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At Virtual SC20, we caught up with HPE’s Michael Woodacre, HPE Fellow and chief technology officer of HPC & Mission Critical Systems, who updated us on the company’s involvement with all three of the U.S.’s first exascale systems, scheduled for delivery starting next year. Woodacre, who comes from a heritage with SGI, which was acquired […]The post At Virtual SC: HPE CTO Michael Woodacre Talks Progress toward Exascale and How HPC & AI Work in Tandem to Fight Disease appeared first on insideHPC.

We caught up at Virtual SC20 with two of Bright Computing’s senior execs, CEO Bill Wagner and CTO Martijn de Vries. Bright is a maker of software for deploying and managing high-performance clusters, and Wagner talking about a top priority for the company of late: Bright Cluster Manager v9.1 supporting “the new era of HPC”: […]The post At Virtual SC20: Bright Computing Talks the ‘New Era of HPC,’ Bright Cluster Manager 9.1 and Cluster-as-a-Service appeared first on insideHPC.

At Virtual SC20, we checked in with Penguin Computing Chief Strategy Officer Matt Jacobs, who is helping guide the company’s rapidly expanding reach, encompassing HPC, AI, on and off premises, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and anywhere else that enables customers to aggregate and slice-and-dice their compute resources within, as Jacobs tells us, “a singular continuum.” Addressing […]The post At Virtual SC20: Catching up with Penguin Computing’s Expanding HPC Reach appeared first on insideHPC.

At Virtual SC20, we sat down with Mike Scriber, he’s Supermicro’s senior director, server solution management, to talk about three supercomputing clusters the company has installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They are the 1500-node ‘Ruby‘ (targeting COVID-19 research), the GPU-dense Corona (the name pre-dates the current pandemic) and the memory-rich ‘Mammoth‘. Supermicro, which specializes […]The post At Virtual SC20: How to Build a Supercomputer – Supermicro Showcases 3 LLNL HPC Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.

At Virtual SC20, Dr. Rene Meyer, VP of technology at AMAX Information Technologies, spent time with us explaining developments and trends driving new levels of HPC-class performance in support of advanced AI solutions. AMAX is focused on application-tailored cloud, data center, open architecture platforms, HPC, deep learning and OEM server manufacturing solutions. The company’s customers […]The post At Virtual SC20: AMAX Pushes the CPU-GPU Compute Envelop with PCIe Gen 4 for HPC/AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Nvidia today unveiled the A100 80GB GPU for the Nvidia HGXTM AI supercomputing platform with twice the memory of its predecessor. The new chip with HBM2e doubles the A100 40GB GPU’s high-bandwidth memory to 80GB and delivers more than 2TB/sec of memory bandwidth, according to Nvidia. The A100 80GB GPU is available in Nvidia DGX […]The post Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU appeared first on insideHPC.

Austin, TX – November 13, 2020 – The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Version 5.1 of the OpenMP API. With this release of the standard, OpenMP strengthens its handling of accelerator devices, allows improved optimization and supports the latest versions of C, C++ and Fortran. “OpenMP 5.1 represents the culmination of the past […]The post OpenMP ARB Releases OpenMP 5.1 appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose, November 12, 2020 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today announced that it has deployed an additional cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to augment existing computing capabilities available for national security and to help discover therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2, […]The post Supermicro Liquid-Cooled ‘Ruby’ HPC Cluster Deployed at LLNL for COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University has installed an HPC system employing the same processor technology as the world’s top-ranked supercomputer, the Fugaku system at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan. Available to researchers as a testbed, Ookami (which means wolf in Japanese) is run by IACS in […]The post Arm-based ‘Ookami’ Supercomputer Installed at Stony Brook appeared first on insideHPC.

As you plan for next week’s Virtual SC20, we thought it would be helpful to ask four HPC industry experts for guidance regarding the sessions, trends, news and other highlights worthy of your attention coming out of what one of our panelists, Dr. Thomas Sterling of the University of Indiana (and of Beowulf cluster pioneering fame), described as “a diverse and rich” program agenda.The post Where to Go and What to Do at Virtual SC20: These HPC Experts Give Guidance appeared first on insideHPC.

Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today unveiled its data and storage management platform – Quantum ATFS, the first network-attached storage platform to integrate real-time data classification and insights with the needs of applications, determining how storage resources are allocated and consumed, according to the company. “Data insights enable organizations to visualize data without the constraints of […]The post Quantum Combines Data Management and Storage in New Platform – ATFS appeared first on insideHPC.

Kaiserslautern Germany, November 12th, 2020 – ThinkParQ, the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the appointment of industry pioneer and innovative visionary Dr. Peter Braam as Chief Technical Officer. Widely respected and renowned in the HPC community for his entrepreneurial leadership and vision in computing architecture and R&D, Braam brings an extensive […]The post Dr. Peter Braam Joins ThinkParQ as CTO appeared first on insideHPC.

