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[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] What sets Quobyte's File Query Engine apart is its integration with the file system's distributedmetadata architecture. Unlike solutions that require separate database layers, Quobyte's engineoperates ....The post Faster AI and HPC Workflows with Quobyte's New File Query Engine appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

July 12, 2024 - Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, but news reports estimate the acquisition at roughly $600 million. Graphcore has struggled in recent years, according to a Reuters report, the company was valued at $2.8 billion in 2020, but [...]The post SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

July 12, 2024 - The Digital Twins Fast-Tracking Committee of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) of the National Science Foundation, on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, has published a Request for Information on Digital Twins Research and Development, seeking public input for the [...]The post July 28 Deadline for Office of Science Digital Twins RFI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.- Cloud computing platform Vultr has released an industry report, The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model AI. The study reveals a correlation between an organization's AI maturity and its ability to achieve better business outcomes, outpacing industry peers in revenue growth, market share, customer satisfaction and operational [...]The post Research from Vultr on Mature AI ROI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - July 12, 2024 -Evidentoday announced ,in partnership with the IOTA Foundation, the Eviden Digital Passportsolution (EDPS),powered by IOTA" technology. This is one of the first ready-to-use blockchain-based Digital Product Passports (DPPs) on the market and the first of its scale to use IOTA's technology as its Blockchain engine. EDPS powered by IOTA", around [...]The post Eviden and the IOTA Foundation Announce Digital Product Passport appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

An international research team reports transmitting data at a staggering" 402 terabits per second (Tbps) using commercial-grade fiber, the kinds of fiber optic cables that are already in the ground and the oceans" ....The post Staggering': Research Team Sets 402 Tbps Fiber Optics Data Rate Record appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ....The post HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million. AMD said the acquisition is part of its efforts to deliver end-to-end AI solutions based on open ....The post AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Before (the Exascale Computing Project), both packages had very little support for GPUs. We could get some benefit from running on a single GPU, but without updating the code, even 10 GPUs wouldn't make it run much faster. We had to redesign a lot of algorithms ...."The post Exascale: SUPERLU/STRUMPACK Solvers Get Frontier Upgrade appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE - Jul. 9, 2024 - Data management company Qumulo today announced the appointment of Douglas Gourlay as president and chief executive officer. Gourlay will also join Qumulo's Board of Directors. Under the leadership of retiring CEO Bill Richter, Qumulo became the established leader in Scale Anywhere data and storage management and grew to over [...]The post Qumulo Names Former Arista Executive Douglas Gourlay CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Austin, Texas-July 9, 2024 - Oracle today announced that Palantir's Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified onOracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) and generally available across all of Oracle's distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle'sdistributed cloud,AI infrastructure, andsovereign AIcapabilities, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives. [...]The post Palantir's Foundry and AI Platform Certified on Oracle Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

.... we dig into the design and deployment of AI infrastructures with Jonathan Ha of Penguin Solutions, who delivers a master class in AI at scale ....The post @HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Getting AI Infrastructure Right appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston, July 9, 2024-NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a provider of no-code network automation and dynamic mapping solutions for hybrid cloud-connected networks, today announced that registration has opened for NetBrain LIVE, its inaugural global user conference being held Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 in Boston. NetBrain LIVE was created as a natural extension of NetBrain's popular regional [...]The post NetBrain Launches NetBrain User Conference to Support Increasing Demand for Network Automation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEOUL, July 9, 2024 - Altair(Nasdaq: ALTR),a global leader in computational intelligence, has been selectedas an electronic design automation (EDA) partner for theSamsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE). Through this collaboration, Altair and Samsung Electronics will combineAltair's comprehensive EDA technologywith Samsung Foundry's manufacturing capabilities to establish a more innovative, more efficient semiconductor design and production process. [...]The post Altair Named Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Partner appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ST PAUL, Minn., July 9, 2024- The HPC User Forum has opened registration for its upcoming meeting, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 4-5, at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Featured speakers at the event: Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director ....The post HPC-AI User Forum to Be Held September 4-5 at Argonne appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Calgary, AB, July 9, 2024-CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) announces the launch of three new models in its lineup of Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs): AHx240, AHx180 and CHx500. These CDUs are engineered to meet the most demanding direct liquid cooling requirements for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise computing applications - delivering exceptional performance, density, [...]The post CoolIT Systems Launches Three Coolant Distribution Units appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

