High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Our main topic today is Intel, with the bulk of the discussion surrounding the return of Pat Gelsinger as Intel’s new CEO. Pat was a 30-year veteran of Intel before he left to pursue other, well, pursuits – most notably as CEO of VMware. While at Intel, Pat spearheaded the development of the 486 architecture […]The post Radio Free HPC – Big Changes at Intel: Gelsinger Takes the Helm appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Altos, Calif. & Edinburgh, UK — Cerebras Systems, the high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute company, and EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh, today announced the selection of what Cerebras said is the world’s fastest AI computer, the Cerebras CS-1, for EPCC’s new international data facility for the Edinburgh and southeastern […]The post EPCC Selects Cerebras Systems AI Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Grad students wanting to focus on their research have a new opportunity to do just that. The New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale […]The post Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships appeared first on insideHPC.

The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN R-CCS) will hold its third annual international symposium on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 15 and 16 focusing on HPC and Fugaku, the world’s top-rated supercomputer, and its role in enabling “Society 5.0,” a future in which cyberspace is integrated with the physical world. Speakers at the online conference […]The post RIKEN Center to Hold Annual Symposium on Fugaku and ‘Society 5.0,’ Feb. 15-16 appeared first on insideHPC.

Brighton, UK, 4th February 2021 – Hyve Managed Hosting, a UK cloud hosting provider, has launched a new high performance computing (HPC) cloud solution designed to offer prime performance at an affordable price. Hyve’s cloud-based HPC solution will allow users to access on-demand technology, to run their most demanding workloads with increased flexibility and scalability. […]The post Hyve Managed Hosting Launches HPC cloud solution appeared first on insideHPC.

Tübingen, Germany and Los Altos, California – February 03, 2021 – NI SP GmbH and The UberCloud Inc. have announced a strategic partnership combining NI SP’s 3D VDI and high performance computing (HPC) solutions with UberCloud’s HPC container technology and Engineering Simulation Cloud Platform. The partnership’s intent is to deliver cloud services for CAE, life […]The post UberCloud and NI SP in HPC Partnership appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel and Google Cloud have joined the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, designed to improve population health by making biomedical data from underrepresented groups available to COVID-19 researchers nationwide via the Researcher Workbench. With a goal of recruiting 1 million U.S. participants from different backgrounds, the mission of All of Us is to build the […]The post Intel and Google Cloud Join NIH’s ‘All of Us’ Medical Data Research Program appeared first on insideHPC.

A European consortium has been launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. Named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), it’s a four-year four-year, €15 million ($17.7 million) EU project coordinated by CEA-Leti, the Grenoble, France-based electronics and IT research institute, and it aims to lay the foundation for industrial-scale semiconductor quantum processors. The […]The post New EU Consortium Launches 4-year Quantum Scaling Project appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – February 4, 2021 – Bright Computing, focused on automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today announced record revenues and milestones achieved in 2020 despite the on-going challenges presented by the global pandemic. Bright Computing is active in next-generation computing infrastructure with commercial enterprise-grade software for building and managing distributed clusters […]The post Bright Computing Announces Record Revenues and Bookings in 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

Seattle, Feb. 4, 2021 — Iteratively, a SaaS tool that helps data and product teams define, instrument and verify their analytics tracking, announces today that it has secured $5.4 million in new capital led by Google’s AI-focused venture fund, Gradient Ventures, with participation from Fika Ventures and early investor PSL Ventures. Zach Bratun-Glennon, Partner at Gradient Ventures, joins the board. […]The post Iteratively Raises $5.4 Million to Address Trust in Data appeared first on insideHPC.

FPGA chip maker Xilinx, whose acquisition by AMD was announced last October, and Fujitsu, developer along with Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science of Fugaku, the world’s no. 1 supercomputer, today announced plans to collaborate on 5G development in the U.S. Xilinx said it is supplying its UltraScale+ technology to Fujitsu for its O-RAN 5G […]The post Xilinx in 5G Partnership with Fujitsu appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, Colo., February 3, 2021 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Kel Pults, DHA, MSN, RN, and Chief Clinical Officer at MediQuant, has joined its Board of Directors. Dr. Pults will be instrumental in advancing the Active Archive Alliance’s mission to provide end-users with technical expertise and guidance to design and implement active archive solutions for intelligent data […]The post MediQuant’s Kel Pults Joins the Active Archive Alliance Board of Directors appeared first on insideHPC.

