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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.

Taipei, Taiwan, March 16th 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced over 40 servers and server motherboards ready for the new AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors. These new servers will target modern data centers on-prem and cloud as well as provide generational improvements to deliver exceptional performance […]The post GIGABYTE Launches 1st Wave of Servers for AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

HOUSTON – March 15, 2021 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is record-breaking performance on a wide range of demanding workloads, surpassing competitors by up to 39 percent with its new computing solutions as part of its set of AMD EPYC processor-based offerings. By using the new AMD EPYCTM […]The post Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unveils Portfolio of AMD EPYC-based Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Striving to continue on its path back to HPC and data center processor market prominence, AMD this morning introduced a new series of EPYC “Milan” CPUs that industry analysts and customers say looks to be a price/performance juggernaut. The EPYC 7003 series (SKUs below), designed by AMD and fabricated using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 7-nanometer […]The post AMD Launches 7nm ‘Milan’ EPYC Chips, Ups Price/Performance Ante for HPC, Data Center CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

TAIPEI, March 15, 2021 — Ambiq, maker of ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCU), System-on-Chips (SoC), and Real-time Clocks (RTC), together with AP Memory Technology Corporation (AP Memory, TWSE: 6531), the world’s leading supplier of ultra-low power and low pin count PSRAM (IoT RAM), and an emerging supplier of low-density LPDRAM, AI memory solutions for edge and […]The post Ambiq and AP Memory Partner for Intelligent Endpoints appeared first on insideHPC.

In the aftermath of Microsoft’s win of a mammoth, £854 million ($1.2 billion) weather supercomputing contract from the British government, the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is fending off a lawsuit by Atos, which lost its bid, charging the government with “breaching public law duties,” according to a report in the […]The post UK Denies Atos Charges in Microsoft’s $1.2B Weather Supercomputer Contract Win appeared first on insideHPC.

By Kimberly Mann Bruch, San Diego Supercomputer Center Communications Since 2009, Daniel Tward and his collaborators have analyzed more than 47,000 images of human brains via MRI Cloud — a gateway created to collect and share quantitative information from human brain images, including subtle changes in shape and cortical thickness. The latter was the topic of […]The post XSEDE-Allocated Supercomputers, Comet and Stampede2, Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research appeared first on insideHPC.

We have a full crew for this wide-ranging episode of RFHPC. We start with a discussion of the new Cerebras and HPE-based supercomputer slated for the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center in, well, Edinburgh. We talk some feeds-and-speeds for the new boxes, particularly about the 400,000-core wafer Cerebras box, along with some of the workloads that will be […]The post Radio Free HPC: Cerebras AI Computing at EPCC and HPE’s Chippewa Falls Remodel appeared first on insideHPC.

Nominations for the SC Conference’s annual Test of Time Award (ToTA), given for “an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline,” open today, March 12, and close Monday, May 15. Nominations can be submitted SC submissions website. The ToTA goes to a single paper appearing in the SC Program 10 to 25 years […]The post SC Test of Time Outstanding Paper Award: Nominations Open March 12 appeared first on insideHPC.

PLYMOUTH, Michigan, March 4, 2021 – TotalCAE, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that TotalCAE has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency with the elasticity and scalability of AWS. AWS launched the AWS HPC Competency […]The post TotalCAE Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, March 11, 2021 — Excelero, maker of software-defined storage for IO-intensive workloads, such as GPU computing for AI/ML/DL, HPC and fast data analytics, has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification for its NVMesh elastic NVMe software. With this certification, storage architects can integrate high-performance, low-latency NVMe storage into the native Red Hat Enterprise […]The post Excelero Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification for its NVMesh Software-Defined Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

SiPearl, the company designing the Rhea microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, announced it has passed a milestone before the chip’s scheduled 2022 launch. The company said it is moving into an “accelerated simulation phase” on the Veloce Strato hardware emulator from Siemens Digital Industries Software. SiPeal said the hardware emulation platform provides its chips […]The post SiPearl Says Rhea Exascale Chip Has Entered Accelerated Simulation Phase for 2022 Launch appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced that Microsoft Azure GM Zaid Kahn will hold a seat on its board. Kahn replaces Kushagra Vaid, who has served over the past year. Vaid had been engaged with OCP since 2014 and previously served on the OCP Incubation Committee for several years. Kahn joins board members Andy […]The post Azure GM Joins OCP Board appeared first on insideHPC.

