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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF's new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30 to 5 pm Central Time. To register go here. The ALCF said the Groq machine's AI inference capabilities can assist users in making predictions, discovering patterns in [...]The post ALCF: Groq AI Online Workshop, Dec. 6-7 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23, we talked with Chris Orlando, CEO of DDC, maker of S-Series Cabinets, which utilize DDC's liquid-air hybrid cooling technology for high-density data centers and cloud providers. Orlando says the cabinets combine the efficiency of liquid cooling with the risk-free flexibility of air. With him is Keith Markley, Executive Vice President, Data Center Operations, [...]The post At SC23: DDC and TierPoint Talk Liquid-Air Cooling' Data Center Cabinets for HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC23 in Denver, Amazon Web Services announced the Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, an open source, web-based portal for administrators to manage cloud-based research and engineering environments. Here we interview AWS's Debra Goldfarb, Director, AWS HPC Products and Strategy, and Brendan Bouffler, AWS Head of Developer Relations, HPC Engineering. They explain how scientists [...]The post At SC23: AWS's Research and Engineering Studio Suite for HPC-Class, Cloud-Based Environments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Diego - DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of scalable data center-to-edge solutions that feature patented Dynamic Density Control (DDC) technology, announced the company's better than liquid' cooling technology will support the augmentation of a TierPoint data center in eastern Pennsylvania, helping meet explosive demand for AI workloads and representing one of the largest ultra-high-density, single-user [...]The post TierPoint Selects DDC Cabinet Technology for AI Workloads in High-Density Data Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 20, 2024 - NVIDIA today announced that Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo will be the first to integrate NVIDIA Spectrum-XEthernetnetworking technologiesfor AI into their server lineups to help enterprise customers speed up generative AI workloads. Purpose-built for generative AI, Spectrum-X offers enterprises a new class of Ethernet networking that can achieve 1.6x [...]The post NVIDIA Announces Ethernet Platform for AI from Dell, HPE, Lenovo appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week's conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands to 14,000; exascale update and future; raft of new chips, many focused on AI; Quantum Village at SC23; UCIe, PCIe and Ultra EthernetThe post HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview - Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nearly 120 years ago, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 provided a stark and sobering view of the havoc that can be caused by the sudden and violent movement of Earth's tectonic plates. According to USGS, the rupture along the San Andreas fault extended 296 miles (447 kilometers) and shook so violently that the [...]The post EQSIM and RAJA: Enabling Exascale Predictions of Earthquake Effects on Critical Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST INTERIVEW] We spoke at the Lenovo booth with Andreas Thomasch, Director of HPC and AI, European Markets, in this sponsored interview about recent developments across critical HPC-AI challenge areas: Water Cooling: Lenovo was an....The post At SC23: Lenovo's Advancements in Liquid Cooling, Storage, Digital Twins and HPC-AI Software appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the high performance computing systems integrator's LogVisor AI during the SC23 conference in Denver. LogVisor AI analyzes log files and re-organizes the data, bringing forward items deemed critical to the health and proper functions of the system. Since log files can be littered with thousands of messages, LogVisor AI, [...]The post Advanced Clustering Launches Log File Analyzer LogVisor AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are among the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world, Top500 organizers announced Monday. Funded under the second Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) by NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, [...]The post New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ALawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world's first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, ACM officials announced Thursday. The Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) team, led by LLNL staff scientist Peter Caldwell and [...]The post LLNL-led SCREAM Team Clinches Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. TheArgonne Leadership Computing Facility's (ALCF) AI Testbed-which aims to help evaluate the usability and performance of machine learning-based high-performance computing (HPC) applications on next-generation accelerators-has been upgraded to include Groq's inference-driven AI systems, designed to accelerate the time-to-solution for complex science problems. [...]The post Accelerating AI Inference for High-throughput Experiments appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today, our patented cabinet technology can be deployed in nearly any environment or facility and supports one of the highest-density, air-cooled thermal loads-85kW per cabinet-on the market. In a recent deployment with TierPoint, a US-based colocation provider, we are supporting a 26,000 sq ft facility augmentation outside of Allentown, PA.The post The Future-Proofed Datacenter: DDC Delivers 85kW Air-Cooled Density for AI and HPC Workloads appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYC and Ryzen CPUs with AI engines. Microsoft's new Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series....The post Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Denver, November 13, 2023 -Panasas, a leading data solutions provider for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today introduced PanFS 10, the newest release of its flagship parallel file system. PanFS 10, which powers Panasas' ActiveStor portfolio of storage appliances, utilizes a unique shared-nothing architecture that now supports Seagate Exos 2X18 with MACH2 dual-actuator [...]The post Panasas PanFS 10 AI/HPC