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Roubaix, France – January 19, 2021 – To meet European enterprise and public institution security, sovereignty and resilience needs for the preservation of sensitive data, OVHcloud is collaborating with IBM and Atempo to develop a Storage-as-a-Service offering. This solution will be based on IBM Enterprise Tape technology and an Atempo software stack hosted and operated […]The post OVHcloud Teams with IBM and Atempo for Cloud Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, Colo.—January 19, 2021—The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Rich Gadomski, head of tape evangelism at FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., and Betsy Doughty, vice president of corporate marketing at Spectra Logic, have been elected to serve as co-chairpersons of the Board of Directors for the Active Archive Alliance. Gadomski and Doughty have been engaged with the […]The post Active Archive Alliance Names Rich Gadomski and Betsy Doughty Co-Chairpersons of the Board 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 appeared first on insideHPC.

Rick Stevens has been named a Fellow of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM). Stevens is associate laboratory director of the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences directorate at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago. Stevens was honored “for outstanding contributions in […]The post Argonne’s Rick Stevens named ACM Fellow appeared first on insideHPC.

The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) Women in HPC Chapter will host the second of a two-part program on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1-2 p.m. ET, on problematic datasets, AI, bias and ethics. The presentation and panel discussion will investigate problematic practices of large-scale vision datasets, examining issues such as consent and justice, discussing the […]The post Women in HPC: Jan. 20 Online Panel on Data, AI, Bias and Ethics appeared first on insideHPC.

Don't miss Graphcore's upcoming webinar "Transform Your Data Center with Our IPU-POD Scale-out Technology" on January 27, 2021 at 16:00 GMT, 8:00 PT, 11:00 ET. IPU-POD is Graphcore’s unique scale-out solution for high-performance machine intelligence compute, ideal for experimentation to prototype to production systems from IPU-M2000 with 4 IPUs up to supercomputing scale.The post Webinar: Transform Your Data Center with Our IPU-POD Scale-out Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

Jan. 15, 2021 — Tthe latest update (V2.5) of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Software Technology (ST) Capability Assessment Report (CAR) is now available here from the ECP website. It provides an overview and assessment of current ECP ST capabilities and activities, giving stakeholders and the broader high-performance computing (HPC) […]The post Exascale Computing Project Software Technology Issues Updated Capability Assessment Report appeared first on insideHPC.

Industry veteran Jay Boisseau – former director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and now AI & HPC technology strategist at Dell, among other career stops – is an HPC enthusiast with an outsized personality, a natural-born tech evangelist. Talk with him for 10 minutes and you want to go build a new high-speed interconnect that puts a dent in the universe. In this interview, he talks about his role at Dell aligning customers' workload objectives with technology solutions, along with his background in HPC going back to the early 1990s.The post The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Dell Strategist Jay Boisseau on the Convergence of AI and HPC – Or Is It? appeared first on insideHPC.

Ghent, Belgium / San Francisco – January 15, 2021 – Oqton, Inc., the U.S.- and Belgium-based software company specialising in AI-based manufacturing, today announces it has raised over $40M in a Series A financing round, led by Fortino Capital, a B2B software investor, by PMV, the regional Flemish investment fund, and by Sandvik, a global […]The post Oqton Inc. Raises $40+M Series A for Industry 4.0 and AI Manufacturing Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – January 14, 2021 – Rescale, the hybrid HPC cloud platform for intelligent computing for digital R&D, was recently named to Y Combinator’s Top Companies list, reaffirming their position among startups. “We’re honored to be recognized by Y Combinator on their Top Companies list for the third year in a row,” said Joris […]The post Rescale Named to Y Combinator’s Top Companies List appeared first on insideHPC.

Carlsbad, CA – January 17, 2021 – GigaIO, maker of data center network architecture and connectivity solutions, has announced a collaboration with Microchip Technology Inc. to power GigaIO’s FabreX, the native PCI Express (PCIe) Gen4 network fabric, which supports GDR, MPI, TCP/IP and NVMe-oF. FabreX technology revolutionizes rack-scale architectures, enabling software-defined, dynamically reconfigurable rack-scale systems, […]The post GigaIO and Microchip Power Native PCI Express Network Fabric for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, January 14th 2021 – Gigabyte Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced anew storage dense server, S251-3O0, for over 400TB of storage. This Intel Xeon Scalable-based server has up to 26 drive bays and seven expansion slots, while it targets software-defined storage, big data, virtualization, and media & content […]The post Gigabyte Announces High Storage Capacity S251-3O0 for the Intel Xeon Platform 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 appeared first on insideHPC.

