces its capabilities as a world-class data centre operator and highlights its expertise in delivering customised architectures for high-performance computing (HPC), AI […]The post Kao Data Is NVIDIA DGX-Ready appeared first on insideHPC.

The ENERXICO project, a Europe-Mexico collaboration to develop performance simulation tools requiring exascale HPC and data intensive algorithms for energy sources, will conduct an online webinar on Wednesday, June 2 from 2:30-5 pm CEST. Registration is here: https://bit.ly/3y0W6w7 The webinar will focus on high-performance computing as an enabling technology for subsurface exploration, outlining developments both in HPC […]The post June 2 ENERXICO Webinar: Energy Subsurface Exploration with HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) recently awarded computing time and resources to three new projects and one renewed project for 2021-2022, through its ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). Launched in 2016, the ADSP enables big data and artificial intelligence (AI) research that requires DOE’s leadership-class computing resources. The forward-looking allocation program is designed to explore […]The post ALCF Data Science Program Awards 4 Projects appeared first on insideHPC.

Northbrook, Ill., May 24, 2021 — UL, the global safety science leader, today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP). UL joined the organization at the highest tier level and will contribute its technical knowledge and experience to help further the cooperative development of resiliency, utilization and efficiency of data center and […]The post UL Joins Open Compute Project to Further Enable Data Center and Enterprise System Designs appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC technology guide, “How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment,”we will present things to consider when building a customized supercomputer-in-a-box system with the help of experts from Silicon Mechanics.The post insideHPC Guide to How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

A newly enhanced I/O subsystem will support the nation’s first exascale supercomputer, the HPE Cray Frontier system, and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). The computational might of exascale computing, expected to have top speeds of 1 quintillion — that’s 1018, or a billion billion — calculations per second, promises to enable breakthrough discoveries across the scientific spectrum when Frontier, set to power up by year's end, opens to full user operations in 2022, from the basics of building better nuclear reactors to insights into the origins of the universe. The I/O subsystem will consist of two major components: an in-system storage layer and a center-wide file system. The center-wide file system, called Orion, will use open-source Lustre and ZFS technologies.The post OLCF Releases Storage Specs for Frontier Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored article, Preston Smith, Director of Research Services and Support at Purdue University, discusses how Purdue University's community cluster program has supported scientists from every corner of the campus since 2004, building upon decades of experience at Purdue in scientific computing. Batch high-performance computing remains the scientists’ bread and butter, with current community clusters delivering hundreds of millions of CPU-hours each year, but cloud technology, using Azure’s AMD EPYC™ processor-based HBv3 instances, is providing new opportunities for innovation.The post Purdue University Seeing New Opportunities for Innovation with Cloud Technology Using Azure’s AMD EPYC™ Processor-based HBv3 Instances appeared first on insideHPC.

May 20, 2021 – The International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC – State of the Art, Emerging Disruptive Innovations and Future Scenarios – which had to be cancelled last year due to the Corona pandemic, will now return to Cetraro, Italy, July 26-30, 2021. Preliminary program, early registration (no conference fee), and more details are […]The post International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC Returns to Cetraro, Italy July 26-30 appeared first on insideHPC.

This Teratec workshop will demonstrate that the next step in high performance computing is the introduction of quantum accelerators (quantum processing units, in short QPU) into the computing center in a modular fashion. Supercomputers and QPUs will allow scientists to perform hybrid quantum-classical computing, or Hybrid Qomputing, according to the event organizers. The workshop is […]The post Teratec Forum June 22: Europe on Way to ‘Hybrid Qomputing’ appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose, May 20, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology solutions, is making available a range of liquid cooling solutions that reduce costs and allow the most demanding applications to run with less jitter and at faster CPU frequencies. Working with customers, Supermicro […]The post Supermicro Introduces Liquid Cooling Solutions for Demanding Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

May 19, 2021 — Scientists have long been trying to understand the behavior of superconductors, materials that have zero electrical resistance when they reach sufficiently low temperatures. Superconductors might be useful for technologies such as magnets for MRIs, fusion devices, and particle accelerators. To understand superconductors, one concept is pivotal: phonons, which are quantum waves […]The post Summit Supercomputer Helps Crack Code to Signature Superconductor ‘Kink’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Today we observe a sad, one-year commemoration. It was a year ago that Rich Brueckner, the long-time editor-in-chief of insideHPC and one of the most popular and respected people in the HPC community, died. The news was met with shock and grief across the industry, and it was a fitting reflection of the regard with […]The post Remembering Rich Brueckner appeared first on insideHPC.

