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PLYMOUTH, Michigan, March 4, 2021 – TotalCAE, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that TotalCAE has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency with the elasticity and scalability of AWS. AWS launched the AWS HPC Competency […]The post TotalCAE Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, March 11, 2021 — Excelero, maker of software-defined storage for IO-intensive workloads, such as GPU computing for AI/ML/DL, HPC and fast data analytics, has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification for its NVMesh elastic NVMe software. With this certification, storage architects can integrate high-performance, low-latency NVMe storage into the native Red Hat Enterprise […]The post Excelero Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification for its NVMesh Software-Defined Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

SiPearl, the company designing the Rhea microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, announced it has passed a milestone before the chip’s scheduled 2022 launch. The company said it is moving into an “accelerated simulation phase” on the Veloce Strato hardware emulator from Siemens Digital Industries Software. SiPeal said the hardware emulation platform provides its chips […]The post SiPearl Says Rhea Exascale Chip Has Entered Accelerated Simulation Phase for 2022 Launch appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced that Microsoft Azure GM Zaid Kahn will hold a seat on its board. Kahn replaces Kushagra Vaid, who has served over the past year. Vaid had been engaged with OCP since 2014 and previously served on the OCP Incubation Committee for several years. Kahn joins board members Andy […]The post Azure GM Joins OCP Board appeared first on insideHPC.

Though AI has been widely demystified, its full materialization in real field implementation entails diversified challenges. The article by Dr Cédric Bourrasset (Atos) gives perspective on the hiccups and recommendations on the way to realize “Scientific Machine Learning and HPC-AI technology convergence”The post Scientific Machine Learning and HPC-AI Technology Convergence appeared first on insideHPC.

Oxford Instruments NanoScience is today announcing its latest innovation in Cryofree dilution refrigerator technology for quantum computing scale up, the ProteoxLX, as well as new quantum computing customer collaborations worldwide. Since the launch of Proteox at APS Physics last year, Oxford Instruments has announced its partnership with the University of Glasgow as well as with […]The post Oxford Instruments NanoScience Gains Momentum in Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Abstracting away the complexities of using quantum technology is the mission of Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI), a startup in Leesburg, VA. In this interview, Steve Reinhardt, a 20-plus year HPC veteran (Cray and SGI) and now VP/product development at QCI, talks about the challenges of bridging the gap between classical and quantum computing. QCI’s target […]The post Bridging the Gap between Quantum and Classical Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Liqid, provider of a composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) platform, today announced dynamic Slurm Workload Manager integration for its Liqid Matrix Software, delivering a tool for HPC deployments designed to optimize resource utilization for artificial intelligence (AI). Liqid uses the Slurm integration to compose servers on submission from pools of compute, storage and GPU resources via […]The post Liqid Announces Slurm Workload Manager Integration for HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will provide $30 million for Quantum Information Science (QIS) research that helps scientists understand how nature works on an extremely small scale—100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. QIS can help our nation solve some of the most pressing and […]The post DOE Announces $30M for Quantum Information Science Research appeared first on insideHPC.

NEW YORK — March 10, 2021 — ionir today announced expanded availability of its Kubernetes native storage platform. By eliminating complexity in Kubernetes data and storage management, ionir said it empowers customers to achieve a “Kubernetes Everywhere” vision, speeding digital transformation and cutting IT costs. “Based on a simple yet revolutionary concept, ionir gives data […]The post Ionir: Combating Data Gravity with Kubernetes Native Storage and Data Management Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 10, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), maker of a data platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical computing and high-performance data analytics (HPDA), today announced it has been assigned three patents, with 34 more patents pending, (10,929,021) for “Quality of service management in a distributed storage system,” […]The post WekaIO Awarded 3 Patents, Wins ISO 27001 Certification appeared first on insideHPC.