Hybrid Storage Management appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 14, 2023 - DarkByte will host its AI cloud powered by renewable energy using sources including solar, batteries, hydro, and nanotech - helping to define new industry standards in environmental sustainability, incorporating security that meets the standards prescribed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for its vendors, and scalable AI solutions. DarkByte will [...]The post DarkByte Teams with HPE on AI Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 - Quantum software pioneerClassiqtoday unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, formed in collaboration withNVIDIAand theTel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. The initiative will champion the development and implementation of quantum algorithms and applications, targeting their transformative potential on life sciences and healthcare. Quantum [...]The post Classiq Announces Quantum Center for Life Sciences with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TROY, Mich.,Nov. 14, 2023 - Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced significant upgrades to Altair HPCWorks, its high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platform. New tools and integrations include an AI-enhanced user portal, next-generation technology for distributed workflows, advanced HPC monitoring and reporting, and easier-than-ever cloud scaling. Altair [...]The post Altair Announces Altair HPCWorks 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it's an immersive VR....The post At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display at Dell Technologies Booth 625, Come and Experience It appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Tokyo, November 14, 2023 -The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Fujitsu, has retained the top spot for eight consecutive terms in multiple major high-performance computer rankings including HPCG and Graph500 BFS (Breadth-First Search), and has also taken fourth place for the TOP500 and third place for the HPL-MxP [...]The post Supercomputer Fugaku Retains First Place in HPCG and Graph500 Rankings appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Denver -- Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list. Not only are there four new systems among top 10, the most new entrants at the top of the ranking in years, but one of them, the no. 2 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab, fell short....The post A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the top 10 of this year's list has more changes than any list in recent memory....The post @HPCpodcast: Views and Insights on the New TOP500 List appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER-SC23-Nov. 13, 2023-NVIDIA today announced the HGX H200 that is based on the Hopper architecture and features the H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance computing workloads. NVIDIA said the H200....The post NVIDIA Announces HGX H200 Systems and Cloud Instances appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As the SC23 conference heats up, we hurry ( 5:20) through the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC23 and TOP500 kickoff today; storage at scale, DAOS and the Aurora supercomputer; Sandia National Lab and DDN's new ....The post HPC News Bytes 20231113: SC23 and TOP500 Kickoff, DAOS Storage, Sandia and DDN, TSMC and SMIC Financials appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE BY HPE AND NVIDIA] With the transformation of medicine from analog to digital, plus the rise of new data-generating devices for health tracking and genomic information, we can look forward to a new world in which virtually every aspect of a patient's medical history can be communicated, stored, and manipulated. For each patient, this huge body of data represents a sort of digital twin, a treasure trove of useful medical information and insights that could become....The post Life is Fleeting, But Data is Forever - Meet your Digital Twin appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Diego, Nov. 11, 2023 - GigaIO, a provider of workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, today announced that Dell customers can now order GigaIO solutions from their Dell sales team or local Dell reseller. The recently introduced SuperNODE , a 32-GPU AI engineered solution on a single node, is now available with Dell [...]The post GigaIO and Dell Expand Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]At SC23 in Denver this week, Lenovo will be in the center of the action - at booth 601 - embodying the conference theme: I Am HPC." A leading vendor of HPC-class servers and ancillary technologies that make HPC go, Lenovo will address the challenges for which this technology sector, situated at the intersection of HPC and AI ...The post Lenovo at Center of Action at SC23: Smarter Revolutionizes HPC' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ALCF is engaged in several activities and initiatives that aim to increase diversity in HPC and the computing sciences. Supercomputing centers have long been recognized for driving innovation and progress in scientific fields, but they are also known for similar achievements in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) itself. It is the workforce of [...]The post Building a Diverse HPC Workforce at the ALCF appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Laboratory for a wide ranging discussion of all things supercomputing-related. Along with an update on the exascale-class Aurora system and the TOP500, we also discuss the ....The post @HPCpodcast: Aurora, the TOP500, a National Research Infrastructure and Other HPC Thoughts from Argonne's Rick Stevens and Mike Papka appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RENO, Nev.