Tewksbury, MA. and San Jose – May 19, 2021 – Avery Design Systems, maker of functional verification solutions, and Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of chips and silicon IP designed to make data faster and safer, announced today they are extending their long-term memory model and PCIe® Verification IP (VIP) collaboration. Rambus utilizes Avery’s high-quality, full-featured memory models to […]The post Avery Design Systems and Rambus Extend Memory Model and PCIe VIP Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

For a number of years, Intel has provided the Advisor and VTune performance profiling software for CPU-based Intel architectures. In advance of the delivery of the ALCF’s Intel-HPE exascale system, Aurora, in 2022, Intel has been extending those tools to its Xe GPU architecture. Because the Aurora software development kit (SDK) incorporates multiple major programming models—such as DPC++/SYCL, OpenMP Target offloading (for C, C++ and Fortran), OpenCL, Kokkos, and RAJA—those tools need to be tested across every combination of programming model. Many important applications being developed under DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) integrate Intel’s optimized math libraries to maximize their performance; it is therefore crucial that Advisor and VTune are able to capture their performance characteristics seamlessly.The post An Update on Aurora Exascale Readiness at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

The Asian Student Cluster competitions held by the Asian Supercomputer Community (ASC) have always had a reputation of being particularly demanding for the student participants. However, for this year's upcoming competition they’ve turned the difficulty meter to 11. Maybe it’s because they weren’t able to hold the competition last year....The post Asian Student Cluster Competition: Brutally Difficult appeared first on insideHPC.

FRANKLIN, Tenn., May 19, 2021 — LogicPlum (https://logicplum.com/) announced it had published research in “Agricultural Research & Technology” that provides information on global agricultural science. LogicPlum joins the ranks of companies like Kellogg that are committed to helping support farmers in boosting yields, improving livelihoods, and enhancing environmentally sustainable and responsibly sourced food production. LogicPlum […]The post LogicPlum Publishes AI Food Production Article in Agricultural Research & Technology Journal appeared first on insideHPC.

TEL AVIV – 19 May, 2021 – Vayyar Imaging, a 4D imaging radar company, has launched what it said is the world’s first multi-range “XRR” chip, a single RFIC with a range of 0-300m, designed for passenger cars, trucks and motorcycles. Supported by a 48-antenna MIMO array, the leading-edge platform provides radar imaging with unprecedented […]The post Vayyar Claims 1st Single Chip 4D Imaging Radar Sensor ‘XRR’ Covering Distances 0-300M appeared first on insideHPC.

In this May 2021 interview, ECP Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable and sustainable exascale computing ecosystem for the nation. New audio podcast interview with Kothe. https://soundcloud.com/exascale-computing-project/episode-80-update-with-doug-kothe-progress-annual-meeting-highlights-and-more Video interview here: https://www.exascaleproject.org/update-with-doug-kothe-progress-annual-meeting-highlights-and-more/ In the interview with Kothe , reference is made to this additional video of the portfolio managers in which […]The post Let’s Talk Exascale – ECP Director Kothe Provides Project Update appeared first on insideHPC.

AUSTIN, TX – May 18 , 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), maker of single-phase liquid immersion cooling for data centers, today announced the latest redesign of its immersion cooling solutions: ICEraQ Series 10. Redesigned based on data from more than 10 years of customer installations, the Series 10 was built to deliver improved energy […]The post GRC Releases New Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling, Claims PUE Yield of <1.03 appeared first on insideHPC.

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As expectation-setting goes in the technology industry, this is bold. At IBM’s annual Think conference, a senior systems executive reiterated the company’s intent to deliver a 1,121-qubit IBM Quantum Condor processor by 2023. In a video interview with theCUBE, technology publication SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, IBM GM of systems strategy and development for enterprise security, […]The post IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) on May 26 will host a webinar in which NVIDIA will present their profiling tools, Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute, and will discuss how they are used in HPC and AI use cases. Registration is here. Nsight Systems is NVIDIA’s application/system level profiling tool that collects a timeline of […]The post ALCF Webinar May 26: NVIDIA Profiling Tools Ecosystem for HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC4EnergyInnovation (HPC4EI) leadership will present a live webinar titled “National Laboratories Partner with U.S. Manufacturers to Increase Innovation and Energy Efficiency.” On Tuesday, May 18 at 1 pm PT. Presentation will be an overview of the solicitation application process, topics of interest and tips for using proposal system and is designed for those who are new to the program […]The post HPC4EI Spring 2021 Solicitation Webinar May 18 appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today Anchore, a company focused on security and compliance for software containers, announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA for container scanning to ensure the security of software hosted on NVIDIA’s NGC catalog. NVIDIA has used Anchore container scanning technology since 2019 and the expanded partnership will include vetting third-party software […]The post Anchore Secures Containers for AI, Machine Learning and HPC on NVIDIA NGC appeared first on insideHPC.