Swansea, Wales; London, Paris; March 10, 2021 — Atos today announced it has signed a contract with Swansea University to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, built on the Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU architecture and Nvidia Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, to support academics in Wales to drive AI-based research. The largest Nvidia A100 deployment in […]The post Atos Delivers BullSequana X410 Supercomputer to Swansea University appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO — March 10, 2021 — Tetrate has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Other new investors, Scale Venture Partners and NTTVC, and existing investors, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, 8VC, and Samsung NEXT, participated in the round. The Series B funding will be used to develop […]The post Tetrate Raises $40 Million for Cloud-Native Application Networking Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE has announced updates to its GreenLake cloud services and additional partnerships within the Greenlake ecosystem. Updates include: New HPE GreenLake cloud services for bare metal management and scalable, modular, entry point HPE GreenLake cloud services for virtual machines and containers specifically tailored for mid-market businesses. New agreements with ALSO Group, Arrow, Ingram Micro Inc., […]The post HPE Adds Greenlake Cloud Services, Expands Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO – Registration for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 11th annual High Performance Computing Symposium – offered online and free of charge – opens Monday, March 15. Registration for the conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, May 19-20, and other details can be found at www.rmacc.org/hpcsymposium. Women in HPC will have […]The post Registration Opens March 15 for RMACC HPC Symposium, May 19-20 appeared first on insideHPC.

Rescale’s role as an intelligent cloud automation platform means the company has a unique vantage point of how R&D-driven organizations are adopting cloud. This inaugural report, “BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report,” includes insights from over 300 organizations, running 680+ applications, on each of the major cloud providers. Additionally, the report incorporates survey […]The post BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report appeared first on insideHPC.

SEATTLE – March 9, 2021 – Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced a full integration with Commvault, a enterprise data protection solutions compay. The capabilities are designed to increase data protection and accelerate file data management productivity with a single, simplified solution that enables organizations managing petabytes of data and […]The post Qumulo Extends Qumulo Protect Data Services with Commvault Integration appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021 – Nvidia today announced AI Enterprise, a software suite of enterprise-grade AI development tools and frameworks supported by Nvidia with VMware vSphere 7 Update 2. Nvidia said the software suite enables vSphere compute virtualization users to build AI applications with the same tools they use to manage data centers […]The post Nvidia Unveils AI Enterprise Software Suite with VMware vSphere 7 appeared first on insideHPC.

CALGARY, AB, March 8, 2021 – CoolIT Systems announced today a collaboration with AMAX to deliver a thermal management solution for scalable, high-density computing products. The companies’ collaboration delivers a custom thermal management solution that reduces operating expenses through better energy efficiency while enabling stable, high-performance operations in a high-density computing environment. CoolIT Systems, a […]The post CoolIT Systems and AMAX to Deliver Custom Thermal Management for Data Center Products appeared first on insideHPC.

GRENOBLE, France – March 8, 2021 – Taking a step toward developing LiDAR systems for widespread commercial applications, CEA-Leti has developed genetic algorithms to calibrate high-channel-count optical phased arrays (OPAs), as well as an advanced measurement setup enabling wafer-scale OPA characterization. OPAs are an emerging technology made of arrays of closely spaced (around 1µm) optical antennas […]The post CEA-Leti Envisions LiDAR Systems Based on Integrated Optical Phased Arrays appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has joined the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) in a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) program that takes aim at the “holy grail” of cybersecurity – protecting data during processing, when it is most vulnerable to attack. To date, FHE adoption has been slow because FHE methods on cryptograms is data-intensive and incurs a […]The post Intel Developing ASIC Accelerator for DARPA ‘Holy Grail’ Cybersecurity Project appeared first on insideHPC.

If quantum isn’t to be a technology “that’s always 10 years away,” then quantum error correction (QEC) – one of the high hurdles to quantum becoming a practical reality – must be tamed. This week at a Wall Street Journal virtual CIO Network event, IBM’s SVP and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil said the […]The post IBM Says Quantum Error Correcting Software Coming in 2023 – ‘Quantum Really Comes of Age’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Austin, TX – DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and automatically deploy fixes at scale. “As a heavy AWS user ourselves, we were seeking a way to reduce our costs,” said DevGraph CEO Rahul Subramaniam. “We manage more than 40K+ AWS accounts, paying […]The post DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs appeared first on insideHPC.

Austin, February 24, 2021 –DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and automatically deploy fixes at scale. “As a heavy AWS user ourselves, we were seeking a way to reduce our costs,” said DevGraph CEO Rahul Subramaniam. “We manage more than 40K+ AWS accounts, […]The post DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs appeared first on insideHPC.

Calgary, Alberta. March 4, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC), has announced the completion of an undisclosed eight figure investment led by BDC Capital (BDCC), the investment arm of BDC, the Bank for Canadian Entrepreneurs, and nVent, a strategic partner and leader in the data center connection and protection space. This […]The post CoolIT Receives Growth Investment appeared first on insideHPC.