Though AI has been widely demystified, its full materialization in real field implementation entails diversified challenges. The article by Dr Cédric Bourrasset (Atos) gives perspective on the hiccups and recommendations on the way to realize “Scientific Machine Learning and HPC-AI technology convergence”The post Scientific Machine Learning and HPC-AI Technology Convergence appeared first on insideHPC.

Oxford Instruments NanoScience is today announcing its latest innovation in Cryofree dilution refrigerator technology for quantum computing scale up, the ProteoxLX, as well as new quantum computing customer collaborations worldwide. Since the launch of Proteox at APS Physics last year, Oxford Instruments has announced its partnership with the University of Glasgow as well as with […]The post Oxford Instruments NanoScience Gains Momentum in Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Abstracting away the complexities of using quantum technology is the mission of Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI), a startup in Leesburg, VA. In this interview, Steve Reinhardt, a 20-plus year HPC veteran (Cray and SGI) and now VP/product development at QCI, talks about the challenges of bridging the gap between classical and quantum computing. QCI’s target […]The post Bridging the Gap between Quantum and Classical Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Liqid, provider of a composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) platform, today announced dynamic Slurm Workload Manager integration for its Liqid Matrix Software, delivering a tool for HPC deployments designed to optimize resource utilization for artificial intelligence (AI). Liqid uses the Slurm integration to compose servers on submission from pools of compute, storage and GPU resources via […]The post Liqid Announces Slurm Workload Manager Integration for HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will provide $30 million for Quantum Information Science (QIS) research that helps scientists understand how nature works on an extremely small scale—100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. QIS can help our nation solve some of the most pressing and […]The post DOE Announces $30M for Quantum Information Science Research appeared first on insideHPC.

NEW YORK — March 10, 2021 — ionir today announced expanded availability of its Kubernetes native storage platform. By eliminating complexity in Kubernetes data and storage management, ionir said it empowers customers to achieve a “Kubernetes Everywhere” vision, speeding digital transformation and cutting IT costs. “Based on a simple yet revolutionary concept, ionir gives data […]The post Ionir: Combating Data Gravity with Kubernetes Native Storage and Data Management Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 10, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), maker of a data platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical computing and high-performance data analytics (HPDA), today announced it has been assigned three patents, with 34 more patents pending, (10,929,021) for “Quality of service management in a distributed storage system,” […]The post WekaIO Awarded 3 Patents, Wins ISO 27001 Certification appeared first on insideHPC.

Swansea, Wales; London, Paris; March 10, 2021 — Atos today announced it has signed a contract with Swansea University to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, built on the Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU architecture and Nvidia Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, to support academics in Wales to drive AI-based research. The largest Nvidia A100 deployment in […]The post Atos Delivers BullSequana X410 Supercomputer to Swansea University appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO — March 10, 2021 — Tetrate has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Other new investors, Scale Venture Partners and NTTVC, and existing investors, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, 8VC, and Samsung NEXT, participated in the round. The Series B funding will be used to develop […]The post Tetrate Raises $40 Million for Cloud-Native Application Networking Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE has announced updates to its GreenLake cloud services and additional partnerships within the Greenlake ecosystem. Updates include: New HPE GreenLake cloud services for bare metal management and scalable, modular, entry point HPE GreenLake cloud services for virtual machines and containers specifically tailored for mid-market businesses. New agreements with ALSO Group, Arrow, Ingram Micro Inc., […]The post HPE Adds Greenlake Cloud Services, Expands Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO – Registration for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 11th annual High Performance Computing Symposium – offered online and free of charge – opens Monday, March 15. Registration for the conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, May 19-20, and other details can be found at www.rmacc.org/hpcsymposium. Women in HPC will have […]The post Registration Opens March 15 for RMACC HPC Symposium, May 19-20 appeared first on insideHPC.

Rescale’s role as an intelligent cloud automation platform means the company has a unique vantage point of how R&D-driven organizations are adopting cloud. This inaugural report, “BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report,” includes insights from over 300 organizations, running 680+ applications, on each of the major cloud providers. Additionally, the report incorporates survey […]The post BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report appeared first on insideHPC.

