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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.

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 3, 2021 – The organizers of ISC 2021 Digital would like to remind everyone in the high performance computing (HPC) community that early bird registration will end this Thursday, May 6. The conference and exhibition will be held virtually from June 24 – July 2. Over 3,500 attendees are expected to participate, making […]The post ISC 2021 Early Bird Registration Ends May 6 appeared first on insideHPC.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty member and computer scientist George Slota has been granted a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to work on the problem of enabling exascale-class system to handle gigantic, petascale-class volumes of data. “How do we best understand and get insight from this kind of data? To do that, […]The post RPI Computer Scientist Wins NSF Award to Match Exascale Systems with Petascale Data Volumes appeared first on insideHPC.

May 4, 2021 – Red Hat today introduce the StackRox community, the upstream project that will work to open source and manage the code that powers Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. The goal is to support innovation within an industry traditionally dominated by proprietary security solutions. “Customers, partners and other interested contributors can learn […]The post Red Hat Introduces Open Source StackRox Community – Cluster Security for Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 4, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a developer of quantum software and algorithms, today announced that Strangeworks, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based company focused on making quantum computing more accessible, will integrate CQC’s quantum software platform – tket – into the Strangeworks Quantum Computing ecosystem. tket (pronounced “ticket”) will be part of […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Integrates tket Platform with Strangeworks Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Amsterdam – Tuesday, May 4th – Bright Computing, a global leader in automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today announced that Bright Cluster Manager has been selected to support the new artificial intelligence supercomputer to be installed at National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) at Linköping University. Named Berzelius after Swedish scientist Jacob Berzelius, NSC’s supercomputer is set to […]The post Bright Cluster Manager Picked for Sweden’s Fastest HPC System at LinköpingUniv. appeared first on insideHPC.

London – May 4, 2021 – SoftIron Ltd., maker of purpose-built data center solutions, today announced the introduction of their 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 […]The post SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ Family appeared first on insideHPC.

Garching/Munich – May 4, 2021 – The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) will expand its flagship HPC system SuperMUC-NG, which is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). In addition to performance in simulation and modelling, phase 2 of SuperMUC-NG will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) methods of computation. The system will be equipped with Intel […]The post LRZ Expanding Flagship HPC System to Integrate AI appeared first on insideHPC.

With the first EU supercomputer now operational, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is ready to accept applications to access Vega’s HPC system computing power. Access time is allocated to European scientific, industrial and public sector users, matching application requirements, according to the principles stated in the EuroHPC JU Council Regulation and the […]The post EuroHPC Opens Access to Atos ‘Vega’ Supercomputer, More HPC on Way 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 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

On Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7, the AI Policy Forum – a global effort convened by researchers from MIT – will present their initial policy recommendations aimed at managing the effects of AI and building AI systems that better reflect society’s values. Recognizing that there is unlikely to be any singular national AI […]The post May 6-7: AI Policy Forum to Present Proposals for Managing Impacts, Building More Equitable Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan — Chenbro (TWSE: 8210) announced its reference motherboard program, launching in collaboration with Ma Labs (USA), which will provide pre-tested 3 rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (codename ‘Ice Lake’) server barebone solutions for the North American market. Chenbro’s new reference motherboard program launches with Gold and Silver tiers of pretesting depth. The program […]The post Chenbro Announces Chassis Reference Motherboard Program for Intel Ice Lake Processor Platform with Ma Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C. — May 3, 2021 — Open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. today announced GA of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, new features of the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform. These capabilities are intended to help organizations reduce friction between development and operations teams by streamlining application development and deployment across hybrid cloud environments. DevOps […]The post Red Hat Announces New OpenShift DevOps Features appeared first on insideHPC.