Drawing on the power of a supercomputer from Dell Technologies and AMD, Durham University and DiRAC scientists are expanding our understanding of the universe and its origins. In scientific circles, everyone knows that more computing power can lead to bigger discoveries in less time. This is the case at Durham University in the U.K., where researchers are unlocking insights into our universe with powerful high performance computing clusters from Dell Technologies.The post Unlocking Cosmological Secrets at Durham University appeared first on insideHPC.

Dallas — May 13, 2021 — Stream Data Centers, a turnkey, powered shell and build-to-suit data center company, has announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized the company’s Chicago I data center with a 2021 Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR certificate of achievement. This certification highlights the facility’s sustainable design, which helps to limit […]The post EPA Awards ENERGY STAR Certification to Stream Data Centers’ Chicago I Facility appeared first on insideHPC.

TORONTO, May 13, 2021 — Agnostiq, Inc., a quantum computing SaaS startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to support the continued development of its software platform. The growth financing is led by Differential Ventures, with follow-on participation from Scout Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Boost VC, and Green Egg Ventures. The company previously raised $830 thousand in pre-Seed funding, with […]The post Agnostiq Secures $2M Round for SaaS-Based Quantum Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors will be used to power a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, the national high-performance computing (HPC) resource center dedicated to supporting science and engineering computing needs. The system will be based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and will […]The post AMD EPYC Processors to Power System for National Supercomputing Centre Singapore appeared first on insideHPC.

BOLOGNA, ITALY and BURNABY, BC, May 11, 2021 – CINECA, the Italian inter-university consortium and supercomputing center, and D-Wave Systems Inc., the quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced a formal collaboration to offer Italian universities, researchers,= and developers expanded access to practical quantum computing technology and resources through D-Wave’s Leap quantum cloud […]The post CINECA and D-Wave Expand Access to Quantum Computing in Italy appeared first on insideHPC.

Kaiserslautern Germany, May 11, 2021 – ThinkParQ, the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the advancement of its partner in the United States, Advanced Clustering Technologies to Platinum Level status. Advanced Clustering Technologies originally signed on as a Gold partner to ThinkParQ in May 2018, and shortly following at SC18 was awarded the BeeGFS […]The post ThinkParQ Names Advanced Clustering Technologies Platinum Partner appeared first on insideHPC.

Enterprise migration to 100Gbps network speeds continues to accelerate, with high-performance computing (HPC) data centers leading the charge. According to data from Crehan Research, 100 and 25 Gbps Ethernet speeds rose 40 percent year-over-year in 2020, with more growth expected over the next several years. HPC use cases, like financial trading, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, 3D rendering and modeling, meteorology, and other types of research benefit significantly from the increased speed of 100Gbps, but are also highly sensitive to issues like jitter and latency.The post What’s Needed for High-Fidelity, Low-Latency HPC Network Monitoring at 100Gbps appeared first on insideHPC.

Germany plans to invest roughly €2 billion euros (US$2.4B) through 2025 on R&D for its first quantum computer and support technologies, the German economy and science ministries said today, according to a story published today by Reuters. The article stated that Germany’s Aerospace Center (DLR) will be the recipient of about €740 million in subsidies […]The post Germany Launches €2B, 5-year Quantum Development Push appeared first on insideHPC.

As with other areas of the economy (chips, workforce), demand isn’t the problem in the AI market, it’s supply: supply of knowledge and skills, and supply of technology. IBM this morning released the results of its Global AI Adoption Index 2021 study, which the company said shows that business adoption of AI slowed over the […]The post AI Demand Pushes against Skills Shortage, Lack of IT Infrastructure – IBM appeared first on insideHPC.

By Dan Olds The first annual Winter Classic Cluster came to a thrilling conclusion Friday afternoon with the Gala Awards Ceremony, hosted on Zoom. This was the culmination of a several months work by the students to learn how to use vendor-supplied clusters, run real world HPC benchmarks and applications, and then optimize those workloads […]The post Winter Classic Student HPC Cluster Competition Closes with Awards and Rich Brueckner Scholarships appeared first on insideHPC.

Supermicro recently launched its A+ line of systems based on AMD’s new EPYC 7nm microprocessors – products that include servers, storage, GPU-optimized, SuperBlade, and Multi-Node Twin Solutions designed, according to Vik Malyala, Supermicro’s Senior Vice President, FAE & Business Development, to exactly match system requirements for challenging enterprise workloads. In this interview, Malyala discusses the […]The post Supermicro’s New Line of AMD EPYC-based Systems: Addressing HPC Needs across the Spectrum appeared first on insideHPC.