July 9, 2024 - Quantum error correction technology company Riverlane has released a three-year roadmap for its quantum error correction stack, Deltaflow, starting in 2024 and culminating in a system where quantum computers can run one million (Mega) error-free Quantum Operations (QuOps) by 2026. Today, the world's best quantum computers can perform at most a [...]The post Riverlane Announces 3-Year Quantum Error Correction Roadmap appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Stuttgart, Germany - July 8, 2024 - The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking's FFplus project, established earlier this year to provide SMEs resources to test new applications of HPC and AI, has invited proposals from companies interested in conducting business experiments and innovation studies to take their products, services, and operations to the next level. This includes [...]The post EuroHPC JU FFplus Project: Open Call for Business Experiments and Innovation Studies Using HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON and PALO ALTO, CA -July 8, 2024 - Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (Zapata AI") (Nasdaq: ZPTA), an industrial generative AI software solutions company, and D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a expansion to their joint commercial partnership, designed to accelerate the development and delivery of integrated quantum and generative AI solutions in DWave's [...]The post Zapata AI and D-Wave Quantum Announce Expanded Partnership for Generative AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Science lies at the heart of the annual Supercomputing conference, and the Technical Program is one of the most important aspects of the conference. To learn more about what this program does and the scientific vision ....The post SC24: Technical Program Leaders Discuss Their Role and Scientific Vision appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Scaling data centers for evolving AI models will help alleviate data bottlenecks by distributing workloads across thousands of GPUs. This extends beyond the capabilities of individual accelerators or processors ....The post PCIe 7.0: Enabling Next Gen AI Accelerator Interconnects in HPC Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Last week, we announced that insideHPC's sister publication, insideBIGDATA, has been relaunched and rebranded as insideAI News, reflecting the evolution of data analytics and data science into the broad-based application of artificial intelligence.The post Editor and Data Scientist Daniel Gutierrez on the Relaunch of insideAI News: Illuminating AI's Frontiers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LOS ANGELES,July 1, 2024- AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy's leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. This grant will accelerate the development of GURU, MSBAI's autonomous system that designed to reduce modeling and simulation setup time from hours to minutes. The project, titled Autonomy [...]The post MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco - June 27, 2024 - Cloud HPC company Rescale announced the successful completion of an HPC Modernization Programprototype evaluation for theDepartment of Defense (DoD)Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). As a result, DIU has issued Rescale a Success Memorandum, making it possible for DoD organizations seeking compute power for mission needs to contract with Rescale [...]The post Rescale Receives Success Memorandum from Defense Innovation Unit for HPC Modernization Program appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science (EECS). Key dates: July 22, 2024: Deadline for position paper submission August 2, 2024: Notification of position acceptance September 9-12, 2024: Workshop (greater Washington, DC area) Workshop Website:https://www.orau.gov/2024EECWorkshop Energy [...]The post DOE ASCR July 22 Call for Papers: Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Abu Dhabi, UAE - 2nd July 2024: The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a scientific research center and the applied research pillar of the Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), will host researchers and quantum technology professionals at the TII Quantum Technology Symposium, Monday-Wednesday, Jan. 27-29, 2025. Following the United Nation's recent declaration to name [...]The post TII Quantum Technology Symposium January 27-29 in Abu Dhabi appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Fourth of July week to you! Here we offer a quick (5:56) run through recent HPC-AI news, including: An important milestone" in silicon photonics, CPU thread count war heats up, quantum vs. classical HPC ....The post HPC News Bytes 20240701: Silicon Photonics Advance, CPU Thread Count War, Quantum Memory Advantage, Microsoft's Undersea Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, Mich., July 1, 2024 -Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it has agred to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc. (Metrics), a Canadian company with a simulation as a service (SaaS) business model for semiconductor electronic functional simulation and design verification. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions. The Metrics [...]The post Altair to Acquire EDA Company Metrics Design Automation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Frankfurt/Main - 01 July 2024 - Northern Data Group, a provider of HPC solutions, today announces it has purchased NVIDIA H200 GPUs through a newly established partnership with Supermicro. Northern Data Group's cloud platform, Taiga Cloud, will be the first cloud service provider (CSP) in Europe to offer access to the H200 GPU hardware, with [...]The post Northern Data Group Announces It's First CSP in Europe with Nvidia H200 GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - July 1, 2024 - AI and multi-cloud data management solutions company DDN announced it has won its fourth AI Hardware Innovation Award," resulting in five consecutive annual award recognitions in the AI Breakthrough Awards program. For the past seven years, AI Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization, has recognized the top companies, technologies, [...]The post DDN Wins 2024 AI Breakthrough Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 28, 2024 - insideHPC sister publication insideBIGDATA, the leading source for news