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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.

VICKSBURG, MISS. – Industry and academia now have more options to pursue collaboration and contracts with the federal government. The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is seeking white paper submissions in response to prototyping opportunities in Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS). Non-traditional defense contractors, with or without a SAM.gov registration, are encouraged to […]The post ERDCWERX, ERDC Invite Prototype Concepts in Cybersecurity and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

BOSTON April 7, 2021 – Aliro Quantum announces its participation in the Quantum.Tech Virtual 2021 conference on April 12-14, where the company will demo its quantum networking design platform, Aliro Q.Network (AQN). Quantum networking is expected to unlock ultra secure communications and AI applications, becoming an increasing focus for the U.S. with its over $1 […]The post Aliro Quantum to Unveil Quantum Network Design-Sim Platform at Quantum.Tech Virtual on April 12-14 appeared first on insideHPC.

PALO ALTO — April 7, 2021 — MinIO, a high performance, Kubernetes-native object storage, today announced the addition of Console, Operator and SUBNET Health to MinIO’s suite of object storage software. These new features simplify the deployment of multi-tenant object storage using Kubernetes. Critical components in any IT modernization effort, these additions ensure that the […]The post MinIO Enables Management of Kubernetes-native Object Storage with Console, Operator and SUBNET Health appeared first on insideHPC.

The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Chicago Quantum Exchange today announced the launch of Duality, the first U.S. accelerator program for startup companies in quantum science and technology, according to the organizations. “Duality’s purpose is to help quantum startups bridge the gap between the laboratory and the marketplace that is a critical barrier to […]The post University of Chicago’s Polsky Center and Chicago Quantum Exchange Launch Program Supporting Quantum Startups appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from the lab’s Innovation and Partnerships Office and colleagues who help them commercialize technologies have won three national technology transfer awards this year from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC), the most national awards the lab has won in a year in the past 36 years. The winners will […]The post LLNL Captures 3 FLC Technology Transfer Awards appeared first on insideHPC.

Таmpa, FL, April 1, 2021 – Data lineage platform MANTA today announced a partnership with graph technology company Neo4j to embed Neo4j’s graph database technology directly into MANTA’s platform for further pipeline analysis. With enhanced graph database capabilities, customers will be able to swiftly process increasingly large volumes of data as they constantly digitally transform. […]The post MANTA Partners with Neo4j on Graph Technology for Data Pipeline Analysis appeared first on insideHPC.

Newark, Calif. – April 6, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer, and MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based server platforms featuring built-in AI acceleration, enhanced security, and PCIe Gen4 support for the most demanding workloads in cloud, enterprise, AI and HPC fields. “Thanks to new […]The post TYAN Uses 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Chips for AI and Cloud Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

AUSTIN, TX – April 06, 2021 – Katana Graph, a high performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced today that it has optimized its graph engine for the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory systems. Katana Graph can now take advantage of the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and […]The post Katana Graph Partners with Intel on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Paul DesJardin of the University of Buffalo has been elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in recognition of his exceptional achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. ASME fellows are conferred annually and fellow is the highest grade of membership. DesJardin, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School […]The post Univ. of Buffalo’s Paul DesJardin Elected Fellow of ASME appeared first on insideHPC.

April 6, 2021 — Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the ACTblade x3XX family of dense HPC systems, which are based on the new third generation of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, code named Ice Lake. Ice Lake is a significant advancement over the previous generation, offering more cores, more clock, more memory and faster memory. And the new ACTblades offer […]The post Advanced Clustering Technologies Announces ACTblade x3XX HPC Systems Based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Milpitas, Calif. – April 6, 2021 – MemVerge, makers of Big Memory software, today announced the release of Memory Machine software version 1.2. The software delivers big memory performance and capacity leveraging up to 40 cores in 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) and up to 6TB of capacity per socket with Intel Optane […]The post MemVerge Releases Memory Machine v1.2 and Programs for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Octane Persistent Memory 200 Series appeared first on insideHPC.

In its cage-match struggle with AMD for data center (and HPC) CPU market superiority, Intel responded this morning to its rival’s vaunted EPYC 7003 Series CPUs, announced two weeks ago, with its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable data center chips, code named “Ice Lake.” And the early response from a small sampling of industry analysts […]The post ‘Ice Lake’ Launch: Intel Impresses with 3rd Gen Xeon Chips appeared first on insideHPC.