Stirring an already roiling Intel pot, two pieces of news broke this week that could have implications for the HPC industry: a report that the company has selected TSMC as its outsourced fab of choice for one of its 7nm GPUs; and that Bob Swan, after 2.5 years as interim and permanent CEO, will be […]The post New Intel CEO Gelsinger Steps into Intel HPC Hot Spot appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco, Jan. 13, 2021 – SingleStore, database technology for cloud-native modern applications, today announced a partnership with CRG Solutions. The business performance improvement company will act as SingleStore’s value-added reseller (VAR) for India and the ASEAN markets. Together, SingleStore and CRG Solutions will enable enterprises in these parts of the world to drive insights from their […]The post CRG Solutions Cloud-Native Database Named SingleStore VAR appeared first on insideHPC.

Our friends over at Graphcore, the U.K.-based startup that launched the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018, has released a new whitepaper introducing the IPU-Machine. This second-generation platform has greater processing power, more memory and built-in scalability for handling extremely large parallel processing workloads. This paper explores the new platform and assesses its strengths and weaknesses compared to the growing cadre of potential competitors.The post The Graphcore Second Generation IPU appeared first on insideHPC.

For the 28th year in a row, IBM copped more U.S. patents than any other company, 9,130 in all, including what the company said was a “sharp uptick” in AI-related patents. Patents were awarded to more than 9,000 IBM inventors in 46 U.S. states and 54 countries. IBM said that since 1920, Big Blue has […]The post 28 Years and Running: IBM Awarded Most Patents in 2020 – a “Sharp Uptick” in AI appeared first on insideHPC.

January12, 2021 — Salute Mission Critical, the US data center services specialist that helps military veterans become IT technicians, announces its recent appointment as a deployment partner for EkkoSense’s EkkoSoft Critical SaaS 3D visualization and monitoring solution. Headquartered in Michigan, with offices across the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, UK, Germany, Poland, Chile and Argentina, Salute Mission Critical […]The post Salute Mission Critical Signs Global Agreement to Support EkkoSense Data Center Visualization and Monitoring Software appeared first on insideHPC.

January 12, 2021 — Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Nvidia are collaborating this year to integrate the Nvidia DGX Station A100 into Oxford Nanopore’s gene sequencing system, PromethION with the aim of delivering real-time analyses at scale, and can also analyze any length fragment of DNA/RNA. “The use of accelerated computing and artificial intelligence to quickly and […]The post Oxford Nanopore and Nvidia Partner DGX AI System with PromethION Genomics Sequencer appeared first on insideHPC.

This insideHPC Special Research Report, “Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers,” provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an infrastructure capable of meeting the new workload processing needs. Tyan has a wide range of bare bones server and storage hardware solutions available for organizations and enterprise customers.The post Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

Our main topic for this episode is the SolarWinds hack. This is the worst digital hacking incident to date and will have repercussions for many years. As many as 18,000 SolarWinds’ customers may have downloaded the hacked update and opened themselves up to digital mayhem and thievery. This includes many government accounts, some of the […]The post Radio Free HPC: Digital D-Day – SolarWinds Hack appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explores what is meant by “data portability,” and why it’s important. Looking at a customer pipeline, the customer context could be a software defined car, any IoT edge point, a drone, a smart home, a 5G tower, etc. In essence, we’re describing an AI pipeline which runs over an edge, runs over a core, and runs over a cloud. Therefore we have three high-level components for this pipeline.The post Workload Portability Enabled by a Modern Storage Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Both Dr. Ari Berman and the consulting company of which he is CEO, BioTeam, stand at the crossroads of scientific research and HPC. As the company says of itself: “BioTeam is primarily a group of scientists who were forced to learn IT, software development and high performance computing to get their research done.” Why “forced”? […]The post The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: BioTeam’s Ari Berman Talks HPC-Driven Life Sciences Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Jan. 7, 2021, Santa Clara, CA – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp. (ACE) (Nasdaq: ACEV), a special-purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination that would result in the combined entity […]The post FPGA Maker Achronix to List on Nasdaq Through Merger With ACE Convergence appeared first on insideHPC.

Nvidia’s intended acquisition of chip maker Arm from SoftBank, the biggest tech deal of 2020 and one with major implications for HPC and AI, is now under investigation by British regulators. A story in today’s Wall Street Journal by Stu Woo reported that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said “it was inviting third […]The post UK Antitrust Agency to Probe Nvidia Acquisition of Arm appeared first on insideHPC.

