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Samsung today announced it has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with what the company said is the first 512GB DDR5 module based on High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology, designed to support next-gen computing systems, supercomputers and large-scale data centers “Delivering more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 megabits per second […]The post Samsung: First HKMG-Based 512GB DDR5 Memory Targets Bandwidth-Intensive Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

By Rob Farber on behalf of the Exascale Computing Project The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is investing heavily in software for the forthcoming exascale systems as can be seen in the many tools, libraries and software components that are already freely available for download via the Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). In order for these software […]The post Continuous Integration: The Path to the Future for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 24, 2020 – RISC-V International, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), and CHIPS Alliance, a consortium advancing common and open hardware for interfaces, processors and systems, today announced a joint collaboration to update the OmniXtend Cache Coherency specification […]The post March 30: CHIPS Alliance and RISC-V International Invite the RISC-V Community to Update Unified Memory Architecture Standard appeared first on insideHPC.

Are all comparisons so odious, really? Some can illuminate, some can awe. HPE-Cray has put out an infographic about its Frontier exascale supercomputer, the U.S.’s first, scheduled to be shipped to Oak Ridge National Laboratory later this year. It’s got interesting comparisons that shed light on how big a quintillion is. Make that 1.5 quintillion, […]The post Meet the Frontier Exascale Supercomputer: How Big Is a Quintillion? appeared first on insideHPC.

Red Hat has announced that the latest release of Red Hat Integration is available, designed for building out cloud-based, event-driven applications for varieties of streaming data and processing information as it’s created. Red Hat’s change data capture and service registry components, based on the open source Debezium and Apicurio projects, identify changes in an application’s data and automatically […]The post Red Hat Announces Change Data Capture Capabilities for Streaming Applications with Integration Release appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – March 23, 2021 — Innovium, Inc., a provider of networking switch solutions for cloud and edge data centers, today announced Innovium TERACertified switch solutions that the company said delivers up to 2X or more TCO advantage over alternatives, currently enjoyed by only a few hyperscalers. Disaggregation has been occurring across many different […]The post Innovium Announces TERACertified Networking with Open-source SONiC Software appeared first on insideHPC.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told AWS employees in an email today that Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of the behemoth public cloud services provider. In so doing, Selipsky takes the post held until January by Jassy, who was promoted to Amazon CEO after company founder Jeff Bezos announced he was stepping aside to […]The post Amazon Names Adam Selipsky Next AWS CEO appeared first on insideHPC.

New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered an upbeat corporate update this afternoon in the form of a webinar that emphasized Intel’s integrated device manufacturing, “IDM.2.0” strategy for manufacturing and product development that combines the company’s internal network of factories with third-party outsourced capacity and new Intel foundries in the U.S. and Europe. “As I hope […]The post ‘Intel Is Back’: Gelsinger Delivers Upbeat Update, Expanded Manufacturing in U.S., Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

LEESBURG, Va., March 23, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), bridging the power of classical and quantum computing, has launched QGraph which analyzes graphs (i.e., collections of vertices and edges) with QCI’s cloud-based Qatalyst ready-to-run quantum software. QGraph together with Qatalyst enables users and analysts to solve the most computationally expensive graph problems – the kind that can benefit […]The post Quantum Computing Inc. Launches QGraph for Graph Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.

March 23, 2021 — On 10 March 2021, the EuroHPC supercomputer Vega was officially delivered. The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Institute of Information Science in Maribor Slovenia (IZUM) signed the acceptance document, after the vendor Atos completed the construction of the system. A high-level digital event will be held […]The post Vega, EuroHPC Supercomputer, Operational Next Month appeared first on insideHPC.

March 23, 2021 — Berzelius is now Sweden’s fastest supercomputer for AI and machine learning, and has been installed in the National Supercomputer Centre at Linköping University. A donation of EUR 29.5 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has made the construction of the new supercomputer possible. “It’s very gratifying, but also a […]The post Sweden’s Fastest Supercomputer for AI Now Online appeared first on insideHPC.

Burnaby, Canada — March 23, 2021 — Teradici, creator of PCoIP technology and Emmy Award-winning Cloud Access Software (CAS), today announced enhancements to CAS Manager to support the tremendous growth in CAS accelerated by remote work. Teradici CAS customers can now install CAS Manager in any IT environment, providing greater flexibility as businesses scale their remoting […]The post Teradici Enhances CAS Manager to Support Remote Work appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – March 23, 2021 – Organizations across industries need “always-on” business continuity and disaster protection to get the most from their enterprise and service provider cloud deployments, while also maintaining the lowest possible total cost of ownership. To address these needs, Scality has strengthened its scale-out file system (SOFS) and streamlined management and monitoring of its RING8 file […]The post Scality Announces Enhancement to RING Scale-out File System for Business Continuance appeared first on insideHPC.

