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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.

21st December 2020, London – The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today reported that 2020 has seen sustained investment in, and deployment of, 5G globally, with over 85 live networks and 300 devices now commercially available. GSA also confirmed annual growth in new members and associates off the back of new working groups and research […]The post GSA: 5G Passes Network and Device Milestones in 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

This whitepaper, "Unleash the Future of Innovation with HPC & AI," reviews how cutting-edge solutions from Supermicro and NVIDIA are enabling customers to transform and capitalize on HPC and AI innovation. Data is the driving force for success in the global marketplace. Data volumes are erupting in size and complexity as organizations work to collect, analyze, and derive intelligence from a growing number of sources and devices. These workloads are critical to powering applications that translate insight into business value.The post Unleash the Future of Innovation with HPC & AI appeared first on insideHPC.

The following is a blog announcement from Arm: Released in February, the Arm Cortex-M55 CPU became a milestone for the Arm ecosystem because it gave hardware and software developers the power to incorporate machine learning capabilities into the billions of IoT products coming to market. It also was the first time Arm leveraged Arm-based AWS Graviton2 […]The post Arm Moves Production-Level EDA to the Cloud with the Help of AWS appeared first on insideHPC.

Nvidia has issued a blog announcing the availability of more than 20 NGC software resources for free in AWS Marketplace, targeting deployments in healthcare, conversational AI, HPC, robotics and data science. The company’s NGC catalogue provides GPU-optimized software for machine/deep learning and high-performance computing, and the new offering on AWS Marketplace is designed “to help […]The post Nvidia Launches AI, HPC Storefront on AWS Marketplace appeared first on insideHPC.

Chatsworth, CA — DDN, provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and data management software and hardware solutions enabling Intelligent Infrastructure, today announced that its AI-focused storage solution, EXAScaler, has been adopted as the dedicated storage of the supercomputer system “AI Bridging Green Cloud Infrastructure,” which is currently being developed between Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science […]The post DDN’s Storage Adopted for ‘AI Bridging Green Cloud Infrastructure’ Supercomputer in Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

Fremont, CA, December 15, 2020 – AMAX’s HPC and AI Solution Group announced that it is now offering a wide selection of AceleMax workstations for AI, rendering and visualization featuring the new NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU. These powerful professional GPU workstations deliver unprecedented performance and features that will allow researchers, scientists and designers to accelerate […]The post AMAX Extends Line of Workstations to Support Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Dublin and Paris – 17 December 2020 – Atos today announces it will deliver its first GPU-accelerated Atos Quantum Learning Machine Enhanced (Atos QLM E), the world’s highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, to the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC). The Atos QLM E will be integrated with the Irish national supercomputer ‘Kay’ and equipped with […]The post Atos GPU-Accelerated Quantum System to the Irish Centre for High-End Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this interview, we hear from two leaders of Women in HPC, the worldwide organization that encourages, mentors and supports women and addresses gender issues in the high performance computing industry. Speaking for the organization are Lorna Rivera, research scientist in program evaluation at the Georgia Tech Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing […]The post An Update from Women in HPC – Expanding Membership and Mission appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,”as we’ll see, by relying on open source software and the latest high performance/low cost system architectures, it is possible to build scalable hybrid on-premises solutions that satisfy the needs of converged HPC/AI workloads while being robust and easily manageable.The post insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 4 appeared first on insideHPC.

Dallas, Dec. 15, 2020 — Nimbix, the high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform provider, today announced support for the Arm architecture in its JARVICE XE Enterprise HPC platform. With its latest software release, Nimbix said JARVICE XE becomes the first container-native HPC hybrid cloud platform to support all major CPU architectures, including the latest groundbreaking performance offered by […]The post Nimbix Announces First Multi-cloud HPC Platform with Arm Support appeared first on insideHPC.

The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning 1 June 2021. More information is available here. For this call additional resources and services are available from EUDAT for data management. Details: Opening date: 16 December 2020, 12:00 UTC […]The post PRACE: Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 and EUDAT appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK, December 16, 2020 — Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a specialist in quantum software and quantum algorithms designed to leverage quantum hardware, today announced it will apply much of its recent fundraise on helping clients achieve near-term quantum solutions in their businesses. Last week the company announced a $45 million financing, the largest private investment ever announced […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Investing in Cybersecurity, Other Near-Term Quantum Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

This ESG Technical Validation documents remote testing of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage with a focus on the ease of use and breadth of data services. Containers have become an important part of data center modernization. They simplify building, packaging, and deploying applications, and are hardware agnostic and designed for agility—they can run on physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure and can be moved around as needed.The post Simplifying Persistent Container Storage for the Open Hybrid Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif. – December 16, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), specializing in high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage, today announced that Weka File System (WekaFS), with its Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in, has completed interoperability testing with Rancher Labs’ Kubernetes management platform. Together, the companies will offer enterprises an integrated, end-to-end tested solution for DataOps. […]The post WekaIO and Rancher Labs in Alliance to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments appeared first on insideHPC.