GlobusWorld, a non-profit organization that brings together researchers, systems administrators, developers and IT leaders from top research computing centers, national labs, federal agencies, and universities from around the world, will be held online May 12-14. The event is designed to provide new insights into managing research data and storage at scale, as well as building […]The post GlobusWorld to Be Held Online May 12-14 appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – Jan. 6, 2021 – Database company SingleStore, for operational analytics and modern applications, today unveiled native support for AWS Glue, expanding its cloud data integration. This enables developers, data engineers, and data scientists to build with SingleStore on Amazon Web Services (AWS) more easily. AWS Glue is a serverless data preparation service […]The post SingleStore Adds AWS Glue for Simpler Cloud Data Integration appeared first on insideHPC.

Jim Keller, one of the leading names in HPC, AI and data center chip architecture, has landed at a Toronto hardware startup developing AI chips after a two-year stint at Intel that ended “for personal reasons,” according to the company, last June. Keller has been named president, chief technology officer and a board member of Tenstorrent, which said in its announcement that Keller “will lead Tenstorrent’s efforts to be the hardware solution needed to address Software 2.0....The post Intel-Apple-AMD-Tesla Chip Architect Jim Keller Joins AI Startup Tenstorrent appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK, Jan. 6, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a global leader in quantum computing software and algorithms, has announced the appointment of Oxford University Professor Bob Coecke as its chief scientist. Coecke who has previously served as senior scientific advisor to CQC with a focus on developing a Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) capability, […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Appoints Oxford Professor Bob Coecke as Chief Scientist appeared first on insideHPC.

In advance of the scheduled shipment this year of the U.S.’s first exascale supercomputer, Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, an international team of software developers led by a University of Delaware professor is working on a plasma physics application. An article published yesterday in the university’s UDaily by Tracey Bryant details the work underway […]The post Update from the Frontier of Exascale Software Development appeared first on insideHPC.

Frankfurt am Main – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), a provider of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, has announced the extension of a customer contract of a volume of ASIC chips worth USD $100 million. The existing customer, from the bitcoin mining sector, is making use of an extension option, which it drew at […]The post Northern Data: Existing Bitcoin Mining Customer Expands Contract Volume by More Than 200MW appeared first on insideHPC.

Annual technology predictions are like years: some are better than others. Nonetheless, many provide useful insight and serve as the basis for worthwhile discussion. Over the last few months we received a number of HPC and AI predictions for 2021, here are the most interesting and potentially valid. Let’s check in 12 months from now […]The post HPC Predictions 2021: Quantum Beyond Qubits, Rising Composable and Memory-Centric Tide, Neural Network Explosion and 5G’s Slow March appeared first on insideHPC.

Bristol, UK — Graphcore announced it has raised $222m of investment to help support the company’s global expansion and accelerate future IPU silicon, systems and software development. The Series E funding round is led by Ontario Teachers’ Pensions Plan Board and adds funds managed by Fidelity International and Schroders as new investors. Also participating in this round are existing Graphcore investors, […]The post Graphcore Announces $222M Series E Funding Round appeared first on insideHPC.

This insideHPC Special Research Report, “Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers,” provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an infrastructure capable of meeting the new workload processing needs. Tyan has a wide range of bare bones server and storage hardware solutions available for organizations and enterprise customers.The post Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

After a late fall hiatus, Radio Free HPC is back, baby. This is our holiday episode and we start by pledging to be 29 percent more scintillating in the new year, which is a significant bonus for listeners if we can hit that mark. The theme of the show is HPC: High Performance Christmas. We […]The post Radio Free HPC: High Performance Christmas Episode appeared first on insideHPC.

Supercomputing is bringing seismic change to earthquake science. A field that historically has predicted by looking back now is moving forward with HPC and physics-based models to comprehensively simulate the earthquake process, end to end. In this episode of the "Let's Talk Exascale" podcast series from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), David McCallen, leader of ECP’s Earthquake Sim (EQSIM) subproject, discusses his team’s work to help improve the design of more quake-resilient buildings and bridges.The post ‘Let’s Talk Exascale’: How Supercomputing Is Shaking Up Earthquake Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week, we issued an update on a fund drive in memory of one of the HPC community’s most beloved figures, the late Rich Brueckner. We’re happy to report that many generous souls – many of them friends of Rich’s, no doubt – were spurred to drive the fund past its initial goal of $5,000. […]The post Holiday Week Update: HPC Community Funds Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards to Goal – and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

This insideHPC Special Research Report, "Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers," provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an infrastructure capable of meeting the new workload processing needs. Tyan has a wide range of bare bones server and storage hardware solutions available for organizations and enterprise customers.The post Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

Moscow, December 23, 2020 — International non-profit The Good Hope Net project aimed to develop treatment and diagnostic tools to fight against COVID-19 coronavirus infection, supported by RSC Group, has reported its 2020 results and announced plans for the future. The Good Hope Net project includes 21 science and research organizations from 8 countries at the moment: Russia, Finland, Italy, […]The post The Good Hope Net Project and Russian Supercomputer Announce New COVID Milestone appeared first on insideHPC.

Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 23, 2020 — Woolpert has acquired Data Cloud Solutions, LLC, a systems integrator, cloud solutions provider and consulting services firm based in Springfield, Ohio. DCS, maker of integrated CAMA solutions, provides software-as-a-service products and data applications for private and government sector clients. DCS collects, reviews and manages large volumes of data, and specializes in […]The post Woolpert Acquires Data Cloud Solutions to Expand Data Visualization and Awareness to New, Existing Markets appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), review how QCT brings out the concept called QCT Platform on Demand (QCT POD), which is a converged framework with a flexible infrastructure for customers running different workloads. Under this concept, QCT develops the QCT POD for Medical (QPM) that is an on-premise rack-level system with common building blocks designed to provide greater flexibility and scalability, aimed to meet different medical workload demands using HPC and DL technologies, including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Molecular Dynamics (MD), and Medical Image Recognition.The post QPM Address Medical Life Sciences Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

In this interview, we speak with Garima Kochbar and Michael Pittaro, distinguished engineers at the Dell EMC HPC & AI Innovation Lab, which designs solutions at the leading edge of emerging technologies. Both of them are active with the Dell Technologies HPC Community, both share the latest advances from the lab with community participants and […]The post The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: 2 Dell Distinguished Engineers Talk Compute Optimization and Extreme Scaling Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

SiPearl, the company designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, is joining ETP4HPC, an association that groups together the leading European players for high performance computing technologies. From technology suppliers to research centres, software companies, service providers or end users, the members of this major think-tank, created in 2012, are driven by […]The post SiPearl Joins ETP4HPC to Help Drive Europe’s Sovereignty for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Data presented by Bankr indicates that the 5G technology global coverage will grow by 253.84 percent in the next five years. By 2025, about 53 percent of the global population at 4.14 billion will have access to the technology. By 2021, the network coverage will reach an estimated 1.95 billion people representing about 25 percent of […]The post Report: Global 5G Coverage to Grow 253% by 2025 appeared first on insideHPC.

The year 2020 will stand out in our memories, and sad to say, many of those memories are not happy ones. In the HPC community, this includes the untimely passing in May of Rich Brueckner, editor-in-chief of this publication and one of the most popular and respected people in HPC. With his dedication to this […]The post Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards: The HPC Community Steps Up appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, December 22nd 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced GIGABYTE as one of the founding members of MLCommons, an open engineering consortium with the goal of accelerating machine learning with benchmarking, large-scale open data sets, and best practices that are community-driven. In 2018, a group […]The post GIGABYTE Joins MLCommons to Accelerate the Machine Learning Community appeared first on insideHPC.

In this comprehensive technology white paper, "Massive Scalable Cloud Storage for Cloud Native Applications,"written by Evaluator Group, Inc. on behalf of Red Hat, we delve into OpenShift, a key component of Red Hat's portfolio of products designed for cloud native applications. It is built on top of Kubernetes, along with numerous other open source components, to deliver a consistent developer and operator platform that can run across a hybrid environment and scale to meet the demands of enterprises. Ceph open source storage technology is utilized by Red Hat to provide a data plane for Red Hat's OpenShift environment.The post Massive Scalable Cloud Storage for Cloud Native Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

AI company Beyond Limits today said it will collaborate with Nvidia on joint strategies leveraging Nvidia technical support and GPU-optimized AI software, including containers, models and application frameworks from the Nvidia NGC catalog, to improve Beyond Limits’ software development cycle. “AI has the potential to make a major impact on problems facing the heart of […]The post Beyond Limits Aligns its AI with Nvidia in Energy Discovery Sector appeared first on insideHPC.

New York, December 18, 2020 — Accern Corporation, a no-code, artificial intelligence (AI) company, today released an upgrade of its platform providing designed for easy navigation, accelerated performance and customizable features. Data science, product and technology teams can use Accern’s platform to accelerate the implementation of AI and machine learning (ML) into their workflows without […]The post Accern Upgrades No-Code, AI Platform with Features for Financial Services appeared first on insideHPC.

Hampshire, UK – A study from Juniper Research has found that network operator spend on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020, to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network capacities and infrastructure to support the increasing data generated by 5G networks. The study also revealed that […]The post Juniper Research: Driven by 5G, Edge Computing Investment by Network Operators to Hit $8.3B by 2025 appeared first on insideHPC.