From data centre infrastructure efficiency (DCIE) to power usage effectiveness (PUE) there are many considerations for data centre providers that impact the cost to build, operate and scale a facility. However, while many strive to become more effective, efficient and environmentally responsible, not all providers look holistically at optimising data centre lifecycle end-to-end. To achieve optimum performance, providers must embark on a journey from design and construction through to deployment, operation and optimisation, leveraging emulation, automation and analytics to ensure their customers’ needs are met. This is particularly crucial for operators seeking to harness high performance computing (HPC) to cope with a rapidly growing influx of data.The post Holistic Data Centre Design and Operation – Considerations for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO. – A CyberAmbassadors workshop focusing on communication, teamwork and leadership tools designed for Research Computing Facilitators will open the 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium on Tuesday, May 18. The 90-minute workshop will be led by Dylan Perkins of the Advanced Research Computing Center at the University of Wyoming […]The post RMACC to Open HPC Symposium with CyberAmbassadors Workshop for Research Computing Facilitators appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – April 20, 2021 – Today, Pinnacle Imaging Systems, a developer of Image Signal Processors (ISP) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video solutions, announced it will offer its proprietary Denali 3.0 HDR ISP along with a new HDR sensor module for the just-launched Xilinx Kria K26 SOM and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit. The new KV260 Vision AI […]The post Pinnacle Imaging Systems Announces Denali 3.0 Soft ISP & HDR Sensor Module for Xilinx Kria SOM Platform and Vision AI Starter Kit appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) has announced a new StorNext architecture and line of StorNext appliances that simplify how organizations manage, store and protect their video content, imagery, and business critical data. In this new architecture, StorNext 7 file and block services, along with other data services, run virtually on a single software-defined platform. […]The post Quantum Launches Video and Unstructured Data Solutions with StorNext Converged Architecture and Appliances appeared first on insideHPC.

London – 29 April 2021 – Atos UK and Ireland has again been recognised as a leading employer of women by its inclusion in the Times Top 50 Employer for Women 2021. Run by the charity Business in the Community – The Prince’s Responsible Business Network, the award recognises Atos actions in areas such as approach to […]The post Atos UK and Ireland Named a Times Top 50 Employer for Women for 3rd Year appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 29th, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt; DLR) to explore how quantum computing could help create better simulation models for battery development to aid future energy utilisation. The collaboration will see DLR – the national aeronautics and space research centre of […]The post German Aerospace Center and Cambridge Quantum Partner to Use Quantum to Build Battery Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

ARMONK, N.Y., April 29, 2021 — IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Turbonomic, an Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider based in Boston. The acquisition will provide businesses with full stack application observability and management to assure performance and minimize costs using AI to optimize resources – such as containers, VMs, servers, […]The post IBM to Acquire Turbonomic AIOps for Hybrid Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

MONTREAL, April 29, 2021 — infinityQ Technology, Inc., a women-led, engineered and managed startup, today announced its new computer, infinityQube. The Montréal-based startup has coined its approach “quantum analog computing,” introducing a novel paradigm in the quantum space. The device is compact, energy-efficient and operates at room temperature, relying on established chip technologies. “We wanted […]The post infinityQube Announces Room Temperature ‘Quantum Analog Computing’ Using Established Chip Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

LISLE, IL – April 29, 2021 – Molex, a leading global connectivity and electronics solutions provider, is scaling global deployments of its high-speed copper and optical interconnects and modules to help customers better address demands for higher bandwidth. Molex’s broad portfolio of next-generation connectivity solutions leverage the latest advancements in copper and optics to deliver high signal integrity, lower […]The post Molex Scales Deployments of High-Speed Interconnect for Hyperscale and Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

As a result of the high demand for HPC, we’re seeing private and public sector organizations pursue hardware solutions architected with innovative high performance and high efficiency server technology. Hardware vendors that develop and offer end-to-end green computing solutions for use in the data center – HPC, AI, cloud computing, enterprise IT, big data, IoT, and embedded markets – are primed to reap the benefits of this upswing in demand.The post Supermicro AMD A+ Servers Meeting the HPC Challenge appeared first on insideHPC.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), IBM and Red Hat are combining to develop best practices for interfacing high-performance computing (HPC) schedulers and cloud orchestrators, an effort designed for supercomputers that take advantage of cloud technologies. Under a recently signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), the organizations said researchers aim to enable next-generation workloads by integrating LLNL’s […]The post LLNL, IBM and Red Hat to Explore Standardized Resource Management Interface for Cloud HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Open Source + Embedded Linux Conference 2021 has been moved from Dublin, Ireland to Seattle, Washington, USA, due to the current state of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Europe and upon review of past attendee survey results regarding where and when they would feel comfortable traveling this year. “We are very excited to announce that Open […]The post Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference 2021 Moved from Dublin to Seattle, September 27-30 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 appeared first on insideHPC.