-November 8, 2023- CIQ Inc. today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to help customers accelerate CentOS migrations with new Rocky Linux solutions from CIQ built for Google Cloud. With the upcoming end-of-life of CentOS 7 on June 30, 2024, many are still evaluating the best path forward to secure and operate their Linux [...]The post CIQ Announces Rocky Linux Solutions for CentOS Migration on Google Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Getting the most out of SC23 calls for good preparation, so as an assist we spoke with four industry experts - Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware and the Exascale Computing Project, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research, Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research....The post SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch in Denver appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Data researchers, developers, data managers and program managers from the Department of Energy national laboratories visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oct. 24-26 to discuss the latest in data management, sharing and accessibility at the 2023 DOE Data Days (D3) workshop. The three-day event, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear [...]The post Data Days Brings Department of Energy Labs Together for Discussions on Data Management and More appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MLCommons said the results highlight performance gains of up to 2.8X compared to 5 months ago and 49X over the first results five years ago, "reflecting the tremendous rate of innovation in systems for machine learning," the organizations said.The post MLPerf Training and HPC Benchmark Show 49X Performance Gains in 5 Years appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Aimed at cloud platform and large HPC, hyperscale and data center environments, Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and high performance. "The novel architecture accelerates and simplifies workflows for the data management demands of today and tomorrow, from generative....The post DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Nov. 8, 2023 -Ayar Labs, a company developing silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, will showcase its in-package optical I/O solution integrated with Intel's Agilex Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. In demonstrating 5x current industry bandwidth at 5x lower power and 20x lower latency, the optical FPGA - packaged in a common [...]The post Ayar Labs to Show 4 Tbps Optically-enabled Intel FPGA at SC23 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He joins us to discuss the, well, "Cambrian explosion" we're witnessing in AI chips, the general state of the AI semiconductor....The post @HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Tel Aviv and Boston, November 7, 2023 - Quantum Machines, the provider of quantum control solutions that accelerate the development of practical quantum computers, and neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra Computing today announced they have been awarded a grant from the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation to [...]The post Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing Win Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Kaiserslautern, Germany,November 7, 2023, ThinkParQ the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the launch ThinkinQ a new joint venture company between ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works. ThinkinQ'sprimary objective to increase the presence of BeeGFS across North America through offering localized USA based sales and technical support services directly to their network of [...]The post ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works in Joint Venture appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Integration of optical I/O with an FPGA is the tip of the iceberg of a new vision to enable new HPC/AI architectural advances through ubiquitous optical interconnects for every piece of compute silicon. If you are attending SC23 November 12-17, be sure to visit Ayar Labs in booth #228 for an exclusive look at the future....The post Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Gina Tourassi has been named associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She replaces Shaun Gleason, interim ALD since the departure of Doug Kothe for Sandia National Laboratories last June. Kothe....The post Gina Tourassi Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director for Computing and Computational Sciences appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Here's a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro's appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings in Intersect360 Research's HPC-AI new market update.The post HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In this episode, the second in our Industry View" series (see our conversation with Alain Andreoli), we are delighted to speak with Pete Ungaro, long-time luminary and respected industry leader in HPC-AI. Ungaro, a globally recognized technology executive, ws named to the 40 under 40" by Corporate Leader Magazine in 2008, and CEO of the Year....The post @HPCpodcast: Pete Ungaro Sounds Off on the State of HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland - November 2, 2023 - atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced it joined the Finnish Data Center Association (FDCA). The association aims to nurture the fast growing data center ecosystem in Finland, and enhance the standardization and sustainability of its industry processes. The business acquired two [...]The post atNorth Joins Finnish Data Center Association appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

UK AI supercomputers are breaking out all over. Today, Dell, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the deployment of the co-designed "Dawn" Phase 1 supercomputer. Claiming the system to be the U.K.'s fastest AI system, it will be comprised of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers combining two 4th Gen Xeon....The post Dell and Intel Deploy UK AI Supercomputer at Univ. of Cambridge appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Pre-proposals due November 13, 2023 The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE), with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff scientific campaigns enabled via high-performance computing (HPC) in areas directly related to the DOE mission, that respond to national emergencies, or that broaden the [...]The post U.S. Department of Energy's ALCC Program Seeks Proposals for 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

This summer, the ALCF hosted over 40 college students to work on real-world computing projects in areas ranging from scientific visualization to materials science to digital twins. Every summer, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, hosts a new group [...]The post Summer Interns Gain Hands-On Experience with Argonne Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.