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SAN FRANCISCO- April 21, 2021 – RapidAPI, an API platform that enables developers to manage thousands of APIs, announced today it has raised $60 million in its Series C funding round. The financing was led by Green Bay Ventures and includes new investor, Stripes. Existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), and […]The post RapidAPI Raises $60M for Expansion of API Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Maker of the world’s largest microprocessors, Cerebras Systems, today unveiled what it said is the largest AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) — successor to the first WSE introduced in 2019. The 7nm-based WSE-2 exceeds Cerebras’ previous world record with a chip that has 2.6 trillion transistors and 850,000 AI-optimized cores. By comparison, […]The post Cerebras Systems: 2.5 Trillion-plus Transistors in 7nm-based 2nd Gen Wafer Scale Engine appeared first on insideHPC.

SEATTLE — April 20, 2021 — Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced the expansion of its global operations to Asia-Pacific (APAC). Driven by increased regional demand, Qumulo also announced expansion of its strategic partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver simplicity and performance to customers across the region […]The post Qumulo Extends to Asia Pacific; Expands Partnership with HPE appeared first on insideHPC.

GRENOBLE, France – April 20, 2021 – CEA-Leti announced today the launch of an EU project to develop a novel class of algorithms, devices and circuits that reproduce multi-timescale processing of biological neural systems. The results will be used to build neuromorphic computing systems that can process efficiently real-world sensory signals and natural time-series data […]The post CEA-Leti Announces EU Project to Mimic Multi-Timescale Processing of Biological Neural Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) will hold its virtual Global HPC Summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 11-12 featuring HPC professionals and end users from a range of industries who will explore HPC workloads, tools and infrastructures, and highlight recent HPC-driven innovations and enabling technologies. To register visit https://web.altair.com/hpc-summit-2021. “While software, data, and HPC solutions are converging, the […]The post Altair’s Global HPC Summit 2021 May 11-12 appeared first on insideHPC.

Helsinki — April 20, 2021 — The three-year-long Horizon 2020 project FABULOS (Future Automated Bus Urban Level Operation System) has come to an end. For Sensible 4 the project meant growth and a framework for developing the software product. Along with the project Sensible 4’s autonomous driving software and ability to offer autonomous retrofits improved significantly. […]The post FABULOS Project: From the Idea to Urban Autonomous Driving appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 20, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form factor embedded boards that enable deployment in edge-based applications. Coupled with a software stack and pre-built applications, Xilinx said Kria adaptive SOMs are a new method of bringing adaptive computing to AI and […]The post Xilinx Launches Kria System-on-Modules for Edge AI appeared first on insideHPC.

April 20, 2021 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) with Nutanix announces an As-a-Service solution for hosted desktops to help IT decision makers in remote hybrid workforce model. According to Lenovo’s recently released “Future of Work and Digital Transformation” study, 83 percent of businesses expect post-pandemic work […]The post Lenovo Introduces As-a-Service Solution for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix appeared first on insideHPC.

Canberra, Australia and Montevideo, Uruguay, April 19, 2021 — Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South today announced a partnership to jointly develop and market complementary products and technology in shipping logistics optimization. The companies will be performing proof-of-concept implementations with air and marine cargo companies to showcase the potential of quantum computing to solve highly complex logistics problems beyond the scope of […]The post Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South Partner on Logistics Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has announced a partnership with Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain, to offer HPC capabilities to industrial users. SDSC and Core will integrate the Core Scientific Plexus AI software stack with the Expanse petascale supercomputer, launched by SDSC late last year with […]The post SDSC, Core Scientific in HPC Composable Partnership to Extend ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Nominations are open (link to form is below) for the ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, which honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is on high-performance computing applications, networking, storage, or large-scale data analysis using the most powerful computers available. The awards are presented each November at the annual SC Conference, […]The post May 1 Deadline ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship appeared first on insideHPC.

Even as Nvidia announced its new “Grace” Arm CPU for AI and HPC last week, the UK government this morning issued a “public interest intervention” notice that targets Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of UK-based Arm Limited, announced last September, on national security grounds. While those grounds were not specified, the notice stated that “the […]The post UK Intervenes in Nvidia Acquisition of Arm Ltd. appeared first on insideHPC.

The Linux Foundation has announced a research arm whose mission is to broaden understanding of open source projects, ecosystem dynamics and impact, the organization said. “Through a series of research projects and related content, Linux Foundation Research will leverage the Linux Foundation’s vast repository of data, tools, and communities across industry verticals and technology horizontals. The […]The post The Linux Foundation Launches Research Division to Explore Open Source Ecosystems and Impact appeared first on insideHPC.