Naples, Italy–April 6, 2021– Digital quantum computing company Seeqc today announced its Naples team, lead by Marco Arzeo, Ph.D., has developed and measured a two-qubit gate. According to the organization, Seeqc’s is the first team in Italy and one of a few international quantum computing firms to achieve this critical engineering milestone. The two-qubit gate […]The post Seeqc’s Naples Team Claims 2-Qubit Gate Quantum Milestone appeared first on insideHPC.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) today announced availability of Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Ice Lake processor instances in limited preview, with worldwide general availability on April 28, 2021. “The launch of these new instances is the latest step in Oracle’s commitment to providing enterprise-grade capability for compute-intensive and high performance computing (HPC) workloads,” the company said. […]The post Oracle Cloud Announces HPC Instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Ice Lake appeared first on insideHPC.

Even as a flurry of new silicon has been launched recently by AMD and Arm, with more to come this week from Intel, silicon’s five decades of microprocessor dominance could start to fade in the relatively near future. The problem is that transistors etched into silicon will soon be shrunk to 5 nanometers, with 3 […]The post Silicon’s Successors: 2-D Materials Aim to Carry the Post-Moore’s Law Torch appeared first on insideHPC.

Delta, a $10 million National Science Foundation-funded advanced computing system housed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, will soon be accessible to researchers across the country via XSEDE allocation. Using a design that leverages graphics processing units (GPUs) in combination with CPU architectures well-suited for scientific computing, Delta will be particularly suited to […]The post NCSA’s Delta Supercomputer to be Allocable by XSEDE this Summer appeared first on insideHPC.

ARMONK, N.Y. and CLEVELAND — Cleveland Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced a planned 10-year partnership to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint effort to advance the pace of discovery in healthcare and life sciences through the use of high performance computing on the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technologies. The collaboration is anticipated to build […]The post Cleveland Clinic and IBM Partner on HPC, AI and Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

The second International Workshop on High Performance Business Computing and GOR-B-Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik will be held virtually and free of charge on Friday, June 25. Registration is here: https://events.uni-paderborn.de/e/hpbc2021 The workshop will be focused on the design, implementation, computational evaluation and application of parallel algorithms in modern high performance computing (HPC) environments for solving problems in business-oriented […]The post June 25: 2nd International Workshop on HPC for Business appeared first on insideHPC.

By Nils Heinonen on behalf of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility As part of a series aimed at sharing best practices in preparing applications for Aurora, we highlight researchers’ efforts to optimize codes to run efficiently on graphics processing units. Take advantage of upgrades being made to high-level, non-machine-specific libraries and programming models Developed in […]The post Porting a Particle-in-Cell Code to Exascale Architectures appeared first on insideHPC.

On Wednesday, April 7, industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, Microsoft and Rescale will discuss the latest trends and forecasts in cloud HPC and how they affect IT and R&D. Hyperion will share data from their latest industry analysis and Rescale will discuss insights revealed in the 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report. To register, go […]The post April 7 Cloud HPC microSUMMIT – Hyperion, Microsoft and Rescale appeared first on insideHPC.

By Jorge Salazar, Science Writer, Texas Advanced Computing Center Viruses lurk in the grey area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Like living things, they replicate but they don’t do it on their own. The HIV-1 virus, like all viruses, needs to hijack a host cell through infection in order to make copies […]The post HPC vs. HIV-1: Stampede2, Bridges and Darwin Uncover Nucleotide Infection Process appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mar. 30, 2021 — CircleCI, a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced a preview of additions to its build fleet with the introduction of Arm-based compute. The Arm architecture, known for its power and performance benefits, has rapidly gained traction across a broad range of solutions from cloud to edge […]The post CircleCI Extends Arm Support to CI/CD Cloud Offering appeared first on insideHPC.

Join Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA at GTC21! Grow your expertise and help shape what’s next for AI innovation. We’ll demonstrate the collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA that brings a new, deep learning-powered experience. There are amazing opportunities for everyone.The post Let’s Invent the Future Together! appeared first on insideHPC.