CANBERRA, Australia — March 24, 2020 — Quantum Brilliance, a venture-backed Australian quantum computing startup from The Australian National University, will install the world’s first diamond quantum accelerator at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Quantum Brilliance harnesses synthetic diamonds to build quantum accelerators that do not require near absolute zero temperature or complex laser systems to […]The post Room Temperature Diamond-based Quantum Accelerator Coming to Pawsey Supercomputing Centre appeared first on insideHPC.

Speculation abounds about Pat Gelsinger’s first public appearance as CEO of Intel at a webinar (5 pm Eastern Time) today that will capture close attention from a host of the company’s core audiences: customers, business partners, employees, industry and financial analysts – and the HPC community. The webinar, confidently called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Future,” […]The post Gelsinger Speaks: Intel’s New CEO Debuts Today – What Will He Say? appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. National Oceanic and and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said today it is upgrading its Global Forecast System (GFS) weather model to improve hurricane genesis forecasting, modeling for snowfall location, heavy rainfall forecasts and overall model performance. In February 2020, NOAA announced it will triple if its weather and climate supercomputing capacity with the addition […]The post NOAA Upgrades Global Weather Model Following 2020 HPC Additions appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 22, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical computing and high-performance data analytics (HPDA), announced today results of testing conducted with Microsoft, which showed that the Weka File System (WekaFS) produced among the greatest aggregate NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage throughput numbers of all storage systems tested to […]The post WekaIO Announces Results with NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage in Microsoft Research Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

MUNICH – March 24, 2021 – IQM Quantum Computers (IQM) announced today that Helmut Jeggle, chairman of the BioNTech SE Supervisory board, has joined IQM ́s board of directors. He joins the company during an interesting phase. After successfully closing its Series-A funding round and selling its first quantum computer, IQM now intends to lead […]The post BioNTech Chairman Helmut Jeggle Joins the Board of IQM Quantum Computers appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 22, 2021 — There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, on the other hand, may be able to interact with people more safely or slip into tight spaces with ease. But for robots to reliably complete their […]The post MIT: Researchers’ Algorithm Designs Soft Robots that Sense appeared first on insideHPC.

March 22, 2021 — Chip industry veteran Karl Freund has recently launched Cambrian-AI Research, a new firm specializing in helping providers of AI hardware and the firms that invest in them. Freund had previously been an analyst covering AI and HPC for Moor Insights & Strategy for four years after spending decades in executive roles […]The post Industry Veteran Karl Freund Launches Analyst Firm Cambrian-AI Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Munich, March 22, 2021-The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has opened its Quantum Integration Centre, or QIC for short. Bavaria’s leading scientific computing centre is taking quantum computing out of the physics labs and bringing it to scientific applications. Present at the QIC launch: Bavarian Minister President Markus […]The post Kick-off for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s Quantum Integration Centre appeared first on insideHPC.

There’s a trend in the data storage world to call out a growing “divide” between HPC and enterprise storage. We believe that’s an oversimplification. What’s worse, it reinforces popular myths coursing through the HPC landscape that revel in what we call “lab worship” at the expense of more mainstream enterprise customers.The post Stop the Lab Worship: Commercial HPC is Sexy, Too appeared first on insideHPC.

XSEDE, the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment virtual organization that shares HPC, supercomputing and other advanced computing resources, will present a Big Data and machine learning workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 6-7, 2021. The workshop will focus on Spark and Tensorflow. Registration: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar, registration deadline is noon Eastern Time on Friday, […]The post XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data and Machine Learning, April 6-7 appeared first on insideHPC.

March 19, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $12 million for basic research on advanced 5G and quantum networking. Our modern life has been transformed by wireless and cellular networks, creating a world where humans all over the globe can communicate with each other instantaneously. Research on […]The post DOE to Provide $12M for Research on 5G and Quantum Networking appeared first on insideHPC.