CEA, the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission, today presented what it said is a path to European exascale utilizing technologies that combine “finer 3D interconnect paths for greater bandwidth between chiplets” within heterogenous nodes made up of generic processors. In an invited paper released at the IDEM 2020 (International Electron Devices Meeting) conference […]The post CEA Outlines Indigenous Path to European Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose — Dec. 15, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the expansion of its Executive Leadership Team with the appointment of Brian Pawlowski as Chief Development Officer, alongside two senior executives to accelerate Quantum’s software-defined infrastructure and international growth. With more than 35 years of technical development and leadership experience, Pawlowski will drive software innovation […]The post Quantum Corp. Names Brian Pawlowski Chief Development Officer appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – December 15, 2020 — The TrueNAS Open Storage portfolio was expanded today with the addition of TrueCommand Cloud – a cloud-based service for 24×365 TrueNAS management. An upgrade to the iXsystems Channel Partner Program, the cloud-based management software for TrueNAS deployments enables services for partners moving into managed storage service delivery. The […]The post iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Hybrid Cloud SaaS for MSPs appeared first on insideHPC.

London, December 15, 2020 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced two senior director appointments to underpin its next phase of campus growth and bolster its leadership team. Following the recent appointment of CEO Lee Myall, Rod Faul joins as Senior Client Director […]The post Kao Data Announces Two Senior Director Appointments appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, Colo. – December 15, 2020 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that XenData has joined the organization, promoting modern strategies to solve data growth challenges. XenData joins a growing number of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that together support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management. “We’re pleased to welcome XenData to the Active Archive Alliance,” said […]The post XenData Joins Active Archive Alliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Dec. 15, 2020 — The Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) announced two new specifications targeted for 50Gbps per lane applications: LR1 and LR4 for 10 kilometers, based on the CWDM4 wavelength grid, over a single mode fiber. These new specifications complement the Open Eye MSA’s previously released single and multi-mode specifications. The Open Eye […]The post Open Eye Consortium Announces 50Gbps LR1 and LR4 Specs for 5G appeared first on insideHPC.

Herndon, VA, – December 15, 2020 – ​EdgeConneX​, developer of edge data centers, has announced Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is now available at its Atlanta data center campus, ATL01 and ATL02. This addition increases high capacity connectivity options for enterprises and service providers, offering them more speed and scalability to meet their expanding network needs. […]The post EdgeConneX Increases Interconnection Options at Atlanta Data Center Campus with Bandwidth IG appeared first on insideHPC.

Mountain View, Calif. – December 15, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) today announced the availability of Pure as-a-Service in AWS Marketplace and a new Cloud Block Store Efficiency Guarantee program. Pure Storage works with AWS to drive applications that run across AWS Regions and AWS Outposts and leverage the agility and innovation of private, edge, SaaS and clouds simultaneously. Today’s announcements are […]The post Pure Storage Announces Pure as-a-Service in AWS appeared first on insideHPC.

Dec. 14 – A memorandum of understanding between ICM University of Warsaw, Poland and Tokyo based The Systems Biology Institute (SBI) which was signed recently signals a beginning of a research and development collaboration between the two entities. The main areas of interaction will be the collaboration on and the use of scientific software platforms, […]The post ICM and SBI to Collaborate on Use of Garuda, Other Scientific Software Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose, — Dec. 14, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced it has acquired Square Box Systems Ltd, a specialist in data cataloging, user collaboration, and digital asset management software. The acquisition builds on Quantum’s recently expanded portfolio that classifies, manages, and protects data across its lifecycle by adding technology advancements to further enrich video, digital images and […]The post Quantum Acquires Digital Asset Management Specialist Square Box Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Southampton, UK – 14 December 2020: AccelerComm, the 5G spectrum efficiency IP specialist, today announced that it has joined The O-RAN ALLIANCE, an industry association with a mission to re-shape mobile networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable without compromising performance. AccelerComm will contribute to the technical development of O-RAN standards, bringing its […]The post AccelerComm Joins The O-RAN Alliance for Interoperability and Spectral Efficiency for Open 5G Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following today, an update by staff science writer Coury Turczyn, on progress made in the construction of a data center capable of supporting ORNL’s Frontier exascale system, scheduled for installation next year. When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new exascale supercomputer, Frontier, completes installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory […]The post Building an Exascale-Class Data Center for ORNL’s Incoming Frontier Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK – December 14, 2020 – Arm today announced that Telechips, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in automotive applications, has selected a leading-edge suite of Arm IP for its next-generation automotive system-on-chip (SoC), the Dolphin5, which is designed for applications such as Advanced Driver-assistance Systems (ADAS) and digital cockpit, including IVI Systems. To meet Telechips’ high performance, […]The post Telechips Picks Arm IP for Automotive SoC appeared first on insideHPC.