Jessi Lanum, whom you may know from the Radio Free HPC podcasts that regularly appear on this site, is working with Dan Olds on the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition. She provides this update on the event’s team rosters. Back up NCAA, check yourself March Madness, a particular brand of collegiate competition has its […]The post 10 Teams Slated for 1st Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

FREMONT, CA, YOKOHAMA and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2021 — Leopard Imaging Inc., provider of embedded camera design and manufacturing, is collaborating with three leading companies to deliver EdgeTuring: an artificial intelligence (AI) processing solution for video analytics. Leopard is working with Hailo, an AI chipmaker for edge devices, Socionext, a provider of advanced […]The post Leopard Imaging Teams with Socionext, Hailo, AWS for AI Video Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.

TEL-AVIV and SAN JOSE — March 3, 2021— Xsight Labs, a fabless semiconductor startup company, today announced the closing of its Series D funding. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management and was joined by new investor Fidelity Management & Research Company. Existing investors Battery Ventures, Intel Capital, M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund […]The post Fabless Semiconductor Startup Xsight Labs Closes Series D Led by Valor and Atreides, Joined by Fidelity appeared first on insideHPC.

Calgary, Alberta – March 3, 2020 – CoolIT Systems Inc., a global leader in modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has announced a strategic agreement with nVent Electric plc (NYSE:NVT) (“nVent”), a global leader in electrical connection and protection solutions. As part of the commercial agreement, CoolIT will be able to provide customers with a larger, more effective product […]The post CoolIT Systems in Agreement with nVent for High Density Rack-level Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Intel has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency using AWS’s elastic and scalable cloud infrastructure. “HPC has been key to solving the most complex problems in every industry and […]The post Intel Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status appeared first on insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 3, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which delivers storage as a service in a multi-cloud world, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the digital infrastructure company, announced Pure Storage on Equinix Metal, a Bare Metal as a Service storage offering that designed to deliver a unified, connected platform for […]The post Pure Storage and Equinix Collaborate to Deliver ‘Physical Infrastructure at Software Speed’ appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE and Dell, engaged in a neck-and-neck struggle for superiority in HPC servers, also are engaged in a reshuffling of their HPC leadership teams that may reflect similar visions of HPC’s evolving position across IT. Last week, we reported on Dell’s newly installed HPC management group following the departure in early February of Thierry Pellegrino, […]The post Ungaro Departs: New HPC Leadership at HPE and Dell as Companies Vie for Server Top Spot appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 02, 2021 — Rescale, a hybrid HPC cloud platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, today published its inaugural State of Cloud HPC Report. The report shares aggregate cloud adoption trends in the HPC industry, leveraging usage data across Rescale’s more than 300 customers and unrivaled catalogue of more than 660 supported […]The post Rescale’s 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report Reveals Major Cloud Adoption Trends in Research and Science appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – March 3, 2021 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing $9.1 million to Cortical.io AG, an Austrian software company with offices in San Francisco, developing artificial intelligence technology based on a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) approach that can interpret and process human language text. The software is capable of performing search and […]The post EIB Provides $9.1M to AI Software Company Cortical.io appeared first on insideHPC.

Purdue University says engineers there have made progress on a new switch designed to enable a quantum internet supporting quantum computers of the future. The method, demonstrated in a paper published in Optica, could help lay the groundwork for large numbers of quantum computers, quantum sensors and other quantum technology going online and communicating with each […]The post Purdue Engineers Developing Switch for Quantum Internet appeared first on insideHPC.

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 1, 2021 — Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain that is led by CEO Kevin Turner, the former COO of Microsoft, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status, recognizing that the company has demonstrated competence helping […]The post Core Scientific Achieves AWS HPC Competency Status appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 2, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), maker of fastest-growing data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning, life sciences research and high performance data analytics (HPDA), today announced that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) has implemented Weka’s Limitless Data Platform to simplify, speed up, and scale their mixed workloads. By using Weka, OMRF said it can run more and concurrent research jobs in […]The post Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Picks WekaIO Data Platform for Drug Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC storage is under strain to deliver fast, shared dataset access for backtesting quantitative trading strategies. One solution is Panasas’ ActiveStor Ultra – a scalable, parallel, data storage system for reduced backtest times and higher accuracy modeling.The post Getting More Quantitative Analysis Modeling and Backtesting by Fixing Your Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Consulting firm Deloitte today announced the launch of the Deloitte Center for AI Computing, designed to accelerate development of artificial intelligence solutions for Deloitte clients. Built on NVIDIA’s DGX A100 systems , the center “brings together the supercomputing architecture and AI expertise that clients require as they become AI-fueled organizations,” Deloitte said. “The Deloitte Center […]The post Deloitte Teams with Nvidia on Deloitte Center for AI Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