Albuquerque — March 19, 2021 — Sandia National Laboratories has announced its Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, QSCOUT, is now operational and available for public use. Scientists from Indiana University recently became the first team to use the system. QSCOUT is intended to address limited access to quantum computer technology, which, while poised to […]The post Indiana U. Team First to Test Sandia’s Open-Access Quantum Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

Washington, DC — March 19, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $34.5 million for research tools for scientific discoveries, including clean energy and climate solutions. Two new funding opportunities will support researchers using data science and computation-based methods—including artificial intelligence and machine learning—to tackle basic science challenges, advance clean […]The post DOE Announces $34.5M for Data Science and Machine Learning for Climate Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Livermore, CA — Monarch Tractor, a fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor manufacturer, announced the closing of its $20 million Series A funding round. The round includes global industrial equipment manufacturers, automotive suppliers, venture capital, and impact capital. The new investors will support the rapid growth of Monarch Tractor’s global deployment. The investment round garnered global […]The post Driver-Optional Monarch Tractor Closes $20M Series A with Global Partners appeared first on insideHPC.

As part of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), the Earthquake Simulation (EQSIM) application development team is creating a computational tool set and workflow for earthquake hazard and risk assessment that moves beyond the traditional empirically based techniques which are dependent on historical earthquake data. With software assistance from the ECP’s software technology group, the EQSIM team is working to give scientists and engineers the ability to simulate full end-to-end earthquake processes.The post Exascale Computing Project’s EQSIM Team Helps Assess Infrastructure Earthquake Risk appeared first on insideHPC.

March 18, 2021 — DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) today announced the Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) program, which aims to expand access to domestic manufacturing capabilities to tackle challenges hampering the secure development of custom chips for defense systems. Working in partnership with Intel and academic researchers from University of […]The post DARPA Announces FPGA-to-ASICs Program with Intel to Expand US-based Chip Making for Defense appeared first on insideHPC.

Paris and Munich — March 18, 2021 — Atos today said it has delivered an Atos Quantum Learning Machine (Atos QLM), a commercial quantum simulator, to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany. The Atos QLM is installed in the recently opened LRZ Quantum Integration Centre (QIC), […]The post Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Takes Delivery of Atos Quantum Learning Machine appeared first on insideHPC.

March 17, 2021 — Coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s 4th Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event brought women together to discuss successes, opportunities and challenges of being female in a mostly male field. The Lab’s first-ever virtual WiDS gathering attracted dozens of LLNL data scientists as well as some […]The post LLNL Event Encourages Growth of Women in Data Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Southampton, UK and Seattle – March 18th, 2020 – AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with IP which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced that it has been selected by the 5G Open Innovation Lab (“5GOILab”), a global applied innovation ecosystem for corporations, academia and government institutions, as part of its third batch of companies […]The post AccelerComm Selected for 5G Open Innovation Lab Spring 2021 Program appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – March 18, 2021 – ScaleFlux, Inc., a company focused on Computational Storage at scale, today announced its flagship CSD 2000 solution will support Nvidia Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage, enabling users to take full advantage of Computational Storage for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics acceleration. As NvidiaMagnum IO — the […]The post ScaleFlux Delivers Computational Storage with Support for Nvidia Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer for WekaIO, discusses the newest title in the C-Suite, the CDO: Chief Data Officer. As of 2018, almost 68 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have a CDO, yet according to Gartner, “The Chief Data Officer role is still new, untested, and amorphous.” More organizations will recognize that a savvy CDO delivers a return on investment, and as enterprise data stores grow, so do the returns.The post The New and Evolving Role of the Chief Data Officer appeared first on insideHPC.

Proact has signed a four-year framework agreement with GEANT, the pan-European network that coordinates Europe’s national research and education networking organisations (NRENs), to be able to supply IT infrastructure services to its members in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. GEANT is coordinating OCRE, the Open Clouds for Research Environments project that […]The post Proact Qualifies as Provider of IT Infrastructure Services for European Research and Education Community appeared first on insideHPC.

The RISC-V Forum will hold three conferences starting next month that are free of charge to members and non-members and designed to provide deep-dive technical content for the RISC-V community The first conference, the Security Forum, will be held Wednesday, April 14 from 7-10am US Pacific Time. The agenda and registration can be found here. The second event, […]The post 3 RISC-V Forums Scheduled appeared first on insideHPC.

Santa Clara, CA – Achronix announces today that 10 million Speedcore eFPGA IP cores have shipped in customers’ ASICs. Achronix said it is the only high-performance FPGA supplier to offer both high-performance standalone FPGAs and eFPGA IP. Speedcore eFPGA IP is optimized for applications in 5G wireless infrastructure, networking, computational storage and automotive driver assistance […]The post Achronix Ships 10 Millionth Speedcore eFPGA IP Core appeared first on insideHPC.