Add the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) to the list of supercomputing organizations going from CPU-only to CPU-GPU architectures. HLRS announced this morning it will add Nvidia graphic processing units to its Hawk supercomputer, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Apollo system installed last February. One of Europe’s most powerful HPC systems, […]The post University of Stuttgart’s Hawk HPC System to Go CPU-GPU for Deep Learning Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

In this whitepaper, "Deep Learning GPU Cluster," our friends over at Lambda walk you through the Lambda Echelon multi-node cluster reference design: a node design, a rack design, and an entire cluster level architecture. This document is for technical decision-makers and engineers. You’ll learn about the Echelon’s compute, storage, networking, power distribution, and thermal design. This is not a cluster administration handbook, this is a high level technical overview of one possible system architecture.The post Deep Learning GPU Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

Sunnywale, CA — The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), in collaboration with the ISC Group, organizers of Europe’s premier HPC forum, today announced the annual team selections for the 2021 ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC). Challenging international students in a real-time contest, the competition is a key component of HPCAIAC’s mission to extend knowledge and education […]The post HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces Student Teams Competing in the 11th Annual ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Seattle – Amazon Web Services has announced that Arm, a global leader in semiconductor design and silicon intellectual property development and licensing, will leverage AWS for its cloud use, including the vast majority of its electronic design automation (EDA) workloads. Arm is migrating EDA workloads to AWS, leveraging AWS Graviton2-based instances (powered by Arm Neoverse […]The post AWS and Arm Demonstrate Electronic Design Automation in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose — Dec. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that its ActiveScale object storage platform automatically complies with the new strong consistency requirements for compatibility with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) applications. To claim AWS S3 compliance following the recent S3 update, object storage systems must ensure strong consistency. Strong consistency refers to the availability of data […]The post Quantum Corp. Says ActiveScale Meets Consistency Requirements for Amazon S3 Compatibility appeared first on insideHPC.

December 11, 2020 – Coordinated by the ETP4HPC, the TransContinuum Initiative (TCI) is the union of related digital technologies which offers solutions for the operation of complex data workflow systems. In this continuum, HPC plays a central role as the engine propelling AI, Big Data, IoT, Cybersecurity, and Mathematical components to work together. TCI is developing […]The post 8 European Associations Commit to TransContinuum Initiative for EU R&D Cross-domain Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

Valencia, Spain — Cobham Gaisler, a leading space design center of Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), announced that fent Innovative Software Solutions (fentISS), a developer of software solutions specifically designed for critical real-time embedded partitioned systems, has agreed to mutually promote flagship products NOEL-V and LEON5 processors and the XtratuM Next Generation (XNG) hypervisor. Promoting […]The post Cobham Gaisler and fentISS Deepen Collaboration around RISC-V appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,”as we’ll see, by relying on open source software and the latest high performance/low cost system architectures, it is possible to build scalable hybrid on-premises solutions that satisfy the needs of converged HPC/AI workloads while being robust and easily manageable.The post insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

UK-based Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a quantum software and algorithm specialist, today released researcher papers on its use of quantum computing to develop intuitive, “meaning-aware” natural language processing (QNLP).A focal point of artificial intelligence inquiry, NLP that is contextual, that comprehends emotion, nuance, even humor, is NLP’s most advanced and challenging form.The post Cambridge Quantum Reports Progress toward ‘Meaning Aware’ NLP appeared first on insideHPC.

London – 10 December 2020 – Quantum software company Phasecraft today closed what it said is a record seed round for a quantum computing company in the UK. Its new £3.7m in funding is led by VC firm LocalGlobe, along with Episode1 and previous investors. Phasecraft previously raised a £750,000 pre-seed round led by UCL […]The post UK Quantum Company Phasecraft Announces Seed Funding Round appeared first on insideHPC.