CHICAGO– The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the launch of DeepTechU, a venture conference showcasing deep tech innovation and 48 investor-ready companies from universities and national labs. The virtual conference will take place April 20-22, 2021, and feature quick pitches as well as discussions with industry experts and entrepreneurs. The conference […]The post Univ. of Chicago’s Polsky Center Launches Venture Conference for Midwest Deep Tech Startups from Universities and National Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO. – Registration is continuing for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 11th Annual High Performance Computing Symposium, scheduled on-line for May 19-20. The Symposium will be offered free of charge thanks to lead sponsorship support from Intel and Dell with additional support from ARM and HPE. Links to Symposium registration, the complete program schedule, […]The post RMACC 11th Annual HPC Symposium Program Set, Registration Underway appeared first on insideHPC.

Research Triangle Park, NC — April 15, 2021 — Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) today announced the expansion of its partner ecosystem and launched five artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. The company said the ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) enables Lenovo to bring to market AI solutions for manufacturing, healthcare, retail and financial services. Lenovo […]The post Lenovo Announces Ready-to-Deploy AI Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

April 15 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million for foundational research to address the challenges of managing and processing the increasingly massive data sets produced by today’s scientific instruments, facilities, and supercomputers in order to facilitate more efficient analysis. The full text of the DOE Laboratories Funding Opportunity Announcement can be found […]The post DOE Funding $10M for Research on Data Reduction for Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Women are severely underrepresented in the field of HPC. While they comprise about 51 percent of the general population, women account for only about 17 percent of the HPC workforce1. Those numbers are slowly improving, thanks to the contributions of numerous female engineers, scientists and researchers. In recognition of March as International Women’s History Month, we’re profiling six talented women doing trailblazing work that should inspire others to enter this exciting field.The post Meet 6 Trailblazing Women in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 15, 2021 – SingleStore, the unified database for fast analytics, today announced its collaboration with IEX Cloud to deliver technology that disrupts the financial data market. IEX Cloud connects developers with more than 150 enterprise-grade financial datasets all in one place, enabling its users to build and scale innovative applications. To support […]The post SingleStore Powers IEX Cloud with Real-Time Application Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.

OTTAWA — April 15, 2021 — Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging digital careers such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data science. The agreement establishes a framework for joint research and educational initiatives to boost the University’s cross-disciplinary AI and Data […]The post Carleton Univ. and IBM Partner in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for Workforce Development appeared first on insideHPC.

Jülich/Munich, April 15, 2021 – The project “DEEP Extreme Scale Technologies,” funded by the European Union, has come to a successful conclusion. DEEP-EST started in 2017 to develop a modular architecture for high performance computing (HPC). Leveraging a co-design approach with real-life applications, the DEEP-EST project paved the way for future exascale systems that will […]The post European HPC Exascale Project DEEP-EST Completed appeared first on insideHPC.

AI Transportable™ applications such as autonomous vehicles, situational command and control, aerospace, and high-complexity video-based inference and security often require real-time decision-making with limited 5G or no network connectivity to a centralized datacenter. Commercial-grade servers and expansion products are not suitable for these applications due to harsh physical environments and the transportable nature of the deployments. To address these use-cases, One Stop Systems has developed the industry leading PCIe Gen4 HPC server appliance designed for performance without compromise in a compact, rugged, and transportable form-factor.The post PCIe 4.0 Rugged Short-Depth Server Appliance for Edge AI HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – OpenFive, a provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, today announced the successful tape out of a high-performance SoC on TSMC’s N5 process, with integrated IP solutions targeted for cutting edge High Performance Computing (HPC)/AI, networking, and storage solutions. The SoC features an OpenFive High Bandwidth Memory (HBM3) IP subsystem […]The post OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC / AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Meeting will be held June 22-24, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Time. This meeting will be held as a virtual (online-only) event via Zoom. The registration form and agenda can be found here. The last day to register for this event is June 12, 2021. The purpose of […]The post Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to Hold Virtual User Meeting June 22-24 appeared first on insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, has announced features for itsA3I (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) solutions, advancing its AI and deep learning Intelligent Infrastructure for performance and insight into data management operations for AI, HPC and data centric applications. For its A3I AI storage solutions, DDN said it […]The post DDN Unveils AI Product Innovations at NVIDIA GTC 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.