February 1, 2021 — Azure Quantum, the world’s first full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions, is now open for business, according to Krysta Svore, general manager, Microsoft Quantum. Developers, researchers, systems integrators, and customers can use it to learn and build solutions based on the latest innovations—using familiar tools in the most trusted public cloud, […]The post Azure Quantum Now in Public Preview appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system there are many items to consider, such as assessing the new environment’s required components, implementing a pilot program to learn about the system’s future performance, and considering eventual scaling to production levels.The post Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

Boston – Feb. 3, 2021 – Today, international technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) announced the Open Architecture Radar Interface Standard (OARIS) 2.0 specification, which defines the interface between the combat management system (CMS) and a radar system within the modular combat system architecture of naval platforms. OARIS 2.0 divides the interface into three categories, namely subsystem services (interfaces […]The post Object Management Group Adopts Open Architecture Radar Interface Standard (OARIS) 2.0 Spec appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell Technologies HPC senior executive Thierry Pellegrino has announced he is leaving the company. Pellegrino, whose complete title is Vice President Workloads and Solutions Dell EMC and Vice President / General Manager HPC – Dell EMC at Dell Technologies, has been with the company since the late 1990s. “After an amazing 22 years with Dell […]The post Thierry Pellegrino, VP/GM of HPC at Dell Technologies, Stepping Down appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Avid – February 2, 2021 – Vayyar, maker of 4D imaging radar, is advancing its mission with the auto industry’s first in-cabin safety ‘combo’ solution. Powered by a single sensor, it’s designed to prevent both the “hot car” incidents that have claimed the lives of thousands of children as well as the countless deaths […]The post Vayyar 4D Imaging Radar Platform: In-cabin Safety Technology for Multifunctionality on a Chip appeared first on insideHPC.

Germany, Feb 03, 2021 — Elbencho, a new open-source storage benchmark tool, is now available to help organizations that demand high performance and need to evaluate performance of modern storage systems, optionally including GPUs in the storage access. Elbencho is available for download at: https://github.com/breuner/elbencho Traditionally, storage system vendors published numbers primarily based on simple […]The post Elbencho – A New Storage Benchmark for AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv, February 3, 2021 – Granulate, a company providing an autonomous real-time computing workload optimization, today announced a $30 million Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total amount raised to $45 million. The round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners with the participation of existing investors Insight Partners, TLV Partners, and Hetz Ventures. […]The post Granulate Raises $30 Million Series B appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco, February 02, 2021 — Rescale, the leading hybrid HPC cloud platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, today announced it has closed $50 million in Series C funding from Hitachi Ventures, Microsoft’s M12, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs and Samsung Catalyst Fund, bringing the company’s total funding to over $100 million. Rescale […]The post Rescale Raises $50 Million in Series C Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

Toronto — January 26, 2021 — Next Pathway Inc., the automated cloud migration company, today announced the results of a third-party study assessing the state of data migration to the cloud in North America. Next Pathway polled nearly 1,000 IT decision makers on their company’s status in the cloud migration process and what they perceive […]The post Next Pathway Research: 65% of Companies Say Cloud Migration a Top Priority appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, CO – Dr. Amanda Randles, Duke University assistant professor of biomedical and computer sciences and a leading expert in high performance computing (HPC and biomedical engineering, will be the opening keynote speaker for the 11th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium in May. Dr. Randles will speak on “The role […]The post Duke Professor Amanda Randles to Keynote RMACC Symposium appeared first on insideHPC.

Google Cloud today announced the public preview of HPC VM Image, a CentOS 7-based Virtual Machine Image optimized for HPC workloads with a focus on tightly-coupled MPI workloads, according to Google, making it easier to instantiate VMs that are tuned for optimal CPU and network performance on Google Cloud. Today’s announcement follows introductions last year […]The post Google Cloud Previews HPC VM Image for HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

Chandler, Ariz., February 2, 2021 – Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced what it said are the first PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 switch solutions — the Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.0 family — “doubling the interconnect performance for dense compute, high speed networking and NVM Express (NVMe) storage,” according to the company. Together with the […]The post Microchip Technology Inc.: Introducing First PCI Express 5.0 Switches appeared first on insideHPC.

Feb. 2, 202 — Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally available. This version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu application ecosystem to create ultra-secure smart things. “Every […]The post Canonical Ubuntu Core 20: Securing Linux for IoT appeared first on insideHPC.

WekaIO (Weka) today announced the Limitless Data Platform — described by the company as a simple, fast and scalable platform for running modern enterprise workloads, such as artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research and high-performance data analytics (HPDA). The Weka data platform offers enterprise features designed to help store, protect and manage data in […]The post WekaIO Launches Hybrid Cloud ‘Limitless Data Platform’ appeared first on insideHPC.