The study results summarized in this white paper show that firms are already using workstations to lower the cost, increase the security, and speed up their AI infrastructure. The addition of workstations into a firms AI workflow allows servers and cloud platforms to be tasked with business cases that require more robust computing while workstations take on tasks with longer time frames and smaller budgets.The post Using Workstations To Reshape Your Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

12 November 2020, Sheffield, UK: The Iceotope, Avnet and Schneider Electric partnership to jointly develop chassis-level immersion cooled data centre solutions has been joined by Lenovo to deploy its ThinkSystem SR670 servers in a highly scalable, GPU-rich, liquid-cooled Micro Data Centre solution. Sealed at chassis level, the new solution enables artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning […]The post Iceotope and Lenovo Partner for Edge HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Chandler, AZ, November 10, 2020 – Microchip Technology Inc. announced today the XpressConnect family of low-latency PCI Express (PCIe®) 5.0 and Compute Express Link™ (CXLTM) 1.1/2.0 retimers. XpressConnect retimers triple the reach of PCIe Gen 5 electrical signals, which enables data center equipment providers to harness the next generational advancement in compute IO performance while […]The post Microchip Announces PCI Express 5.0 and CXLTM 2.0 Retimers appeared first on insideHPC.

The CXL Consortium has announced the release of the Compute Express Link 2.0 specification, which adds support for switching for fan-out to connect to more devices; memory pooling for increased memory utilization efficiency and providing memory capacity on demand; and support for persistent memory – while preserving industry investments by supporting full backwards compatibility with […]The post CXL Consortium Releases Compute Express Link 2.0 Spec appeared first on insideHPC.

Nov. 11, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), a specialist in high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage, today announced that Weka AI was honored with Flash Memory Summit’s 2020 Best of Show Award for Most Innovative AI (Artificial Intelligence) Application at today’s FMS virtual awards ceremony. FMS, the storage industry conference focused on flash technology innovation, has recognized the […]The post WekaIO Wins Best of Show for Innovative AI Application at Flash Memory Summit appeared first on insideHPC.

Duncan, SC (Nov. 9, 2020) — At virtual SC20, held online November 17 -19, Stäubli, a manufacturer of quick-release coupling systems for IT/liquid cooling, will be digitally highlighting the new DAG coupling this year. The DAG range has been designed for perfect integration in installations such as data centers or super computers, combining three major […]The post Stäubli to Highlight New Cooling Connectors at Virtual SC20 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the availability of the Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) v1.2 release. ECP, a collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the E4S is a community effort to provide open source software packages for developing, deploying and running […]The post Exascale Computing Project Issues New Release of Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – Nov. 11, 2020 – Excelero, maker of software-defined block storage for AI/ML/deep learning and GPU computing, has deployed its solution for a new high-performance storage architecture at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) to support its fundamental research on COVID-19 and other diseases. While the Excelero solution is hardware agnostic, LJI utilized […]The post La Jolla Institute for Immunology Optimizes COVID-19 Research with Excelero appeared first on insideHPC.

Espoo, Finland, 10th November 2020 – IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a European builder of superconducting quantum computers, today announced that it has raised €39M in Series A funding, bringing the total amount of funding raised to date to €71M. MIG Fonds has led this round, with participation from all existing investors including Tesi, OpenOcean, Maki.vc, […]The post IQM Quantum Raises €39M in Series A Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year development agreement to enhance the security and artificial intelligence offerings of both companies. The effort builds on open-source software, open standards and open system architectures to drive Confidential Computing in the cloud (see below) and support accelerators across high-performance computing and enterprise critical capabilities such as virtualization and […]The post IBM and AMD in ‘Confidential Computing’ Agreement for Cloud and AI Acceleration appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) has announced a suite of NVMe SSDs for enabling data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. It includes the Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe SSD for designing a more efficient data center storage tier with competitive TCO; the Western Digital IX SN530 Industrial SSD for the extreme […]The post Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures appeared first on insideHPC.

Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today unveiled an expansion of its portfolio to help customers classify, manage and protect video and unstructured data across its lifecycle. The company said addressing the need to manage data end to end – on premises or in the cloud – “is another key step in Quantum’s strategy to be the […]The post Quantum Expands Unstructured Data Management Portfolio appeared first on insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), has announced shipment of what the company said is the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory, “achieving unprecedented, industry-pioneering density and performance. Together, Micron’s new 176-layer technology and advanced architecture represent a radical breakthrough, enabling immense gains in application performance across a range of storage use […]The post Micron Ships 176-Layer NAND appeared first on insideHPC.