Here’s an overview of HPC-related sessions at Nvidia’s GTC virtual conference today. Note that recording of these sessions can be accessed by conference attendees (registration is free). Accelerating Large-Scale AI and HPC in the Cloud – 2-2:40 pm ET This session looks at Microsoft Azure’s NVIDIA A100-based VM instances for machine learning, deep learning and […]The post At Virtual Nvidia GTC: Today’s Sessions on HPC and AI at Scale appeared first on insideHPC.

At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, Nvidia and Dell EMC released details of HPC installations at two UK academic supercomputing centers to accelerate computing resources at the two sites. At Durham University, the COSMA-8 supercomputer — to be used by cosmologists researching the origins of the universe — will be accelerated by Nvidia HDR InfiniBand […]The post Research Centers at Cambridge and Durham Universities Add Nvidia, Dell EMC HPC Resources appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Clark joins CQC from DeepMind where he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist and led a team working on grounded language learning in virtual environments. He also holds an Honorary Professorship at Queen […]The post Cambridge Quantum Names Prof. Stephen Clark Head of AI appeared first on insideHPC.

New York, April 14, 2021 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Scott Aaronson has been named the recipient of the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing. Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. The […]The post UT Austin’s Scott Aaronson Awarded ACM Price for Work in Quantum appeared first on insideHPC.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced an agreement to improve standards-based, open source management of high-performance fabrics and remote network services or devices in data center infrastructures. As part of the joint effort, a new open source fabric management framework being developed by the OFA – the OpenFabrics Management Framework (OFMF) – will […]The post SNIA and OpenFabrics Alliance in Agreement on High Performance Data Center Infrastructures appeared first on insideHPC.

London, 13 April 2021 — dRISK, a London and Pasadena-based startup that has so far been in stealth, today announced its launch and that it has – for the first time commercially – employed its edge case retraining tool to achieve a 6x performance in time to detect high-risk events for autonomous vehicles (AVs). Whereas […]The post dRISK Retrains AVs to Detect High Risk ‘Edge Cases’ appeared first on insideHPC.

LEESBURG, Va., April 13, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI) today announced that QCI’s Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for both classical and quantum computers. The SaaS service eliminates the need for complex quantum programming. It empowers subject matter experts (SMEs) to […]The post Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Ready-to-Run Quantum Optimization on AWS appeared first on insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today launched a certified DDN and NVIDIA set of AI solutions designed to optimize value and performance in AI integration use cases. With DDN’s A3I (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) solutions and NVIDIA’s DGX A100 systems with NVIDIA InfiniBand and Ethernet networking, VARs and distributors “are now able […]The post DDN and Nvidia Certified AI Channel Program for VARs and Distributors appeared first on insideHPC.

April 12, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. The deadline is June 18, 2021. INCITE’s open call provides an opportunity for researchers to […]The post DOE INCITE Program Calls for Proposals by June 18 appeared first on insideHPC.

LUGANO, Switzerland, April 12, 2021 — The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA have announced what they says is expected to be the world’s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer. Planned to come online in 2023, the “Alps” system infrastructure will replace CSCS’s existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a general-purpose […]The post CSCS to Stand Up ‘Grace’ Arm-based AI Supercomputer from Nvidia, HPE appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, Colo. – The Active Archive Alliance announced today that StorMagic has joined the organization, which provides end-users with technical guidance to design and implement modern solutions for data growth challenges. StorMagic storage and IT vendors that unite to advance new active archiving strategies, technologies and use cases to increase archival data value. “We are pleased to […]The post StorMagic Joins the Active Archive Alliance appeared first on insideHPC.