This is an updated version of a story first publised on Feb. 1. UK technology industry publication PCR published a story today stating that an international data security firm, ESET, has reported the identification of a malware called Kobalos that targets supercomputing clusters. They also said they have been working with security experts at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and other organizations on stemming attacks. “Among other targets was a large Asian ISP, a North American endpoint security vendor as well as several privately held servers,” PCR reported.The post Report: Security Firm Says HPC Clusters under Attack: ‘Level of Sophistication Rarely Seen in Linux Malware’ appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – February 1, 2021 – SingleStore, database software for cloud-native modern applications, has announced the addition of Oliver Schabenberger joins as chief innovation officer, reporting to CEO Raj Verma. “SingleStore is experiencing tremendous growth and has an amazing customer base and an incredible group supporting the development of our innovative technology,” said Verma. […]The post SingleStore Adds Schabenberger, Former COO & CTO of SAS appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC veteran Luke Wilson lives at the forefront AI research. In this interview he talks about research whose goal is to move computer intelligence from “narrow” (one task at a time) to “general” (more than one task simultaneously), a key to which is “context neuron switching.” One research strategy involves brain decoding by reverse mapping brain activity using “functional MRI activation maps,” said Wilson, who is chief data scientist and distinguished engineer at Dell’s HPC & AI Innovation Lab. Of the research conducted with McGill University, the Montreal Neurological Institute and Intel (using Dell’s Intel Xeon-powered Zenith cluster), he said: “What we're trying to do is take that image of an activated brain and infer, using a neural network, what the patient was being asked to do.”The post The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: From Narrow to General AI – Decoding the Brain to Train Neural Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

Lake Forest, CA – PSSC Labs, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) and big data computing solutions, today announced the launch of PowerServe Uniti HGX, the newest product in their AI/HPC Sever product family. This platform is built to reach new heights in the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) […]The post PSSC Labs Announces PowerServe Uniti HGX for AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Jan. 29, 2021 – The National Institute of Health BRAIN Initiative and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science will hold virtual workshops in February and March exploring brain connectivity. Generating complete maps of mammalian brains is a scientific grand challenge that will require a multi-disciplinary, science-at-scale approach, the agencies said in their announcement, bringing […]The post DOE Office of Science Workshop: Mapping Brain Circuitry at Scale appeared first on insideHPC.

Dalian, China – Seoul, Korea – Jan. 29, 2021 – SK hynix Inc. (or ‘the Company’, www.skhynix.com) today signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with the Dalian Municipal People’s Government of China and the Administrative Committee of Jinpu New District, Dalian via video link, under which both parties will jointly collaborate on SK hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s Dalian semiconductor fabrication plant (“Dalian […]The post SK hynix MOU with Dalian, China, on Acquisition of Intel Fab for Supporting Chinese IT Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

Braunschweig, Germany and Los Altos, California – January 25, 2021 – GNS Systems GmbH and The UberCloud Inc. are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership, combining GNS HPC integration and consulting services with UberCloud’s HPC container technology and Engineering Simulation Platform. The partnership focuses on cloud services for more efficient engineering […]The post UberCloud and GNS Systems in Strategic Partnership for Cloud-HPC-as-a-Service appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system there are many items to consider, such as assessing the new environment’s required components, implementing a pilot program to learn about the system’s future performance, and considering eventual scaling to production levels.The post Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

Kim Budil has been named director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Charlene Zettel, chair of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), which manages the laboratory for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), made the announcement to lab employees today. Budil will begin her new role on March 2. She will be Livermore’s 13th director since it was established […]The post Kim Budil Named 1st Woman Director of LLNL appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced plans to provide up to $12 million for research aimed at adapting scientific software to run on next-generation of supercomputers. DOE said applications will be open to DOE national laboratories, universities, industry, and nonprofit research institutions. Funding is to be awarded competitively, on the basis of peer […]The post Exascale and Beyond: DOE Funds $12M for Adapting Software for Next-Gen Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

January 28, 2021 — observIQ, a provider of next-generation observability solutions for ITOps and DevOps teams, today announced that its open source log agent Stanza is part of the OpenTelemetry Project as the key component for log collection. Since its inception in 2020, observIQ’s mission has been to deliver a simple to use, powerful, and performant […]The post observIQ’s Stanza Log Agent Now Part of OpenTelemetry Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Helsinki, Jan. 27, 2021 The Finnish self-driving software company Sensible 4 has started pre-pilot preparations at Gjesdal, Norway. This includes test-drives in harsh Norwegian winter and mapping of the route with autonomous Toyota vehicles. The pilot is part of the field testing phase of the EU funded FABULOS project. The pilot in Gjesdal is a direct […]The post Sensible 4 to Launch Second Self-Driving Pilot in Norway appeared first on insideHPC.