and insights about artificial intelligence, is proud to announce the relaunch and rebranding of the publication as insideAI News.The post insideBIGDATA Announces Relaunch as insideAI News with Expanded AI Coverage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Theoretical scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University say they have discovered that quantum computers are unrivaled at solving an advanced math problem. But the big advantage delivered by quantum ....The post Quantum vs. Classical HPC: Sandia Labs and Boston Univ. Challenge Conventional Wisdom that Speed Rules Supreme appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, June 26, 2024 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Wen-mei W. Hwu, a Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. Hwu is recognized for pioneering and foundational contributions to the design and [...]The post Nvidia's Wen-mei Hwu Receives ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DELFT, NETHERLANDS, 27 June, 2024 - Neuromorphic processor company Innatera, a spin-off from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has announced the oversubscription of its Series A funding round, securing capital totaling $21 million. This amount includes the initial Series A investment of $16 million that the company announced in March this year, [...]The post Neuromorphic Company Innatera Attracts $21M in Series A Funding appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Seattle - June 27, 2024 - RAVEL Inc (formerly StratusCore)today announced the addition of three new members of its executive staff - Philippa Carroll, KavehGourdarzian, and Chad Knowles. The experienced new team will help RAVEL not only grow its current digital content creation audience, but also bring the company's technology to larger enterprises with heavier [...]The post RAVEL Adds to Executive Team appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] AMD will hold a webinar on Thursday, July 17 at 11 am ET on ROCm 6 Updates & What is HIP? This webinar consists of two parts, each addressing crucial aspects of the ROCmTM software ecosystem. In the first part ....The post Webinar July 17: AMD ROCm 6 Updates and What is HIP? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The future of supercomputing isn't what it used to be, and few know that better than Christine Chalk, federal program ....The post @HPCpodcast: DOE's Chalk Talks Lab Supercomputing Budgets, ECP's Legacy and Women in HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, Lenovo unveiled an expanded portfolio of enterprise AI solutions designed to help companies develop and deploy AI with "turnkey services, business-ready vertical solutions and energy-efficient innovations ....The post Lenovo Launches Expanded Portfolio of AI Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel announced it has achieved an advance in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission.The prototype OCI chiplet is designed to support 64 channels of 32 gigabits/second bidirectional data transmission on up to 100 meters of fiber optics ....The post Intel's 4 TB/s Integrated Optical I/O Chiplet Called Important Milestone' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amsterdam - June 25, 2024 - Thermal management company Asperitas today launched Direct Forced Convection technology, designed to enable scale, power and reliability across multiple workloads, including HPC and AI. The company said DFC technology offers advanced levels of performance available in the immersion cooling market. Enabling scale-up and a cooling capacity beyond 3.6kW per [...]The post Asperitas Launches Direct Forced Convection Immersion Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 25, 2024 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science is accepting applications until Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Apply here The fellowship is typically a two-year appointment with a renewal process after the first year. Contact mbfellowship@alcf.anl.gov for questions about the fellowship. The Butler Fellowship is an opportunity to lead [...]The post Aug. 1 Deadline for Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science at Argonne appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good first-Monday-of-summer morning to you! Here's a rapid (6:35) run-though recent HPC-AI news: GPU price war in the offing?; rectangular chip wafer design ....The post HPC News Bytes 20240624: GPU Price War?, Rectangular Chip Packaging, AI for Science Assistant, Big HPC-AI Systems Keep Coming appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 24, 2024 - Quantum computing company Diraq today announced the expansion of its investment round, bringing the total raised to USD $22 million. The company attracted further investment from a number of prominent strategic investors comprising deep tech venture fund Main Sequence, leading global real asset technology investor - Taronga Ventures, [...]The post Diraq Quantum Adds Deeptech and Venture Investors to $22M Investment Round appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with the French national research organization GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, called Alice Recoque, which will be operated by CEA, a French research agency. The system will be ....The post GENCI to be Site of 2nd EuroHPC Exascale HPC System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

June 20, 2024 - Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based start-up, has received 4.5 million to develop on-chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and data center applications. The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures led the round, with participation from Redstone QAI Quantum Fund, Kyra Ventures, Parkwalk's University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund [...]The post Wave Photonics Secures 4.5M Investment Round appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Munich, 21stJune 2024 - IQM Quantum Computers today announced the opening of its first quantum data center in Munich to support industry applications, with plans to place up to 12 quantum computers in the data center that, at present, is equipped with two IQM quantum computers, manufactured at its commercial chip production and assembly line [...]The post IQM Quantum Opens Data Center in Germany appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.