By Mike May, on behalf of DEIXIS: Computational Science at the National Laboratories High performance computing (HPC) is only as valuable as the science it produces. To that end, a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been expanding its reach through a superfacility – “an experimental facility […]The post Super-connected HPC: Superfacility Links National Lab Research Sites appeared first on insideHPC.

Sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the A.M. Turing Award this year will go to Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced today. Aho is the Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University, and Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor Emeritus of Computer […]The post Compiler Pioneers Aho, Ullman Win ACM’s Turing Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Philadelphia — March 31, 2021 — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has announced the 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community. Through their contributions, SIAM Fellows help advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. In alphabetical […]The post SIAM Announces Class of 2021 Fellows appeared first on insideHPC.

High performance computing cloud platform Nimbix today announced availability of Nimbix Cloud Everywhere, a single pane of glass to HPC and supercomputing applications converged with Kubernetes across HPC infrastructures. The hybrid service and software offering is designed to let customers to deploy HPC on Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures, including their own HPC clusters, any cloud provider or […]The post Cloud HPC Platform Nimbix Offers Hybrid Software and Services on Kubernetes Infrastructures appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv, March 31, 2021 – Granulate, an autonomous real-time computing workload optimization company, today announced a collaboration with Intel to show new Java-based performance results, with significant improvement of 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors using Granulate’s real-time continuous optimization software solution. Key highlights of the new Java-based benchmark completed by Intel show the following results when running with Granulate on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon […]The post Granulate Collaborates with Intel to Improve Java-Based Performance with Agent for Real-Time Continuous Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.

Brisbane, Australia – 31 March 2021 – Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) (“Megaport”), a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, today announced Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), an on-demand vendor-neutral Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service that enables branch-to-cloud connectivity on Megaport’s global Software Defined Network (SDN). With MVE, companies can host network functions such as virtual routers, […]The post Megaport Launches Megaport Virtual Edge, On-demand NFV Service for Branch-to-Cloud Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect appeared first on insideHPC.

Arm’s ambition to take on the x86 CPUs in HPC, AI and specialized computing workloads took expression today with the introduction of Armv9, the first new Arm architecture in a decade. The launch comes on the heals of AMD’s March 16 introduction of 7nm EPYC “Milan” CPUs and ahead of new Intel 3rd Gen Xeon […]The post Arm Unveils First New Architecture in a Decade – Armv9 appeared first on insideHPC.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — PLDA, the leading developer of high-speed interconnect silicon IP, is joining ETP4HPC, an association that gathers leading European players in high performance computing technologies. ETP4HPC – the European Technology Platform (ETP) for High-Performance Computing (HPC) – is a private, industry-led and non-profit association whose main mission is to promote European HPC research […]The post PLDA Joins ETP4HPC to Share High Speed Interconnect IP with European HPC Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, CA –Panasas, a high performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions company, announced today that the company has joined the STAC Benchmark Council. The council is comprised of more than 400 financial institutions including the world’s largest global banks, brokerage houses, exchanges, hedge funds, proprietary trading shops, asset managers and vendors. The STAC Benchmark Council […]The post Panasas Joins Financial Services Industry’s STAC Benchmark Council appeared first on insideHPC.

Fremont, CA – March 30, 2021 – Penguin Computing, Inc., a high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and enterprise data center solutions company, today announced it has collaborated with Red Hat and Seagate Technology to unveil its DeepData solution with Red Hat Ceph Storage, a high performance, software-defined storage solution optimized for scale, throughput and cost-effectiveness. Every year, organizations are creating larger quantities of unstructured […]The post Penguin Computing Announces DeepData Storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Seagate appeared first on insideHPC.

MARCH 29, 2021 — The Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM) consortium today announced the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne, Brookhaven and Oak Ridge national laboratories are joining the consortium to further develop ATOM’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery platform. The public-private ATOM consortium aims to transform drug discovery from a slow, sequential and high-risk process […]The post 3 National Labs Join ATOM Consortium for Drug Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 29, 2021 — DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management company, today announced that Korea’s NAVER corporation has selected DDN A3I AI400X systems as its choice of storage solution to enhance numerous AI services and research projects. NAVER, Korea’s leading search engine provider and creator of the popular LINE messaging […]The post Korean Search Engine Provider Naver Selects DDN Storage for AI Services appeared first on insideHPC.