April 12, 2021 – Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the first United States customer to receive a supercomputer based on Nvidia’s new “Grace” Arm-based CPU, announced today, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as the system provider. Delivery is targeted for early 2023. The Grace CPU is an Arm-based processor built for data-intensive applications requiring […]The post Los Alamos National Lab 1st to Receive Nvidia ‘Grace’ Arm CPU-based Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, April 13th 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high performance servers and workstations, today announced testing and support for new AI and high-performance computing (HPC) enterprise GPUs as well as desktop workstation GPUs by NVIDIA. In 2020, the NVIDIA A100, A40, and A6000 were announced and brought an increase in […]The post GIGABYTE Supports and Qualifies New NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—GTC—April 12, 2021—NVIDIA today announced a strategic partnership with Schrödinger that harnesses NVIDIA DGX A100 systems to further expand the speed and accuracy of Schrödinger’s computational drug discovery platform and enable rapid, accurate evaluation of billions of molecules for potential development of therapeutics. The companies will optimize Schrödinger’s software platform — designed to […]The post Nvidia Partners with Schrödinger on Drug Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE — April 12, 2021 — Server maker Supermicro today announced expansion of its Nvidia Ampere Architecture-based GPU-product line, including achieving 5 petaFLOPS of AI performance in a 4U form factor with the latest NVIDIA A100, NVIDIA A40, NVIDIA RTX A6000, and the new NVIDIA A30, NVIDIA A10, and NVIDIA A16 GPUs. “Our collaboration with NVIDIA enables us to design […]The post Supermicro Expands Its Nvidia Ampere Architecture GPU Product Line, Includes 5PF in a 4U Tier 1 AI Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Nvidia announced a slew of new products today on the first day of its annual GTC conference, including a first-time foray into data center CPU that has pushed Intel stock prices down and Nvidia shares up. Nvidia’s new “Grace” CPU, the company’s first CPU for the data center, is an Arm-based chip that the company […]The post Nvidia Jumps into Data Center CPUs, Also Launches DPUs, GPUs and DGX Superpod for HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 12, 2021 — Cloudera, (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today announced that Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will integrate NVIDIA RAPIDS-accelerated Apache Spark 3.0 libraries, intended to enable enterprises to accelerate data pipelines and improve performance of data and ML workflows. With the release earlier this year of Applied ML […]The post Cloudera and NVIDIA Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – April 12, 2021 – At NVIDIA GTC 2021, Inspur Information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, introduced three GPU servers (NF5468M6, NF5468A5 and NF5280M6), which support the latest NVIDIA A30, NVIDIA A10 and NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs to meet the demand for AI computing power in multiple computing scenarios, including running virtualized […]The post Inspur Information Introduces 3 AI Servers to Support NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA A10 GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computational mathematician Rob Falgout as an esteemed member of its 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows. The prestigious honor recognizes Falgout, a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in LLNL’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing, for his “contributions to the theory, practice and large-scale […]The post LLNL’s Falgout named to 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added seven Chinese supercomputing organizations to the Entity List “for conducting activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.” The Entity List “restrict(s) the export, re-export, and in-country transfer of items” by The following are […]The post 7 Chinese HPC Organizations Added to Entity List for Supporting China’s Military appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research today announced the near-final agenda for the upcoming HPC User Forum meeting, a virtual three-day event to be held May 11-13 for Western Hemisphere participants and May 12-14 for those in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Updates will be posted here. Major topics and speakers confirmed to date are: Exascale Computing: Brookhaven National […]The post Hyperion Research Previews May HPC User Forum appeared first on insideHPC.

IRVINE, CA — Advantech (TWSE: 2395.TW), an industrial IoT company, has announced 12 new platforms based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, ranging from ultra-short-depth wireless access and IoT edge servers to high-throughput network security appliances and multi-node hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. With 1.5x more performance than previous generation, built-in security and acceleration features, the […]The post Advantech Launches Server and Appliance Range with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for 5G, AIoT & HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has selected Habana Labs’ AI training and inference accelerators for SDSC’s Voyager supercomputer, scheduled to be in service this fall. Habana said the HPC system, housed at the University of California, San Diego, will utilize Habana’s interconnectivity technology to scale AI training capacity with 336 Habana Gaudi training processors, which […]The post SDSC Picks Habana AI Training and Inference Chips for Voyager HPC System appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored article, Bruce Moxon, Sr. HPC Architect, Microsoft Azure Global, discusses a number of developments that are ushering in a new era of HPC with the speed and agility of the Cloud. A well-planned, cloud-native HPC strategy complements traditional on-premises HPC investments. It leverages a DevOps model to improve access to the right infrastructure at the right time in the development cycle, to opportunistically incorporate rapid technology advances, and to accelerate innovation and improve time-to-results.The post HPC DevOps: Powered by the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMARILLO, Calif., Apr. 7, 2021 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today announced sampling of the newest member of its Tri-Edge CDR portfolio, the GN2256. Integrating Semtech’s Tri-Edge CDR platform with a differential EML (Externally Modulated Laser) driver, the GN2256 is the industry’s first such IC solution to enable 50Gbps […]The post Semtech Expands 5G Wireless Front Haul Portfolio With 50Gbps Tri-Edge CDR IC Solution appeared first on insideHPC.