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The final awards were handed out at the ASC20-21 Student Cluster Competition and what a competition it was! This was really a dual event this year, with a set of 21 teams working out of a stadium at Southern University of Science & Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China, and seven additional teams working on AWS cloud clusters from their home countries. Both sets of teams ran the same applications during the same time period. The applications were very challenging, ranging from natural language processing to astrophysics to quantum computing simulation. Let’s take a closer look at a few of the applications.The post ASC 2021 Student Cluster Competition: Wrap Up appeared first on insideHPC.

Paris and London, June 1, 2021 – Atos announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Ipsotek, a leading AI enhanced video analytics software provider. This acquisition enables Atos to strategically reinforce its leading position in Edge AI and Computer Vision by adding key software capabilities and IP to its solutions portfolio to provide a […]The post Atos Completes Acquisition of Video Analytics Software Maker Ipsotek appeared first on insideHPC.

TAIPEI, June 1, 2021 — Infortrend Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495), the enterprise storage provider, enabled Academia Sinica with enterprise SAN/NAS unified storage EonStor GS 3000 Gen2 to provide high performance infrastructure for conducting research HPC. Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s most preeminent academic institution, was founded in 1928 to undertake scholarly research in various fields, including mathematical, physical, and […]The post Academia Sinica Chooses Infortrend Storage for HPC Application appeared first on insideHPC.

This whitepaper, "How to Integrate GPUs into your Business Analytics Ecosystem," discusses how GPU technology can augment data analytics performance, enabling data warehouses and other solutions to better respond to new, yet common, database limitations that are the result of increasing data set sizes, increasing user concurrency and demand, and increased use of interactive analytics.The post How to Integrate GPUs into your Business Analytics Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

All over the world, HPC has burst into geopolitics. HPC – broadly defined here as advanced supercomputing combined with big AI – is at the fault lines of national and regional rivalries, particularly between the U.S. and China, expanding in power, cost, intensity and in potential impact. Which is to say that global players put […]The post The US-China Supercomputing Race, Post-Exascale HPC Government Policy and the ‘Partitioning of the Internet’ appeared first on insideHPC.

May 27, 2021 — As a computer engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Gina Accawi has long been the quiet and steady force behind some of the Department of Energy’s most widely used online tools and applications. She has written the code that industry throughout the United States relies on – from MEASUR, the platform […]The post ORNL’s Gina Accawi: Designing Software for Manufacturing Cybersecurity appeared first on insideHPC.

May 27, 2021 — Argonne scientists Corey Adams, Melina Avila Coronado, Lindsey Bleem, Si Chen, Sheng Di and Xueying Lu are among 83 scientists nationwide to receive the coveted funding and recognition. Now in its 12th year, the DOE’s Early Career Research Program awards each recipient with at least $500,000 per year for five years to advance their […]The post 6 Argonne Researchers Win DOE Early Career Research Program Awards appeared first on insideHPC.

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will hold its 17th annual user meeting June 22–24, 2021. The meeting will take place entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Registration and agenda can be found here. Attendees will be offered […]The post Annual OLCF User Meeting Set for June 22–24 appeared first on insideHPC.

San Diego — Frank Würthwein, the lead of Distributed High-Throughput Computing at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, has been named SDSC’s interim director effective July 1. SDSC, located at UC San Diego, said it is conducting a formal search for permanent director to replace outgoing Director Michael Norman. “I am pleased to announce that Professor […]The post SDSC Names Interim Director appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. National Energy research Scientific Computing Center today unveiled the Perlmutter HPC system, a beast of a machine powered by 6,159 Nvidia A100 GPUs and delivering 4 exaflops of mixed precision performance. Perlmutter is based on the HPE Cray Shasta platform, including Slingshot interconnect, a heterogeneous system with both GPU-accelerated and CPU-only nodes. The system […]The post 6,000 GPUs: Perlmutter to Deliver 4 Exaflops, Top Spot in AI Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

Bristol and London – 27 May 2021 – UK-based quantum software startup Phasecraft today begins a new project facilitated by Innovate UK to reduce noise and errors on near-term quantum hardware. Phasecraft was awarded the project grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s innovation agency, and a team with internationally recognised academic and industry […]The post Phasecraft Launches Push for Noise and Error Reduction in Quantum Devices appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO – May 26, 2021 – ColdQuanta, a Cold Atom Quantum Technology company, today announced it has joined the IBM Quantum Network. In addition to joining the Network, ColdQuanta will also integrate with Qiskit, an open source software development kit (SDK) for working with quantum computers developed by IBM. ColdQuanta’s customers can optimize their programs for […]The post ColdQuanta Joins IBM Quantum Network appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – May 26, 2021 – ScaleFlux, Inc., maker of computational storage at scale, today announced it has expanded its Computational Storage Drive (CSD) portfolio to include quad-level cell (QLC) NAND Flash storage from Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU). These new QLC drives — with integrated compression — are designed to improve the affordability […]The post ScaleFlux Claims Flash Storage <1¢/Gigabyte/ Year with Micron QLC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored article, David Craig, CEO of Iceotope, discusses how a paradigm shift, from air to liquid cooling has become the favoured solution - already the standard for high performance computing (HPC). The discussion for all workloads has moved on from whether to stick with traditional air-cooling systems to one of how to practically evolve to precision immersion liquid-cooling.The post Energy Efficiency Comparison: Air-Cooling vs Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Oracle today said its first Arm-based compute offering, OCI Ampere A1 Compute, is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while also announcing tools and support for Arm-based application development. “We’re seeing interest from early customers that are using our new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ampere A1 Compute instances for computationally intensive workloads like machine learning inferencing, encoding […]The post Arm-based Oracle Ampere with HPC-class Instances Now on Oracle Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

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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The biggest trends we’ve seen in data over the past decade are; the sheer growth of data set sizes, coupled with the increasing complexity of analysis and data science, and the resultant realization of extremely dynamic, data-driven markets. This whitepaper sponsored by Brytlyt, focuses on these trends and how they’ve had several key impacts on the data analytics and visualization industry.The post Future of Data Visualization and Agile Business Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

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.