In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide solutions for a wide array of needs for more strategic cultivation of oil and gas energy reserves. We’ll explore how the dynamic confluence of HPC and AI is now considered essential to any organization involved in energy exploration and the process of bringing the resulting energy resources to market.The post insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – Nov 9, 2020 Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a suite of new NVMe SSDs for enabling next-generation, data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. The new family includes the Ultrastar® DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe™ SSD for designing a more efficient data center storage tier with competitive TCO; the Western Digital® IX […]The post Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures in the Zettabyte Era appeared first on insideHPC.

Lake Forest, CA, Nov. 10, 2020 – PSSC Labs, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) and big data computing solutions, today announced that Nvidia, inventor and leading provider of GPUs for AI and machine learning, has named PSSC Labs a Preferred Partner. Through this partnership PSSC Labs will provide custom configured […]The post PSSC Labs Named Nvidia Preferred Solution Partner appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) announces new Dell EMC Ready Solutions and high-performance computing (HPC) cloud service provider collaborations to accelerate AI and advanced computing innovation in healthcare, life sciences and manufacturing. The new Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Genomics is engineered to help companies get systems for genomic analysis into production. Modular building blocks with […]The post Dell Launches Ready Solutions and HPC Cloud Collaborations for AI, Life Sciences, Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Tim Miller, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems (OSS), suggests that for AI inferencing platforms, the data must be processed in real time to make the split-second decisions that are required to maximize effectiveness. Without compromising the size of the data set, the best way to scale the model training speed is to add modular data processing nodes.The post AI Workflow Scalability through Expansion appeared first on insideHPC.

In this white paper sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a look at AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment where an increasing demand for digital media content creates need for faster rendering options. The ongoing increase in the use of visual effects (VFX) and computer-generated imagery (CGI) and animation in digital content media creation for television, movies, and streaming services has accelerated the amount of material that requires rendering, from a workstation to a data center render farm environment.The post insideHPC Guide to AI and HPC in Media & Entertainment – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

Berlin – The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) Scientific Steering Committee just approved 16 new scientifically demanding simulation projects during its 24th call for large-scale projects. Representing scientific disciplines ranging from fluid mechanics to elementary particle physics, the projects all leverage Germany’s leading highperformance computing (HPC) resources to help solve some of humanity’s most challenging […]The post Projects Picked for Gauss Centre’s Hawk and JUWELS HPC Systems in the 24th Large-Scale Call appeared first on insideHPC.

London – (November 9, 2020) – SoftIron Ltd., a maker of task-specific data center solutions, today announced it has joined the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) Consortium, which supports the development of free open source software for data discovery, workflow automation, secure collaboration, and data virtualization. In joining the consortium, whose data management platform is […]The post SoftIron Joins iRODS Consortium; Certifies HyperDrive Compatibility with iRODS Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory will share their latest advances in high performance computing (HPC) at SC20, held virtually Nov. 9–19, 2020. More than 90 Argonne researchers will contribute to conference activities and studies on topics from exascale computing and big data analysis to artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and […]The post Argonne to Share Scientific HPC Advances at SC20 appeared first on insideHPC.

Data librarians currently manage far bigger data libraries and policy decisions regarding retention, quotas, file system performance, etc. require the consensus of those tasked with this challenge of curation. Decisions also have to be made regarding the federation of data sites promoting collaboration. In many instances the results of these policy decisions must be auditable to satisfy funding organizations as well as government entities.How does a data librarian cope with these challenges always assuring that institutional policies are adhered to? Once assured of a collaborative environment, how does a researcher discover pertinent materials in her field?The post Curating, Discovering and Disseminating HPC Research Elements Using iRODS appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, Colorado – November 5, 2020 – ColdQuanta, the quantum atomics company, today announced it has raised $32M in Series A funding, with additional funding expected to close soon. The round was co-led by Global Frontier Investments and LCP Quantum Partners, with current investor Maverick Ventures and new investor Foundry Group also participating. The funding […]The post ColdQuanta Raises $32M in Series A Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

Santa Clara, Calif.– Nov. 5, 2020 –Ayar Labs has announced the completion of a $35M Series B financing co-led by Downing Ventures and BlueSky Capital. New investors include Applied Ventures, LLC, Castor Ventures, Downing Ventures (U.K.), and SGInnovate (Singapore), expanding Ayar Labs’ investor base with strategic ecosystem and global investors. Existing investor participation includes BlueSky […]The post Optical I/O Specialist Ayar Labs Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — UberCloud has announced its next-generation HPC Application Platform, designed to support the way enterprises run HPC applications today. With cloud providers offering improved security, better cost/performance, and seemingly endless compute capacity, more enterprises are turning to cloud for their HPC workloads. However, many companies are finding that replicating an existing on-premise HPC […]The post UberCloud Releases Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud HPC Application Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Amsterdam, Netherlands – Wednesday, November 4, 2020 – Today, Bright Computing, maker of Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced that DHI Group has upgraded its supercomputer, which now includes Bright Cluster Manager, to support its HPC environment to extend to the public cloud for additional resources when needed to […]The post DHI Group Picks Bright Cluster Manager for Supercomputer Capacity Planning appeared first on insideHPC.