March 1, 2021 – The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the ECP 2021 Community BOF Days, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions for the high performance computing (HPC) community. BOFs offer various formats (e.g., panels, presentation, roundtable) bringing together people with shared interests and encouraging discussion and idea exchange. ECP’s BOF Days will take […]The post ECP Announces 2021 Community Birds-of-a-Feather Days appeared first on insideHPC.

ITHACA, NY – Cornell University announced today that four new Cornell Virtual Workshop training topics are available at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) User Portal: Getting Started on Frontera Introduction to Advanced Cluster Architectures Using the Jetstream APIs Python for Data Science: Part 2 – Data Modeling and Machine Learning Cornell Virtual Workshop topics are freely available at all times to the entire scientific community – […]The post New Cornell Virtual HPC, Data Science, Machine Learning Workshops at XSEDE appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 1, 2021 – Panasas announced today that Todd Ruff, vice president of marketing, and Brian Reed, vice president of product and alliances, have joined the company’s senior management team. Richio Aikawa has also joined Panasas as director of vertical solutions, a key role as the company looks to expand its focus […]The post Panasas Expands Senior Team with Addition of Tech Veterans Todd Ruff and Brian Reed appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, CA—March 1, 2021— HPC, AI and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research has named Dan Olds its chief research officer, effective March 1. A 25-year industry veteran, Olds comes to Intersect360 Research from OrionX, where he was a partner, analyst, and consultant for the HPC/AI market. Olds is a well-known figure in the HPC industry, […]The post HPC Industry Analyst Firm Intersect360 Research Hires Dan Olds as Chief Research Officer appeared first on insideHPC.

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are working with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities for Nvidia A100 GPUs. The collaboration is designed to help NERSC and ALCF users, along with the HPC community in general, produce […]The post NERSC, ALCF, Codeplay Partner on SYCL GPU Compiler appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC and AI technology consultant and author Rob Farber wrote this article on behalf of the Exascale Comuting Project. Lower-upper (LU) factorization is an important numerical algorithm used to solve systems of linear equations in science and engineering.[i] These linear systems of equations can be expressed as a matrix, which is then passed to a […]The post ECP: SuperLU Library Speeds Direct Solution of Large Sparse Linear Systems on HPC and Exascale Hardware appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has announced that French National Centre for Scientific Research researcher Dr. Céline Merlet from the Centre Inter-universitaire de Recherche et d’Ingénierie des Matériaux (CIRIMAT) in Toulouse is the winner of the 2021 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding impact on HPC in Europe. Not […]The post Dr. Céline Merlet wins 2021 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Demand for HPC resources from cryptocurrency miners has only increased with the explosion in the Bitcoin’s price – up 65 percent year-to-date. But with that demand has come mining malware, such as Monero and Lighting, algorithms that embed themselves into HPC applications. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has announced development of a machine translation-based cryptocurrency mining […]The post Fending off Bitcoin Mining HPC Thieves – Idaho National Lab’s Cryptojacking Detector appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE’s string of HPC contract wins has continued with the company’s announcement today that it’s building a supercomputer for KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Funded by Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), the HPE Cray EX system will target modeling and simulation in academic pursuits and industrial areas, including drug design, renewable energy […]The post HPE to Build Research Supercomputer for Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center has announced completion of what it said is the first complete, multiscale model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a project that leveraged HPC resources at TACC, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and the University of Chicago Research Computing Center (UCRCC). According to an article published late yesterday by TACC Technical Writer […]The post HPC at TACC, PSC, Univ. of Chicago Supports Completion of 1st Multiscale COVID-19 Virus Model appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project. Reasons given for these failures include not having a plan ahead of time, not getting executive or business leadership buy-in, or failing to find the proper team to execute the project. Chasing the hot technology trend without having a proper strategy often leads companies down the path of failure.The post 10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 4 appeared first on insideHPC.