Tewksbury, MA., April 28, 2021 — Avery Design Systems, a functional verification solutions company, today announced that Astera Labs, a connectivity solutions for intelligent systems specialist, successfully used Avery’s Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 and PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 Verification IP (VIP) and services in developing its Aries Smart Retimer portfolio. The Avery CXL 2.0 and PCIe […]The post Astera Labs and Avery Design Partner on CXL 2.0 Verification for Smart Retimer Portfolio appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 28, 2021 – Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined storage for IO-intensive workloads such as GPU computing for AI/ML/DL, commercial HPC and data analytics, has added public cloud storage support to its flagship NVMesh elastic NVMe software-defined storage solution. Available first for the Microsoft Azure platform, and later for other major public clouds, NVMesh expands public […]The post Excelero Launches NVMesh on Azure, Addressing Public Cloud Storage for IO-Intensive Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

April 27, 2021 — PRACE announced that its 22nd Call for Proposals for PRACE Project Access received 61 eligible proposals, of which 43 were awarded, a total of 1.92 billion core hours. This brings the total number of Project Access projects awarded to 873 since 2010. Taking into account the seven multi-year proposals from calls […]The post PRACE 22nd Call for Proposals Results in 43 Awards Totaling 1.9B Core Hours appeared first on insideHPC.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 27, 2021 – If you aren’t already one of the more than 1,200 HPC experts worldwide who lend their special expertise by completing brief, anonymous surveys as part of Hyperion Research’s HPC Advisory Panel, we invite you apply to join this diverse group of HPC users and vendors. Hyperion Research is […]The post Hyperion Research Invites Applications to Expand HPC Advisory Panel appeared first on insideHPC.

Düsseldorf, 22 April, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH has announced that the Technische Universität Dresden has taken a new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster into full operation. The new HPC cluster is operated by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at TU Dresden for the German wide AI competence centre ScaDS.AI […]The post New NEC AI Supercomputer at Technische Universität Dresden appeared first on insideHPC.

IBM has announced innovations across its storage product line designed to improve management of data across complex hybrid cloud environments with the goal of improving data availability and resilience. The company announced plans to launch container-native software defined storage (SDS), IBM Spectrum Fusion, in the second half of 2021 designed to combine IBM’s parallel file system […]The post IBM Launches Storage for Data Management across Hybrid Clouds appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 27, 2021 – Adaptive computing company Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its Versal AI Core and Versal Prime series devices are now shipping to customers in full production volumes. Additionally, the third series in the Versal portfolio, Versal Premium, has now shipped to tier-one customers through the company’s early access program. Versal is the […]The post Xilinx Announces Shipments of 7nm Versal AI Core and Versal Prime Series Devices appeared first on insideHPC.

Arm Holdings this morning released information on two new compute platforms and an interconnect for HPC, machine learning and other workloads introduced last September: The Arm Neoverse V1 platform is a new computing tier for Arm and the first Arm-designed core to support Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), delivering 50 percent more performance for HPC and […]The post Arm Releases Details on 2 Neoverse Platforms and Mesh Interconnect for HPC, ML appeared first on insideHPC.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – April 27, 2021 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has entered into joint research agreement with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) to develop applications for the Coherent Ising Machine (CIM). The two targeted applications for the CIM, an information processing platform based on quantum […]The post NTT Research and Tokyo Institute of Technology Target Two Applications for CIM appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 27, 2021 – Scality today introduced ARTESCA, a lightweight, enterprise-grade, cloud-native object storage solution designed for the Kubernetes era. Supported on HPE all-flash and hybrid data storage servers, ARTESCA addresses use cases from the edge to the core to the cloud, with emphasis on cloud-native, AI/ML, big data analytics and in-memory […]The post Scality and HPE Launch Object Storage Software for Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.