SEATTLE – March 9, 2021 – Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced a full integration with Commvault, a enterprise data protection solutions compay. The capabilities are designed to increase data protection and accelerate file data management productivity with a single, simplified solution that enables organizations managing petabytes of data and […]The post Qumulo Extends Qumulo Protect Data Services with Commvault Integration appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021 – Nvidia today announced AI Enterprise, a software suite of enterprise-grade AI development tools and frameworks supported by Nvidia with VMware vSphere 7 Update 2. Nvidia said the software suite enables vSphere compute virtualization users to build AI applications with the same tools they use to manage data centers […]The post Nvidia Unveils AI Enterprise Software Suite with VMware vSphere 7 appeared first on insideHPC.

CALGARY, AB, March 8, 2021 – CoolIT Systems announced today a collaboration with AMAX to deliver a thermal management solution for scalable, high-density computing products. The companies’ collaboration delivers a custom thermal management solution that reduces operating expenses through better energy efficiency while enabling stable, high-performance operations in a high-density computing environment. CoolIT Systems, a […]The post CoolIT Systems and AMAX to Deliver Custom Thermal Management for Data Center Products appeared first on insideHPC.

GRENOBLE, France – March 8, 2021 – Taking a step toward developing LiDAR systems for widespread commercial applications, CEA-Leti has developed genetic algorithms to calibrate high-channel-count optical phased arrays (OPAs), as well as an advanced measurement setup enabling wafer-scale OPA characterization. OPAs are an emerging technology made of arrays of closely spaced (around 1µm) optical antennas […]The post CEA-Leti Envisions LiDAR Systems Based on Integrated Optical Phased Arrays appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has joined the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) in a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) program that takes aim at the “holy grail” of cybersecurity – protecting data during processing, when it is most vulnerable to attack. To date, FHE adoption has been slow because FHE methods on cryptograms is data-intensive and incurs a […]The post Intel Developing ASIC Accelerator for DARPA ‘Holy Grail’ Cybersecurity Project appeared first on insideHPC.

If quantum isn’t to be a technology “that’s always 10 years away,” then quantum error correction (QEC) – one of the high hurdles to quantum becoming a practical reality – must be tamed. This week at a Wall Street Journal virtual CIO Network event, IBM’s SVP and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil said the […]The post IBM Says Quantum Error Correcting Software Coming in 2023 – ‘Quantum Really Comes of Age’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Austin, TX – DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and automatically deploy fixes at scale. “As a heavy AWS user ourselves, we were seeking a way to reduce our costs,” said DevGraph CEO Rahul Subramaniam. “We manage more than 40K+ AWS accounts, paying […]The post DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs appeared first on insideHPC.

Austin, February 24, 2021 –DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and automatically deploy fixes at scale. “As a heavy AWS user ourselves, we were seeking a way to reduce our costs,” said DevGraph CEO Rahul Subramaniam. “We manage more than 40K+ AWS accounts, […]The post DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs appeared first on insideHPC.

Calgary, Alberta. March 4, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC), has announced the completion of an undisclosed eight figure investment led by BDC Capital (BDCC), the investment arm of BDC, the Bank for Canadian Entrepreneurs, and nVent, a strategic partner and leader in the data center connection and protection space. This […]The post CoolIT Receives Growth Investment appeared first on insideHPC.

Jessi Lanum, whom you may know from the Radio Free HPC podcasts that regularly appear on this site, is working with Dan Olds on the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition. She provides this update on the event’s team rosters. Back up NCAA, check yourself March Madness, a particular brand of collegiate competition has its […]The post 10 Teams Slated for 1st Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

FREMONT, CA, YOKOHAMA and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2021 — Leopard Imaging Inc., provider of embedded camera design and manufacturing, is collaborating with three leading companies to deliver EdgeTuring: an artificial intelligence (AI) processing solution for video analytics. Leopard is working with Hailo, an AI chipmaker for edge devices, Socionext, a provider of advanced […]The post Leopard Imaging Teams with Socionext, Hailo, AWS for AI Video Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.