Modeling-simulation software vendor Altair today announced GA of new features in Altair One, an integrated platform combining the company’s entire product suite and HPC capabilities. Designed to lower barriers between computer-aided engineering (CAE) and data analytics, according to the company, Altair One is built to be a unified development environment and offers multi-disciplinary teams “the on-demand […]The post Altair One Cloud Platform Built for Collaborative Design & Development appeared first on insideHPC.

London, May 10, 2021 — Kao Data, operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, today announced a new customer in Civo, a flexible, developer-first cloud platform based on K3s Kubernetes technology. The agreement will see Kao Data deploy the UK Innovation Corridor’s first fully operational OCP-ready system, and enable Civo to […]The post Kao Data Hosts Civo’s OCP-Ready Kubernetes Cloud Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

BEAVERTON, Ore., — Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS), the non-profit advancing the Lustre file system community, has announced plans for the virtual 2021 Lustre User Group (LUG) conference, May 19-20, 2021, hosted by OpenSFS and the University of Florida. The conference is intended to share the latest Lustre features and roadmaps, as well as establish […]The post Lustre User Group Virtual Event Hosted by OpenSFS and the Univ. of Florida May 19-20 appeared first on insideHPC.

By Dan Olds Today, Friday May 7, is the 2021 Winter Classic gala awards ceremony, from 4 – 5 pm Pacific Time on a Zoom webinar. Here’s the link. We reveal the winning teams and bestow six $1,000 Rich Brueckner Award Scholarships, named for the late editor-in-chief of insideHPC. The $6,000 comes from contributions from […]The post Winter Classic Student Cluster Invitational – Winners of Rich Brueckner Scholarships to Be Named Today appeared first on insideHPC.

London – SoftIron Ltd., a data center solutions company, has announced their newest Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance+. Leveraging the AMD EPYC 3000 processor, the new Performance+ family debuts the company’s first x86 CPU and NVMe SSD-based designs to be introduced in its HyperDrive series of storage appliances. With the initial appliances in […]The post SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ NVMe-based Software-Defined Storage for the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

New York – VAST Data, the storage software company, today announced $83 million in Series D funding, led by Tiger Global Management, at a post-money valuation of $3.7 billion – a tripling of the company’s valuation since April 2020. The round features strong participation from NVIDIA and several other existing investors, and is driven by […]The post VAST Data: $83M in Series D Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

May 6, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million for interdisciplinary research in Quantum Information Science (QIS) and nuclear physics. The aim of this funding is to draw on the expertise and capabilities of the nuclear physics community to advance areas of interest such as quantum computing and quantum sensors, and […]The post DOE: $10M for Quantum Information Science and Nuclear Physics Research appeared first on insideHPC.

IBM today unveiled what it said is the first chip with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. Though still more than two years away from going into production, the company said the 2nm chip will be used to power devices ranging from cell phones to HPC-class data center servers and will deliver nearly 50 percent higher […]The post 2 Seconds of Hair Growth: IBM Claims 1st 2 Nanometer Chip Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

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May 5, 2021 — The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) will resume the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, begun in 2016. One-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a […]The post DOE’s Best Practices for HPC Software Developers Webinar Series — May 12 appeared first on insideHPC.

PALO ALTO, Calif. and Malta, New York – May 5, 2021 – PsiQuantum, the quantum computing company focused on delivering a 1 million-plus qubit quantum computer, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), a feature-rich semiconductor manufacturer, today announced what they said is a major breakthrough in their partnership to build the world’s first full-scale commercial quantum computer. The […]The post PsiQuantum and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Claim Quantum Computing Breakthrough appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program, consisting of two subprograms — for manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) and for materials (HPC4Mtls) — is now open to companies seeking access to HPC resources. DOE said companies can apply for dedicated supercomputing time and help from Argonne scientists to address their manufacturing and materials […]The post DOE’s HPC4EI Program, HPC for Manufacturing and Materials Development Companies, Opens to Applicants appeared first on insideHPC.

Heavy-duty diesel engines power most large vehicles used in the construction, mining and transportation industries in the United States. To tackle problems of fuel efficiency and pollution, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory joined forces with Caterpillar Inc., manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, using Argonne’s HPC resources, to develop designs […]The post Caterpillar and Argonne Use HPC to Simulate Better Efficiency, Reduced Emissions in Diesel Engines appeared first on insideHPC.