Florida State University researchers report they have found a way to automatically infer parameters used in an important quantum Boltzmann machine algorithm for machine learning applications. The work could help build artificial neural networks used for training computers to solve complicated, interconnected problems, such as image recognition, drug discovery and the creation of new materials. […]The post FSU Researchers Report Enhanced Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms appeared first on insideHPC.

AUSTIN, TX – March 17, 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), maker of single-phase liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced today the appointment of Thierry Pellegrino, former VP Workloads and Solutions, and General Manager High Performance Computing at Dell EMC to its board of directors. Pellegrino will bring to GRC his expertise by providing […]The post Former Dell Technologies HPC Leader Pellegrino Appointed to GRC Board of Directors appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special episode, we break down AMD’s new EPYC 7003 series processor. We talk some speeds, plenty of feeds, look at their security defense, and talk about some world records. All in all, it’s an action-packed and fun episode, suitable for the entire family. In fact, we recommend you gather your family round to listen to this one as we’ll be talking about how the implications of this new CPU. Will it bring AMD back to their Opteron and dual-core glory days? Will it, as Opteron and dual-core did, prompt Intel into mounting a furious comeback? And how about the other chips on the horizon?The post Radio Free HPC: Milan, Milan, Milan – and… How Will Intel Respond? appeared first on insideHPC.

Mountain View, Calif. – March 16, 2021 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which offers storage as-a-service for multicloud environments, announced the general availability of Pure Cloud Block Store on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. With a common dataplane across multicloud environments, customers can move to the cloud on their terms, allowing for application portability to the cloud or to […]The post Pure Storage Brings Its Block Storage to Microsoft Azure appeared first on insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, March 16, 2021 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced updates to the company’s portfolio strategy to focus on memory and storage for the data center. Micron will increase investment in new memory products that leverage the Compute Express Link (CXL), the recently introduced industry standard interface that enables flexible connection between […]The post Micron Updates Memory and Storage Strategy – Commits to CXL, Ends Development of 3D XPoint appeared first on insideHPC.

By Rob Farber, contributing writer for the Exascale Computing Project Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler support for Clang and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project (LLVM). The Clacc project page notes, “OpenACC support in Clang and LLVM will facilitate the programming of GPUs and other accelerators in DOE applications, […]The post Clacc – Open Source OpenACC Compiler and Source Code Translation Project appeared first on insideHPC.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists from Indiana University recently became the first team to begin using Sandia National Laboratories’ Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, or QSCOUT. Quantum computers are poised to become major technological drivers over the coming decades. But to get […]The post Sandia’s Open-access Quantum Computer Is Operational, Available to Scientists appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) and Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, today announced a collaboration targeting complex physical simulation problems. The collaboration will initially explore scalability of computational NVMe over fabrics and will demonstrate offload of analytics functions on data produced by extreme scale physical simulation. “We’ve identified the […]The post Los Alamos Teams with Fungible for Processing Offloading to Network and Storage for Complex Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

Perth, Australia – March 16, 2021 – Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the Tier1 supercomputing research facility located in Perth, Western Australia, is establishing the first Australia’s research platform for extreme scale computing by granting access to Pawsey Centre for Extreme scale Readiness (PaCER) program to 10 research groups. The PaCER projects represent collaborations between ten Australian universities, […]The post 10 Research Projects Granted Access to Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness Program appeared first on insideHPC.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 16, 2021 – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Data Center Group (DCG) announced ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions to support edge-to-cloud computing. These hybrid cloud solutions are designed to help organizations of all sizes, modernize, better secure their IT infrastructure, and deliver faster data insights – […]The post Lenovo Launches Edge-to-Cloud Solutions with AMD EPYC 7003 CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Amsterdam – March 16, 2021 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas has promoted Andy Young to CTO. He previously was director of research and development and after earlier positions at Ansys and Iceotope. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity to lead the engineering team at Asperitas, working at a more strategic level within the company,” Young said. “We are […]The post Immersion Cooling Data Center Provider Asperitas Names Andy Young CTO appeared first on insideHPC.

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM SIGHPC) has created the Computational and Data Science Fellowships, a continuation of the program started with Intel to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science. Targeted at women or students from racial/ethnic backgrounds who have […]The post Nominations Open for ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowships for Diversity in Data and Computational Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Newark, Calif. – March 15, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processor-based server platforms featuring efficiency and performance enhancements in hardware, security, and memory density for the modern data center. “Big data has become capital today. Large amounts of data […]The post TYAN Offers AMD EPYC 7003 Processor Powered Systems appeared first on insideHPC.