Call it counterintuitive reverse psychology. Q-CTRL, a startup that applies control engineering to quantum technology development, today announced that its newly hired quantum education advisor is a writer of children’s books. Perhaps Chris Ferrie’s approach will prove effective for investors, IT strategists and marketing managers who are required to deal with quantum computing but who […]The post Child’s Play: Kids Book Author Named Q-CTRL Quantum Education Advisor appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, November 5th 2020 – Gigabyte Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced the Gigabyte MJ11-EC0 for the power-efficient embedded market. Real-time computing in a mini-ITX form factor is possible with rich features. Embedded solutions typically deploy in industrial automation, IoT, and medical machines; yet these cost-effective platforms are also used […]The post Gigabyte Launches Embedded mini-ITX Motherboard for the AMD EPYC Embedded 3151 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Sponsored Post, our friends over at Altair discuss how for those of us in high-performance computing, fall means gearing up for the annual SC conference — the biggest supercomputing event of the year. SC has gone virtual in 2020, and Altair experts will be on hand November 17–19 with all the details about the monumental updates and additions we’ve made to Altair’s enterprise computing and HPC solutions in 2020 that are helping organizations drive innovation forward, even in a year full of unprecedented challenges.The post Wrapping Up a Big Year for HPC at SC20 appeared first on insideHPC.

In the run-up to SC2020, the HPC industry’s other major conference coming up next year, ISC 2021, announced today that the confab will be a virtual event. “The Covid19 pandemic continues to pose great uncertainty to conference organizers, including us at ISC High Performance,” the conference stated in its announcement. “In all likelihood, the unpredictability […]The post ISC 2021 Will Be Virtual appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK, Nov. 4, 2020 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced an agreement with Honeywell Quantum Solutions establishing access to Honeywell’s recently announced premium quantum computer – the System Model H1. Featuring Honeywell’s quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) trapped ion technology, the System Model H1 offers 10 fully connected qubits and a proven quantum volume of 128 – […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Joins Companies with Access to Honeywell’s Newly Launched Quantum Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

The results of a recent survey commissioned by Dell and executed by Forrester summarized in this white paper, "A Checklist For Artificial Intelligence On Workstations," have indicated a quarter of firms are actually using workstations today to run core AI business applications and are experiencing the benefits that workstations can offer. Workstations can handle core AI functionality like pre-trained vertical solutions, image and video analysis, data science, and natural language generation. They do so for applications where data security is a priority but where timelines are more flexible, or cost is a greater consideration compared with running these workloads in data centers or in the public cloud.The post A Checklist For Artificial Intelligence On Workstations appeared first on insideHPC.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and partners AMD, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks have installed a high performance computing cluster with memory and data storage capabilities targeting data-intensive COVID-19 research workloads. The Cornelis interconnect used in the “Mammoth” cluster is based on Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) technology, which Intel announced last year it would no longer support […]The post AMD-Supermicro-Cornelis (Omni-Path) ‘Mammoth’ Cluster at LLNL Targets COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to provide up to $32 million for research to advance the development of sophisticated software for the chemical sciences. The effort aims to take advantage of the DOE national laboratories’ rapidly advancing supercomputing capabilities, including emerging exascale systems capable of a billion-billion operations per […]The post DOE to Provide $32M for Advanced Chemical Sciences Software appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint research effort by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, recently received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which will continue a lab-computer collaboration that accurately simulates communications between nerve cells and muscle cells. Stephen Meriney, professor of neuroscience in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, […]The post Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives NSF Grant for Nerve Cell Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Calgary, Alberta. November 3rd, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC) for desktop and data centers systems, announces continued participation with exascale and high performance computing vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on multiple liquid cooling programs. Building on a foundation and history of cooperation, HPE and CoolIT have renewed their commitment to […]The post CoolIT Renews Commitment with HPE Cray EX Supercomputers and HPE Apollo 20 Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Check out Oak Ridge National Lab’s latest Sounds of Science podcast in which ORNL researchers discuss what they hope to accomplish with quantum computing. As ORNL states in its introduction to this episode: “Quantum mechanics. Does the term alone make your brain hurt a little? If so, you’re not alone. It’s a very complex branch […]The post Quantum Science: ORNL Researchers Talk about Exploring ‘Subatomic Weirdness’ appeared first on insideHPC.