Berkeley, CA — January 28, 2021 — Ctrl IQ, Inc. announced today its official launch unveiling the first full technology stack that merges the key capabilities of enterprises, hyper-scale, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC). Founded to meet the growing global demand for securing and orchestrating computational-intensive workflows, Ctrl IQ’s multi-cloud, multi-site, and performance-focused orchestration solution […]The post Ctrl IQ Aims to Democratize Hybrid Orchestration for Performance-Intensive Workflows appeared first on insideHPC.

Seattle – January 28, 2021 – File system data management specialist Qumulo today announced expanded Cloud Q configurations available through the AWS Marketplace. Qumulo said the cloud file offering is designed to deliver two benefits: lower the cost of file data management; and increases the range of performance options, enabling more efficient AWS infrastructure utilization for […]The post Qumulo Expands Cloud Q Offering on AWS appeared first on insideHPC.

Las Vegas, January 26, 2021 – Telecommunications solutions provider VNET has joined the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing solutions to advance the region’s capabilities in solving the performance, power and efficiency issues challenging the industry today. I4DI provides freedom and open-source access similar to […]The post VNET Lends Joins I4DI appeared first on insideHPC.

January 27, 2021 – University of Florida’s new supercomputer — the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer in higher education — will soon be available for students and faculty across the State University System, UF Provost Joe Glover announced today. The computer will give faculty and students from across the state computing power in artificial intelligence (AI) […]The post UF’s HiPerGator AI: Nvidia Supercomputer Offered to Students and Researchers across State University System appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv – January 27, 2021 – Classiq, enabling the development of quantum algorithms and applications, today announced that it secured $14.5 million in funding. The $10.5 million Series A financing round was led by Team8 and Wing Venture Capital, with additional participation from Entrée Capital, OurCrowd and IN Venture, the corporate venture arm of […]The post Classiq Secures $14.5M Series A Funding for Development of Quantum Computing Software appeared first on insideHPC.

London, 27th January 2021 –Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), and Sensa, the Icelandic managed service provider and systems integrator, today announced they have partneredto provide organisations with access to Nvidia DGX-Ready colocation services. This collaboration follows Sensa’s recent membership in the Nvidia Partner Network (NPN). Nvidia DGX systems are […]The post Verne Global and Sensa Join to Offer Certified Nvidia DGX System-Based Data Center Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this morning said it has won a $35+ million contract to build a supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a federal geoscience R&D center for meteorology, climate change and solar activity. HPE said the CPU/GPU-powered system, funded by the National Science Foundation, is expected to deliver 3.5x the […]The post HPE to Build $35M+ NCAR Supercomputer for Extreme Weather Research appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose, Jan 26, 2021 – Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today that the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in partnership with Qumulo, specializing in file data management for hybrid cloud environments, is employing Western Digital’s Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB HDDs and Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSDs for ongoing COVID-19 research and vaccine […]The post Western Digital and Qumulo Partner on Capacity and Scale for IHME COVID-19 Health Analytics and Vaccine Roll Out appeared first on insideHPC.

January 25, 2021 — Researchers funded by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have delivered a novel method that addresses overloaded communication processes that use MPI-IO by adding a second I/O request aggregation layer, according to ECP. Their method, called TAM for two-phase aggregation method, combines data on a node prior to performing additional internode optimizations […]The post Exascale Computing Project: Researchers Accelerate I/O with Novel Processing Method appeared first on insideHPC.

Leesburg, Va., Jan. 26, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), which works to bridge the power of classical and quantum computing, today unveiled QikStart, a program that partners QCI with selected participants to accelerate adoption of quantum computing for solving mission-critical problems for business. QikStart will provide access to QCI’s industry-leading quantum acceleration platform, expert […]The post QCI Launches QikStart Program for Business Adoption of Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

London, January 26, 2021 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier-neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced a new customer contract with InstaDeep, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) powered decision-making solutions for enterprise. The new high performance computing (HPC) installation at Kao Data’s Harlow campus allows InstaDeep to […]The post Kao Data to Host InstaDeep’s HPC and AI Supercomputer, Expanding R&D Capabilities appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project. Reasons given for these failures include not having a plan ahead of time, not getting executive or business leadership buy-in, or failing to find the proper team to execute the project. Chasing the hot technology trend without having a proper strategy often leads companies down the path of failure.The post 10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.